School burning is part of radicalisation agenda

In the last few days itself, more than three schools have been burnt in south Kashmir, taking the tally to some 25. Why the schools are being targeted and why are only Government school buildings being burnt? Is it to destroy the Government property or it is part of a sinister bigger

Reaching out to the differently-abled: Both Government and society must act

Taking his vision of ‘Sab ka sath, sab ka vikas’ a step closer to reality, it was early in December last year, during an ‘accessible India’ event, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested that instead of using the term ‘viklang’, which is the most common term used for persons with disability,

A Reply to Comrade Sitaram Yechury’s interview given to Ganashakti and reproduced in the Mainstream Weekly of October 1st 2016

Dear Shri SitaramYechury, I read with a lot of interest your interview in the CPI(M) party paper Ganashakti on 13 Sep 2016. Your three targets of attack were Shri Narendra Modi, the BJP and the RSS. You start with the problems in J&K and you speak of the students death and have faulted the Government

UJALA: A Step towards Saving Energy and Conserving Environment

VAIBHAV CHADHA The National LED programme was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 5th Jan, 2015 at New Delhi with a target of replacing 77 crore incandescent lamps with LED bulbs. PM Modi described the LED bulb as a “Prakash Path” (way to light) while launching the LED bulb distribution scheme under the Domestic

Communist Violence: Manipulating the police and legal process to fix Sangh members

Advocate Rajesh is a well-known criminal lawyer in Vadakara court, Kozhikode. He deals with nearly all cases of communist violence against Sangh workers in his area. He also the contested 2016 Assembly election on a BJP ticket from Vadakara constituency and got roughly 14,000 votes,

The Message from Kozhikode for Our Generation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message at the BJP National Council meet at Kozhikode on 24th and 25th September 2016, was in line with the vision of governance and of India that Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya had envisaged through his political philosophy of Integral Humanism. In

Surgical strikes: New beginning for India’s aggressive counter-action

One of the after-effects of the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Armed Forces and its subsequent announcement to the general public has been the focus around India’s emergence as an assertive international player.

In memory of India’s little sister

As we observe Sister Nivedita’s sesquicentennial this year on October 28, it would be worthwhile to use this day as an opportunity to meditate and delve into her boundless love for India and into the dimensions of her selfless action for India’s self expression.

India must push aggressively to promote the Baloch cause

Why should India particularly and the rest of the world be concerned about the developments in Balochistan? The Balochistan region occupies 40 per cent of Pakistan’s landmass. It is the only mineral-rich area of Pakistan, having coal and gas reserves. Despite this, it is the most backward

TB is a challenge in meeting nation’s sustainable development goals

It is indeed petrifying that India disproportionally bears the brunt of one-fourth of tuberculosis incidents around the world. A recent Global Tuberculosis Report 2016, released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that tuberculosis epidemic in India was larger than what was