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UNION BUDGET 2015-16: Analysing the Estimated Budget: Where is the Plan for the Most Marginalised?
22 March 2015The Union Budget is prepared to execute the state policy and constitutional mandate of a sovereign republic. The Finance Minister leads the budgeting process and its control while the citizens develop an understanding over it according to the (...) -
Remembering Lohia: A Legacy for the Left
22 March 2015, by C.N. Chitta RanjanDr Rammanohar Lohia’s 105th birth anniversary falls on March 23 this year. Since his birthday coincided with the day of martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru, he never wanted his followers to observe or celebrate his birthday. However, (...) -
Dr Rammanohar Lohia: A Tribute
22 March 2015, by Sumit ChakravarttyI am certain that the life and activities of Dr Rammanohar Lohia, that remarkable socialist leader who left an indelible imprint on the Indian political scene in both the pre-indepen-dence period and the two decades following independence (that (...) -
Not Lonely in Life or Alone in Death
22 March 2015TRIBUTE
by Noor Zaheer
The show is over, the actors and director have taken the last bow and curtain call and from a crowded auditorium after the thunderous applause has died down, friends and acquaintances are walking up with smiles, hugs and (...) -
Bhagat Singh as I knew Him
22 March 2015, by Ajoy GhoshLegendary freedom fighter and martyr Bhagat Singh’s birth centenary was observed on September 28, 2007. On the occasion of the eightyfourth anniversary of his martyrdom, we are reproducing the following article (published earlier in Mainstream) (...) -
Greece - Caught Between Scylla and Charybdis: Europe and the Future for Syriza Government
22 March 2015, by Harsh Kapoorby Harsh Kapoor
Let us begin with some jottings from history. In our imagination Greece occupies the bedrock of key Western ideas with its first city states and the idea of democracy, but that was ancient Greece. Modern Greece, as we know, has (...) -
Can Modi Rejuvenate Ganga?
22 March 2015by Manoj Misra
can Modi rejuvenate Ganga?
—No and Yes.
—No, if business as usual (BAU) remains the norm. BAU involves high rhetoric, photo ops, poor understanding, emphasis on engineering solutions, little accountability, public suffering and (...) -
We are all Mukto-mona
22 March 2015, by Subhash Gatade“Our aim is to build a society which will not be bound by the dictates of arbitrary authority, comfortable superstition, stifling tradition, or suffocating orthodoxy but would rather be based on reason, compassion, humanity, equality and (...) -
Jagmati Sangwan — A Committed Social Reformer
22 March 2015, by Ranbir SinghWOMEN’S WORLD
Born on January 2, 1960 at village Butana of Sonipat district, Jagmati Sangwan, General Secretary, All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), may be legitimately acknowledged as a committed social reformer. She had to (...) -
Remembering Narayan Bhai Desai
22 March 2015, by Devaki JainTRIBUTE
Narayan Bhai was one of the most persistent Bhais from the Gandhian biradari that I have ever met—I dallied a great deal with Gandhians and Gandhian institutions starting way back in the fifties when I joined Vinoba Bhave in his (...)
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