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21 Jun 2009
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| Protecting Bharat Varsha |
Protecting Bharat Varsha
Adity Sharma
From the hoary, glittering first blush of history, BharatVarsh has given birth to many profound in content, highly humanitarian, purely Adhyatmik, and intellectually advanced philosophies such as the Vedic, the Buddhist, the Jain, the Lingayat, and the Sikh Dharm. This has further given rise to elaborate rituals and complex concepts t...
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| Assam: North Cachar Hills District in Turmoil - II |
Assam: North Cachar Hills District in Turmoil - II
A Report
The ruling party-Congress is weighing on all options to return to power in the 30 member NC Hills Autonomous Council even as Governor SC. Mathur is yet to decide on the cabinet recommendation asking him to take stern steps to stop ongoing violence in the district. Several members of the NC Hills Council, which is dominated by ASDC, have c...
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| Editorial: Lalgarh and the Ban on CPI (Maoist) |
Editorial: Lalgarh and the Ban on CPI (Maoist)
The Editorial Team
Finally, the government has banned the CPI (Maoist) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, calling it a terrorist organization. It was a step long overdue. CPI (Maoist), which is the main Naxal group in the country, has been bracketed with 34 other organizations including LeT and SIMI who are in the list of banned outfits. The outfit came into being as a result of merger between the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCC) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War (also known as the People's War Group or PWG) on October 14, 2004. The merger gav...
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| Kashmir’s Rising Tide of Hate | Kashmir’s Rising Tide of Hate
Praveen Swamy
Hours after Awan's death on June 3, People's Democratic Party leader Mehbooba Mufti visited Shopian to stage a protest against the alleged rape and murder of two local women - one of them, like Awan, a high school student. She said nothing about Awan's execution, though. Nor did Islamist cleric Tariq Ahmad, who has emerged as the key leader of the Shopian protests, say anything; nor, for that matter, did the local leadership of the National Conference. No one has called for the men who killed Awan to be found and prosecuted. No one even bothered to visit her family, even though ...
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| 2009 Elections No End of Road for BJP | 2009 Elections No End of Road for BJP
Amba Charan Vashishtha
In 1962 Lok Sabha elections Mr. J. B. Kriplani left Uttar Pradesh to the far west in Mumbai to contest against Pandit Nehru's blue-eyed Defence Minister V. K. Krishna Menon alleging that the latter's election would be a threat to the security of the nation. Many intellectuals including the then Editor of the Indian Express Mr. Frank Moraes headed a "Defeat Krishna Menon Committee". Mr. Kriplani and his associates failed to bring home the message to the electorate. Mr. Menon won; Mr. Kriplani was defeated. Just after eight months when China invaded India,...
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