Communism has its uses. But like all failed ideologies, you can’t take it too far. This happens eventually. One of the best analyses on Nandigram I’ve come across. Read till the final full stop.
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Buddha proposes, party disposes
The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) has formally stated that there will be no [...]
Thanks to a reader, I get to read this outrageous piece of news.
The Jammu and Kashmir assembly on Friday evening passed the Shariat Bill providing for application of Muslim Personal Law in the state to bring it at par with rest of the country.
Strange that a matter of this importance should go completely unreported in [...]
I had no idea that Vir Sanghvi, secularist par excellence is also a self-proclaimed liberal. As a sidenote, the liberal self-affixing of the term “liberal” in Indian public discourse is another moot point that often misleads Western India-watchers. A liberal in common parlance is one who emphasises (and fights for, if required) individual rights, freedom [...]
This piece of bad news is actually good news for the powers that be.
As the UPA government works to counter spiralling inflation, the latest data from the National Sample Survey Organisation indicates another problem on hand that won’t show up in the upcoming Economic Survey — rising unemployment in large pockets of urban India for [...]
The Supreme Court’s latest order reinforcing the ban on SIMI is just the latest in a series of blows it has received over the years.
Reacting to a SIMI petition seeking to remove the ban, the SC has observed, “You continue to be a secessionist movement as you have not stopped your activities till now,’’ [...]
Here is good and bad news, both in the same package.
Arundhati Roy is to return to fiction writing, 10 years after winning Booker prize with her first novel, The God of Small Things. In an interview, Roy said she would ’stagnate’ as a writer if she were to continue to publish only non-fiction.
Preface
Oct 20, 1959, Ladakh:
Havaldar Karam Singh and his 20-strong troop, doing their routine border patrolling rounds amid heavy snowfall. In an eyewink nine men in the patrol are buried dead under a hailstorm of bullets, and the rest including Karam Singh are taken prisoners. Courtesy the Chinese army. What stuns the Havaldar is not so [...]
Swapan Dasgupta has a terrific analysis of the Congress party’s inability to see the proverbial writing on the wall. Reproduced in full from the Pioneer.
That our Comrades never tire of fawning over China is not new. However, they need to maintain consistency in their collective, repeated kowtowing. If they want us to emulate China in terms of leadership, economics, and policy, they should accordingly, also highlight such glowing examples as this.
China has executed a Uighur activist in a far-northwestern city [...]
It is worse than what they teach in some parts of the US. Alarming in fact.
A Saudi-funded Islamic school in London has been accused of poisoning the minds of pupils as young as five years with a curriculum of hate.
Colin Cook, 57, claims text books used by children at the King Fahad Academy [...]
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