After all, only that is dropped from parliamentary agenda which is inconsequential, like asking questions.
Badri Raina recollects events from 1989, when he was invited to speak to CPI(M) politburo members after criticising the party for supporting China’s assault on protesters at Tiananmen Square
O my Motherland, I bow to thee and do thee Obeisance. You are bountiful and caring; You make me survive Even when…
Though the Centre has attempted to equate them with the separatists, the region’s mainstream political leaders remain committed to the honourable politics of regaining lost constitutional guarantees
Mammon is much derided, But rules the world. Jesus pushes back a Sisyphus rock, If truth be told. Temples are built…
The party must recall that it was from such open and fiercely articulated internal debates that the Nehruvian line found its primacy
Strive, strive to keep your sanity Against the heartless sinews of the day. Strive, strive to bring back the bird Of freedom…
If and when an argument wins During days of assurance, Consider the circumstance A miracle beyond recompense. An argument in cocksure…
The constitution of India is there, like many other artifacts in the archives, but, like the human appendix, it may now be vestigial
Hope has most meaning when Despair sees hope depart. Elixir needs for storing A hollow in the heart. Despair is a…
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