by Sambaiah Gundimeda
The Congress party has enjoyed stable support in Andhra Pradesh during the 2004 and 2009 elections, thanks mainly to the Machiavellian electoral strategies and politics of the former Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy (...)
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Congress’ Game-plan in Andhra Pradesh
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Trojan Horse in Mahabodhi Temple! Is Babri brewing at Buddhists’ Monastery?
21 October 2013, by A K BiswasMultiple blasts on July 7, 2013 in the Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya, Bihar, which is the holiest shrine of the Buddhists and a UNESCO world heritage site, point the finger at the callousness in the security and sanctity of so sacred a pilgrimage (...) -
However High You Be, the Law is Above You
21 October 2013, by Badri RainaThe declaimed prime ministerial candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party seems distinctly apprehensive, and therefore angry.
As his political persona marches fast forward, albeit with contradictions and hiccups—the latest one being the (...) -
No to Bhagat Singh’s Second Hanging
21 October 2013COMMUNICATION
According to some newspapers reports, Yadvendra Singh Sandhu, a distant relative of the great martyr of the Indian freedom struggle, Bhagat Singh (hanged on March 23, 1931 along with Sukhdev and Rajguru in Lahore) has invited (...) -
For Closer Interaction between Litterateurs of Assam and Bengal
21 October 2013COMMUNICATION
Nabanipa Bhattacharjee’s well-written article titled “Negotiating Marginality: The Bangla-Speakers of Assam” (Mainstream, August 9-15) does not discuss one aspect of the question, namely, the need for closer interaction between the (...) -
Privacy Law and Genetic Engineering under Article 21 and Maternal Foetal Conflicts
21 October 2013WOMEN’S WORLD
by Archana Ranka
I. Privacy Rights
The procreational right of privacy must extend its constitutional protection to non-traditional family units and alternative methods of reproduction.1 For example, legislation prohibiting (...) -
Colonial Master
21 October 2013by Shahnawaz Ahmad Mantoo
Justice continues to elude the present-day world as there are still exploitations, conflicts and miseries inflicted on the Third World states by the colonisers or neo-colonisers. Colonialism or imperialism is still (...) -
RSS and Politics: Conspiracy is the Mantra
21 October 2013, by Shamsul IslamThe RSS specialises in double-speak and triple- speak. In fact, the situation is so critical that it may be an understatement regarding the RSS behaviour. No other organisation which claims to be committed to moral regeneration of India can (...) -
Is a National Unity Government Possible?
21 October 2013, by Bharat DograThe conventional understanding of parliamentary democracy is that there will be a ruling party (or coalition) and there will be an opposition side.
However, given the experience of recent years, a time has come to explore whether a national (...) -
How Modi Views Untouchability?: Dissecting the ‘Toilets First, Temples Later’ Debate
21 October 2013, by Subhash GatadeNarendra Modi could not have imagined that his exhortation—‘toilets first, temples later’ —at a Delhi conclave would not only generate a debate within the saffron fraternity but would also bring back the focus on the pathetic situation of sanitation (...)
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