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Harbans Mukhia Democracy evolved as an integral part of the world’s project of “modernity”, even as some of its early forms had been practiced in different civilisations of the ancient world. The “modern” democracy evolved as part of a package of the individual’s rights in opposition to the absolute, divine right of the medieval monarch…
A citizen of India from Jabalpur who is a Hindu refused to accept food ordered by him through Zomato on the ground that it was delivered to him by a Muslim boy. He tweeted his refusal and conveyed the message that being a Hindu it would be unacceptable for him to receive food from a…
There are stories that are unrelated to the news, but can explain much better than many combat reports, why people like me are fighting against the Empire and imperialism, with such determination and vehemence. Not all stories are ‘big’ or ‘heroic’; not all include famous people or iconic struggles. Not all take place on battlefields….
Ever since Imran Khan became the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan in August 2018, the winds have changed. While his predecessors, though generally leaning eastwards, have often wavered between the US and the China orbit, Khan is in the process of clearly defining his alliances with the east, in particular China. A few days ago,…
Prem Singh 9 August 2019 is the 77th anniversary of the Quit India Movement, famously known as the August Revolution and an important milestone in the history of India’s freedom movement. As per a letter written by Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia to the Viceroy Linlithgow, the British government had killed fifty thousand patriots and injured…
If a society is ever infected with utter silence, there shall be no life left in the civic and ethnic consciousness of the individual. In the past regimes of dictatorial and absolute monarchical authority, the consequences of silence have choked the birds, plucked the flowers, and executed the human flesh. History is proof of this….
Harasankar Adhikari Just a century ago, in 1919, The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore was published. It was one of the scholastic fellowships of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Before this publication, Indian intellectuals did not consider that a poet could be a philosopher, and so Tagore was not recognised as a philosopher. Only after publication of this…
On August 5, with no discussion in Parliament and no consent from the people of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, the Central government declared the abrogation of Article 370 that granted special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Provision was also made for the division of the state into Union Territories. The…
Courtesy: The Wire Staff In a surgical strike on two key elements of the Constitution that define the powers of states of the Indian Union in general, and the state of Jammu and Kashmir in particular, the Narendra Modi government has undone seven decades of official policy and taken the country into uncharted legal and…
This article was originally published by thewire.in. We are publishing it in the light of journalist Ravish Kumar winning the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award. What was once considered unacceptable and unethical in the public domain has been made entirely acceptable and ethical by the mainstream media in the last five years. Not only is the…
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