Category: Columns
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Azad’s letter to PM a template worth implementing for a wider cause
By Sahil Mahajan Former Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting measures to successfully combat the second wave of coronavirus that has crippled the nation is not merely a communication between the two leaders, it is a template of the mutual political cooperation in the times of the national…
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“Be educated. Be organised. Be agitated” – Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
By Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ Bhimrao Ramaji Ambedkar, whom we fondly know as Babasaheb Ambedkar, the face of the Indian independence movement , chairman of the drafting committee of the constitution, a social reformer, an Indian jurist, an educationist, and above all was a staunch supporter of the Dalit Movement in the post-independent Indian history.…
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Rohingya must go back to their homeland
Jaibans Singh A three member Supreme Court bench comprising of Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian is seized with a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea seeking directions for “release of so-called Rohingya refugees” who have been detained in the Jammu region of the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu Kashmir under the Foreigners…
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Jammu is more than counter-balance
Sahil Mahajan It defies all logic because Jammu doesn’t fit into the national narrative. By any stretch of the imagination, there is no attempt to assail any particular region nor is there an attempt to play up Jammu versus Kashmir . But there is a genuine question why the region that enabled setting up of…
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Indo-Pakistan War, 1971: Remembering India’s great victory
Jaibans Singh On the evening of 3 December, 1971, at about 5.40 PM, fighter aircraft of the Pakistan Air force (PAF) carried out a coordinated, pre-emptive air strike on Indian Air Force bases in Amritsar, Pathankot, Srinagar, Avantipur, Utterlai, Jodhpur, Ambala and Agra. The air strikes were supported by heavy Artillery shelling all along the border and…
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REVAMPED UNO
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposal to revamp the United Nations with the purpose of infusing multilateralism should make leaders think about this idea. The UN has played a key role in averting many a war; led peacekeeping and relief in case of natural disasters across the globe. However, over the years it has developed many…
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Oppressed people of Pakistan voice disaffection with ruling coterie and Pakistan Army
Jaibans Singh An international NGO “Alliance for Persecuted People Worldwide” (APPWW) recently organised a panel discussion on “Oppression of Pakistan’s Indigenous People.” The discussion was held against the backdrop of the COVID-19 situation in the country. Eminent persons representing the many oppressed regions of Pakistan and their people through various political parties, organisations and institutions…
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Drug addiction: Pakistan is applying its Punjab model in Kashmir
Dr. Simrit Kahlon Pakistan has great expertise in keeping Indian Border States perpetually on the boil. In the 1980’s it created a brutal environment of terror in Punjab; once terrorism was contained it used the established conduits to flood the state with drugs. The youth of Punjab, already in a fragile mental state due to…
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Syed Geelani: Dogmatic, obdurate and self serving to the very end
Hardeep Bedi Ali Shah Geelani, the 90 year old Kashmiri separatist leader aligned with the All Party Hurriyat Conference (Hurriyat), has suddenly resigned from the separatist conglomerate. An irrelevant person leaving an irrelevant organisation does not merit any discussion or comment. Nevertheless, since he maintains pretensions of being a leader of the Kashmiris there is…
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China has no claim on Tibet and East Turkestan, what to talk of Ladakh
Jaibans Singh The history of South Asia and China was dominated by the British broadly from the 17th century to mid-20th century. Today, almost seven decades after the exit of the British, India and China remain unable to reconcile to their new destinies and move on. Border demarcation done at the time of the British…