2024

A journalist in India remembers a Pakistani peace activist who brought home her late grandfather’s ashes
Karamat Ali was many things but for me he was always the person who returned my grandfather Kuldip Nayar to the home he was born in. The relationship between him and my grandfather defies labels but it has a bond that is deep and unbreakable, stronger than many relationships with names.
There are many words for friendship. Arabic has twelve. You can choose from friendships of (…)

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I admire Cuban revolution of 1st January 1959, led by Fidel Castro as one of the most unique revolutions of world history, where just 82 determined revolutionaries, sailing from Mexico on the ship Granma, made the historic revolution with the support of Cuban peasants and workers, against very powerful army of dictator Batista. Out of 82, only about 15 had survived after the brutal attack of Batista forces, but these fifteen in the course of just two and half years organised army of (…)

We don’t matter in numbers, but did we did even try set the discourse
There will possibly be at least 15 Christians in the Lok Sabha’s 543 members elected in the 2024 General elections.
At 2.3 % of the national population, the Christian MPs will be about 2.7% of the newly constituted Lok Sabha, the Lower House of Parliament.
They could even be a little more, because not every name can be identified easily by religion. Some don’t identify themselves as belonging to a religion - even if (…)

For the first time in electoral history the Lok Sabha election underlined Dalit’s determination and zeal to get political recognition
The 2024 Lok Sabha election will be remembered for two major reasons; first, it protected Dalits from losing their identity and second, prevented India from becoming the Hindu Rashtra. The electoral battle of 2024 has also a very consequential aspect: it stoked the apparition of the peasant struggle of late sixties and inspired the old comrades of (…)

Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
July 10, 2024
To,
Shri Narendra Modi,
Hon’ble Prime Minister,
Government of India,
South Block, New Delhi.
Sub: Request to form a dedicated cell to help Indian citizens abroad or citizens travelling abroad
Respected Prime Minister Modi ji,
The number of Indian students studying abroad as well as Indians working outside India have increased significantly. Similarly, the number of Indians travelling abroad for various purposes has also (…)

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The passing away of Muchkund Dubey at the ripe age of 93 years on 26th June, 2024 is a terrible loss to rarefied domain of diplomacy and public intellectualism. His death also represents the irretrievable loss to the civil society. Muchkund Dubey was born in a poor Brahmin family, and rose in his life only through hard work, fierce determination and tenacity. He had lofty goal and noble purpose, and slogged hard to realize the same. He was a man (…)

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THESE DAYS ARE stormy, with war clouds thickly fixed on multiple hotspots with no indication of dissipating soon. So are the recent elections in South Asian countries, in Europe and other parts of the world where the pendulum is ticking not very optimistically. Back home, our entire foreign service seems roughly polarized between two groups, with many in-service cadres taking pro-government stance while many of the old guards sulky and critical of (…)

It is a pond In the centre of the city Three people meet here. In the evening By looking at the sun set They create a new story A new poem Another folk song. All three meet for hours Then move to their homes Work out their papers Sitting on the chair Bending over the table with open pen.
Oh, my beloved Balasore!
The city fortunate to create a novelist And after sometime, make him a story writer The first story about women’s education. There are characters in Fakir’s novels (…)

January 1898 — Published in The Nineteenth Century vol. 43, no. 251, pp. 117–134
THE Russian educated woman is known to some extent in this country for the part which she took in the struggles for political freedom. Very little is known, however, about the hard, and often really heroic, struggles which Russian women have sustained simply to obtain the right to a better education; still less about the wonderful organizing powers which they have displayed in the creation and maintenance of (…)

It is crystal clear that it is the March 27 ruling of the Manipur High Court to award ST status to the majority Meitei community (mostly Hindu) that led to mass protests by Zo-Kukis in early May which in turn led to violent attacks by Meitei vigilante groups and then a spiral of violence on both sides but with the Kukis easily the principal sufferers. Not the least reason for this being that the ruling BJP government and its Chief Minister Biren Singh have in various ways favoured the (…)