One year after the Sabarmati Express was burnt outside Godhra railway station, the town has come full circle — almost. At that time, Hindus and Muslims would not even enter each other's areas. Today, ...

STARTLING NEWS for some and somewhat dreamy for others is the resurrected plan of interlinking the rivers of India. Cited by the President, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and pushed by B.N. Kirpal as Chief ...

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It was business as usual in the infamous Kamathipura lane - prostitutes were busy preparing for the long night that laid ahead, the pimps were luring customers to the buildings, and the lanes thronged ...

CLR James' Beyond a Boundary is considered the best book on any sport ever written. The book is not a literary masterpiece, one reads the book and begins to wonder what might be the reason for such ...

What we found inside the Palestinian camp at ten o'clock on the morning of September 1982 did not quite beggar description, although it would have been easier to re-tell in the cold prose of a medical ...

The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), created in 1968, has assumed a significant status in the formulation of India's domestic and foreign policies, particularly the later. Working directly under the ...

Nineteen years ago, one of the most diabolical slaughters in war history occurred in Iraq. Despite the assurances of the Bush I regime that retreating Iraqi soldiers would not be attacked, just the ...

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, women whose lives were disrupted by the storm face numerous gender-specific vulnerabilities that commonly occur with disasters of this magnitude. For instance, while ...

The Chronology of Conflict: Kashmir By Naveed Qazi 21 January, 2011 Countercurrents.org K ashmir wasn't always dyed in blood. The people of Kashmir had seen an intellectual renaissance under the rule ...

My visit back home to the Galilee coincided with the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza. The state, through its media and with the help of its academia, broadcasted one unanimous voice -- even louder ...

With many results still being counted or too close to call, the US congressional elections have produced a sweeping victory for the Republican Party, which regained control of the House of ...