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- Tuesday, Dec 27, 2011
ZNet Article What is happening among the Pakistan establishment currently must be regarded as extraordinary by any reckoning. -
- Friday, Dec 16, 2011
ZNet Article The onslaughts of the 1989/90 moment were set to change much of how good-natured, caring, secular Kashmiri young people lived and bonded. -
- Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011
ZNet Article That if the object of murder is to obliterate forever the “other”, the act of murder in fact has the consequence of not obliterating but perpetuating that “other” forever. -
- Thursday, Nov 10, 2011
ZNet Article America , as you might know, has the Rifle Association. Nobody, but nobody, Republican or Democrat, may touch it. -
- Tuesday, Oct 04, 2011
ZNet Article Gujarat seems poised to emerge from the heart of darkness into the sunshine of common day -
- Saturday, Sep 17, 2011
ZNet Article Modi’s leap from his captive constituency in Gujarat to the national stage cannot be effected unless ways are found to neutralize his humungous culpabilities with respect to the carnage of 2002. -
- Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011
ZNet Article However the Congress and the BJP may be warring on issue after issue, both these faces of Indian Capitalism obey the Ambanis. -
- Thursday, Sep 01, 2011
ZNet Article It should be obvious by now that a majority of Dalit and Muslim organizations are opposed to the sort of denigration of parliament that seems inherent in the Anna putsch as it has developed over the last few days. -
- Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011
ZNet Article These are heady days in India. An orgy is underway in many parts, as angels of virtue shriek holy imprecations, ostensibly, to exorcise the demon “Corruption,” a word that has a nice Biblical-post-lapsarian ring to it. -
- Monday, Aug 01, 2011
ZNet Article What would a temple be without the money? -
- Tuesday, May 24, 2011
ZNet Article I think fighting Capitalism at this juncture in India’s history must mean engaging with oppressions of diverse definition -
- Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011
ZNet Article A voice has been raised in India against the venal misdeeds of politicians and, mutedly, of bureaucrats (no mention of the corporates here). -
- Monday, Apr 04, 2011
ZNet Article Ask any ordinary Indian citizen whether the bulk of their elected representatives or members of the administrative tribe ever really can be trusted to square with them on any issue at hand—from the burst water pipeline, to the price of foo... -
- Sunday, Mar 27, 2011
ZNet Article I must confess to be rather serenly unsurprised by the Wikileaks pertaining to India. -
- Thursday, Feb 24, 2011
ZNet Article I was asked the other day what kinds of people I thought to be the greatest danger to the “idea of India.” Yet my simple point was that the answer to the question must depend greatly on how one is placed within the nation-state. -
- Wednesday, Feb 09, 2011
ZNet Article The Special Investigation Team entrusted by the Supreme Court of India to enquire into the culpabilities with respect especially to the gruesome killings at the Gulbarg Society has now submitted its report to the honourable Court. -
- Monday, Jan 31, 2011
ZNet Article Like most non-specialist browsers, I have read not more than that “good bit” of Gandhi and not more than some twenty or so book-length studies of him. -
- Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011
ZNet Article A charge of sedition has been brought up against Arundhati Roy following some statements she made at a meeting in Delhi supporting the demand for Kashmiri “azadi” (variously interpretable, secession from the Union being one). -
- Sunday, Jan 02, 2011
ZNet Article A Sessions court judge in Raipur, capital of the BJP-ruled state of Chattisgarh, has pronounced Binayak Sen guilty of sedition and conspiracy against the State, and sentenced the good doctor to a life term in prison. -
- Monday, Dec 20, 2010
ZNet Article India never had so much lucre going around, so big a class of people with lolling tongues and copious pockets, and so little prohibition to illicit money-making on behalf of the neo-liberal State and its institutions. -
- Tuesday, Oct 26, 2010
ZNet Article There is that vignette in Marquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch where the protagonist looks idly out of the window at the bay below and seems to see an array of ships lined there, not all the same but their make and model spanning the centuries gone... -
- Thursday, Oct 21, 2010
ZNet Article The Games are over. Our revels have ended for now. Many white people have gone satisfied; some even impressed. -
- Monday, Oct 04, 2010
ZNet Article I agree with most that the honourable court seems to have with deliberation chosen to operate rather more like a problem-solver than a legal/juridical entity. -
- Sunday, Sep 19, 2010
ZNet Article One of my most soothing childhood memories is of my mother reading aloud the Ram Katha (the story of the ancient, mythical or not, King of Ayodhya). -
- Monday, Sep 13, 2010
ZNet Article The Indian state displays its faculties of innovation and spending in the works it gets made at less than minimum wage, and, on the other side, plays the beast to man, woman, and child who have, alas, not inherited the pedigree of Renaissance Hum... -
- Wednesday, Sep 01, 2010
ZNet Article Currently, one of the “burning issues” on media channels here in India is what colour we may ascribe or not ascribe to terror. A conundrum, if there ever was one. -
- Friday, Aug 13, 2010
ZNet Article If the prospect, that is, of the secession of the valley—since other parts of the state of Jammu & Kashmir desire, contrarily, not secession but more complete integration with the Union of India-- were not fraught with incalculable negative conse... -
- Sunday, Aug 01, 2010
ZNet Article As the skeletons tumble in droves out of the house of horrors in Gujarat, right-wing Hindutva forces which now openly include the “main opposition Party” in parliament, the BJP, is up in arms at what it suits them to call a Congress-inspir... -
- Thursday, Jul 15, 2010
ZNet Article India’s GDP is set to grow at 9.4%, sayeth the oracle of the World Bank. -
- Wednesday, Jul 07, 2010
ZNet Article As the Indian government contemplates a Right-to-Food Act, whereby some rice and/or wheat might be given to those below the “poverty line” (which, in diverse computations by the “experts” ranges from some 27% of Indians to some 77%) at nominal r... - All Most Recent Content
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