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The Immortal 21st February
27 February 2017February 21 is the International Mother Tongue Day as declared by the United Nations in recognition of the martyrs of the language movement who fell to the Pakistani police’s bullets on that day in 1952 in Dhaka while demanding that their mother (...) -
Dalit Uprising: from Rohith to Una
27 February 2017by Sanjay Kumar
The Dalit movement has had a radical legacy of anti-caste resistance against Hindutva and brahminical hegemony in colonial and post-colonial India. Dalit resistance emerged during the struggles in the colonial period based on the (...) -
Racial Discrimination returns to UK
27 February 2017, by Kuldip NayarIt’s sheer racialism. Four British nationals of Pakistani origin committed a crime of sexual exploitation and were sentenced to imprison-ment. But the judge McClosky, in his own wisdom, said that after serving the sentence they should be sent (...) -
Ignore Prof Bipan Chandra’s Forewarnings . . . At Our Own Peril
27 February 2017by Ajayakumar Kodoth
“I wish to see India exist as a nation-state, a strong nation-state. But the rise of certain social and political forces with narrow policies is a threat to our national integrity. Take communal powers, for instance. There is (...) -
Countdown for International Women’s Day
27 February 2017, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
Countdown for the International Women’s Day has begun. Nah, no lessening of rapes and molestations and trafficking! It’s just that the political speeches are more than laced with concern for women’s ‘safety’ and, of course, gaudy (...) -
Demonetisation: Cause and Effect
27 February 2017A Two-part Article on Demonetisation-II
The following is the concluding part of a two-part article on demonetisation written by the prominent Marxist-Maoist thinker, Kobad Ghandy, and sent to us for publication in this journal from the (...) -
Defend the Constitution from the Sangh Parivar!
27 February 2017by S. Sudhakar Reddy
We have been celebrating January 26 as the Republic Day. The Constitution of India, which came into existence on January 26, 1950, abolished the Dominion Status of India, rejected the British Crown and declared India as a (...) -
New Year in Mandalay
27 February 2017, by Nandita HaksarWe—my husband, Bogyi, our Burmese friend, and I—stood on top of Mandalay Hill with the Irrawaddy River at a distance and watched the sun go down for the last time in 2016.
According to legend, the Buddha himself along with his disciple, Anand, had (...) -
S.M. Krishna driven out of Congress, issues of Morality, Bankruptcy, Dilemmas Surface
27 February 2017, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
There is a tragic inevitability about the doom of the Congress party. It’s a Greek tragedy where the hero’s powerful wish to achieve a goal is defeated by a flaw in his character complicated by fate and the will of the gods. Why the (...) -
How and Why Vladimir Putin earned Global Popularity
27 February 2017by R.G. Gidadhubli and Rama Sampathkumar
The well-known international media organisation Forbes ranked the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, as the world’s most powerful man from 2013 to 2016—four times in a row. Prior to that Times magazine (...)
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