by Krishnakumar S.
The March to Washington For Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, fifty years back, was an unprecedented assertion of the Afro-Americans who were discriminated against in their own country, despite the tall promises made on (...)
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Fifty Years of Martin Luther King Jr’s "I Have A Dream"
8 September 2013 -
Amoral Politicians Create a Culture where Values Fall and Rapes Rise
8 September 2013, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Our Supreme Court asked what citizens have been asking for a while: Why is there such a sharp rise in rape cases across the country? “We are shocked,†said a two-judge Bench. “What has gone wrong with our society? What is wrong with (...) -
SC Rulings and Citizens’
 Fundamental Rights
8 September 2013, by Barun Das GuptaCOMMUNICATION
Recently, the Supreme Court has given two rulings—one denying the right of a person to continue as an MP, MLA or MLC once he has been convicted in a criminal case, and the other denying the right of a person in police or judicial (...) -
A Moving Cultural, Regional,
Emotional Experience
8 September 2013BOOK REVIEW
by Taisha Abraham
Jorasanko by Aruna Chakravarti; Harper Collins India; pages: 406; price: Rs 350.
Reading Aruna Chakravarti’s Jorasanko, as a non-Bengali, was a cultural and regional experience. Along with the seven-year-old (...) -
Justice for Maruti Workers
8 September 2013, by Bharat DograCOMMUNICATION
There has been a growing feeling among citizens dedicated to justice and workers’ rights that the Maruti workers have been the victims of several injustices in recent years. Some reports on the working conditions which prevailed (...) -
Hope Flickers in Dismal Setting
2 September 2013, by SCEDITORIAL
As the latest developments in Syria threaten to snowball into another major crisis in the Arab world with the prospects of Western (read US) intervention in the country increasing with every passing day even as Russia and China are (...) -
Damaging a Basic Institution of Democracy
2 September 2013by S. Krishnan and B.P. Mathur
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, has recently made a statement that the CAG is ill- equipped for conducting performance audit and lacks trained personnel for doing so and (...) -
Convicted MPs Should Quit
2 September 2013, by Kuldip NayarParliament is a temple of democracy. Members are its pujaris (priests). Their purity affects the temple’s purity. If the Members defile it, the reputation of temple goes down in the eyes of the people. They begin to doubt the belief it projects. (...) -
US General Wants to Learn from India
2 September 2013, by Ninan KoshyGeneral Raymond T. Odierno was in an upbeat mood. He had just returned from a visit to India. He was profuse in his praise for the Indian Army. He said the US Army had to learn a lot from its Indian counterpart.
The US Army Chief of Staff (...) -
A Macroeconomic View of the 
National Food Security Bill
2 September 2013, by Arun KumarThe National Food Security Bill (NFSB) has been contentious. Economic arguments have been presented against it confusing the public. The rich farmers are worried that farm prices would fall because cheap food would find its way into the markets. (...)
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