by Ram Puniyani
After a long wait, the Supreme Court Chief Justice J.S. Khehar opined that the long pending dispute of Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid should be settled out of court. (March 2017) He even offered to mediate himself in the matter. (...)
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2017
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Conspiracy behind the Babri Demolition
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An Appraisal and Perspective of Champaran Satyagraha
8 May 2017, by A K BiswasPart I
Mahatma’s ‘Mother cow’
Perhaps the loudest and most sonorous euphoria over the cow was penned 95 years ago: “The cow is a poem of pity. One reads pity in the gentle animal. She is the mother to millions of Indian mankind.”1 Four years (...) -
Instability Intensified
8 May 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
This week marks the completion of six months after the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya on December 6. As one looks back on these six troubled months, one has to concede that December 6 has emerged as a distinct (...) -
Crisis in Valley: Hard Time for Kashmiri Muslims
8 May 2017by Nilofar Suhrawardy
Peace in Kashmir is likely to remain a mirage till greater importance is not given to hard realities responsible for the Kashmiri Muslims being provoked to the stage of unrest and incidents of militancy troubling the area. (...) -
Modi’s Design to disdain Secular Values by denigrating Congress Leadership
8 May 2017by Arun Srivastava
Neither Narendra Modi nor the RSS would be credited with creating a Congress-Mukt India; instead the honour should go to the Congress leadership for fashioning such a situation. The Congress leadership ought to have realised (...) -
Tribute to Yevgeny Yeutushenko
8 May 2017Yevgeny Yeutushenko, 84, was one of the most famous names among the generation of Soviet Russian poets who came to the fore in the early sixties.
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On J & K, Sukma, DMC Poll Outcome
30 April 2017, by SCEDITORIAL
The Kashmir situation continues to deteriorate and has lately assumed serious proportions with unprecedented demonstrations of students, including women students, protesting against the security clampdown on students in south Kashmir. (...) -
Statement by the Concerned Citizens Group for Kashmir
30 April 2017The news of recurrence of violence, student protests and the video war on social media in Kashmir ought to disturb every right thinking Indian. Both the government and the Kashmiri protestors need to recognise that in democracies the world over, (...) -
New Year in Kashmir
30 April 2017Some call it Naureh
Others Nauroz
New year has come
Holding the hand of Spring
Almond blossoms blush pink
While white narcissus shyly smile
Yellow daffodils dance in bright glee
And purple hyacinths exude
A heady perfume
But not for long
For it (...) -
Terrorism and Militancy: Are they quite the same?
30 April 2017, by S G VombatkereMaoists (or Naxals, according to some) ambushed a 100-strong CRPF road-opening patrol (ROP) on April 24 in Chintagufa Police Station limits of Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, killing 25 CRPF personnel and wounding six. The Maoists were (...)
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