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I have known Sudarshan for nearly 58 years. Even if I take one minute for each year I have known him, I will be speaking for an hour. I have lots to say. Even one hour is not enough. However, as my respect to the occasion I have compressed one year into 15 seconds. I will end my tributes to my comrade and friend Sudarshan Punhani in about 15 minutes.
I am older than Sudarshan. I had designated Sudarshan to speak at my funeral. I am utterly saddened at this reversal of the role. (…)

Two events have hung on the conscience of modern India because we, as a society, have not responded to it. It is not easy to respond to violence either as a mnemonic or as a continuing process. Witness and victim almost become irritants testifying to our passivity.

The decades of bitter fighting between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil rebels has left a beautiful country bereft and thousands caught in the crossfire.

[New Age >http://www.newagebd.com/2009/may/03/oped.html]
Stagnation of labour movements in the era of globalisation
The readymade garment industry has emerged as the main manufacturing sector in Bangladesh since the 1980s when the World Bank and other international agencies in cooperation with the local elites ushered in an export-oriented development policy in the third world. The sector has also attracted a large number of unskilled rural women. Major issues ranging from low wages, (…)

This article is concerned with an examination of the state of the art of Urdu journalism in contemporary India. In attempting this analysis my purpose is to address the question whether or not Urdu journalism has played a constructive role in shaping Muslim sensibilities in post-independence India in the sense of enabling the community to face up to the challenge of adjustment as a large minority group in secular India. I shall argue that Urdu journalism during the post-independence period (…)