July 28, 2007

• A New Chapter Unfolds
  29 July 2007, by SC
  July 19 was indeed a memorable day. In India, due to the murky nature of the presidential poll campaign with allegations against the UPA-Left nominee, the first woman contestant for the highest constitutional post, flying thick and fast one felt  (...)
• Democracy in Peril in Bangladesh
  29 July 2007, by Muchkund Dubey
  The domestic politics of Bangladesh was poised in a delicate position at the beginning of the year 2007. The country was heading towards a general election which was doomed to be a farce. The first caretaker government which, according to the  (...)
• Second Freedom Movement
  29 July 2007, by A P J Abdul Kalam
  Before demitting office on July 25, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam addressed in New Delhi on July 19 members of the India Islamic Cultural Centre (IICC) on the occasion of its first anniversary. The following is the text of his address.
  “When you  (...)
• Dacoits Rule the Pilgrimage Centre of Chitrakut
  29 July 2007, by Bharat Dogra
  UNSPEAKABLE CRUELTY AGAINST ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES—EYE GOUGED OUT, BONES BROKEN, KIDNEY DAMAGED
  Since this article reached us sometime back, the dreaded dacoit Dadua has been killed. —Editor
  In popular perception, the district of Chitrakut  (...)
• Culpable Derelection of Duty by Police Officers
  29 July 2007, by D. Bandyopadhyay
  constituencies of Chitrakut district. In addition Dadua’s brother contested from a constituency of Pratapgarh district on the SP ticket. The mother of Thokia dacoit Piyariya Devi contested on the Rashtriya Lok Dal ticket from Naraini (Banda).  (...)
• The Sociology of a Mandate
  29 July 2007, by Dipak Malik
  The largest State of India, UP, is not exactly the weathercock for the rest of Hindi heartland, yet the recent Assembly elections have indicated a new trajectory which may spread out to the entire Hindi heartland—the Ganga-Yamuna basin which  (...)
• 150 years of 1857
  29 July 2007, by Shree Shankar Sharan
  A glorious moment has touched us again, the memory of 1857, India’s First War of Independence, though some say it was the second, the first being the Battle of Plassey between Nawab Sirajudaullah of Bengal and Robert Clive of the Company forces  (...)
• Japanese Defence Chief’s Gaffe may Prove Costly for Abe
  29 July 2007, by Rajaram Panda
  The nuclear issue is too sensitive for Japan and understandably so. Japan is the only country in history to have experienced the atom bomb when the United States dropped the bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, thereby bringing the  (...)
• Lessons of Presidential Poll
  29 July 2007, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  The excitement over the Presidential poll having ended with Giani Zail Singh winning it—though the official results are yet to be known when these lines are written—it is perhaps time for a sober appraisal of its political fall-out.
  Leaving aside  (...)
• Close Examination of Haryana’s Paradoxes
  29 July 2007
  Haryana at Crossroads: Problems and Prospects by D. R. Chaudhry; National Book Trust, Delhi; 2007; pp. xi+149; Price Rs 60.
  A north-western State of India, Haryana, located on the threshold of the Union Capital Territory of Delhi has got a  (...)

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