From Peshawar to Bethlehem
2014-12-19
A good beginning would be to recognize the “other” as a brother or sister, and not as a threat.Continue Reading
Five-year visa for minorities of India’s neighboring countries
2014-12-17
New Delhi – Members of the minority community from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh will be given five years’ visa instead of one-year as part of government’s effort to address their grievances and according citizenship in future. “The central government has decided that henceforth the long-term visa will be granted initiallyContinue Reading
Austerity measures engender neo-fascists in Europe
2014-12-16
Some 15,000 neo-Nazis dumped ‘pinstripe Nazis’ by commentators marched through the streets of Dresden in Germany carrying banners bearing slogans such as “Protect our homeland” “ Zero tolerance towards criminal asylum seekers” sending shock waves through the progressive and centrist forces of Europe who had thought they had buried fascismContinue Reading
Why Kerala is like Kuwait, while Madhya Pradesh is like Haiti
2014-12-15
American poet Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”—“Do I contradict myself/ Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes”—seems tailor-made for India. Which country can India be compared to, in economic terms? Is India’s level of economic development more or less like Vietnam’s, because their per capita incomes,Continue Reading
Present situation of Nagaland
2014-12-15
In the past, Naga people were praised for their egalitarian and friendly mentality. They were considered to be open-minded and fun loving people. Communitarian spirit was found in all religious, social, economic and political activity. However, nothing remains static. Everything changes. It is high time for us to check whereContinue Reading
Rapes and rapes, where have we gone wrong?
2014-12-13
The need of the hour is to change the mindsetContinue Reading
Human rights of tribal people: who cares?
2014-12-12
Kerala tribals’ stand up stir has completed five monthsContinue Reading
Let India make cheap drugs
2014-12-12
One in three of the world’s malnourished children lives in IndiaContinue Reading
India’s deepening communal cleavages
2014-12-11
Emboldened individual Hindu activists “could be testing the waters, testing precedent, testing the limits of the politically possible”Continue Reading
Condition of women worse in Tripura
2014-12-08
Trafficking in and from the region further adds to the existing insecurity of womenContinue Reading