October 6, 2007

• Woefully Inadequate
  9 October 2007, by SC
  Last week in these columns was published an appeal from the Mizzima journal, a monthly publication of Burmese expatriates, in its September issue, that instead of cosying up to the Burmese Generals ruling Myanmar with employment of brute force  (...)
• An Alternate Approach to the Traditional Paradigm of Peace and Security
  9 October 2007, by M Hamid Ansari
  I deem it a privilege to be invited to inaugurate today’s seminar on “Politics and Security†, it being the third theme of the Indo-Bangladesh Dialogue. The dialogue itself has been in progress now for over a decade; more importantly, it has  (...)
• Choice between Quadrilateral of Democracies and SCO
  9 October 2007, by Mansoor Ali
  Washington is not interested in New Delhi’s official admission to the nuclear power club because that would enhance the latter’s influence in international affairs. An important objective of the Americans in the region is to turn India into a  (...)
• Why We Oppose Indo-US Nuclear Deal
  9 October 2007, by Gurudas Das Gupta
  The Indian Constitution does not provide for parliamentary approval of an international treaty as of today. In a democratic set-up change of guard is inevitable, but the treaty remains in force binding the nation for decades. If a wrong is done,  (...)
• Indo-US Agreement on Civil Nuclear Energy
  9 October 2007, by Surendra Mohan
  Two years ago, this journal had cautioned our compatriots against falling into the American trap by getting allured of the dream of becoming a great power under her patronage. That was when Pranab Mukherjee, the then Defence Minister, had  (...)
• Bhagat Singh as I knew Him
  9 October 2007, by Ajoy Ghosh
  [(Legendary freedom fighter and martyr Bhagat Singh’s birth centenary was observed on September 28 last week. We are reproducing the following articles (published earlier in Mainstream) in homage to the outstanding revolutionary hero’s abiding  (...)
• Bhagat Singh for Today
  9 October 2007, by Nazirul Hasan Ansari
  Remembering Bhagat Singh on the sixtysecond anniversary of his glorious and heroic martyrdom (March 23) cannot be a ceremonial or routine affair today. When the entire country, plagued as it is with the Hindutva brand of communalism in its  (...)
• Impact of Lenin on Bhagat Singh’s Life
  9 October 2007, by Chinmohan Sehanavis
  Bhagat Singh was born in Punjab on September 28, 1907, and was hanged by the British on March 23, 1931. So it may be said that in his short life-span of 24 years political activities covered at the most a period of seven to eight years. The  (...)
• Brief Narrations of Day-to-Day Realities
  9 October 2007
  BOOK REVIEW
  That’s OK, Tammanna and Other Reveries by Dr J. Bhagyalakshmi; Alok Parva Prakashan, New Delhi; pages 176.
  It is amazing how Dr J. Bhagyalakshmi, a highly competent professional, could cover a huge field of creative literature  (...)
• Bring the Skeletons Out
  9 October 2007, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  The disclosure of the Indo-US agreement for the installation of the nuclear-powered spy device on the Himalayas—forced into the open, ironically, by the American press hunt for subversive CIA activities—is a matter which, shorn of its sensational  (...)

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