November 25, 2006

• Hu Jintao spells out China’s New Approach to India
  24 April 2007, by SC
  Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to India this week marks a new step towards enhancing bilateral Sino-Indian cooperation in diverse fields.
  Ever since Rajiv Gandhi’s historic visit to China at the end of 1988 and P.V. Narasimha Rao’s  (...)
• India Social Forum: Another World or Yet Another Event?
  24 April 2007, by Charu Gupta, Mukul Sharma
  The India Social Forum (ISF), held on November 9-13, 2006 in Delhi, was a crucial intersection in the past five years’ journey of the World Social Forum (WSF) in India. After the Asia Social Forum at Hyderabad in 2003 and the World Social Forum  (...)
• Use of Madrasas in the Light of Sachar Committee Report
  24 April 2007, by Chaturanan Mishra
  The forces of Hindutva are constantly preaching that Muslims are being appeased by the government and secular parties. Had it been so the condition of Muslims would not have been as wretched as the Justice Rajindar Sachar Committee has found.  (...)
• Electoral Verdict in the USA
  24 April 2007, by Kamala Prasad
  The result of the mid-term election to the two Houses of the US Congress merits analysis around the world for its impact within the US and globally. After all, US policies and politics have influence on countries around the world in economic,  (...)
• Meaning of Nobel Prize to Phelps
  24 April 2007, by Girish Mishra
  The phenomenon of open or involuntary unemployment came up with the rise of modern industrial capitalism. This was because labour power became a commodity, that is, a subject of sale and purchase. People uprooted from land had no other means of  (...)
• Perception and Reality in the Making of Foreign Policy
  24 April 2007, by P N Haksar
  When I was thinking about this theme, I suddenly realised that I have perhaps unwittingly led myself into great difficulties. Words like “perception†and “reality†are extremely contentious. Around these words—“perception†and  (...)
• Reservation and Affirmative Action : The JNU Model
  24 April 2007, by Aswini K Ray
  The latest version of India’s periodic political encounter between “social justice†and “equal opportunity†around the policy of Reservation has been in some ways rewarding. For a start, despite the involvement of large sections of youth, and sharply  (...)
• What Undid Pramod Mahajan?
  24 April 2007, by K S Duggal
  I suppose it can now be told. It is no more too close to the tragic happening to be termed bad manners or sheer paparazzi.
  Pramod Mahajan (PM) had in his person the makings of a Prime Minister as indicated in his initials, duly noticed by  (...)
• ‘Karmayogi’ Golwalkar Guruji - Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You
  24 April 2007, by Subhash Gatade
  True or false! • The RSS had participated in the freedom struggle? • The Congress had demanded help from the RSS for Gandhi’s protection? • Godse had never been a member of the RSS?
  Well, for laypersons like you and me, who have the  (...)
• Citizens’ Chargesheet On West Bengal Government’s Development Policies
  24 April 2007
  A Citizens’ Convention held on November 3, 2006, at Yuba Kendra, Kolkata, has resolved to submit a Citizens’ Chargesheet against the violation of laws and rights committed by the West Bengal Government, pertaining to its developmental policies  (...)

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