(Wel)Come 2013

Will this year be any different for Kashmiris?

Binoo Joshi

Purely from the point of  view  the residents of  Jammu and Kashmir, let it be said that despite certain changes in the  mood  in the year gone by, not much has changed in the state in terms of the  situation that exists in our minds. The fear of the past should have More

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The politics of confrontation

Modi and Jayalalithaa fight it in their own style

Anil Anand

Nothing deters the politicians from charting on a course of confrontation as means of furthering their political interests and careers. Whether to uphold the sanctity of a particular occasion, in terms of its national significance, or not, it hardly matters to them. Not that these leaders are less More

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Sedated subjects of a diseased set up

We notice gross violations and then turn a blind eye towards this all!

B. A. Bashir(Sr. Advocate)

Every Government is judged by its people through the prism of its governance that operates through its different departments. Couple of decades before I would see the banners on road side walls: “Any one giving information about Small Pox will be given Rs.1000/-prize”. This was simply to ensure Small More

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An unguided reader

What is sad about Indian mainstream media is its uncritical adoption of neo-liberal idiom

Makhdoom Mohiuddin

Pakistan born Trotskyist  historian Tariq Ali called South American region an “axis of hope” after its “pink tide” revolution. I developed interest in the politics of the region since. Earlier I have read about Che Guevara and Fidel Castro and Liberation theology going along with the lives of More

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