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Iranian Nuclear Negotiations

BY SABINA KHAN As has been highly publicised, Iran is in the midst of negotiations regarding its nuclear programme with six world powers: Britain, China,...

Water Is Not a Human Right

BY JACK DUTTON The Feeding the World 2014 conference took place in the halls of an 18th-century mansion on February 13. It saw industry representatives,...

Creative Writing: Before A Wounded Deer Can Leap High

BY MUSHARRAF ALI FAROOQI SOME of the most invaluable learning experiences in any creative activity are the doubting and reflection we undergo that leads us...

Modi’s Rise, Freedom’s Fall

BY CHANDRAHAS CHOUDHURY Here are three strange but instructive instances of pride, pique and prejudice in modern India at different levels of state and society....

Don’t Forget to Write

BY PAULO COELHO “There are two types of writers: those who make you think and those who make you dream” says Brian Aldiss, who made...

Pak Petrified by Medusa’s Head

 BY S IFTIKHAR MURSHED The leaders of the country have seen the head of Medusa in a mirror and fear has transformed them into stone....

Israeli Right’s Craft to Protect Settlements

BY URI AVNERI It has always been a secret ambition of mine to have a bagatz ruling bearing my name. Bagatz is the Hebrew acronym for “High Court of...

Global Disparities

BY SYED MUHAMMAD ALI It doesn’t take a poverty specialist to realise that the world in the 21st century remains plagued by disturbing disparities. Some...

Big Money and Campaign Funding

BY JOHN SPRITZLER Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Constitutional scholar (like President Obama once was), is leading a march against corruption, by which he means the...

In Defence of the Offensive

BY VASUNDHARA SIRNATE In Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, the main protagonist, Guy Montag, is a “fireman” whose task is to burn all books. Set...

Bharat rat(na) race

By Dr N. Janardhan A few weeks ago Sachin Tendulkar ‘controversially’ became the youngest and first sportsperson to be formally decorated with India’s highest civilian...

Clean Chit to Modi Reeks of Guilt

Manoj Mitta’s analysis exposes a regulated drift in the Gujarat investigation, which the Indian media has studiedly chosen to ignore, even when put down...

‘Indian’ Leopards

BY UZMA KHAN Animal societies are free, with no nationalities; they just belong to our very own planet Earth, while human society is limited by...

We Can’t Win the Election, So We’ll Buy One

BY JAWED NAQVI Strangely enough, a TV channel screened the 1960s Indian movie Leader the other day, which was a day after Arvind Kejriwal filed an unusually...

Ruled By Class Privilege and Manufactured Merit

BY PRAFUL BIDWAI ‘India makes a power point’, triumphantly announced a Times of India headline when Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella was named the CEO of the software giant...

Godhra Retold

BY AJAZ ASHRAF Once you complete reading Manoj Mitta’s breathtaking investigative book, The Fiction of Fact-Finding; Modi & Godhra, you are likely to wonder about the...

Syria: Big Powers Change Horses in Mid-Stream

BY VIJAY PRASHAD Geneva 2’s mood mirrored the sound of mortar and despair on the ground in Syria. Not much of substance came of the...

Why Not Abolish Money! – (II)

BY JANET SURMAN Gross pay, to a certain extent, appeases workers because they perceive themselves to be earning more than they are, although they also...

Iran’s Dead Poets Society: As Pen Dares the Sword

BY ROBERT FISK In Iran, there should be a Dead Poets Society. Or perhaps a Martyred Poets Society, with its newest member a certain Arab-Iranian...

Subcontinent’s Cycles

BY HUSSAIN NADIM “The Empire, long divided, must unite: long united, must divide.” The classical quote from the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong captures...

Why Not Abolish Money! – (I)

BY JANET SURMAN We humans have always worked to support our life; worked to catch, grow and produce our food, to make our shelter, our...

Quality Deficit in India’s Education Politics

BY KALPANA SHARMA Thanks to the unfortunate and virtually relentless reports of sexual violence against women in different parts of the country, the question of...

Is the Tide Turning Against Israel?

BY JONATHAN COOK Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely been so politically embattled. His travails indicate the Israeli right’s inability to respond to a...

When the State Is In Cahoots With Vandals

BY AG NOORANI THE media is a powerful institution with a fragile base. It depends on public opinion for support against the state and any...

Fascists Are Not In Power Yet, and You Have Succumbed?

BY ARUNDHATI ROY Everybody is shocked at what you have gone and done - at your out-of-court settlement with an unknown Hindu fanatic outfit -...

Faiz as Editor

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An Ice Age for Indian Scholarship

BY APOORVANAND These are lonely times for scholarship in India. TheShiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti( SBAS) has claimed yet another scalp in the form of the withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s...

Fake encounters: The expendable Kashmiri

By Mirza Waheed On January 23, the Indian Army passed a not-guilty ruling in the Pathribal Case of 2000 in which five civilians were executed...

Pathribal: Force Dictates the Course of Justice

BY CHRISTINE MEHTA Abdul Rasheed is the son of Juma Khan, one of the five Kashmiri villagers killed in the infamous fake encounter at Pathribal...

The Jama’at-Geelani Property Row: Confusion or Confrontation? – (II)

BY MUDASIR WANI Two points become clear from the foregoing discussion: that there is a strong connection between Geelani Sahib and the Jama’at in the...

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