November 18, 2006

• Indo-Pak : Positive Direction
  24 April 2007
  The two-day Foreign Secretary-level talks have ended on a positive note. The two sides, as expected, have formally decided to set up a three-member-a-side anti-terror mechanism with Additional Secretaries in the two Foreign Offices in New Delhi  (...)
• Children’s Voices : A Wake-Up Call at India Social Forum
  24 April 2007
  The following is a piece on one aspect of the India Social Forum. A detailed overview of the ISF 2006 will be publishd next week. —Editor
  The five-day India Social Forum 2006 is over; the dust that swirled in the three crowded meeting grounds has  (...)
• Lame Duck Session: Why US Senate Must Pass Civilian Nuclear Deal
  24 April 2007
  As the US Senate goes into the lame duck session, India’s chief concern is pitched on the outcome of “The United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act of 2006†. The results of the US mid-term elections have been decided overwhelmingly  (...)
• No More Death Sentence, Please
  24 April 2007
  From Mohammed Afzal to Santosh Kumar Singh—death sentence is becoming yet another routine event in our society. This is not surprising. From patriarchal domination to terrorist nightmare—we find ourselves amidst a culture in which rape, murder and  (...)
• Urbanising Farmers: Bleeding the poor, fattening the rich
  24 April 2007
  Technology-driven industrialisation has necessarily caused a shift in human values, certainly among those sections of society that have benefited from industrialisation in India . Such people speak and think about liberty and freedom without  (...)
• Three Articles on Singur
  24 April 2007
  I pledged to visit Singur on 27.10.2006. I am 81, going to be 82 on 14.01.2007. I thought I would not be able to make it. I had a premonition that I would fall seriously ill. But nothing happened. On my way back I was feeling younger. I am still  (...)
• A Year after the Mau Riots
  24 April 2007
  The following pieces recently appeared in The Tribune. They are being combined and reproduced, with due acknowledgement, for the benefit of our readers.  (...)
• The Creamy Layer
  24 April 2007
  The concept of creamy layer was introduced by the Supreme Court in its judgment delivered in 1992, when it declared the amendment introduced by Parliament in the executive order issued by the National Front Government in 1990, as invalid. The  (...)
• Our Concept of Globalisation
  24 April 2007
  Kocheril Raman Narayanan, the tenth President of India, passed away in New Delhi after a brief illness on November 9, 2005. While remembering him on his first death anniversary and as a token of our tribute to one of the most distinguished heads  (...)
• Indian Muslims : What Is To Be Done?
  24 April 2007
  My chief concern here is to understand the situation of Muslims in India. But, to the extent that the issue is inevitably affected by the condition of Muslims worldwide, it is relevant to take note of factors that impinge upon that condition  (...)

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