PDF version of the report from Delhi the well known scholar Granville Austin, report by Victor Anant for The Guardian, Front covers of The Times of India and The Economist
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On the Passing of Jawaharlal Nehru reports by Granville S. Austin, Victor Anant and the front covers of The Times of India and The Economist
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India: ’Naxalbari’ - Fifty years later
by , 26 May 2017May 25, will commemorate 50 years of the Maoist uprising of Naxalbari in West Bengal. In March, 1967, a decision was taken in Naxalbari to carry out an armed rebellion for the rights of peasants and workers. This isolated revolt led to a movement that has lasted half a century.
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Bangladesh: More is at stake than a statue | Tanim Ahmed
26 May 2017why one should not relent to communal pressures, no matter how insignificant they might seem
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India: Large-scale pending NREGA payments in April-May 2017
26 May 2017Fund Transfer Orders (FTOs) for NREGA wage payments worth Rs 3,045 crores are yet to be processed by the National Electronic Fund Management System (NEFMS) of the central government. The situation has worsened considerably over the past two months as 63 per cent of the FTOs pending for processing were generated in April - May.
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Sectarian Politics and the Partition of India: The Targeting of Nehru and the Congress | Anil Nauriya
25 May 2017The rise of Hindutva-related organisations in India, especially since the late 1980s, has witnessed frequent attacks by them on the pre-freedom Congress in relation to the partition of India in 1947. These attacks increased since 2013 in the run-up to the General Elections of 2014. Some Hindutva organisations have become less covert than before in their glorification of the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi. Simultaneously, other sections of Hindutva forces have sought to disclaim responsibility for Gandhi’s assassination and to shift the focus of their attack on Jawaharlal Nehru.
