The following is the statement issued by the Socialist Party (India)’s President, Dr Prem Singh, on July 18, 2017 on the latest India-China border dispute.
The aggressive Kashmir policy of the Modi Government has led to the present conflict (...)
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Socialist Party on India-China Border Dispute
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Ode to Liu Xiaobo
22 July 2017The following is a poem composed as a tribute to Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Laureate and political prisoner who recently passed away in Chinese custody.
An empty chair!
His presence was denied
to receive the award;
the message of peace forbidden
as a (...) -
Bright and Dark
16 July 2017, by SCEDITORIAL
The incident in the evening of last Monday (July 10) at Batengoo on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway in South Kashmir—that resulted in the killing of seven Amarnath pilgrims, including five women, while 15 were injured when militants (...) -
Time to Judge the Chinese Chicanery
16 July 2017by Sankar Ray
Revered and erudite journalist Sunanda Kishore Datta-Ray, author of Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim, has very succinctly stated about the mounting tension in the Dokolam plateau: “Strictly speaking, India is not involved in (...) -
West Bengal: Communal Flare-up in Basirhat - Not Spontaneous but Planned
16 July 2017, by Barun Das GuptaWidespread communal violence broke out in Basirhat and its surrounding areas on July 4. Apparently, it was a ‘spontaneous’ outburst of Muslim anger against a highly objectionable and provocative Facebook post by a boy in his teens. The boy, a (...) -
Scanning a Landmark
16 July 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Important events are graduated into landmarks in History as they are invested with hindsight. Perhaps it would be premature to call an event a landmark on the very morrow of its happening. By this criterion, the meeting of (...) -
A Whiff of Fresh Air from Sri Lanka
16 July 2017, by Apratim MukarjiAs the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe Government is short of a few months to roll on to its third year in office, Sri Lanka’s declining economy and unresolved political issues have served to erode much of the sheen that was generated in January 2015 (...) -
Underground Couriers Safe Conduit for Black Money
16 July 2017by A.V.V.S.K. Rao
The Greater the Wealth, the Thicker will be Dirt. — J.K. Galbraith, (Harvard, USA)
Introduction
The black money created ‘Parallel Economy’ poses a serious threat to stability and growth of the real (product) economy. Since the (...) -
Courageous Civil Servants
16 July 2017, by Kuldip NayarGovernment officers after retirement take to sanyas, but some courageous ones have spoken against the intolerant society that India is becoming. In their open letter they say: “It appears there is a growing religious intolerance that is aimed (...) -
Will Hamburg Summit improve Relations between Russia and America?
16 July 2017by R.G. Gidadhubli
The summit of G-20 nations in Hamburg gave an opportunity for the long awaited meeting between the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and the US President, Donald Trump, on July 7, 2017. There are valid speculations as to how (...)
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