September 29, 2007

• South Block’s Indifference to Burma’s Struggle for Democracy
  5 October 2007, by SC
  There have been several major events in the last few days capped by the young Team India’s momentous victory in the T20 cricket final at Johannesburg that literally enthralled and electrified the whole country. We have also seen the row over the  (...)
• Iraq and the End of the American Century
  5 October 2007, by Eddie J Girdner
  As the fifth year of the US occupation of Iraq ebbs away, the farce on the ground deepens. A crisis, indeed, but more than a crisis: the number of US military troops dead approaching nearly 4000 and some 30,000 wounded; tens of thousands of  (...)
• Allow Public Debate and Review Sethusamudram Project
  5 October 2007, by Ramaswamy R Iyer
  The debate over the Sethusamudram project has gone completely off the rails. The debate thus needs to be brought back to good sense and relevance.
  Let us start with the Ram Setu aspect as it has been the main subject of discussion. The question  (...)
• Ram Setu: Myth or Reality?
  5 October 2007, by Shyam Chand
  Blessed are these who have no history. Condemned are those who forget their history. Damned are those who treat mythology as their history.
  The instinct for survival precedes any notion of morality. The priestly class, which denigrated Rama,  (...)
• The UPA Government should Fulfil its Promise on Land Reforms
  5 October 2007, by Bharat Dogra
  The Common Minimum Programme of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) clearly stated: “Landless families will be endowed with land through implementation of land ceiling and land redistribution legislation. No reversal of ceiling legislation will  (...)
• Relevance of Gandhi-Nehru Nexus
  5 October 2007, by P N Haksar
  [(As we approach October 2—which marks this year the one hundred and thirtyeighth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth—it is necessary to once again remember that great revolutionary who not only moved millions of our countrymen in the quest of  (...)
• Problem with Postmodern Gandhi
  5 October 2007, by Upasana Pandey
  The postmodern winds, which have been blowing since the 1920s, are influencing every branch of knowledge. As a result, now we have postmodern art and architecture, postmodern music and dance, postmodern philosophy and science and so on and so  (...)
• Measuring the Colossus
  5 October 2007, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  The Republic of India is now thirtyeight years old. It has weathered many a storm and has come to be recognised as a functioning democracy. The tremendous interest of the voter to exercise his right to vote is taken as proof of the enduring  (...)
• O, Gandhiji, Where Art Thou?
  5 October 2007, by Som Benegal
  Gandhigiri is much in the air, nowadays. It is, of course, with the young new generation growing up and fortunately looking around to see what the lie of land is and how they fit into it, and what they should do about it to mould it to their  (...)
• Constituent Assembly Elections in Nepal
  5 October 2007, by Padmaja Murthy
  RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MARGINALISED — MADHESIS, JANAJATIS, DALITS — TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
  Jana Andolan-II of April 2006 unleashed three important developments in Nepal: first, the clipping of the powers and privileges of the monarchy drastically  (...)

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