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Subhas Mukhopadhyay: A Heretical Bengali Intellectual
17 March 2019, by Arup Kumar SenPoet Subhas Mukhopadhyay’s birth centenary was recently observed in February 2019. An article on him appeared in Mainstream (March 2, 2019). This is another article on the poet. It was sent to us quite sometime ago but could not be used earlier (...) -
Anatomy of Governance in Kashmir over the Years
17 March 2019BOOK REVIEW
by Muzamil Yaqoob
What Happened to Governance in Kashmir? by Aijaz Ashraf Wani; Oxford University Press; 2019; pp. 387; Rs 995.
“Breakdown occurs when a civilisation fails to respond creatively to its challenges. Instead of changing (...) -
In My Own Voice: Kashmiriyat
17 March 2019, by Sagari ChhabraThis article, carried in www.newsclick.in some days ago, is being reproduced here, with due acknowledgement, for the benefit of our readers.
‘Mere samne waali khidki mein Ek chand ka tukra rehta hai; Afsos yeh hai, ki vo hamse, Kuch ukhda ukhda (...) -
Let’s Not Seek Vengeance
17 March 2019Oh, forty-plus martyred soldiers, I know not
Any of you, even if you are my fellow citizens.
To tell you the truth, I hate soldiers,
As I hate wars for which soldiers are meant.
I hate patriotism that warrants wars;
I hate seeing our neighbour (...) -
Democracy in Danger
11 March 2019, by SCEDITORIAL
As we go to press news has come of a terror strike in Jammu. An explosive plannted under a bus in a crowded bus terminal in the city led to injury to 30 persons following the explosion in the bus with one of the injured succumbing to (...) -
War is No Solution: It only Causes Loss of Near and Dear Ones
11 March 2019by Purusottam Bhattacharya
The terror attack carried out by the Pakistani outfit, Jaish-e-Mohammed, on the CRPF convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar highway at Pulwama in south Kashmir on February 14 is unprecedented. Forty CRPF jawans lost their lives. (...) -
Seminar on Madness
11 March 2019, by Badri RainaMadness is a topic much discussed
From ancient times to ours;
Now a crime, now disease,
Now an affliction of lovers.
Sane men keep safe distance
From unaccounted laughter,
Wishing to know what it is
That the laughter may be after.
Madness mocks (...) -
Defence and Personality Cult
11 March 2019, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
In the wake of the possibility of another Indo-Pak war breaking out shortly and the rise in jingoistic outbursts in the electronic media in particular, it is instructive to note what N.C. had written in his ‘New Delhi (...) -
Vande Mataram
11 March 2019When I was shaped into words
with ink on paper,
my creator though had a colour,
a religion by birth,
I had neither.
I spread far and wide,
catching the eyes,
entering the hearts
of countless masses,
resounding into the corners
of a whole nation (...) -
Lynched by Goons, Again
11 March 2019, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
If the warlords are over with the war-cries, blatantly whipping up sentiments to further their dangerous political ploys, then it’s about time they look at the rising numbers of those getting lynched by the goon-brigades in the different (...)
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