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Modi in Israel, China’s Muscle-flexing in Doko La
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Modi’s Trump Card
11 July 2017, by Kuldip NayarEvery statement or a visit by a foreign dignitary has to be related to our attitude on Pakistan. Even if there is no mention of Islamabad, we stretch the observation to the point where it is meant to be so. American Presidents have so far been (...) -
Lynching Mobs, Repressive Regime and Glamorisation of War!
11 July 2017by Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal
A society made habitual of violence, intimi-dations, suspicions—where killings, torture, sexual abuse and pellet-gun related blindings are the norm—is so brutalised that it will try to respond with its own idiom of (...) -
UK Parliamentary Poll Results After Brexit - As the Dust Settles, what are the Important Takeaways?
11 July 2017by Sanjal Shastri
It has now been more than a week since the UK parliamentary election results were announced. Just like the Brexit vote, which had baffled pollsters, the recently concluded elections were equally puzzling. Political pundits had (...) -
Rethinking Rajni Kothari’s Political Thought
11 July 2017, by Arup Kumar SenWe are going through a political time in which our cherished notions of politics and democracy are at stake. This crisis propels us to revisit the political thought and political life of late Rajni Kothari, in search of an alternative notion of (...) -
Sangh communalising Indian Army for serving its Ulterior Motives
11 July 2017by Arun Srivastava
The RSS and BJP have embarked on the mission to communalise and politicise the Indian Army. Behind the façade of nationalism, the main thrust of the saffron brigade has been to create a situation where even an objective (...) -
India’s Cyber Vulnerability and PSUs
11 July 2017, by S G VombatkereRansomware worm WannaCry struck at and crippled the UK’s National Health Scheme, causing a national emergency of sorts. The operations systems of British Airways, Luf-thansa and Air France were targets of cyber attack on passenger handling, (...) -
A Major Lacuna in our Education and Research Establishments
11 July 2017by Kunal Ghosh
In the first week of June, 2017, the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings declared a list in which IIT, Delhi and IIT, Bombay ranked 172 and 179 respectively and the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (...) -
On the twentieth anniversary of Hong Kong’s sovereignty having been resumed to the People’s Republic of China
11 July 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
On July 1, 1997 Hong Kong came back to the People’s Republic of China from Britain. On the twentieth anniversary of Hong Kong’s sovereignty having been resumed to the PRC, we are reproducing the following article written by (...) -
The Retreat of Liberal Democracy
11 July 2017by Saumitra Mohan
The world seems to be moving increasingly backward with the march of time much to the chagrin of all Panglossian expectations of the humanitarian values bringing about an eclectic, cosmopolitan and catholic human society. The (...)
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