September 8, 2007

• The Question of Democracy
  9 September 2007, by SC
  While the spectre of instability presently haunts the corridors of power in New Delhi, the two other major countries of South Asia—Pakistan and Bangladesh—are also in the grip of uncertainty-cum-instability.
  In Pakistan the Musharraf-Benazir  (...)
• Give Unorganised Sector Workers A Fair Deal
  9 September 2007, by Bharat Dogra
  DON’T IGNORE SECOND LABOUR COMMISSION REPORT
  Recently there was widespread opposition by trade unions and campaigns for workers’ rights when the government announced a highly inadequate and weak draft law for social security of unorganised sector  (...)
• Coalition Contradictions: Emerging Political Scenario in Karnataka
  9 September 2007, by Sandeep Shastri
  Experience in India has shown that political agreements for a handover of power have always favoured the first incumbent. Very rarely has the transition to the second holder been smooth. More often, the power transfer has never actually  (...)
• Salute the Left
  9 September 2007, by Bharat Dogra
  COMMUNICATION
  The Left parties have earned the gratitude of the people of India, the entire non-aligned world and all anti-imperialist forces by their firm and principled opposition to the Indo-US
  Bilateral Nuclear Cooperation Agreement.  (...)
• The Pluses and Minuses of Leadership
  9 September 2007, by Shree Shankar Sharan
  The need for leadership is strong in a country which needs an icon to look up to because it has been used to it or has not been in the habit of solving its own problems because they are too many or too complex or opinions on them are diverse or  (...)
• An Open Debate on the N-Deal Won’t Hurt India
  9 September 2007, by M K Bhadrakumar
  [(The United Progressive Alliance Government is caught on the horns of dilemma on whether to ‘operationalise’ the 123 Agreement with the United States. The Left parties, which extend critical support to the UPA Government from outside, have  (...)
• Hyde Act : Relevant Excerpts
  9 September 2007
  DOCUMENT
  [The following are relevant excerpts from “Henry J. Hyde United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act of 2006†for the benefit of our readers. —Editor ]
  
  Title  (...)
• Relevance of Burrows Dunham Today
  9 September 2007, by Randhir Singh
  I have been asked to write a brief foreword to this edition of Barrows Dunham’s Man Against Myth. Let me begin by stating that if there is one book which I have, over the years, wanted republished in the country, it is Man Against Myth. I was  (...)
• Indian State on Trial: Selective justice is not the answer
  9 September 2007, by Badri Raina
  This story has been told before, but can never be told enough.
  On the 6th of December, 1992, a majority Right-wing Hindutva putsch overcame the majesty of the Indian state.
  With the full and open collaboration of the then BJP Government in  (...)
• Book Review: ’The Hindu-Muslim Divide : A Fresh Look by Amrik Singh’
  9 September 2007
  BOOK REVIEW
  The Hindu-Muslim Divide : A Fresh Look by Amrik Singh; Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi; 2007; pp. XIV+238; Rs 345.
  It is ironic that around the time we are celebrating 60 years of India’s independence, the subject under  (...)

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