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Helping the Homeless
10 December 2017, by Bharat DograAs a train approaches an important station, there is a spurt of activity, particularly mobile phone calls, as passengers confirm about the car coming to pick them up. Even if they are not going to their home, most passengers are confident about (...) -
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND INDIA-VI
10 December 2017by Shaukat Usmani
According to the decisions of the Third Congress of the Comintern a new university came into being in Moscow. This was then commonly known by the abbreviated name of the KUTV.
It got contingents from India (the Indusky Kurs (...) -
Impact of Bolshevik Revolution on South Asian Politics
10 December 2017Harris Khalique, a poet and essayist, is the author of Crimson Papers: Reflections on Struggle, Suffering, and Creativity in Pakistan. He has remained associated with labour, minority and women rights movements. He was recently interviewed on (...) -
Indira Gandhi — her Ideology of Action
10 December 2017by Vivek Kumar Srivastava
This year completes hundred years of Mrs Indira Gandhi’s birth. She was born in the year of the Bolshevik Revolution and died when the chain of orthodox Bolsheviks was on the decline. Her age existed almost with the (...) -
The Legacy of Indira Gandhi and Inherent Perils of Populism
10 December 2017by Sheel Bhadra Kumar
On November 19, 2017, we have celebrated and marked the birth centenary of late and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. This is also an appropriate moment to reminisce about her political actions, her struggle against (...) -
Unbridled Surrogacy: A Pathway to Next Generation Crime
10 December 2017by G.K. Goswami and Siddhartha Goswami
Abstract
Surrogacy may potentially result into genetic bewilderment because of diffused parentage if the gamete donors are not known. In the absence of known parental pedigree, forensic tools like DNA may (...) -
The Intent behind the Hysteria
2 December 2017POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
The mass hysteria created over the film Padmavati is acquiring dangerous dimensions. A BJP hothead of Haryana has announced a reward of Rs 10 crores to anyone who will behead the film’s director, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and (...) -
Yogi Cannot Continue as a Chief Minister
2 December 2017Justice Rajinder Sacher, Senior Member, National Executive, Socialist Party (India), and Dr Prem Singh, President, Socialist Party (India), have in a press release stated the following.
The Preamble to our Constitution specifically states that (...) -
Love in the times of Fundamentalist Politics: Case of Hadiya
2 December 2017by Ram Puniyani
The politics of communal polarisation is focusing on many identity issues, one being the Love-Jihad, where a Hindu girl married to a Muslim or Christian man is targeted, and is legally manipulated in a manner to ensure that she (...) -
Challenge before Rahul Gandhi
2 December 2017, by Kuldip NayarPolitical parties all over the world have come to be closed shops. What is known as the ‘High Command’ usually dictates who will be installed as the President. Rahul Gandhi has been ‘elected’ as the Congress President. The outgoing chief, Sonia (...)
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