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December 23, 2006
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A Question of Half of India
24 April 2007, by Razia Ismail AbbasiMapping Eleventh Five-Year Plan from the Girl Child’s Perspective Our country is on the threshold of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. This is a good moment for some serious thought on whom it is being designed to serve and benefit. One (...) -
Political Status of Indian Women: Progress since independence
24 April 2007, by Raichel MatthaiPolitical participation of Indian women, though in a miniature form, started with the freedom movement. Mahatma Gandhi was mostly instrumental for arousing political consciousness in the poor, illiterate women and making them take part in the (...) -
SINGUR! Do We Really Want Rabindranath?
24 April 2007, by Mahasweta DeviKolkata’s Bengali daily, Dainik Statesman, on the happenings in the State. In the following piece she exposes the role of the powers that be in attempting to destroy Tagore’s Santiniketan—once again in the name of ‘development’, the word the State (...) -
Launching into a Self-destructive Path: West Bengal Government’s Blinkers and Perverse Logic
24 April 2007, by Sailendra Nath GhoshMarxists did—and to some extent in certain respects, could, reasonably—boast of advanced thinking, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today’s “Marxists” have become so myopic as to be devoid of the perspective of equitable and (...) -
Violence in Singur
24 April 2007, by Kunal ChattopadhyayHardselling Capitalist Globalisation in the name of Left Alternative
Several thousand police and paramilitary forces are now roaming Singur and adjoining areas in Hooghly district, West Bengal. On December 2, they fired tear gas and (...) -
Madhubani Revisited
24 April 2007, by D. BandyopadhyayAs the Chairman of the Bihar Land Reforms Commission, I had the opportunity to revisit Madhubani on November 14-15, 2006. The time gap between the first and the second visit was over three decades. A piece on the first trip to Madhubani was (...) -
Agrarian Relations in Two Bihar Districts: A Field Study
24 April 2007, by D. BandyopadhyayThe following paper—published in Mainstream (June 2, 1973)—was prepared for the Land Reforms Division, Planning Commission, and the Working Group on Land Reforms, National Commission on Agriculture, New Delhi on the basis of a field trip to (...)
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