Jawaharlal Nehru. What a man!
This May, we observed his twentyfifth death anniversary. Six months later, India and the world celebrate his centenary. Without Jawa-harlal Nehru the history of the twentieth century would be incomplete. Nehru, the (...)
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Grace Under Pressure
12 November 2011, by K. Natwar Singh -
Progressive Statesman
12 November 2011by C. RAJESWARA RAO
I am glad that the centenary celebrations of the late Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru have been held throughout the country with due solemnity. He is not only one of the tallest leaders of our freedom movement, but (...) -
Nehru in the Era of Collapsing Neoliberalism
12 November 2011, by Girish MishraTwenty years ago, while presenting his first Budget as the Finance Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh launched “a sweeping set of neoliberal reforms that would dramatically alter the country’s economic landscape. Viewing the crisis as a historic (...) -
Urgent Need for Left Unity and Coordinated Progressive Action
12 November 2011, by S G VombatkereAN APPEAL
The following is an appeal Major General (retd) S.G. Vombatkere sent to the leaders of the Forward Bloc, CPI-ML (Liberation), CPI (Maoist), CPI-ML (New Democracy), RSP, CPI, CPI-M, CPI-ML (K.N. Ramachandaran), PDS, UCPI, SUCI (C ), (...) -
’A Vast Majority of Muslims were Not with the Muslim League’
12 November 2011INTERVIEW
November 11, 2011 marks Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s one hundred and twentythird birth anniversary. On this occasion we offer our humble tribute to the abiding memory of that courageous secular nationalist by reproducing the following (...) -
Nation, Nationalism and Islam: Maulana Azad and Beyond
12 November 2011by MUHAMMAD TAJUDDIN
The only form of state structure legitimate and legal in the world after the Second World War is the nation-state. The same is not true about the nature of governance. Liberal democratic governance has become the universal (...) -
Guru Nanak Combined Bhakti and Social Reforms with Great Communication Skills
12 November 2011, by Bharat Dogra, Reshma BhartiNovember 10 marks Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary.
Guru Nanak combined deep spiritual yearnings with ideas of social reforms that were far ahead of his times. He emphasised equality at all levels—social, economic and religious—and openly declared (...) -
Marx Sipping Tea at Nehru’s Dhaba
12 November 2011by GAURAV JOGI PATHANIA
A student of modern Delhi would hardly be aware of the word ‘dhaba’. Thousands of Delhi-ites are oblivious of the existence of a jungle called Jawaharlal Nehru University, right at the heart of South Delhi. Despite being (...) -
On Hindutva Politics and Terror
12 November 2011BOOK REVIEW
by MAHTAB ALAM
Godse’s Children: Hindutva Terror in India by Subhash Gatade; Pharos Media & Publishing Private Ltd, New Delhi; 2011; pp. 400; Price: Rs 360.
The Saffron Condition: Politics of Repression and Exclusion in Neoliberal (...) -
One Piece of Encouraging News
8 November 2011, by SCAs we go to press the government has today given the oil companies a free run to hike petrol prices by Rs 1.82 per litre that would further fuel inflation which has already recorded a massive rise of late to reach the double digit as food prices (...)
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