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KOZHIKODE: With Lok Sabha elections round the corner, the CPM seems to have escaped major political damage when a trial court on Wednesday absolved one of its key leaders from thesensational murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader T P Chandrasekharan, a killing that had revived the spectre of the CPM's taste for violent political vendetta.
Special additional sessions judge R Narayana Pisharady acquitted the CPM's Kozhikode district secretariat member P Mohanan while (…)

The Aam Aadmi Party’s maverick ways, especially its 36-hour-long Rail Bhavan dharna led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal himself, have drawn unprecedented flak from its political opponents, the middle class, and the media ... AAP’s supporters however see the dharna as an audacious means of citizen mobilisation ..

This book is about the failure of Wavell, and thereby ultimately the whole of British policy, to keep India united in the wake of the Second World War. “Wavell thought of India as a single geographic unit and, therefore, wished to maintain its unity. This led him not only to denounce but even attempt to derail the demand for Pakistan.

With Suu Kyi silent, and the international community collectively golf-clapping as Burma edges toward freedom, the Rohingya are nearly friendless in their displaced-person camps and grim ghettos, with few real champions other than a handful of Muslim countries (Saudi Arabia, Malaysia) not known for their capacity to deal with humanitarian crises.

As we commemorate another Republic Day, We The People proclaim that the parade of the powerful at Rajpath does not represent us. We The People, Reclaim our Republic. This January 26, join us for a march ‘Of the People, By the People, For the People’