The following is the text of an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by forty nine former civil servents.
We are a group of retired civil servants who came together last year to express our concern at the decline in the secular, (...)
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Former Civil Servants’ Open Letter to PM
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Narendra Modi in London
22 April 2018, by SCEDITORIAL
PM Narendra Modi is now in London to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). At a public function there yesterday—an event of the Indian diaspora in the UK called Bharat ki Baat, Sabke Saath—he did unequivocally (...) -
Party Congresses of CPI-ML, CPI-M, CPI
22 April 2018COMMENTARY
The Left parties are currently holding or have already held their Party Congresses.
The CPI-ML (Liberation)’s 10th Congress at Mansa (Punjab) on March 28, 2018 heard party General Secretary Dipan Bhattacharya declaring:
...it (the (...) -
Akbar — a Beacon for Contemporary India
22 April 2018by Ashok Celly
Akbar was not only a great king. He was also one of the greatest human beings Indian history has known. What made him great as a king was his awesome daring while he achieved greatness as a human being by the dint of his profound (...) -
It’s Modi’s BJP!
22 April 2018, by Kuldip NayarPrime Minister Narendra Modi is now all in all in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has installed his close lieutenant, Amit Shah, as the party President. However, people’s memory is short. The founder was Atal Behari Vajpayee who (...) -
Asifa, my Child
22 April 2018, by Badri RainaAsifa, my child, I wish
I was not writing about you
But holding you to my chest.
Asifa, I wish you were watching
Joyfully as I ripped apart
The hyenas and hung their
Entrails at the temple door,
So the gods therein would smell
The stench of (...) -
Instability Intensified
22 April 2018, 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 (...) -
Social Reform, Muslim Women and RSS-BJP Agenda
22 April 2018by Ram Puniyani
In a historic judgment the Supreme Court gave the verdict that instantaneous triple talaaq (Talaaq-e-Biddat) is invalid as per the law. (August 22, 2017) Giving this verdict the Court invoked the ethos of equality of the Indian (...) -
The Paths of the CPI and the CPI-M are Divergent
22 April 2018, by Ajayakumar Kodothby Ajayakumar Kodoth
The Party Congresses of the CPI and CPI-M are currently taking place in South India. This article is being published in that context.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech in Parliament in reply to the President’s policy (...) -
How Gandhi led Niranjan Takle to the Judge Loya Story
22 April 2018At a commemorative meeting in Mumbai the journalist who did the story for Caravan talks about how Loya’s family decided that he should be the one to tell their story.
by Jyoti Punwani
Shortly before independence there was a journalist who was (...)
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