With the elevation of Narendra Modi as head of government, Indian justice system faces an uphill task to catch up with him. Hundreds of millions are waiting. Anxiously
(I) Since the secret hanging and burial of Afzal Guru in Tihar jail, many writers have justly condemned…
There are days in which streaks of hope shine through dark clouds of misery. The 9th of February, 2013, was such a…
The Hindu, 25 May, posted the photograph of a person in its frontpage under the head “Six Naxals held for Dantewada massacre”.…
The Indian state has amassed nearly one hundred thousand paramilitary forces—code-named Operation Green Hunt—ostensibly to confront an armed rebellion organized by the…
The Batla house operation by the special cell of Delhi police has reopened unanswered questions about the functioning of this agency. Familiar…
In a just world order, rights of self-determination of people, including the right of independence, ought to be viewed as a basic…
A sessions court in Delhi has announced that Mohammed Afzal, sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of India on August 4,…
Keeping to the subcategory that Noam Chomsky calls Ć¢€Ådoctrinally acceptable,Ć¢€Ā (1)Ć¢€āĆ¢€ātheir terror against usĆ¢€āĆ¢€āthe real threat of terrorism in India cannot be…
December 13: Terror over Democracy, By Nirmalangshu Mukherji, Bibliophile Southasia, New Delhi, 2005, pp. xvii + 378, www.biblioasia.com We cannot underestimate the…
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