July 07, 2007

• Rice’s Message and Indian Response
  7 July 2007, by SC
  Long years ago at the height of the Cold War John Foster Dulles had in his characteristic style spewed venom at the non-aligned worldview and decreed the concept of non-alignment as ‘amoral’.
  Today the Dullesian Cold War lies buried in the  (...)
• Shocking Lapse
  7 July 2007
  “We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be  (...)
• Coronation by Divination : History by Hearsay
  7 July 2007
  In my last offering (“India Steals a March†, Z-Net, June 19, 2007) I expressed my delight at the prospect that the next President of the Indian Republic was likely to be a woman.
  That, even as I qualified the delight by stating: “I must confess  (...)
• An Enlightening Publication
  7 July 2007
  BOOK REVIEW
  Maintenance of Public Order by Samar Singh; published by National Book Trust, India; pp. 153; Price: Rs 60.
  The author of this book reminds the reader of the horrible events of Narendra Modi’s Gujarat 2002 when thousands of  (...)
• Looking Back
  7 July 2007
  [(The fortieth anniversary of the Naxalbari revolt has been recently observed. On this occasion the following piece by the editor of this journal (published at the time of the revolt’s twentyfifth anniversary) is being reproduced—even after 15  (...)
• India-United States Nuclear Deal : Issues and Challenges
  7 July 2007, by M J Vinod
  Introduction
  The India-US nuclear deal has been projected as a turning point in the relationship between the two countries. The deal has been the subject of intense debate and discussion among strategic experts, the scientific community and the  (...)
• On Presidential Poll and Shrimati Pratibha Patil
  7 July 2007
  India Steals a March
  Epigraph
  Here is what we say:
  recognise the altered night and day;
  men and women must together find
  an honest will to put behind
  a habitually distorted humankind.
  (Badri Raina, Our Share of the World, Museindia.com)
  Since  (...)
• Land Acquisition and Industrialisation in West Bengal : Report of a Workshop
  7 July 2007
  The land acquisition drive of the Left Front Government for promoting industries is at present the most controversial public issue in West Bengal. Recently (on April 20), the Centre for Studies in Social Science, Calcutta, organised a one-day  (...)
• Thanksgiving and History
  7 July 2007
  IMPRESSIONS
  Perhaps there is some absence of irony in celebrating the uniquely American festival of Thanksgiving, but at the moment it is not visible. If there is one thing Americans do not need to do, then it is give thanks. There is enough  (...)
• New Maharajas in India
  7 July 2007, by Girish Mishra
  With the change of era, the old people and classes occupying the positions of power and influence give way to new ones. This happened in England in the 17th century and in France after 1789 when capitalism began pushing out feudalism. During the  (...)

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