October 20, 2007

Black and White
22 October 2007, by SC
The eventual decision by the Congress leadership to bow to the pressure of the Left parties as well as its own allies in the UPA coalition, notably the RJD and NCP, has had a salutary effect. The Indo-US civilian nuclear cooperation agreement (...)
Poverty in India
22 October 2007, by Kripa Shankar
India inherited a colonial structure created by the British to perpetuate their rule and exploit the native land and its people. The zamindars were created to extract the rural surplus and to act as a bulwark of foreign rulers in the (...)
Might of Religion Revalidated in Myanmar
22 October 2007, by Samit Kar
Religion is usually considered as a tranquillising force. It dulls the pain and suffering of the teeming millions and leads individuals to a world of mystic glory. But in reality, religion does have a great power—which may even lead to a great (...)
Nuclear Deal and Our Nuclear Programme
22 October 2007, by Bharat Karnad
[(This article was published before the latest development of the Congress leadership deciding to delay operationalisation of the Indo-US nuclear deal so as to avert early elections. It is being reproduced as its contents are of immense value (...)
Nuclear Shadow over Democracy
22 October 2007, by Kamala Prasad
This article was written before the Congress decided to avert a mid-term poll by not rushing through with the Indo-US nuclear deal. —Editor
The US-India Nuclear Agreement has opened a powerful debate about foreign policy before its (...)
China’s Posture on the Indo-US Nuclear Deal
22 October 2007, by Jagannath P. Panda
The recently concluded two-day India-China Eminent Persons Group (EPG) meeting in Beijing has reiterated the need for a mechanism to ensure â€œvisible implementationâ€ of the memoranda of understanding and other cooperative measures between the two (...)
Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
22 October 2007, by Sujata Ashwarya Cheema
The Middle East peace process, that began with the signing of Oslo Accords (1993), as well as the various peace initiatives which were taken up prior to Oslo and after its collapse (2000), have focussed on the two-state solution to the conflict, (...)
Reasserting Nuclear Option
22 October 2007
In the midst of all the demonstration of mourning for Princess Diana to those for Mother Teresa, came Prime Minister Gujral’s refreshing reiteration of India’s nuclear policy. On September 8, addressing in New Delhi a high-powered seminar of (...)
Peasant in Present-day India
22 October 2007, by Girish Mishra
Looking around, we find a great deal of confusion in present-day India, especially in the Hindi press, as regards ’peasant’. Quite often it is used interchangeably with ’farmer’. Technically, these two are different concepts with connotations of (...)
Indian Universities, Classless Societies
22 October 2007, by Ranbir Singh
Karl Marx had predicted that the revolution of working class against the capitalist state would lead to dictatorship of the proletariat which will, in turn, lead to the establishment of a classless society. His prophesy has, however, proved (...)

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