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In the competitive radicalism of the Hindu Right the Shiv Sena is trying to upstage the Sangh Parivar. The latest instance of this is blackening the face of Sudheendra Kulkarni, a close associate of senior BJP lealder Lal (...)
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Rise of the Hindu Right
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Do Not Play With Fire
19 October 2015The recent Vedic Sanskrit conference held at University of Delhi shows a deliberate effort being made by the BJP Government to create a divisive strategy. No, I have nothing against Sanskrit. I myself had taken it in my Intermediate class as one (...) -
Continuity and Change within the Sangh Parivar
19 October 2015by Irfan Engineer
Our PM Narendra Modi travels across the globe soliciting global capital to India and announces various deals making India a very attractive destination for multinational capital to earn its dream profits. PM recently met the (...) -
Dog, man’s best friend, has turned into a problem. Others control it with laws. Why can’t we?
19 October 2015, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
We can understand the controversy over beef; it is a subject intertwined with spirituality, faith and nowadays fanatic intolerance. But dogs? In no culture is the dog an object of canonical homage. Yet dogs arouse human passions (...) -
Secularism on Trial
19 October 2015, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
We as a nation are proud of the fact that we are a secular democracy. The test of our secularism does not consist in our protestations, however loud these may be, but in the manner we conduct ourselves towards the minorities (...) -
Lessons from Meerut
19 October 2015, by V R Krishna IyerV.R. Krishna Iyer, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India and Home Minister in the CPI-led government in Kerala (1957-59), visited in 1982 Meerut where communal tension had been persisting for over two months. On his return, Justice Krishna (...) -
India-Bangladesh: Reviewing the Enclave Exchange
19 October 2015by Saumitra Mohan
Boundaries between nation-states are reflections of the interplay of the forces of history, politics and wars but oftentimes they could be simply a manifestation of a shoddy and hasty job as transpired in the wake of the (...) -
Refugee Influx in Europe
19 October 2015by M.C. Pindwal
India is a house of multiple religions and faiths followed by a heterogeneous mixture of believers of various sects that flourish together with a sense of tolerance whereas this kind of tolerance is hardly visible in Europe as (...) -
Influx of Refugees and Humanitarian Crisis in Europe
19 October 2015, by Sheetal SharmaThe ugly face of human tragedy was unfolded when the world saw shocking images of the lifeless body of three-year-old Syrian boy, Alyanc Kurdi. Alyan’s five-year-old brother Galip, and mother Rehan, aged 35, too met the same fate along with (...) -
Girls who Demanded Adequate Teachers in School Lathi-charged, Injured
19 October 2015COMMUNICATION
At a time when the government is supposed to be committed to implementing the Right to Education legislation, students, particularly girl students, of a school in Tonk district of Rajasthan were brutally lathi-charged by the police (...)
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