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What does November 16 portend for Sri Lanka?
5 November 2019, by Apratim MukarjiNovember 16, 2019 should turn out to be a day Sri Lankans would not forget in a hurry. On that Saturday, Sri Lankans will choose their next President, opting for either the front-runner Gotabaya Rajapaksa or a no-push-over Sajith Premadasa. (...) -
Sikh Organisations: India not a Hindu Rashtra
5 November 2019by Ram Puniyani
The RSS ideologues and leaders regularly keep stating that India is a Hindu Rashtra. This has been most annoying for the religious minorities, particularly Muslims, Sikhs and all those believing in the Indian Constitution. This (...) -
Gandhi’s Idea of Cleanliness and Swachcha Bharat Abhiyan
5 November 2019, by Sandeep PandeyMahatma Gandhi’s spectacles are being used as an emblem for the Government of India’s sanitation campaign Swachha Bharat Abhiyan. Even though the Rashtriya Swayam-sevak Sangh, the ideological parent of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, abhors (...) -
On Primary Education
5 November 2019, by Eduardo FaleiroIn July 2016, the State Government constituted a Committee on Education to study the system of grants and financial support to government and government-aided primary schools and to recommend measures to improve their overall efficiency. The (...) -
India shouldn’t lose the Afghan Plot
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Knowledge blended with Wisdom
5 November 2019by Mubashir Hasan
The following message was sent by Dr Mubashir Hasan, a noted human rights activist and former Minister of Planning and Finance in Pakistan, on the occasion of N.C.’s birth centenary on November 3, 2013.
Dear Sumit,
An (...) -
Non-Alignment, Human Rights, New: International Order, Regional Cooperation
5 November 2019by Kamal Hossain
The following is the paper the author presented on November 5, 2013 at the last session of the two-day conference held in New Delhi in honour of N.C. on his birth centenary.
I am privileged to have the opportunity to honour the (...) -
Kashmir: Setting the Priorities / My Earliest Recollections
5 November 2019, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
In 1967, that is, fiftytwo years ago, N.C. visited the Kashmir Valley for a few days and held detailed discussions with a wide cross-section of opinion-makers and political personalities of all shades there. On his return he (...) -
Lynching and the Ethos of Bharat
5 November 2019, by T J S George -
Enthronement of Emperor Naruhito in Japan
5 November 2019by Rajaram Panda
The enthronement ceremony of Emperor Naruhito of Japan, formalising his accession to the throne, was held on October 22 at the Seiden State Hall at the Imperial Palace, officially proclaiming him as the Emperor in Japan. The (...)
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