by L.K. Sharma
India is a parliamentary democracy though those covering the current election campaign may think that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the presidential candidate. Modi has run a somewhat presidential form of government with a (...)
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Democracy Dumbed Down
23 April 2019 -
Putin votes for Modi. Can he help Modi win?
23 April 2019, by M K BhadrakumarThe Russian President, Vladimir Putin, signed a decree in Moscow on April 12 conferring on Prime Minister Narendra Modi Russia’s highest state award, the Order of St Andrew the Apostle the First-Called. This is the highest and oldest state order (...) -
Veterans’ Concerns for a Secular Military: Neither News nor Fake!
23 April 2019, by S G VombatkereA group of over 150 Indian military Veterans wrote a letter to the President of India in his capacity as the Supreme Commander of India’s Armed Forces, expressing their serious concern at the recent rather blatant use by politicians of different (...) -
K.M. Mani: Champion of the Toiling Class
23 April 2019TRIBUTE
by Joseph Abraham
K.M Mani, Kerala’s longest serving MLA and Finance Minister, was laid to rest on Thursday (April 15, 2019). With his demise, the remarkable public life of a much-venerated mass leader came to an end. Mani was no (...) -
Rwanda
23 April 2019They are selling death from mobile shops
right at your door; buy it, you’ve no choice.
Mercifully prices are low: only the cost
of a bullet assuring quick and clean despatch.
You can also get it free: the machete doling it out,
a gasping moment, (...) -
L.K. Advani Makes a Historic Intervention
23 April 2019, by Badri RainaWriting on his blog ahead of the BJP’s foundation day on April 6, L.K. Advani made a historic intervention in the country’s political climate fraught with polarisation. Sensing a real and present danger to both—the character of the party and the (...) -
Does Direct Income Support outweigh Agricultural Loan Waivers?
23 April 2019by S.S. Sangwan
The genesis of increasing agitations by farmers across India is lower market prices of agricultural commodities especially pulse, oilseed and vegetables in recent years. Lower prices have pushed farmers to precarious situation. (...) -
Democracy Zindabad! : The Message of 2019 Congress Manifesto and its Holistic Logic
23 April 2019, by Kamal Nayan KabraJust as elections come and elections go, so do manifestos. They have rarely received wide-spread attention, much less succeed to evoke fierce and widely participated popular debates. However, they too invite their normal comple-ments of bouquets (...) -
RSS raring to turn India into a Hindu Rashtra laboratory
23 April 2019by Arun Srivastava
Saffron desperation for a thumpimg win is quite perceptible. Notwithstanding Narendra Modi demonstrating his macho image at the public rallies and displaying his vocal power, the RSS is not sure that he would be able to ensure (...) -
Dissent is the Fulcrum of a Democracy
23 April 2019by Saumitra Mohan
Dissent and democracy are often considered synonymous in a liberal-democratic social order. It is through open debate and discussion that the huge range of diversity of opinion in a democracy is captured. It is by means of such (...)
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