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S.V. Narayanan Constitution day on November 26, similar to other days of national importance, has become another day of ritualistic celebration without much critical introspection. The significance of constitution day is not in the explicit ritualistic reverence to the supreme legal document, but in critical introspection of our progress in fulfilling the basic…
Raghu Karnad Between the years 2005 and 2018, the world’s five largest tech firms—Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft—grew to dominate global business and media, and firmed their grip on global markets and on lawmakers. According to Forbes, the ‘Big Five’ collectively “spent half a billion dollars lobbying [the US] Congress” over those 13…
Countercurrents Collective Over 1.9 million people have been left out of the final National Register of Citizens or NRC – a list intended to identify legal residents and weed out illegal immigrants from Assam. Those left out of the NRC can appeal to the Foreigners Tribunal within 120 days. After that those left out…
Parvin Sultana On April 8, a Muslim man was assaulted by a mob in Assam on the suspicion of serving beef. Later, he was also forced to eat a piece of pork. Shaukat Ali runs an eatery at the bi-weekly market (haat) that convenes in Baihata Chariali every Thursday and Sunday. He sells meat…
Sushil Aaron Narendra Modi does not agree but the world has never hesitated in recognising Jawaharlal Nehru as a historical figure who left a mark on India and the world. When Nehru died in 1964, the New York Times plainly referred to him as the “maker of modern India”; the Economist ran a cover…
Sabrangindia Do you know what happened in 1984? A Google search may help, but will it really? The first page of the results will show you only the most talked about incident – the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the anti-Sikh riots that followed. What it doesn’t show you are the photos of more than…
Bharat Dogra, Madhu Dogra and Reshma Bharti Women played a many-sided and very significant role in the freedom movement of India. We see them in the battle fronts of 1857, we see them in the frontline of peaceful protests or satyagrahas, we see them in the Rani ki Jhansi regiment of Azad Hind Fouj, we…
P.C. Joshi Among the developing countries, India is distinguished by its proclaimed commitment to secularism as the guiding principle of state policy and action. The conception of Indian secularism is not just an intellectual abstraction; it is not a product only of logical constructions and academic debates. It acquired flesh and blood, a moral…
Arjun Sengupta Jawaharlal Nehru was not the only aristocrat who entered politics and joined the struggle for independence in India. There were also others who came from similar background of secure family roots, extravagance and style, and who courted imprisonment, flirted with hardship and enjoyed the luxury of sacrifice. If Nehru was a…
Pankaj Mishra (This article has been edited by us for reasons of space. The full article can be read on Janata blog.) In 2015, in South Africa, where Mohandas Gandhi lived from 1893 to 1914, a statue of him was defaced by protesters. The following year, the University of Ghana agreed to remove Gandhi’s statue…
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