2016

by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
All lovers of equality should celebrate October 5 as the Indian English Day. We declare that ‘English is Indian’. We study in English and preserve our buffalo cultural nationalism as against the unproductive forces of cow nationalism.
English teaching started in Calcutta sometime in October 1817 by gathering a few Brahmin male children both by British educationalists and Indians. In 2017 we need to celebrate the 200th year of English education in India. In the (…)

EDITORIAL
In both Pakistan and India there have been certain noteworthy developments following the ‘surgical strikes’ carried out by the Indian armed forces across the LoC on September 29.
In Pakistan there were mass demonstrations in PoK protesting against the rulers’ move to shift the jihadi terrorists into places where they would reside by the side of the common citizens since the terror group members are frequently coming in conflict with the locals. There was also an ugly spat (…)

The Pakistan-India Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) notes with concern the escalation of jingoism both in the use of language as well as actions by India and Pakistan in recent times. The announcement of ‘surgical’ strike by the Indian Army across the border inside the territory of Pakistan Administered Kashmir in which it claims to have killed 35 ‘militants’, is an unacceptable action in gross violation of established international law and the objectives of the United Nations. Though (…)

The Indian journalists must be compulsorily made to read the parting speech by Helen Boaden, Director of the BBC Radio, as she resigned from her position last weekend, on how the scramble for ‘breaking news’ is degrading and destroying what used to be a wonderful profession. She valiantly makes a case for ‘slow news’. (Independent)
At issue here is the Indian media coverage of our “surgical strikes” across the Line of Control at Pakistan on September 29. India has been whipped into frenzy (…)

by Arun Srivastava
India’s surgical operation in Pakistan occupied Kashmir has boosted the personal image of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, as a strong ruler; but it has nonetheless provided the politically correct ambience to the BJP to refurbish its nationalist image and instil a new sense of nationalism in the people of India.
Modi, whose political initiatives and actions during the two years of his stay as the Prime Minister, have come under public scrutiny in recent months and (…)

by K. Narayana
Ever since the NDA Government of the RSS Parivar or the RSS family rule came to power with absolute numbers in 2014, tricks have been played to show that they are above corruption. The media houses, mostly of the corporate bodies or the ones that depend upon their ads, keep on telling us that there is no corruption in the Modi Government and everything is transparent. Yes, it is transparent for the select few business houses and their nominees in the bureaucracy who prepare (…)

by Shamsul Islam
PM Modi, a senior seasoned swayamsevak of the RSS who describes himself as a ‘Hindu nationalist’, misses no opportunity to denigrate the minorities of India, specially the Muslims. The latest was when on September 25, 2016, while addressing a national level BJP conclave at Kozhikode, Kerala, he did not forget to share his belief with his captive audience about Muslims being ‘other’ or ‘different from us’ borrowing directly from the RSS archives. For him, Muslims were not (…)

by Joydeep Biswas
The Citizenship (Amendment Bill), 2016, now before the Joint Committee of the two Houses for a thorough examination, contrary to popular perception, does not guarantee citizenship to the religious minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. It only seeks to convert the ‘illegal migrants’ to ‘legal migrants’.
The Union Home Minister introduced the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 in the Lok Sabha during the recently concluded monsoon session further to amend (…)

by Sudhanshu Tripathi
The Non-Aligned Movement, while holding fast the true spirit of the doctrine of non-alignment, must act as the vanguard of all principal international debates on political, strategic and socio-economic issues and must also suitably modernise itself to remain relevant in the world.
Introduction
The 17th Summit of the Non-Aligned countries of the Third World, spreading over the continents of Asia, Africa and Latin America, was held at the Margarita island in (…)

by Vivek Kumar Srivastava
The 17th Non-Aligned Movement(NAM) summit in Venezuela’s Margarita Island proved to be a lacklustre affair which it had never witnessed in its so impactful history. About 12 heads of states attended from the 120-member group, which was quite less than the participation at the Iran summit, a signal that the movement is on the decline.
The Indian PM was requested by Venezuela to participate as India was a founder-member of the movement but India rejected the (…)