BOOK REVIEW
Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development edited by Aparna Sundar and Nandini Sundar; Sage, New Delhi; 2014; pp. 273.
The Oxford dictionary of Politics defines civil war as a ‘military conflict centred on territory (...)
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Dissecting Civil Conflicts in South Asia
4 November 2015, by Bharti Chhibber -
I am a Dalit and proud to be one
4 November 2015, by Suhas BorkerI am a Dalit and proud to be one. You set my family on fire in my village Sunped-Faridabad You burnt alive my nine-month-old daughter, Divya, and my two-and-a-half-year-old son,Vaibhav. My twentythree-year-old wife, Rekha, is still critical in (...) -
’RSS leading a Systematic Campaign to Create a Hindu Rashtra’ - admiral L. Ramdas’ Letter to the president and Prime Minister
4 November 2015Honourable President and Honourable Prime Minister,
It is with a heavy heart, that I write this open letter to you at a time when our beloved country and people are facing severe challenges and threats to our shared heritage.
I have served in (...) -
Protect Relationship of Trust between Officers and Jawans
4 November 2015, by Bharat DograCOMMUNICATION
One of the great strengths of our Army has been the relationship of trust between officers and jawans. Therefore if this relationship of trust is threatened in any way, then the highest authorities should intervene immediately to (...) -
The Engulfing Darkness
24 October 2015POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
As the season of festivals and lights comes, darkness has engulfed the literary and cultural spheres of the country. Growing religious intolerance and intolerance of thoughts and opinions that do not conform to the ‘ideology’ (...) -
Will India Survive?: Reasons to believe she may
24 October 2015, by Badri RainaIn the past week or so, one writer after another, who has been a recipient of a state award, has been returning that award to the state in protest against the targeted mafia-style killing of a renowned dissident scholar/writer, M.M. Kalburgi, (...) -
Debate on Beef
24 October 2015, by Kuldip NayarIndia has been pushed into an unnecessary debate whether beef should be banned or not. This is a wrong question to ask in a country where the emotions of Hindus are linked with the cow, which they revere. The real question is whether a person (...) -
Third Front and Left Front stand exposed in Bihar
24 October 2015COMMUNICATION
The ones who are opposed to the National Democratic Alliance Government at the Centre, headed by the Pradhan Parcharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, wrongly and euphe-mistically called the BJP Prime Minister of India, (...) -
BJP’s Politics of Social Engineering in Bihar
24 October 2015, by Harish S. WankhedeKanshiram, the late Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo, had brought bahujan as a viable political constituency to forge a political alliance between the Dalits, Other Backward Castes and Religious Minorities. This social engineering was one of (...) -
Bihar: Patronising Class Interest behind the Facade of Caste Consolidation
24 October 2015by Arun Srivastava
As Bihar heads for what is being described as a mini-Lok Sabha election, the politics of pretention has been replaced by pragmatism and the leaders of both the conglomerates, the NDA and Mahagathbandhan, have started focusing (...)
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