by Arup Kumar Sen
About 10 months ago, a minor girl of the nomadic Bakerwal community was allegedly gangraped and murdered in a village of Jammu’s Kathua district. This savage act has more or less got erased from our collective memory. (...)
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The Kathua Rape: Looking for Dharmic Justice
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Rafale Deal: The Noose Tightens
28 October 2018POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s press conference in New Delhi today saw his fiercest attack on Narendra Modi on the Rafale deal. Without mincing words Rahul bluntly said CBI Director Alok Verma was removed well after (...) -
Dussehra Message of the RSS Sarsanghchalak
28 October 2018by Irfan Engineer
The RSS Sarsanghchalak, Shri Mohan Bhagwat, urged the Central Government to bring in a law for construction of the Ram temple at the site where Babri Masjid once stood. Shri Bhagwat was addressing the customary Vijayadashami (...) -
A Revolutionary Turn in RSS?
28 October 2018, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Imagine the Pope criticising Jesus Christ. If that is too ecclesiastical, imagine Sitaram Yechury rewriting Karl Marx. Actually we cannot imagine either because the Catholic Church and the Communist Party are rule-bound doctrinaire (...) -
Re-Reading Michel Foucault: Present as History
28 October 2018by Arup Kumar Sen
The heretical French thinker Michel Foucault transformed our understanding of modern regimes of power. To put it in the words of Julian Reid, “For Michel Foucault the problem of war is the problem of political modernity par (...) -
Kerala’s Stabbed Modernity
28 October 2018by V. Bijukumar
The ‘public’ outrage in favour of protecting tradition after the historic verdict of the Supreme Court on September 28 allowing women of all age-groups into the Sabarimala temple in Kerala shows the advent of creeping (...) -
Need for Reconciliation with Justice: Babri Demolition and aftermath
28 October 2018by Ram Puniyani
In a recent judgment, the Supreme Court by a 2-1 majority verdict refused to refer the Dr Faruqui verdict to the Constitution Bench. This verdict had stated that the mosque was not an essential part of Islamic practice. In the (...) -
Conquering Hunger: The Battle for Right to Food in India
28 October 2018by Annapurna and Navneet Sharma
There are so many hungry people. To them God has no other shape than bread.—Mahatma Gandhi
India has recently crossed France to claim the sixth spot of being the largest economy and has also made a deal for Rafale (...) -
#MeToo in a Country that worships God as Woman
28 October 2018by L.K. Sharma
During a festival celebrating the Goddess who kills a demon menacing Gods, scores of educated Indian women have unmasked their tormentors and sparked a mini-revolution.
It has led to resignations in the media world, boycotts in (...) -
Baubles
28 October 2018Souls are freshly baptized in the purse;
Lords of Capital allow all things
But prying human converse.
A pall of brainless sameness
Suits Capital best;
Watch out for the one who dares to put
The nullity of sameness to test.
Dictators are happiest (...)
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