December 02, 2006

• Ominous Portents
  24 April 2007
  The national scenario has definitely turned grim over the last few days. The Justice Rajindar Sachar Committee, set up to evaluate the social, economic and educational status of Muslims in the country, has come out with its report—it was  (...)
• Consequences of Persisting Instability in the Korean Peninsula
  24 April 2007
  With the nuclearisation of the Korean peninsula following the detonation of a nuclear device by Pyongyang the situation in the region has undergone a sea-change. Lately the North Korean Government’s statement against carrying out further tests  (...)
• Bhishma Loses Out to Our Modern VIPs
  24 April 2007
  So there are death sentences and death sentences. When terrorist Mohammed Afzal was ordered to be hanged, communal emotions led to a clash of fundamentalisms. When college girl Priyadarshini’s killer was given the same order, human emotions led  (...)
• Towards Tri-Continental Perspective
  24 April 2007
  The adverse impact of the neo-liberal reforms being aggressively pursued in the name of globalisation since the 1970s in Latin America and the 1980s in Asia and Africa has resulted in certain common trends and patterns of underdevelopment. The  (...)
• Technology Cannot Be Monopolised
  24 April 2007
  Iran has restarted its nuclear enrichment programme. This follows the nuclear explosions made by India, Pakistan and North Korea. These steps have been taken within the confines of international law. India and Pakistan had not signed the nuclear  (...)
• Lebanon War II : Exploring its Outcome
  24 April 2007
  After 34 days of devastating war between Israel and Lebanon, a prominent question that crops up is: what has actually been accomplished? To put it concisely, while the Israeli aggression has achieved something, it has solved nothing. Undeniably  (...)
• A Comic Tragedy
  24 April 2007
  It is a tragedy, when it is not a comedy, that relations between Pakistan and India have remained at an absurd level even after 60 years when the country was divided along incredibly ununderstandable lines. Those who have known what happened  (...)
• Panchayats and Neo-Liberal Economy
  24 April 2007
  The Gram Panchayats have become nodal points of grassroot democracy as well as direct democracy. After the 73rd Constitutional Amendment in the Panchayati Raj Act, a background has been created to move towards turning Panchayats into an  (...)
• Some Stray Thoughts
  24 April 2007
  It was at a very young age and before I became a Communist I was convinced that there was neither any god nor God (with capital G). In other words, it was not God who created man in this image. In fact, it was man who invented God because there  (...)
• Grim Warning from Bhopal
  24 April 2007
  It was a massacre of innocents by all counts. What happened at the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in the early morning of December 3 was not just a tragedy but a heinous crime which killed nearly two thousand and hospitalised many more, it brings  (...)

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