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• On Local Language

  19 August 2019, by Eduardo Faleiro

  At the time of the conquest of Goa by the Portuguese, in the early sixteenth century, Konkani and Marathi were the languages prevailing here. Authors differ in their opinion as to whether both languages were written or Marathi alone was the literary language and Konkani, the spoken language. Noted Goan historian Pandurang Pisurlenkar observes:
  “If the language spoken in Goa is Konkani, the literary language of the Goan Hindus is traditionally Marathi. Cunha Rivara and Mons. Sebastiao (…)

• Jaipal Reddy — A Tribute

  19 August 2019, by Suhas Borker

  by Suhas Borker
  S. Jaipal Reddy, veteran parliamentarian and former Union Minister, passed away on July 28, 2019 at Hyderabad. He was 77. This is a tribute to him from a friend, close associate and “comrade-in-arms”.
  November 12, 1997. 3.00 pm. Broadcasting House, New Delhi. The Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Gandhiji’s one and only live broadcast on All India Radio is to begin.
  On November 12, 1947, Deepawali Day, Gandhiji was scheduled to address more than two lakh refugees (…)

• Post-2014 Right-wing Populism and Future of Democracy in India

  19 August 2019

  BOOK REVIEW
  by Zulafqar Ahmed
  India after Modi: Populism and the Right by Ajay Gudavarthy; Delhi: Bloomsbury India; 2019; page 236; Rs 599.
  This book gives a comprehensive and insightful understanding about the contemporary politics of India. It is bereft of jargons, lucidly written, and the author has attempted to help understand even the difficult terminologies. This is the first honest and comprehensive account about the rise of populism and Hindutva post-2014 in India.
  This book (…)

• Ode to the Moon

  19 August 2019

  They are again at you, zooming through the space, to probe you, unclothe you, explore your facade of rocks and dust, to find out if life is there.
  You smile at their folly to dismantle your image: a timeless metaphor for ethereal beauty, dressed in the romance of eternity, captivating human mind in a relation of ages.
  Sailing in your small silvery barge, you distil fragrance of flowers, weave dreams in youthful eyes, soothe scars of ancient hearts with tender light at breezy night. (…)

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  Battle-lines Drawn: Save the Country

  11 August 2019, by SC

  EDITORIAL
  The battle-lines have clearly being drawn by now. Since the BJP leadership’s surreptitious manner of changing the Constitution—by revoking Articles 370 and 35A—with the country’s President signing the order to that effect and the ruling party using its brute majority in the Lok Sabha as well as the Rajya Sabha to pass the relevant Bill, the BJP and its Hindu majoritarian allies are on one side and the secular-democrats of all hues determined to preserve country’s diversity, as (…)

• Stab in the Back: Kashmir Valley Finale

  11 August 2019

  by Mustafa Khan
  PM Narendra Modi and his group were willing to wound but afraid to strike. That period has ultimately transpired. They have gored into the life-blood that was circulating in Kashmir and had kept it alive for so long. Not any more, now. Nothing major was planned, asseverated the government time and again, and then suddenly this stab in the back! This is a total betrayal of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. The spin-off effect is like that of the Duke and the King’s none such (…)

• Threat from Nuclear Weapons is Increasing

  11 August 2019, by Bharat Dogra

  HIROSHIMA DAY (AUGUST 6) SPECIAL ARTICLE
  Nuclear weapons have been with us for 74 years. The potential of nuclear weapons to cause catastrophic damage and pose an existential threat to all forms of life is so high that the world should have got rid of these weapons a long time back, but instead what we see in year 2019 is that our world has nearly 1450 nuclear weapons and in several important contexts the threat from these weapons has increased in recent times.
  It is true that some years (…)

• Report of Indian Muslims for Democracy Meeting

  11 August 2019

  by Irfan Engineer
  A meeting of prominent citizens, professionals and intellectuals from the Muslim community along with some non-Muslim intellectuals under the platform of “Indian Muslims for Democracy” took place at the Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai on July 29, 2019. Dr. Farrukh Waris, a retired Principal of Burhani College and social activist, acquainted the group with the objective and purpose of the meeting. The objective of the meeting, as she explained, was (…)

• Call to Build Unity to Resist Fascist Onslaught

  11 August 2019, by Barun Das Gupta

  The CPI-ML (Liberation) recently observed the 50th anniversary of its foundation and the birth centenary of the party’s founder, Charu Mazumdar, in Kolkata. A mass convention was held at the Netaji Indoor Stadium on July 30 while a two-day workshop of party cadres was held in the Moulali Yuva Kendra on July 31 and August 1.
  The message that emanated from the Convention was to “forge a rock-solid unity’’ to resist the fascist onslaught on the democratic freedoms of the people and in defence (…)

• Countering BJP

  11 August 2019

  by D.K. Giri
  The ruling BJP won a massive victory, beyond expectation of the Opposition as well as the BJP. The latter did not expect such a bumper number of seats. A good many people, mainly in the non-NDA tent, are still pondering over the verdict. How could it go so wrong? With so many voices against Narendra Modi how could the BJP increase its own tally from 282 to 303? How did the fixed electoral arithmetic fail in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh? Did the EVM do the trick for the BJP?
  Some (…)