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• Jawaharlal Nehru and the Strength of our Secular Democracy

  27 May 2017

  by Sukumaran C. V.
  “Nehru Dead! Nehru Dead!! Nehru Dead!!!” The teleprinter message was hammering away in my brain. At 2 pm on Wednesday, May 27, 1964, each one of us, four hundred and fifty million Indians, died, as the great-hearted Jawaharlal Nehru, who was the heart of the nation, breathed his last. A solemn hush of silence descended on the nation. The farmer in the field, the worker in the factory, the clerk in the office, the housewives at their hearths, the children in schools—each (…)

• Remembering the Inheritance of the Congress Socialist Party

  27 May 2017

  by Prem Singh
  At the time of the establishment of the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) on May 17, 1934, in Patna, under the chairmanship of the patriarch of the Indian socialist movement, Acharya Narendra Deva, two goals were clear: to achieve the independence of the country and to enhance the pace of the organised efforts towards establishing a socialist system. To achieve both of these goals, it was necessary to strengthen the true anti-imperialist spirit. At the first All India Congress (…)

• On the Present State Government in Goa

  27 May 2017, by Eduardo Faleiro

  The present government in Goa is the most unrepresentative ever in this State and possibly in the whole country. Most Ministers in this government were elected on an anti-BJP platform and they defeated the BJP candidates. The present government is in violation of every canon of constitutional propriety. The people of Goa elected the Congress as the single largest party, crushed the outgoing government, including the Chief Minister and most of his Ministers, and brought down the BJP tally (…)

• Engaging Narrative of Past and Present Sino-Indian Economic, Cultural, Social Milieu

  27 May 2017, by Bharti Chhibber

  BOOK REVIEW
  China and India: History, Culture, Cooperation and Competition edited by Paramita Mukherjee, Arnab K. Dev and Miao Pang; New Delhi: Sage; 2016; pp. 232; Rs 945.
  In today’s globalised world in an age of information and communication technology, soft power is considered a more effective dimension of diplomacy going beyond the economic and military power. Soft power is ‘the ability to shape the preferences of others’. Havard Professor Joseph S. Nye, Jr. in Soft Power (2005) (…)

• The moving finger writes on Jadhav case

  27 May 2017, by M K Bhadrakumar

  The initial reports from Pakistan regarding the International Court of Justice’s interim order on the Kulbhushan Jadhav case give a sinking feeling. If chances of Pakistan carrying out the death sentence were evenly poised, the balance now tilts in favour of execution. It’s now, say, 75 per cent to 25 per cent. Consider the following.
  There has been heavy criticism of the Pakistani Government’s handling of the case at the ICJ by the Opposition parties. The accusations range from inept (…)

• Have States received Adequate Resources to cope with Increased Responsibilities?

  27 May 2017, by Bharat Dogra

  It is well known that following the recommen-dations of the 14th Finance Commission in the financial year 2015-16, the share of Central taxes to be shared with States was increased from 32 per cent to 42 per cent. At the same time the allocations for several important schemes in the social sector were cut quite substantially on the understanding that the State governments will be able to make up for these cuts on the basis of the additional resources allocated to them. However, questions (…)

• ICJ Speaks Out in Jadhav Case

  20 May 2017, by SC

  EDITORIAL
  The International Court of Justice has spoken out loud and clear.
  Today it instructed Pakistan not to execute Kulbhushan Jadhav, a former Indian Navy officer convicted of alleged espionage and terrorism and subsequently sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court (functioning under deep secrecy), till the ICJ pronounces its final decision on New Delhi’s petition to annul the death sentence.
  The President of the UN’s highest court in The Hague said: “Pakistan shall take (…)

• French Presidential Elections 2017: Macron’s Victory offers a Much-needed Reprieve against Narrow Nationalism

  20 May 2017, by Harsh Kapoor

  by Harsh Kapoor
  In the April 23 first round of the French elections, the established parties were eliminated, leaving two final contenders in the final round of May 7—one was Emmanuel Macron (a former Economy Minister/a cosmopolitan political novice) representing his newly created movement called ‘En Marche’ [On the Move] and the other was Marine Le Pen, the leader of the forty-year-old Front Nationale (FN) [an anti-immigrant and anti-European party of the far Right]. Two opposing (…)

• Macron in France, and here Kejriwal makes BJP Strategists’ Life Hell!

  20 May 2017, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  What a relief! The French have indeed signalled that all’s not over! The election of Emmanuel Macron has actually relayed that sane and responsible governance will flourish in France. Lesser levels of discriminations and biases and hounding of the hapless.
  Macron’s win has inflicted a huge dent to the Right-wing fascist politics on the international scene. In fact, till the French election results trickled in, there were fears that the Right- wing’s Marine Le Pen could cash in on (…)

• Why Kashmir Remains Disturbed

  20 May 2017, by Kuldip Nayar

  Whether stone-pelting in Kashmir is at the behest of Pakistan or it is a response to the fundamentalists’ call, the fact remains that the Valley is disturbed. Scores of schools have been burnt and there is a fear in the mind of students that they would be punished if they were to attend classes. The separatists are said to be leading a movement to boycott the studies.
  The result is that the students are finding it hard to prepare and appear in exams which the rest of the country is having (…)