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Wanted: Public Intervention
5 February 2013, by SCAs we approach our sixtyfourth Republic Day, the political class in the country has been gripped by an unprecedented crisis—the crisis of credibility. This has been recently witnessed in the unique spontaneity of the youth upsurge on the major (...) -
Mahatma Gandhi
5 February 2013, by Jawaharlal NehruOn the occasion of the sixtyfifth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s martyrdom on January 30 this year, we offer our sincere homage to his abiding memory by reproducing excerpts from two speeches of Jawaharlal Nehru to explain Gandhiji’s significance (...) -
Netaji on India after Independence
5 February 2013On the occasion of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s 116th birth annivarsary on January 23 this year, we offer our homage to the memory of that indomitable freedom fighter by reproducing excerpts from one of his writings.
A question which many people (...) -
Rape and Punishment: Conservatives Exposed
5 February 2013by ASGHAR ALI ENGINEER
The rape of Nirbhaya (as the 23-year-old victim has been named by The Times of India) on the night of December 16 rightly raised grave concern about the safety of women in modern democratic India today. Thousands of women (...) -
Couldn’t the PM Show Some Feelings in a Time of Strong Feelings?
5 February 2013, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Of the many things that went wrong during the Big Bad Year 2012, which was the most upsetting? That’s not an easy question to answer because there were too many Big Bad Things that were disconcerting. Hopes were shattered and fears (...) -
Chilling Scenes in Delhi: Disturbing Response of the Authorities
5 February 2013, by Rajindar SacharIt appears to me that in India we are rushing on that route envisaged by Rousseau. This foreboding I am getting because of the latest situation in Delhi where the well-intentioned non-political young generation (who still retain faith and (...) -
Protests and Prospects
2 February 2013, by Ajay K. MehraEven before Delhi and India got into the festive mood for the dawning of another New Year, 2013, the young girl who fell victim to the lust of six lascivious barbarous men, one of whom only in his teens, breathed her last in a Singapore (...) -
Blood at the Border
2 February 2013, by Kuldip NayarIt is an unfortunate coincidence that the border clashes and ceasefire violations between India and Pakistan have been at a time when Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri had signed the Tashkent Declaration some 37 years ago to bind the two (...) -
What We Defend in Kashmir
2 February 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
The valiant defence of the Motherland by our armed forces as well as by the brave people of Jammu and Kashmir has inspired the nation. The grim determination of the people of this country not to rest till Pakistani aggression (...) -
India and Pakistan: Between Hawks and Peaceniks
is there a Middle Path?
2 February 2013, by S G VombatkereThe beheading and mutilation of the bodies of L/Nk Hemraj and L/Nk Sudarshan Singh by Pakistani soldiers on January 8, 2013, is yet another barbaric act by Pakistan’s Army, following several earlier ones. [Ref. 1, Note 1] It is not unlike the (...)
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