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Issue No.: 574 | April 2015

Parliament is Back: Doing its Job - Finally!

The Functioning of the Lok Sabha

S. V. Raju

To your editor the best piece of news in recent weeks was the...

Obituary

Kisan Mehta, R.I.P.

The Passing Away of a Dedicated Environmenta...

From Our Readers

Jamsetji Tata

Ali Khwaja

I was very happy to see the radiant face of Jamsetji Tata on...

Amartya Sen’s Outbursts on Being Denied a Second Term

N. S. Venkataraman

On being denied second term as Chancellor of Nalanda University, Amartsya Sen has...

Growing Saffronization

Firoze Hirjikaka

In his column in the March 16 edition of The Indian Express, Ribeiro...

Nagaland Lynching

Firoze Hirjikaka

The despicable incident in Nagaland where as bloodthirsty mob pulled an alleged rapist...

Our "Inconsistencies"

A Lesson in Public Life from Rajaji and Masani

If men were condemned to demonstrate rigid consistency on what they stand for,...

The Land Acquisition Bill

Hypocrites All!

S. V. Raju

"We of the cities will do everything for the peasant except get off...

The Land Acquisition Bill Not Convincing

N. S. Venkataraman

Government of India’s determined move to enact the Land Acquisition Bill has caused...

Point Counter Point : Every issue has at least two sides

Daughter of India

Ashok Karnik

Under an impressive sounding name of "Daughter of India’, a documentary.....real question was...

Porbandar Boat Again

Ashok Karnik

The sinking of a Pak boat off the coast of Porbandar ....could be...

Sensitive Documents

Ashok Karnik

...leakage of Petroleum Ministry documents to Corporate Houses...more could be wrong ...

Black Money

Ashok Karnik

...Bill to check Black Money would be moved shortly...details of the legal provisions...

The National Scene

Remembering Pandit Nehru’s ‘Tryst with Destiny’ Thereby Lies ... A Twist in the Tale

H. R. Bapu Satyanarayana

There is an interesting progression of events immediately prior to and after India...

“Daughter of India” – The BBC Documentary - – Banning Not the Answer

Nitin G. Raut

The overriding social purpose to create worldwide awareness and public interest is missed in...

Rahul Takes A Break

Firoze Hirjikaka

They seek him here, they seek him there They seek that fellow everywhere He makes...

How to bolo the boli and chalo the boli

In a commendable effort to try and ensure that our top babus are...

Ugly Truths about Young India

Dilip Thakore

A nationwide study commissioned by the Bangalore-based Children’s Movement for Civic awareness ......

Congress in reboot stage

Congress is set to recast its organisational orientation along urban and rural lines...

Budget 2015-16

Budget 2015-16: An Evaluation

Ajit Karnik

My view is that there was no need for such a radical budget...

Distortion, Damned Distortion and National Accounts Statistics

Sunil S. Bhandare

How does such statistically driven enhancement of growth rates help policy makers and various......

The 14th Finance Commission

S. Viswanathan

Dr. Y. V. Reddy has become the darling of states. The 14th Finance...

The Rural Perspective

Agriculture and Rural Indebtedness - VI

R. M. Mohan Rao

In this, the VIth part of the series on the indebtedness of farmers,...

Foreign Relations in the 21st Century

Obama Came and Concurred: Convergences Enhanced and New Vistas of Cooperation Opened

B. Ramesh Babu

…the progress achieved in strategic security and defence cooperation during the Obama visit...

Pakistan’s Quest for Nationhood

Suresh C. Sharma

The causes which produce military interventions in politics…lie not in the nature of...

Warriors after War

Edited by Bonney, Richard / Maini, Tridivesh Singh / Malik, Tahir. Indian and...

Book Review

A JOURNALIST REFLECTS ON EMINENT GOVERNORS, EDITORS AND POLITICIANS

S. K. Rau

A JOURNALIST REFLECTS ON EMINENT GOVERNORS, EDITORS AND POLIT...

ONE LIFE IS NOT ENOUGH: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

K. Natwar Singh

ONE LIFE IS NOT ENOUGH: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by K. Natwar Singh  Rupa...

Educating Adults

Three Emerging Religious Icons for Maharashtra Politics

Sharu Rangnekar

Use of religious icons for political campaigns is not unusual in India. The...

Shortage of Qualified Teachers

Suresh C. Sharma

"Those who have witnessed the insults heaped on professors by students in the...

The Right to Sanitation as a Human Right

B. N. Mehrish

Sanitation is a "fundamental component of improved living conditions and physical health”. W...

Sankranti Kanukalu (Gift on Sankranti)

When thousands of schools in the state do not have toilets for boys...

Miscellany

WHAT NEXT?

Questions to which there are no ready answers:- Will the new J&K Coalition Government...

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