South Asia Citizens Web

The uncertainty about the status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir has loomed large since 1947. Is Jammu and Kashmir a postcolonial state?

The peace process between India and Pakistan has ground to a halt, and perhaps the usual suspects are to be blamed. But it appears the exchange of allegations is more gesture than substance, and meant for domestic constituencies.

In recent days it seems to have become a habit of some latter-day “nationalists” to raise divisive or non-substantial issues to parade their patriotism. The most recent example of this is the attack on a major history of our National Movement authored by the distinguished historian Professor Bipan Chandra and his colleagues, titled India’s Struggle for Independence, published 28 years ago in 1988

During the last few years, villages of Manika Block in Latehar District have been terrorised by Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP), a police-sponsored outfit allegedly aimed at countering Maoist influence

A vicious attack was launched by BJP MP, Anurag Thakur in the Lok Sabha in Zero Hour on April 27 and in a section of the media on India’s Struggle for Independence, a book published in 1988, 28 years ago, by Bipan Chandra, K.N. Panikkar and the three of us. Deliberate misrepresentation of Bipan Chandra’s views on Bhagat Singh is being done by saying that he used the term “revolutionary terrorism” to denigrate the martyr