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• May Day, 2017

  8 May 2017, by Badri Raina

  So crushing is the oppression, look where you will, that every hand is bloodied That robs the honest till.Sylllables of hope seem limp against the squeeze of perfidy; those that still sing of love are like corals in the sea.May be the waters will yet arise to sink the Pharos of our day; May be legions of little men will unleash from this May.A fury that no force may stop, fuelled by wrath of the just; May be the sweat of the honest brow will satiate a righteous thirst.
  Badri Raina

• Global Significance of Champaran Satyagraha | S N Sahu

  8 May 2017, by S N Sahu

  The launching of the Champaran Satyagraha by Mahatma Gandhi hundred years back in 1917 marked a revolutionary landmark as much in the history of India as in the history of humanity for reconstruction of society and polity based on non-violence. Anchored on the strength of the ordinary and exploited people, it liberated them from exploitation without employment of violence and prosecution of the exploiters and offered refreshing lessons for humanity for peaceful social change and fine-tuning (…)

• Conspiracy behind the Babri Demolition

  8 May 2017

  by Ram Puniyani
  After a long wait, the Supreme Court Chief Justice J.S. Khehar opined that the long pending dispute of Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid should be settled out of court. (March 2017) He even offered to mediate himself in the matter. Uniformly most of the spokespersons from the RSS combine welcomed the move, while a large number of Muslims and other elements have been surprised as the Court was approached for justice and not for any compromise formula.
  This is in the backdrop of (…)

• An Appraisal and Perspective of Champaran Satyagraha

  8 May 2017, by A K Biswas

  Part I
  Mahatma’s ‘Mother cow’
  Perhaps the loudest and most sonorous euphoria over the cow was penned 95 years ago: “The cow is a poem of pity. One reads pity in the gentle animal. She is the mother to millions of Indian mankind.”1 Four years later the same ecstatic writer went to a higher plane: “I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.”2 At his 70th year, his devotion knew no bounds for the bovine creature: “Mother cow is in many ways better than the (…)

• Instability Intensified

  8 May 2017, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  From N.C.’s Writings
  This week marks the completion of six months after the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya on December 6. As one looks back on these six troubled months, one has to concede that December 6 has emerged as a distinct watershed in Indian politics. The period that has opened up since that date is qualitatively different from the period preceding it.
  Whoever was responsible for the disappea-rance of the Babri Masjid—the act of violent demolition on the part of the (…)

• Crisis in Valley: Hard Time for Kashmiri Muslims

  8 May 2017

  by Nilofar Suhrawardy
  Peace in Kashmir is likely to remain a mirage till greater importance is not given to hard realities responsible for the Kashmiri Muslims being provoked to the stage of unrest and incidents of militancy troubling the area. It is time that some attempt is made to view the situation from the angle of residents living in the disturbed area. The issue should not be studied simply as that of a region that is Kashmir. The area is bound to remain disturbed till the life of (…)

• Modi’s Design to disdain Secular Values by denigrating Congress Leadership

  8 May 2017

  by Arun Srivastava
  Neither Narendra Modi nor the RSS would be credited with creating a Congress-Mukt India; instead the honour should go to the Congress leadership for fashioning such a situation. The Congress leadership ought to have realised that the BJP was making a tactical shift from its earlier political line. While strictly adhering to its Hindutva ideological line, it has been consistently striving to project a Left-of-Centre economic shift. It had identified the middle class as (…)

• Tribute to Yevgeny Yeutushenko

  8 May 2017

  Yevgeny Yeutushenko, 84, was one of the most famous names among the generation of Soviet Russian poets who came to the fore in the early sixties.

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  On J & K, Sukma, DMC Poll Outcome

  30 April 2017, by SC

  EDITORIAL
  The Kashmir situation continues to deteriorate and has lately assumed serious proportions with unprecedented demonstrations of students, including women students, protesting against the security clampdown on students in south Kashmir. This has come in the wake of several video clips, widely circulated on social media, showing armed forces resorting to alleged human rights violations.
  Against that backdrop one finds even women students are now engaging in stone-pelting. (…)

• Statement by the Concerned Citizens Group for Kashmir

  30 April 2017

  The news of recurrence of violence, student protests and the video war on social media in Kashmir ought to disturb every right thinking Indian. Both the government and the Kashmiri protestors need to recognise that in democracies the world over, peace in disturbed areas has never been achieved through more violence or by retributive measures.
  Whether it is the death of eight protestors on April 9 during the Srinagar by-poll, the 200 including troops injured in the accompanying violence and (…)