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Nehru in the Era of Collapsing Neoliberalism
11 November 2017, by Girish MishraTwenty years ago, while presenting his first Budget as the Finance Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh launched “a sweeping set of neoliberal reforms that would dramatically alter the country’s economic landscape. Viewing the crisis as a (...) -
Top One Per Cent More Powerful than Ever Before
11 November 2017COMMUNICATION
India’s independence was supposed to herald a period of economic progress based on equality and justice. So it is disturbing the know that in some respects the levels of inequality now may be even greater than in the colonial days (...) -
Testing Time for Non-Alignment • After Menon’s Exit / Do We Need Nehru Today? / Rajiv’s Heirloom
11 November 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Testing Time for Non-Alignment • After Menon’s Exit
With American arms flown in in consi-derable quantity, along with defence weapons from other Western countries, the scales of non-alignment are threatened to be disturbed. (...) -
Russian Revolution and India - II
11 November 2017by Shaukat Usmani
The dominant section of the Indian national leadership of the time was frightened with the on- rush of revolutionary ideas pouring from the other side of the Pamirs. This leadership was all along trying to strike a deal with (...) -
Mapping India in Global Hunger Index 2017
11 November 2017by Siba Sankar Sahu
‘An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.’ —Albert Einstein
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger globally and by country and region. Calculated each year by the (...) -
Partnering with Public Schools: Strengthening MR Vaccination Programme
11 November 2017by Pradeep Nair
Schools are the most appropriate place to deliver new vaccines to children and adolescents who may not receive them in a conventional healthcare set-up. However, engaging schools in vaccination programmes is not so easy, as the (...) -
Viren Chhabra (1927-2017)
11 November 2017TRIBUTE
Exactly a month ago, in the morning of September 14, 2017, passed away in New Delhi veteran leader of the print industry Viren Chhabra who has rightly been described as the print industry’s “Bhishma Pitamaha”. He worked for 42 years in The (...) -
Enhancing Kashmiri Alienation
6 November 2017, by SCEDITORIAL
As was only to be expected, the Hurriyat Conference has rejected any dialogue with the Centre’s interlocutor.
A week after the Centre appointed an interlocutor to engage all Kashmiris, especially the youth and separatists, the Hurriyat (...) -
China: Xi’s Hegemony sealed at 19th CPC Congress but Questions Remain
6 November 2017by Sankar Ray
The 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China ended its six-day jamboree adding “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” to its Constitution as an ideological addendum to the already lengthy (...) -
Taj Mahal
6 November 2017, by Badri RainaWhen great historians write about the past, They know they must rise above the facts; Facts are often petty impediments To the grand vision they wish to enact.
Thus years ago it was boldly writ In a journal called the Hindu Vishwa, That (...)
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