IMPRESSIONS
The following piece was written before Italy decided to send back the Marines to India to face trial here. But we are still publishing it as its contents broadly retain their relevance even now.
Italy is India’s made-for-each-other (...)
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But Didn’t We Know All Along that Italians were More Equal than Us?
12 April 2013, by T J S George -
Italian Marines’ Case: Is India a Soft Nation?
12 April 2013by Hamid Hussain
The title of this article emanates from an NDTV India debate on March 16 on an identical title in which I participated. This being a serious foreign policy issue, it needed a greater degree of introspection and dissection in the (...) -
Reclaiming the Values for which Bangladesh was Born
12 April 2013, by Kuldip NayarDhaka was a distant dot on India’s map when I was living in my home town, Sialkot. Partition pushed me to Delhi and, happily for me, the dot came closer. I took the first plane to Dhaka as soon as it became the capital of the liberated (...) -
Bolsheviks and Death Penalty
12 April 2013, by Prabhat PatnaikCOMMUNICATION
This is with reference to Paresh Chattopadhyay’s (PC’s) response in the March 16 issue of Mainstream to my article “Leninism and Class Consciousness” (originally published in People’s Democracy, January 13, 2013). PC is entitled to his (...) -
Muslim Right: Baring Its True Fangs!
12 April 2013, by Subhash GatadeThis article was written some days ago. There is thus here a reference to a demonstration in Kolkata “to be held on March 30”. However, its contents retain their validity till date. So it is being published now.
“Any death is regrettable and those (...) -
Age of the Nonaligned
12 April 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The Seventh Non-Aligned Summit took place in New Delhi from March 7 to 12, 1983. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of that event we are carrying the following pieces of N.C. that appeared in Mainstream (March 19, 1983) after (...) -
Men and Mountains
12 April 2013, by Nikhil Chakravartty“The Conference is over. The concord must endure.” With these words, almost Biblical in their pithy simplicity, Indira Gandhi announced in Vigyan Bhavan on March 12 the end of the Seventh Summit of the Nonaligned countries. It was a moving moment, (...) -
Only Option for the Left to Survive in Today’s Environment
12 April 2013BOOK REVIEW
by Bishwajit Sen
Marxism and the Indian Left: From “Interpreting” India to “Changing” it by Sumanta Banerjee; Purbalok Publication, Kolkata; Price: Rs 400; First Published 2012.
History sometimes poses seemingly insoluble riddles to (...) -
Dalit and Tribal Representatives in Chains: A Gift of Joint Electorate
12 April 2013, by A K BiswasIn the winter session of Parliament, the Government of India introduced the 117th Constitution Amendment Bill on December 20, 2012 that would entitle the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe government employees for promotion in services. The (...) -
Opulent Kerala and Evil-eyed
Planning Commission
12 April 2013, by K G Somasekharan NairWhile lecturing at a function in Kochi on September 11, 2012, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, exhorted the Keralites to move out of paddy cultivation and use paddy fields for industries or other profitable (...)
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