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• Marx and India

  14 May 2019

  Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 and passed away in 1883. His 200th birth anniversary is now coming to a close. On this occasion we are carrying the following two articles for the benefit of our readers.
  by Rup Narayan Das
  At a time when the 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx is coming to the conclusion, it is worthwhile to recall the writings of Karl Marx on India, particularly on the ‘First Indian War of Independence’, although historians in India for all justifiable reasons will (…)

• Karl Marx represented Essence of Human Thought

  14 May 2019, by Anil Rajimwale

  Bicentenary of Karl Marx
  Celebrations of anniversaries usually become a routine exercise. But if we really analyse the achievements of Karl Heinrich Marx, and apply his method to the contemporary transition, the celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth may no more be an act of formality.
  Karl Marx was perhaps the greatest of thinkers in human history. The world and India have produced outstanding thinkers, philoso-phers and scholars, but none can compare with Marx for the (…)

• As History Whispers through Amazing Letters...

  14 May 2019, by Avijit Pathak

  BOOK REVIEW
  Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’: Andrews, Tagore, and Gandhi: An Epistolary Account, 1912-1940 by Uma Das Gupta (ed); Oxford University Press, New Delhi; 2018; pp. xc+502; Price: Rs 1495.
  I know that I am reviewing this book at a time when things around us are toxic and violent. This is also the time when the tyranny of rhetoric has replaced the possibility of a nuanced dialogue, and politics is becoming increasingly separated from deep moral and ethical questions. (…)

• Legacy of Chhotu Ram and the 2019 Parliamentary Elections in Haryana

  14 May 2019

  by Ranbir Singh
  Deen Bandhu Sir Chaudhry Chhotu Ram was hailed as a Rehbareazam (the Great Leader) by the peasantry of colonial Punjab. He has been legitimately recognised by the specialists of Punjab politics and history as the tallest political leader of 20th century Punjab. He not only provided relief to the deeply indebted peasantry of the province by enacting the much-needed legislation for bringing them out of the clutches of the moneylenders, Sir Chhotu Ram had also conceived the (…)

• Where You Walk in Company..

  14 May 2019

  Rabindranath Tagore’s 158th birth anniversary falls on Thursday (May 9, 2019). Where You Walk in Company...
  where you walk in company
  with the world of men,
  I am united with you.
  Not in the forest retreat,
  nor in isolation,
  not even in the solitude of
  my inmost thoughts,
  but where the people have you
  for their own,
  I, too, have you for my own,
  my beloved.
  Where you greet every one
  with outstretched arms,
  my heart awakens in love for you.
  Love is (…)

• Lok Sabha Elections in UP: A Sisyphean Task for Congress

  14 May 2019

  by D.K. Giri
  In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a king who was punished for his craftiness and was forced to roll a huge stone up a hill. The Indian National Congress seems to be in a similar position in this election, especially in Uttar Pradesh. Understandably, voters in this election would like a non-NDA government-led or supported by the largest Opposition party, the Congress. But, ironically, the Congress party is not rising to the people’s expectation. My study-visit to the Farrukhabad (…)

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  Grim Reality of Ongoing Electoral Battle

  5 May 2019, by SC

  EDITORIAL
  The fourth phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections is over. It took place yesterday. The maximum city of Mumbai, known for its electoral apathy, turned a new leaf by recording a 55.1 per cent turnout, the highest since 1989. The polling in West Bengal (77 per cent) was significant as the high percentage was recorded despite some clashes in the State.
  Meanwhile PM Narendra Modi stirred a hornet’s nest: speaking at an election rally in Hooghly’s Serampore, West Bengal, he claimed (…)

• We Must All Resist BJP’s Two-Nation Theory

  5 May 2019, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  From N.C.’s Writings
  Ayodhya has become the epicentre of a cyclone that threatens to spell disaster for the political fabric of this country. For the fourth year now, it has virtually taken over the centre-stage of national politics.
  What has been achieved so far is that actual confrontation is averted almost at the very last moment by a desperate move to buy time, so that a little more space may be available to tackle the dispute over the question of the proposed Ram Mandir, requiring (…)

• Rebuilding

  5 May 2019

  ‘Little Boy’, ‘Fat Man’: have you ever heard of them? Do they sound like toys: a kind of gadgets in hands?
  Look down the memory lane; they typify human ingenuity, pushing to the blur of periphery its face of love, compassion.
  Anniversaries are observed, apologies tendered. Yet, missiles fly across the globe; genocides continue unabated
  Displaced trains of humanity treading long uncertain way strive for rebuilding, skirting vicissitudes of war, destruction.
  A.K. Das

• Winding up the End-game in Afghanistan

  5 May 2019

  by Apratim Mukarji
  The Great Game in Afghanistan, in which the United States has acted as the leader of the team and involves mutually adversarial players like Pakistan and Iran as well as consensually competitive Russia and China, is now converted into an end-game under President Donald Trump. The President has repeatedly declared his firm resolve to get out of the country as quickly as he can manage, and the course of events over the last two years or so confirms this reading of his (…)