August 4, 2007

• Democracy, Justice and Sanjay Dutt’s Sentence
  8 August 2007, by SC
  The Special TADA Court for the trial of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case has completed its work by sentencing film star Sanjay Dutt to six years’ r.i. With the sentences served on him and three of his associates, the curtain has come down on  (...)
• Bal Thackeray’s Big Heart! - Do Not Cry for the Bombay Riot Victims
  8 August 2007
  Do Not Cry for the Bombay Riot Victims (Bombay Riot Victims Pe Mat Ro!!)
  With the TADA court sentencing the last accused in the Bombay bomb blast case, the demand for justice to the Bombay riot victims has started gaining momentum. And people  (...)
• The Little Man’s Ballot is Burked If Election Law Not Reformed
  8 August 2007
  Indian democracy was designed by our Constitution’s Founding Fathers after long deliberations in the Constituent Assembly to produce a people-oriented Republic built on the widest adult franchise sans caste, sans creed and greed, sans gender  (...)
• Chandra Shekhar : Some Reminiscences
  8 August 2007
  I first met Chandra Shekhar when I was working as the Secretary of the Praja Socialist Party’s Parliamentary Group in its office at Canning Lane, New Delhi in the late fifties. Since then I maintained regular contacts with him irrespective of his  (...)
• Chandra Shekhar and other Socialists’ Fight against Globalisation
  8 August 2007
  COMMUNICATION
  Dr Prem Singh, in his article on Chandra Shekhar (in the July 14 issue of Mainstream) has brought out an important aspect of the bereaved leader’s views on globalisation and his intrepid activities on that issue. A further  (...)
• Birthday in Myanmar
  8 August 2007
  On June 19, a Nobel Laureate and a national heroine of Burma (now named Myanmar), the second largest country in South-East Asia [area-wise], spent her 62nd birthday confined to her home with no means of contact with her family and with only  (...)
• This Is Not A Story About Binayak Sen
  8 August 2007
  This is not a story of the fifty plus children’s doctor Binayak Sen from Raipur, Chhattisgarh who is at present languishing in jail under the draconian provisions of a law which has declared him a ‘terrorist’ because he had the courage to speak  (...)
• A Defiant Rebel
  8 August 2007, by D. Bandyopadhyay
  To write about a politician, one runs the risk of being either a self-seeker trying to get some material advantage if one spoke good of him, or a run-of-the mill faultfinder who failed to get his desired benefits if one wrote against him. But  (...)
• Moscow Trials and Lenin Enrolment
  8 August 2007
  [( This month marks the seventyfirst anniversary of the first of the Moscow Trials. On this occasion we are publishing the following article. Subrata Sen has studied in depth the atrocities committed during the Stalin regime in the USSR and  (...)
• Raisina Hill’s New Tenant
  8 August 2007
  By the time these lines reach the reader, India will be having a new President who, according to the Constitution, is due to hold office for five years, that is, beyond the present millennium. That the choice has been widely welcomed is borne  (...)

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