September 22, 2007

• Fragility of Our Secular System
  26 September 2007, by SC
  The issue of Ram Setu has suddenly become the focus of national attention overriding the basic questions related to the Sethusamudram project. Whereas the entire project should have been subjected to close scrutiny on ecological grounds and  (...)
• Wheat Imports Lack Rationale
  26 September 2007, by Kamal Nayan Kabra
  A mammoth foreign exchange outlay is to be incurred by the Government of India as it goes ahead with import of 7.95 lakh m. tonnes (MT) of wheat at the weighted average price of $ 389.45. Statedly, the imports are for meeting the shortfall in  (...)
• Letter to President, PM, Sonia Gandhi on Ram Setu and Sethusamudram Project
  26 September 2007, by S G Vombatkere
  Dear Madams/Sir,
  The issue at hand in the current Ram Setu controversy is whether the strip of submerged land connecting India with Sri Lanka is natural or created by human intervention, and not whether Lord Rama is a real or mythological  (...)
• Reality behind the Bush Smokescreen
  26 September 2007, by A Gopalkrishnan
  When a US President signs a bill into an Act, he may issue a written statement implying that he differs with certain provisions of law in that Act, due to reasons he indicates in the statement. Such documents, called “Presidential Signing  (...)
• Report of a Conference on Indo-US Nuclear Deal
  26 September 2007
  A Conference was held on September 13, 2007 in New Delhi at the initiative of former Prime Minister V.P. Singh on the theme of “Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Implications for Democracy and Sovereignty†. Besides V.P. Singh those who spoke at the meet  (...)
• India and the US in ’nuclear deal’ - The Tribal and the Moneylender
  26 September 2007, by Jean Dreze
  Those who applaud India’s “nuclear deal†with the United States would do well to read Gopinath Mohanty’s beautiful novel Paraja, where hapless tribals often make “deals†with the local sahukar (moneylender), who has overwhelming power over them.  (...)
• In the Wake of US Double-Standards
  26 September 2007
  The US State Department’s sanctions against Russian military equipment and weapon producers within the framework of the “counter Iran non-proliferation†law do not enjoy any international legitimacy. The true reason behind these American sanctions  (...)
• Chicken-heart
  26 September 2007, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  The unprovoked shooting down of an Iranian civilian airbus by the US warships in the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf on July 3 killing nearly 300 innocent lives, has shocked the world public.
  In a pathetic bid to cover up this  (...)
• Indo-US Nuclear Deal, Congress and CPM
  26 September 2007
  Does the nation deserve the caricature being enacted by almost all the political parties, particularly the Left, over the proposed Indo-US nuclear deal? It must be admitted that the Congress, in spite of its penetration by Washington followers  (...)
• Independence of Contradictions
  26 September 2007, by Amna Mirza
  Here comes the echo of celebration of sixty years of India’s Independence. The by-lanes of history have another story to tell. Fifteenth August, 1945 was the day when the Second World War came to an end, after the bombing of Hiroshima and  (...)

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