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20 Feb 2011
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| Subhas Chandra Bose: Another Look – II |
Subhas Chandra Bose: Another Look – II
Sarvesh K Tiwary
Deshbandhu Das around this time made with the moderate Moslem leaders like Hakim Ajmal Khan what is known as the Bengal Hindu-Muslim Pact of 1923, which besides other things, for the first time anywhere in India, committed to providing reservations in the government jobs on a communal basis. In Bengal as many as 55% to 60% public jobs were agreed to be reserved for the Moslem candidates alone. This Bengal Pact although rejected by the national body of Congress in Kakinada that ...
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| A Society in Terminal Decline? |
A Society in Terminal Decline?
Rajiv Dogra
With mounting corruption in every sphere of life and at every level of governance, it is only natural that cynicism among citizens should reach unprecedented proportions and their expectations dip to an all time low. But should we then accept corruption as a way of life in India? Or should we the people take a stand and root out this cancer that threatens India? Objectively speaking, it will have to be admitted that corruption has become a way of life. It is a cancer that threatens ...
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| Editorial: Goodbye, Uncle Pai |
Editorial: Goodbye, Uncle Pai
The Editorial Team
For those of us who remember a time when the blackberry was just a fruit and Shaktimaan the ultimate superhero, the death of our beloved Uncle Pai has led to melancholy mixed with nostalgia. Uncle Pai - few knew his real name, Anant Pai - gave us our first desi comic strip, the Amar Chitra Katha series. The 81-year-old comic book pioneer, whose simple stories accompanied by colourful illustrations enthralled generations, died of cardiac arrest in a Mumbai hospital on Thursday...
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| A Page from History | A Page from History
Anirban Ganguly
Even though the Indian apex court modified - in the Graham Staines murder case judgment - its initial and specific observations on the divisive and vivisecting role of the instrument of conversion in India, the following truth as stated by it at first, that ‘It is undisputed that there is no justification for interfering in someone's belief by way of use of force, provocation, conversion, incitement or upon a flawed premise that one religion is better than the other', has ...
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| MIM, Dawood and The Maoists – The New Axis Plan of ISI | MIM, Dawood and The Maoists – The New Axis Plan of ISI
Aron
Post partition, the opportunism and foregoing of secularity by Political Parties and their patronage and alliance had helped history come full circle- in the return of the Razakrs redressed in parties like MIM. Above the current leader and son of the grand patriarch of MIM who exploited this weakness of nationalist Congress leaders like Indira Gandhi who actively wooed and sponsored its ideologically separatist movement to take roots. The MIM is a remnant of the dreaded Razaka...
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