June 02, 2007

• Message to India Inc in Prevailing Scenario
  2 June 2007, by SC
  North India is in the grip of turmoil and violence. First, a sectarian storm raged in the shape of the Sikh priests’ holy anger at the Dera Sacha Sauda sect’s head dressing himself up in the attire of the 10th Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh, and  (...)
• J’ Accuse! - A Children’s Doctor and a Mighty State
  2 June 2007, by Subhash Gatade
  It has been more than a fortnight that Dr Binayak Sen, a paediatrician by training and profession and a human rights activist by choice, has received a new identity—a menace to public safety. The Chhattisgarh Police, whose own record of human  (...)
• A Fresh Look at Singur in the Light of Climate Change Warning
  2 June 2007, by Kunal Ghosh
  The recent Bangkok meeting of scientists from all over the world has warned of dire changes in earth’s climate due to global warming caused by green-house gases. The polar ice will melt; the sea will rise and inundate coastal cities, such as  (...)
• A Difficult Question
  2 June 2007, by Mukul Dube
  A politically active young woman told me of a question which she had faced but had been unable satisfactorily to answer. The question was: “Why do you object to the Hindu Right’s actions in Baroda in regard to the art student although you were  (...)
• Lessons of UP Assembly Elections
  2 June 2007, by K V S Rama Sarma
  The much-awaited and suspense-ridden UP Assembly elections are over to everyone’s relief. As expected, the collapse of the Mulayam Singh Government, which achieved the unique distinction of being disliked by a broad cross-section of society, has  (...)
• UP Polls Outcome : End to Mandal-Masjid Politics and Emergence of Mayawati
  2 June 2007, by Ravindra Sharma
  The results of the UP elections have created avid interest among social scientists. Importantly, Dalits are emerging as the new ruler of modern India. The emergence of the BSP as a new ruling party will make a serious impact on the future course  (...)
• Hunger, Thirst and Indebtedness—Bundelkhand’s Deepening Agro-Ecological Crisis
  2 June 2007, by Bharat Dogra
  [(A CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF FOUR BLOCKS
  In recent times mass distress of the people in Bundelkhand region (Uttar Pradesh), as manifested in alarming levels of hunger and malnutrition, water shortages and indebtedness, has attracted attention at  (...)
• Basic Causes of Muslim Backwardness
  2 June 2007, by Chaturanan Mishra
  [(There was a time when in UP and Bihar Muslim leaders like Z.A. Ahmed, Sajjad Zaheer, K.M. Ashraf and Ali Ashraf, Ali Amjad and Habibur Rahman etc. constituted the top leadership of the Communist Party. Now such leaders are almost totally  (...)
• Foreign Policy : Going back to Thucydides
  2 June 2007
  BOOK REVIEW
  India’s Foreign Policy Since Independence by V.P. Dutt; National Book Trust, India; 2007; Paperback Price: Rs 80.
  Veteran and eminent academician, scholar and writer Professor V.P. Dutt, has done it again on India’s Foreign  (...)
• Assault on Human Rights
  2 June 2007, by Bharat Dogra
  COMMUNICATION
  On May 14, senior human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen was arrested by the Chhattisgarh Government on charges relating to contacts with the Naxalites. Dr Sen is Vice-President of the PUCL (People’s Union for Civil Liberties) at  (...)

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