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An element of uncertainty hovers over the country as one writes these lines. A week has passed since the horrific terror strike in Pulwama, J&K. That happened on February 14. Today is February 21. The entire country stood (...)
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Probing Queries, Outrageous Outburst
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Pulwama Attack: PIPFPD Calls for Peace
24 February 2019The following is the statement issued by the Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) on the February 14, 2019 terror attack at Pulwama, J&K. The statement was in the form of a press release issued on February 15, 2019. (...) -
Thinking beyond the Immediate
24 February 2019, by S G VombatkereThe February 14 Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)-sponsored suicide car-bomb carnage on the CRPF convoy, with loss of over 40 lives and as many injured, is doubtless condemnable. But apart from the personal tragedies and confusion following the carnage, (...) -
Kashmir: Nearing Zero Hour
24 February 2019, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Kashmir today has become the touchstone of Indian statesmanship. The crisis that has emerged there can no longer be managed by conventional methods of settling political acrimony. It has gone much beyond, and now it has (...) -
For How Long would Kashmiris Suffer?
24 February 2019by Aijaz Ahmad Turrey
On Thursday, February 14, 2019, a CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) convoy, moving from Jammu to Srinagar, was for the first time attacked by a suicide bomber with an explosive-laden vehicle near Avantipora, Pulwama, (...) -
Chest-thumping and War-mongering must give way to Trust, Peace and Friendship
24 February 2019, by Sandeep PandeyI went to participate in a candle-light homage-paying event at Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s statue organised by about 200 Dalit students on the Hazratganj main crossing in Lucknow on February 16, 2019 evening, two days after the dastardly terrorist act in (...) -
Union Budget 2019: Unethical Political Stance
24 February 2019by Anup K. Sinha
Budgets in India have recently become a mega event where the ruling government makes many announcements which are sensu stricto not related to the Budget at all. However, this year’s Union Budget presented by Piyush Goyal was (...) -
The Subversion of Systems is More Fatal than Scams
24 February 2019, by Badri RainaThere is a rather thoughtless middle-class view that a scam is not a scam until there is a money trail that leads to some personal account or pocket.
Take two instances from recent American political history: in the infamous Watergate case, the (...) -
Agrarian Crisis and its Resolution
24 February 2019by S.P. Shukla, Jaya Mehta, Vineet Tiwari
This article was written quite some time ago before the ‘Delhi Chalo’ movement of farmers in December 2018. In the introduction of the article the authors explained:
“We wish to present this paper for the (...) -
Bulandshahr: Unravelling the Anatomy of a Riot
24 February 2019by Ram Puniyani
The scene of violence in the name of emotive issues has been continuously throwing new patterns of instigating and orchestrating violence. In recent times we saw major violence following the demolition of the Babri mosque (1992), (...)
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