Freedom at Stake
(for Prof Nandini Sundar)
Now it is the creed to rape women And kill the villagers, Make room for the new India Steeped in himsa.
Gouge hillsides for the mining, Clear pathways for the felling, Make way for all the natural (...)
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2016
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Two Poems
21 November 2016, by Sagari Chhabra -
From Donald Trump to Demonetisation
17 November 2016, by SCEDITORIAL
Eight years ago when Barack Obama won the US presidential election in a historic victory over the Republican candidate, John McCain, he captured the whole world’s attention in an unprecedentedly eloquent acceptance speech at Chicago on (...) -
OROP — Lies, False Claim, Suicide
17 November 2016, by S G VombatkereVeteran Subedar Ram Kishan Grewal, aged 70 years, unhappy at the government not providing OROP to Veterans, committed suicide by consuming poison in Delhi on November 2, 2016.
OROP had been the focus of intense agitation over many months at (...) -
Sangh, Simon and the Question of Rationality
17 November 2016by Shrikant Wad
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Narendra Modi, had a historic win in the general elections of 2014 in India. It has com-pleted two years successfully. This essay is an attempt to analyse the ideological influence of the (...) -
Validity of Nehru
17 November 2016, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
November 14 this year marks Jawaharlal Nehru’s 127th birth anniversary. On this occasion we are reproducing the following editorial by N.C. published in the Mainstream issue that came out on the third death anniversary of (...) -
Nehru for Today
17 November 2016I have no love for bigotry and dogmatism in religion, and I am glad that they are weakening. Nor do I love communalism in any shape or form. I find it difficult to appreciate why political or economic rights should depend on the membership of a (...) -
Some Memories of Nehru
17 November 2016, by Mohan KumaramangalamIt was in 1936 that I first met Panditji. I was in my second year at Cambridge and he had come to Europe in connection with the serious illness of his wife, Smt Kamala Nehru.
At that time he also came across to England and down to Cambridge and (...) -
Remembering Nehru Today
17 November 2016, by M. C. ChaglaGandhiji was the one man who played the most important role in building a secular India. Both Gandhiji and Nehru were secularists, but their approach to secularism was different. While Gandhiji was essentially a religious man, Nehru was not (...) -
Secularism: A Heritage to Defend
16 November 2016, by D.R. GoyalYou do not have to be an idol-worshipper to remember Nehru today. Every day something happens that compels your mind to recall a man exerting every nerve to pull his countrymen out of the morass of superstition, to debunk the ‘bullock-cart (...) -
Nehru’s India, a Nation Still Wandering between Two Worlds
16 November 2016by Sukumaran C.V.
“The alliance of religion and politics in the shape of communalism is a most dangerous alliance, and it yields the most abnormal kind of illegitimate brood...the combination of politics and of religion in the narrowest sense of (...)
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