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Poverty of the Debate on Poverty
25 October 2011, by Bharat DograIt is good that poverty has been widely discussed recently in India, but a careful look at the context of most of this discussion would reveal that this debate has been overwhelmingly devoted to norms on the basis of which poverty may be defined (...) -
What’s Going On? There’s Need to End this Dangerous Drift to Governmentlessness
25 October 2011, by T J S GeorgeThe irony is so stark that it exposes the sham of it all. The criminals who attacked a corruption-fighting lawyer (Prashant Bhushan) in his chamber called themselves the Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena. Those who gathered to see the attackers in a (...) -
UN: Is it Still Relevant?
25 October 2011by MRINAL CHATTERJEE
October 24 is observed as the UN Day. The following article is being published in that context.
The United Nations (UN) was founded on October 24, 1945, at a time in history when a large number of people in Asia, Africa, (...) -
Civil Society Activists Condemn the Attack on Prashant Bhushan
25 October 2011Several social and political organisations have strongly condemned the attack on eminent activist advocate Mr Prashant Bhushan in his chamber at the Supreme Court complex. We are concerned about the growing intolerance in the political arena of (...) -
Stark Reality Staring Us In The Face
19 October 2011, by SCThe country is facing an unprecedented crisis today.
While veteran BJP leader L.K. Advani has embarked on his new rath yatra, christened as the Jan Chetna Yatra (to demarcate it from the Ram rath yatra he organised in 1990), aimed at fighting (...) -
How do we Tackle the China-threat to India?
19 October 2011, by Mansoor AliCurrently trilateral and quadrilateral dialo-gues in the Asia-Pacific region have become quite fashionable. Such dialogues are being actively encouraged by the US and its time-tested reliable satellites like Japan. The next step is to evolve an (...) -
64 Years and 32 Rupees
19 October 2011, by Shyam ChandPoor people are in chains of poverty. And nobody can insult a man in chains. The definition of Rs 32 as the poverty line has submerged the Below Poverty Line into Below Pollution Line. The most valiant act of social reform in perverse! Or (...) -
Crossing the Line
19 October 2011, by Badri RainaSardar Montek Singh Ahluwalia, He plan my poverty; Suddenly I am a rich man, For my income is thirtythree. Having crossed the line by a whole Rupee, I now have more and more; I see around my jhuggi things I never could see before. That magic (...) -
Concern over Corruption, Legal Measures and Limitations of Law
19 October 2011by JOHN CHATHANATT
There is nothing which has a deeper hold on public attention today than the issue of corruption. This cancerous problem needs to be addressed adequately and the remedy must be found immediately. The misery and wretchedness (...) -
The Plain Point of View
19 October 2011, by Uttam SenThe vital spirit or animating force unleashed by liberalisation always presented an encouraging line of vision for the freewheeler. When the hope was rendered into tangibles, the outcome was mixed. In some cases the margins of performance error (...)
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