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Criterion for Presidents
24 June 2017, by Kuldip NayarThe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cannot hide its anti-Muslim fangs. Instead of building con-sensus behind the candidature of Hamid Ansari for presidentship, the party has appointed its top three leaders to find a candidate who commands the (...) -
Yechury’s Letter to PM on Farmers’ Plight
24 June 2017, by Sitaram YechuryDear Pradhan Mantri Ji,
I am writing this letter to draw your attention to the plight of farmers across India, which has resulted in a high level of rural distress, including thousands of suicides by farmers in the past three years. There have (...) -
Sudhakar’s Letter to Modi on Agrarian Crisis
24 June 2017, by Suravaram Sudhakar ReddyDear Shri Narendra Modiji,
Sub: Unprecedented Agrarian Crisis—Request for urgent special session of Parliament
This is to bring to your attention that the country is facing an unprecedented agrarian crisis. There was famine and drought in some (...) -
Resentment Growing over False Charges against Nikhil Dey and Other RTI Activists
24 June 2017, by Bharat DograResentment is growing in Rajasthan and at the national level against some of the most senior, distinguished, selfless social activists being given a prison sentence in a 20-year-old case. The case relates to one of those struggles of Right to (...) -
Tibet Question: A Dragon-hold and a Stifling US Agenda
24 June 2017by Pradeep Nair and Sandeep Sharma
The United States’ ‘Tibetan Policy Act of 2002’, clearly states that ‘the US would support the aspirations of Tibetan people in order to safeguard their distinct identity’. Other provisions which follow speak (...) -
Emergency: What it meant / Tagore for Today/ An Eye-witness Account
24 June 2017Lest We Forget
Fortytwo years ago on June 26, 1975, the Emergency was proclaimed throughout the country as the ruling leadership bared its fangs nakedly displaying its dictatorial proclivities. We present here write-ups and poems that bring (...) -
V.P. Singh was meant to be a Dreamer, a Poet, an Artist; bad luck he ended up as PM
24 June 2017, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
In the political universe of India V.P. Singh rose as high as a citizen could—MLA, Chief Minister, Union Finance Minister, Defence Minister, Prime Minister, father of coalition politics. For all that, he was seen as a “failure” because (...) -
Role of Government Officials?
24 June 2017, by Sandeep PandeyIn the May 4, 2017 judgement of the Bombay High Court related to the Bilkis Bano gang rape and rape and murder of 14 other family members, including her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter Saleha, in her presence during the infamous 2002 Gujarat (...) -
The Roots of the Emergency / Emergency (1975-77) Mainstream’s Rewarding Struggle / Good-Bye to All That
24 June 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The Roots of the Emergency
As years pass by, one after the other, the past recedes more and more into distant memory. There are certain events in the life of a nation, as of individuals, to which distance does not lend (...) -
Palestine and the Jewish Lobbying Activities
24 June 2017by Ahmad Zaboor
The cornerstone of the American Middle-East policy has been its relationship with Israel. Why is it that Israel every time rides roughshod over the Palestinians and virtually listens to no one, not even at times to the, US and (...)
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