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The Kashmir Crisis
24 June 2017, by Eduardo FaleiroIndia and Pakistan attained independence in 1947 and all the princely States, except Kashmir, merged into either of the two countries. Pakistan demanded that Kashmir, a Muslim majority State, should accede to it but the ruler, Maharaja Hari (...) -
What ails Afghanistan?
24 June 2017, by Apratim MukarjiAfter spending more than $ 117 billion for Afghanistan’s reconstruction in fifteen years, the “largest expenditure to rebuild a country in our nation’s history” (as the latest report of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan’s (...) -
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh in the Present Indian Labour Scenario
24 June 2017by Gautam Sen
The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)has recently demanded a reorientation of the government‘s labour policies. The BMS has also called for a correction of the policies of the NITI Aayog (former Planning Commission re-incar-nated as a (...) -
Language of Counter-insurgency in Kashmir and Chhattisgarh
24 June 2017COMMUNICATION
Giorgio Agamben reminded us in his short piece, titled “Security and Terror”, that in the course of a gradual neutralisation of politics and the progressive surrender of the traditional tasks of the state, security “now becomes the (...) -
Farmers and the Sangh
24 June 2017, by Badri RainaYou would think
That farmers would be
The Sangh Parivar’s first love,
Considering how they tend
The holy cow, and are
Custodians of Creation’s
Most pristine ambrosia,
Namely, cow’s urine.
You would think they
Would be beloved
Of the Sangh, (...) -
Agrarian Crisis, Darjeeling Unrest, Rising Intolerance
17 June 2017, by SCEDITORIAL
The agrarian crisis across the country, that was highlighted in these columns last week, has further accentuated with another farmer taking his life in Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad district this morning. This is the seventh case of (...) -
Hung Parliament in the UK: Theresa May Scores Self-goal
17 June 2017by Purusottam Bhattacharya
The opinion pollstars have got it wrong again—the Brexit referendum of June last year, Donald Trump’s triumph in the US elections last November and the just concluded general elections in the UK, three in a row in the (...) -
Ethnic Divide
17 June 2017by Samit Kar
The Right to Cessation among the people of Darjeeling began to snowball since the formation of Sikkim as a separate State in 1975 at the behest of Indira Gandhi. The creation of Sikkim also led to a gradual deterioration of (...) -
Narendra Modi Regime’s ‘Genes are Totalitarian’
17 June 2017by Arun Shourie
Veteran journalist and former Bharatiya Janata Party Minister Arun Shourie on June 9, 2017 warned the media against becoming the Narendra Modi Government’s “instruments for distracting your viewers and readers...from the main (...) -
Demonetisation X-rayed
17 June 2017by H.K. Dua
The following is an Introduction to a new book, Demonetisation : The Jury is Still Out, edited by the author who has sent this for publication in Mainstream. The book, now under print, is likely to be out in the next few days.
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