Founding Editor: Daya Varma (1929-2015)
Editors: Vinod Mubayi (New York) and Raza Mir (New Jersey).
Editorial Board: Ram Puniyani and Irfan Engineer (Mumbai); Pervez Hoodbhoy (Islamabad); Dolores Chew (Montreal); Vamsi Vakulabharanam (Amherst); Ajay Bhardwaj (Vancouver).
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CPM VOWS TO CONTINUE ON ITS SUICIDAL COURSE: “DEFEAT THE CONGRESS” AND “ISOLATE THE BJP”
Daya Varma and Vinod Mubayi
India’s communist parties might not be a decisive factor in the outcome of forthcoming parliamentary elections in 2014 but their indifference to dangers of communalism and their inability to distinguish between Congress and BJP could be a disastrous and unprecedented mistake. Read more…
ELECTORAL EQUATIONS AND SECULAR VALUES
Ram Puniyani
In the January-February 2012 election in UP, Congress did worse and Samajwadi Party did better than expected. The Muslims of UP played an important role in the election outcome; only a decisive return to the uncompromising secular politics of Gandhi and Nehru can restore their confidence in Congress. Read more…
A JOURNEY THAT BEGAN IN DELHI REACHES ITS CONCLUSION
The Hindu
In this interview with a leading journalist, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, the leader of the Maoist Communist Party of Nepal explains the reasons for a shift in Party’s policy. Read more…
BAIDYA FACTION OF NEPAL MAOISTS TAKES OUT TORCH RALLY
As expected Maoist hardliners are unhappy with the decision of the Party to allow the deployment of Nepal army in Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) area. Read more…
PLA HANDOVER DECISION HAS FOILED CONSPIRACY AGAINST PEACE, CONSTITUTION: DAHAL
UCPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Wednesday said that his party’s decision to hand over the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) cantonments to the Nepal Army put to an end to all kinds of conspiracies against peace and constitution writing process. Read more…
MANUFACTURING A RIOT
Ram Puniyani
It is not for the first time that Hindu supremacists manipulate anti-Muslim riots. This time it was done in the historic old city of Hyderabad. Read more…
INDIA TO RESOLVE ALL ISSUES WITH PAKISTAN
India is committed to resolving all outstanding issues with Pakistan through dialogue but it is necessary to have an environment free of terror to move forward meaningfully, the government tells the Rajya Sabha. Read more…
WHAT PAKISTAN SHOULD DO IN AFGHANISTAN
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Pakistani and Afghans share the same religion and ancestry and yet Pakistanis living in Kabul feel safer being identified as Indians than as Pakistanis. Political analyst Pervez Hoodbhoy explains why this is so. Read more…
WHY KARACHI BURNS AGAIN AND AGAIN
Pervez Hoodbhoy
For a very long time Karachi has been the place of sectarian violence, contributed by various factors. What turned an idyllically clean and peaceful city of earlier decades into today’s hell-hole? Hoodbhoy explains why. Read more…
WHEN MANMOHAN SINGH COMES TO ISLAMABAD
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Once again the heads of Pakistan and India visit each other’s terrain with promises of peace and friendship. What is behind this noble, important and welcome gesture? Read more…
THE EXTREME MAKEOVER OF INDIA’S (POSSIBLE) NEXT LEADER
Parvez Ahmed
Narendra Modi, the orchestrator of anti-Muslim carnage of February 2002 is being portrayed as a man of the future; what is behind all this? Read more…
AN AMERICAN CITY COUNCIL PASSES RESOLUTION CONDEMNING 2002 GUJARAT RIOTS
Press Trust of India (Mar 29, 2012)
Washington: A US City Council has passed a resolution condemning the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat and expressed concern over the “denial” of justice for the victims. The resolution, passed this week by the City Council of Harvey, Illinois, expressed solidarity with the victims, including those who died in the Godhra train fire on February 27, 2002. Read more…
CHRISTIAN COUNCIL CONDEMNS SAUDI GRAND MUFTI CALL FOR DESTRUCTION OF CHURCHES IN WEST ASIA
(Press statement, New Delhi, March 29, 2012)
The All India Christian Council has condemned the call by Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah that it is “necessary to destroy all the churches of the region.” Read more…
MAMATA BANERJEE OF WEST BENGAL IS DOING WHAT SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOOD AT
KOLKATA: “Smile in the face of adversity” seems to be the message of singer-turned-rebel Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman, who has penned a song mocking the West Bengal government after a Jadavpur University professor was arrested for group mailing a cartoon featuring chief minister Mamata Banerjee, railway minister Mukul Roy and Trinamool MP Dinesh Trivedi. Read more…
JOURNALISTS, ANALYSTS URGE LEADERS TO THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT PEACE
South Asian Media Net
Speakers at a seminar on April 18, 2012 called for complete demilitarization of Siachen Glacier and making it a tourism spot and peace park to promote harmony in the region. Read more…
A SHORT STORY: A LONG OVERDUE APOLOGY
Yoginder Sikand
The old man shook his head and answered, in a language I could barely understand. ‘No, sir, I’ve never heard of “India”.’ Read more…
ANAND PATWARDHAN’s LATEST DOCUMENTARY JAI BHIM COMRADE; A FILM WITH A DIFFERENCE
Priyanka Borpujari
(It took 14 years to make the 200-minute-long documentary “Jai Bhim Comrade” on Dalits. Director Anand Patwardhan explains why?) Read more…
APPEAL TO SUPPORT KOLKATA-BASED WEEKLY FRONTIER
Over the past 40 years many of you have had a chance to associate with and support Frontier, the weekly paper founded by Samar Sen in Calcutta. It is now available also as a webzine. Read more…
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