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June 2009
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After Congress‘ Rejuvenation in Election 2009: Need for an Indigenous New Deal
22 June 2009, by Praful BidwaiThe great story of Election-2009 is the Congress’ rejuvenation on an inclusive pluralist-secular platform and the electorate’s emphatic rejection of the BJP’s divisive, communal politics. The Congress has got its second wind and overtaken the BJP (...) -
Habib Saheb and the Gonds‘ Story of Creation
22 June 2009, by Sohail HashmiTRIBUTE
Habib Tanvir, 86, one of the country‘s greatest dramatists, passed away in Bhopal on June 8, 2009. He was instrumental in creating a new language in theatre blending contemporary drama with folk performance and raising folk forms to a (...) -
West Bengal: Khejury — The Truth
22 June 2009, by D. BandyopadhyayGenocide is not an appropriate word. In international lexicon it has a definition which would not perhaps apply to large scale slaughter, mayhem, arson, organised rape and other atrocities committed by the ruling party against their political (...) -
Whither BJP?
22 June 2009, by Amitava MukherjeeIf the various reviews of the results of the just concluded Lok Sabha election are taken into account, then one cannot but conclude that the BJP has more sympathisers among the ‘pundits’ than what the Congress can count on. Lots of reasons for the (...) -
Women‘s Groups Condemn State Cover-up in Shopian Case
22 June 2009The news of the rape and murder of two young women in Shopian in Kashmir is deeply shocking. We condemn this violence in the strongest possible terms.
We are also deeply disturbed by the reaction of the State. Instead of speaking out (...) -
Shopian Killings Don’t Stir Us!
22 June 2009, by Humra QuraishiIronies hit. On one hand you have women on top slots. President Pratibha Patil, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Women and Child Welfare Minister Krishna Tirath…the list is long. But just about pause here. And see what (...) -
From Employment Guarantee to National Food Security
22 June 2009, by Sitaram KumbharThe President of India Pratibha Patel, in her first address to the joint session of Parliament after 15th Lok Sabha election, said that the UPA Government would pass a legislation called the “National Food Security Act” (NFSA) which would entitle, (...) -
Remembering E.M.S. Namboodiripad on his Birth Centenary
22 June 2009, by SCMore than eleven years have passed since E.M.S. Namboodiripad breathed his last in Thiruvananthapuram on March 19, 1998. Yet it seems as if it was only the other day that one walked into his room in the party office in the Capital for a (...) -
Indian Left Today
22 June 2009, by E.M.S. NamboodiripadNineteen Eightyeight will go down in history as the year in which a widely current myth was exploded—the myth that the entire Opposition from the extreme Left to the extreme Right should be united in a single combination if the Congress is to be (...) -
Comrade EMS - A Homage
22 June 2009, by Ashok MitraTributes to E.M.S. Namboodripad
Scholar extraordinary, Comrade EMS would hold his own in intense discussions on ideological, methodological and epistemological issues with close comrades as much as with foremost economists, historians and other (...)