From N.C.’s Writings
April 14 this year marked the 124th birth anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. On this occasion we are reproducing the following piece by N.C. to offer our sincere homage to the abiding memory of that towering (...)
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Honouring Ambedkar
17 April 2015, by Nikhil Chakravartty -
Ambedkar and Constituent Assembly
17 April 2015by Vivek Kumar Srivastava
We can look at Bhimrao Ambedkar in many ways. He is credited with the drafting of our Constitution. He is respected as the champion of the Dalit cause. He is remembered for incorporating Article 17 in the chapter of (...) -
Ambedkar and the Annihilation of Caste
17 April 2015by Sukumaran C. V.
“There is no code of laws more infamous regarding social rights than the Laws of Manu. Any instance from anywhere of social injustice must pale before it. Why have the masses of people tolerated the social evils to which they (...) -
Pakistan far from Losing Relevance
17 April 2015, by Apratim MukarjiWhile Pakistan may appear to be losing its relevance to India in some Indians’ perception, it is in fact strengthening its geo-strategic relevance in the fast-changing Asian geopolitics. There is every reason to believe that the Indian (...) -
Unprecedented Challenges Strengthen Case For Equality and Environment Protection
17 April 2015, by Bharat DograI - Introduction
The next two decades (2015-2035) present some unprecedented challenges for the human civilisation. There is clearly a very urgent need for restricting climate change to tolerable levels, checking environmental ruin in other (...) -
From ‘pile of shit’, discovery of breathtaking contradictions: Gunter Grass, the Voice of a Generation
17 April 2015TRIBUTE
by Subhoranjan Dasgupta
Gunter Grass, the German author and social critic who gave voice to the generation that came of age during the horrors of the Nazi era, died on Monday (April 13) morning. He was 87.
A friend of Gunter Grass, who (...) -
The Answer is Blowing in the Wind
17 April 2015, by Badri RainaThis is the day that India’s greatest modern-day social thinker was born. Aided by a fratern-ity of able and well-meaning compatriots, he gave us Constitutional Democracy, and a vision of how much rot needed to be sorted out if our political (...) -
Saluting Sobho Gianchandani: A Symbol of Pride of the Subcontinent
17 April 2015, by Ajeet Jawed[(TRIBUTE
Sobho Gianchandani, one of Pakistan’s last leaders from its first generation of Marxists, passed away in Larkana (in Pakistan’s Sindh province) four months ago on December 8, 2014. He was cremated in his native village near Larkana on (...) -
Disturbing Signals
12 April 2015, by SCEDITORIAL
Several developments in the last few days at the Centre and in the States have caused considerable controversy and concern.
First, there was the exchange of letters between Justice Kurian Joseph of the Supreme Court and Chief Justice (...) -
Yemen and the Nuclear Deal: Evolving Global Equations
12 April 2015, by Uttam SenThe bombing of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, by the Saudi-led coalition has exposed a bag of contradictions which are growing sharper with time. The coalition is battling the Houthi rebels hostile to the Sunni and pro-Saudi President Abd Rabbu (...)
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