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• Demonetisation: The Sordid Saga

  5 December, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  Today is the twentythird day since the Narendra Modi Government carried out surgical strikes on the Indian people through demonetisation (by pulling high-denomination Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes out of circulation) on the  (...)

• SC’s Order on National Anthem

  5 December
  Commentary
  On November 30 a Supreme Court Bench, in a striking, though interim, judgment, ruled that “all cinema halls in India shall play the national anthem before the feature film starts and all present in the hall are obliged to stand up to  (...)

• Tribute to Fidel Castro

  5 December
  Fidel Castro, the outstanding architect and leader of the Cuban revolution, passed away in Havana on November 25, 2016 after a brief illness. He was a remarkable personality who attracted global attention for having stood up to Washington’s devious designs to overthrow him from power ever since the Cuban revolution in January 1959.

• In Memory of Fidel Castro

  5 December, by Muchkund Dubey
  Fidel Castro, the great Cuban revolutionary and the icon of those who have over the last half-a-century struggled for national liberation, freedom from colonial and capitalistic exploitation, and the establishment of a just and equitable world  (...)

• Castro Will Always be Remembered for Keeping Alive the Hope of Socialist Alternatives

  5 December, by Bharat Dogra
  Fidel Castro, who died at the age of 90 on November 25, will always be remembered by history for keeping alive the hope for a socialist alternative for a very long time in very adverse circumstances. He is often admired, and rightly so, for his  (...)

• Men and Mountains / Not Sorrow but Atonement

  5 December, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  This article, which brings into focus the Third World stalwarts who attended the Seventh NAM Summit in New Delhi in March 1983, is being reproduced after almost 34 years to recall the rich tributes paid by N.C. to the  (...)

• Remembering Professor M.G.K. Menon

  5 December
  Professor M.G.K. Menon, 88, who passed away in the Capital on November 22, 2016, has been described by his grand-nephew Himadri Gupta, a senior lecturer of bio-materials, School of Engineering Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London,  (...)

• Surgical Intolerance in a Democracy

  5 December
  by Saumitra Mohan
  A slew of incidents in recent times have again adumbrated an increasing intolerance in the country, the intolerance of opposition to established wisdom, intolerance of contrarian views or intolerance of standing against the  (...)

• New Dawn in Pakistan

  5 December, by Kuldip Nayar
  The Dawn is a fairly respected newspaper in the subcontinent. It was founded by Qaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah at Daryaganj in New Delhi to propagate his cause of Pakistan. When Pakistan was founded The Dawn started appearing from Karachi.  (...)

• Is Delhi Ready to Take Tough Decisions?

  5 December
  by Anshuman Gupta
  Delhi is increasingly becoming a difficult place to live in with increasing levels of pollution there. It has been manifested with the recent blanket of thick haze at the onset of winter. This is in spite of the tough measures  (...)