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The dangerous implications of India’s nuclear romance – B.R.P. Bhaskar
- April 6, 2012
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Efforts are on to squelch the months-long peaceful movement by villagers living in the neighbourhood of the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu which has delayed its commissioning. What brought the people out of their homes is the fear that the plant is a threat to their lives and livelihood. Repeated assertions by spokesmen of the national science and technology [...]
A government buffeted by military and civil society – Amulya Ganguli
- April 6, 2012
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The Congress’ woes seem endless. No sooner had the party experienced a resounding rebuff in the recent assembly elections than it had to gird its loins to face a series of unprecedented challenges from the Chief of the Army Staff, Gen. V.K. Singh. If the party and the government thought that the Supreme Court’s obiter dicta on the age row [...]
CASTE AND CLASS IN INDIAN POLITICS TODAY – Sitaram Yechury
- April 5, 2012
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I consider it an unique honour at being asked to deliver the P. Sundarayya memorial lecture this year. I am fully conscious of my limitations in undertaking such a task. For Comrade PS, as all of us fondly used to call him, continues to tower like a colossus over the Indian Communist movement and the larger political life of the [...]
Problems of Dalits and Tribals: SC/ST Sub-Plan and its Implementation
- April 5, 2012
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EVEN after 64 years of independence, the condition of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes continues to be appalling, both socially and economically. They lag behind even the minimum parameters in all aspects. The discrimination both economic and social continues. Despite all the tall promises made and schemes announced, not much progress has been made and most of these promises have [...]
Censorship or legal framework for the Internet : What Should Kapil Sibal Prefer ?
- April 5, 2012
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Kapil Sibal is one of country’s leading lawyers and as the Minister of Information Technology, we would have thought the right person to create an enlightened legal framework for the Internet. But instead of taking the high road — what is an appropriate legal regime for the Internet which would allow the growth of new media and new Internet business [...]
Babu Jagjivan Ram: The pursuit of Social Justice and Social Inclusion-M. Hamid Ansari
- April 5, 2012
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Babu Jagjivan Ram’s work and his social and political approaches had an impact on all marginalized and oppressed communities as also on those charged with formulating public policy. In a public life spanning over five decades, he was the Member of the Union Cabinet for over three decades and handled a variety of ministerial responsibilities of the new Republic. In [...]
Bhagat Singh: A Revolutionary Thinker and Not Just a Martyr – S Irfan Habib
- April 5, 2012
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ON March 23, 1931, Bhagat Singh was hanged to death along with two of his comrades for waging war against the colonial State. Bhagat Singh had been valorised for his martyrdom, and rightly so, but in the ensuing enthusiasm most of us forget, or consciously ignore his contributions as an intellectual and a thinker. He not only sacrificed his life, [...]
Proposed changes in Marriage Law Divorce Made ‘Difficult’ before & after ‘Reforms’ Prof. Madabhushi Sridhar,
- April 2, 2012
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Freedom to love and marry is also not absolute. It depends on the counter part’s consent and emotions. Right to marry is restricted by the prohibitory degrees and various other requirements like age and capacity. However right to separate from the spouse is seriously restricted because of social responsibility created by marital relationship. The parents have more statutory obligations than [...]
More Cruise Liners Come Calling At Indian Ports – Neena Bhandari
- April 2, 2012
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In the days when journalists used Olivetti typewriters and bromides to make news pages, merchant navy ships making port calls at Mumbai were a major attraction. The narrow pavements of Colaba and Fort would be dotted with hawkers selling the `imported’ Australian Kraft Cheese, the Italian Ferrero Rocher chocolates, American Lacoste Tshirts and airline socks on wooden boxes transformed into [...]
‘Yoga can cure every disease, but don’t universalise’ – Ranjana Narayan
- April 2, 2012
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Yoga therapy can cure every disease and disorder, even cancer, says a Delhi-based yoga therapist but warns against the mass teaching of yoga – including popular pranayams like kapalbhati and anulom vilom – saying they “can cause complications”. “Yoga cannot be universalised…like prescribing a paracetamol tablet,” says Subhash Sharma, a yoga therapist who spent 19 years in a gurukul in [...]
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