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Centre’s Tackling Of The Dharna By Leading Women Wrestlers Is Pathetic
By Arun Srivastava Cruel joke is being played with the women wrestlers who enhanced the prestige of India in global fraternity by winning medals in international championships. In the evening of May 3 while addressing the election rally in Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that he was a...
‘Chevalier’: A Film On A Black French Composer’s Story Is Topical
By Eric A. Gordon In director Stephen Williams’s big-budget new film Chevalier, now playing in US theatres Joseph Bologne (Kelvin Harrison), the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner on the lucrative French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, rises to improbable heights in Parisian society as...
Defeat Of BJP In Karnataka Assembly Polls Is Crucial For Indian Democracy
By Prakash Karat The Karnataka assembly election has a special importance in the present conjuncture. For the BJP, in its quest for overall political dominance, retaining this southern state is vital for its ambition to spread its influence in other southern states. With the election campaign at its peak,...
Film ‘Kerala Story’ Is Full Of Lies And Fiction Based On The Vision Of RSS
By Binoy Viswam Day in and day out, the RSS-led parivar excels themselves in the fascist skills of propaganda. Learning lessons from Mussolini and Hitler, updating those lessons for the changing time and place, they sometimes outsmart even their masters. In 1937, inaugurating a movie production unit, Benito Mussolini...
Love, Deaths And Stormy Sessions At 28 Dean Street
By Nitya Chakraborty Karl Marx was born in Germany on May 5, 1818 and died in London on March 14, 1883. Three days after his demise on March 17, Friedrich Engels in his speech at the grave of his best friend and partner in their bid to change the...
By Not Holding Bilateral Talks With Bilawal Bhutto, India Has Lost An Opportunity
By Sushil Kutty India in its capacity of rotating head of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) invited Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to the Goa SCO on May 4-5, but India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hadn’t decided on a bilateral with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. So much for...
Extension Of ED Chief’s Tenure Is Still Puzzling
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Hounding the leaders of opposition, allegedly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Centre through Enforcement Directorate (ED), has reached an unprecedented level under directorship of Sanjay K Mishra, and hence his extension of service has been naturally opposed by the forces against abuse of power....
Sharad Pawar’s Planned Resignation Is Aimed At Dissenters In NCP
By Tirthankar Mitra All his life, Sharad Govindrao Pawar has been his own man. Be it walking out of Congress when defying Gandhi family was considered to be political suicide or coming out in support of top notch industrialist Gautam Adani recently thereby running the risk of fracturing anti-BJP...
Yogi Adityanath Taking Civic Bodies Poll In Up As A Referendum On His Rule
By Arun Srivastava Has it been some other time, the elections to the civic bodies in Uttar Pradesh might not have aroused so much of interest in the outcome of the electoral battle. But the two phase election being held on May 4 and 11 this time has virtually...
Many Hurdles Remain In Introducing Digital Currency In India
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched a pilot program to test its digital currency, the digital rupee, in India’s four largest cities. The program is intended to assess the feasibility of a digital currency in India and to better understand its potential use...
