August 2009

• BJP in Turmoil, Opposition in Disarray
  31 August 2009, by SC
  As the number of deaths due to swine flu in the national Capital rises to three taking the total toll across the country as a consequence of the pandemic to 66 and India faces the worst dry spell in 91 years with about half of its landmass (246  (...)
• A Dangerous Move threatening Food Security
  31 August 2009, by Sailendra Nath Ghosh
  COMMUNICATION
  In my article “M G Crops are the Highway to Genetic Holocaust: More Lethal than Nuclear Holocaust†, published in the July 4, 2009 issue of Mainstream, I had stated (in its third part) that
  in the USA, the decision-making positions in  (...)
• India’s 11th Five Year Plan 2007-12: Challenges and Constraints
  31 August 2009, by Gilbert Etienne
  India has started its 11th Five Year Plan (FYP) from a relatively high basis because of much progress achieved in many sectors of the economy, thanks to the rising and pushing middle classes and entrepreneurs, thanks to reforms and a more  (...)
• Whither India: The Way Up or the Way Down?
  31 August 2009, by P K Chatterjee
  The Indian National Congress is back in power at the Centre. The small regional parties have practically disappeared from the scene. The Trinamul Congress party is a regional party and a shadow of the Congress itself. This government can safely  (...)
• ASEAN Tryst and India‘s Signature to it
  31 August 2009, by V R Krishna Iyer
  A little while ago India had appended to its executive (a statesman with rare probity) signature to the ASEAN Agreement. I must confess I am a jurist but not an economist. But economics of the nation must submit to the fundamental jurisprudence  (...)
• Can Money Compensate Scheduled Tribe Victims for Rape?
  31 August 2009, by Vasudha Dhagamwar
  In our earlier study of Scheduled Caste victims in Uttar Pradesh we had drawn attention to the fact that compensation was regarded as the end of the case. [“Can Money Compensate for Rape†by Vasudha Dhagamwar, Mainstream (August 8, 2009)] We had  (...)
• Manmohan Singh and Naxal-Maoist Upsurge
  31 August 2009, by Ambrose Pinto
  The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has described the Maoist uprising as ‘the biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country’ as several States, like Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Madhya  (...)
• Freedom Day at Amritsar
  31 August 2009, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  Three landmarks to cover in a single day—that was how some of us spent our fiftieth Independence Day.
  The first of the pilgrimage was to the Indo-Pak border post at Wagah to celebrate the anniversary of the freedom at midnight.  (...)
• Economic Reforms in India: Is there a Political Consensus?
  31 August 2009, by Protiti Roy
  Having lost almost all its wealth to the colonial overlords, the erstwhile Golden Bird was now afraid to allow any outsider to participate in its economy. However, a certain degree of liberal-capitalism was considered essential, and thus newly  (...)
• Marital Discord and Divorce in India—The Changing Profile
  31 August 2009, by Namita Singh Jamwal
  Family is the most important primary group in society. Family and marriage are considered to be the two pillars of any society and as such they are the two most important societal institutions. In India, traditionally and from time immemorial,  (...)

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