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Condolence Message for Mr Kamal Morarka

CENTRE FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

It is with shock and grief that we learnt about the passing of Mr. KamalMorarka last evening.

Mr Morarka was a friend and founder trustee of the Centre for Policy Analysis (CPA). His vision of a socialist, secular, democratic India has been the very reason for CPA that he held together with his friends. Industrialist from birth, his generosity and capacity for envisioning a more equal India, steeped in a continuity and diversity of Indian tradition along with modernity marked Kamalji.

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ARTICLE

Kamalji - Goodbye My

S.P.SHUKLA

I came to Know Kamalji personally in 1990-91 when I was Finance Secretary to Government of India and Kamalji was the key Minister of State in charge of PMO in the late Shri Chandrashekhar's government whose tenure was short but had to face extraordinary situations, both internally as well as externally. And one may add, it did it with dignity and courage that it could muster, within the narrow and uncertain political band-width with which it had come into being and had to function.

Those

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OPINION

RIGHT TO PROTEST: PUBLIC MEETINGS A “TRADITION OF OUR NATIONAL LIFE”

A.G. Noorani

RECENT events in India have brought to the fore the dimensions of the right to protest, which is itself absolute except in cases of extreme necessity. The problem arises, as it does in all cases of human rights, where the fundamental rights of other citizens and also the legitimate, recognised rights and duties of the state are involved. Protest can be expressed through the media, public meetings, or processions marching through public streets. Mammoth processions and sit-ins pose the greatest

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OPINION

FASCISM REARS ITS HEAD, A NEW THREAT FOR THE BIDEN PRESIDENCY

THE CITIZEN EDITORIAL

The American media, and powerful sections of it, are holding the Republicans and other captive channels accountable for the attack by lumpens on Capitol Hill. Truth is being brought to power as even those Republicans who have hastened to move away from the Trump incited attack on Washington’s citadel of power, have been brought under media scrutiny for not stopping the US President earlier.

The assault on American democracy while being condemned, is also being supported from within. Pol

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JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT

Our Constitution has taken up the charge of transforming a hierarchical society into a modern equalitarian democracy. In a Parliamentary democracy based on a written Constitution, it is the role of the Judiciary (predominantly the Supreme Court) to interpret it. The court itself has supposed the role of the guardian and interpreter of the Constitution of India. For the purpose of interpretation, the independence of the Judiciary from any external source, including the political executive needs t...

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Issue in foreign Policy

CURRENT STRATEGIC RELATIONS OF CHINA AND PAKISTAN

Parthu Venkatesh P

Since 1951, Pakistan is the only country in South Asia after India to have diplomatic relations with People's Republic of China (PRC). The two states have time-tested relations and are known as the all-weather friends. China had provided tactical support to Pakistan during the 1965 war with India in which it was defeated. China had also helped Pakistan in the Wake of Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in. However, in February 2006, while addressing the Pakistan-China Business Forum, former President...

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Issue in foreign Policy

Are America's International Commitments trustworthy?

Nayan Anand

Since the inception of his term as the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has been a favourite of the media. Be his kooky Tweets that take the internet by storm or his determined approach towards putting America first, Trump sure knows how to catch the eyeballs of both world leaders and the public alike. In the past few months, Trump went a step ahead to shake the world by his strong messages of 'America First' policy. In the same regard, the global power landscape saw ...

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Gender

Right to Freedom of Choice, Right to Abortion: Ireland's new Abortion Referendum

Nayan Anand

Introduction

The recent time can be attributed to both progress and protests alike. Caught up in the progressive third wave of feminism, there are women all over the world now coming out on the streets to fight and demand basic rights that have been denied to them. Be it the abrogation of the infamous Triple Talaq rule or the dynamic demand for changes in the abortion laws of Ireland, positive changes in the gender scenario are now foreseeable. Speaking about one such vic...

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