Articles by Balraj Puri

Looking back objectively, one can trace the beginning of the Kashmir problem and its aggravation to the denial to the people of the state of civil liberties, of democratic and human rights including the right to freedom of speech, of the right to protest and form an opposition party, of the right to vote and to elect a government of their choice.

"ectors, not just land reforms or other asset redistribution. For instance, how about persuading borrowers to adhere to the code of repayment a necessary condition for the institution of credit? Or. students to respect the assessment of their capability made by their teachers a necessary condition for the institution of education? And as for the rich, their acquisitiveness can be a basis of development, if only the requisite economic policies are pursued and allowed to be pursued by those who cannot escape the stereotypes of a bygone era! For the purpose of the discussion in his chapter. Patnaik defines Left in a loose sense to mean "a position that understood the necessity of redistributing assets and incomes "ETHNIC conflict has been a persistent feature of modernity.'' In the last few years, "there has been an ethnic explosion world over". But ethnic movements cannot be suppressed. Suppression "has often proved counterproductive''. Nor can the problem or satisfying ethnic aspirations "be solved either through assimilation or by granting them independence". Hence "federalism is [the only] technique of integration''.

Azad and Iqbal: A Comparative Study Balraj Puri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Mohammad Iqbal, the two greatest Islamic thinkers of this century in this subcontinent, espoused radically different ideas about the role of Islam in the subcontinent After partition, the new states of India and Pakistan appropriated each almost exclusively, and it is only recently that these scholarly monopolies are breaking down and original studies of Iqbal are being done in India. A comparison of the two thinkers.

As the Congress(I), the perpetrator of the Emergency, appears to be heading for its final end and as the victims of the Emergency are in ascendance, this is an occasion for going beyond condemnation and instead attempt a more dispassionate understanding of the phenomenon and its place in the evolution of the Indian polity.

Ominous Portends from Jammu Balraj Puri The unrealised regional aspirations of the people of Jammu have played a significant role in the evolution of the Kashmir problem. And now Jammu's security and identity are being seriously threatened by militancy, communalism and criminalisation.