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October 27, 2007
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Vol XLV No 45, New Delhi, October 27, 2007
EDITORIAL
Triumph and Tragedy in Karachi
V.R. KRISHNA IYER
Capital Punishment : A Penological Barbarity
M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
Russia Bolsters its Ties with Iran
BHARAT DOGRA
World Development Report on Agriculture
KUNAL GHOSH
Strategic Alliance with the USA in a World of ‘Civilisation’-based Alignment
K.M. SEETHI
M.N. Vijayan : The Scholar Who Knew Too Much
FROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
Being a Proud Indian
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Gandhian Ideology of Trusteeship and Natural Resource Management
31 October 2007, by Anita Barik
The advancing processes of globalisation worldwide have been accompanied by deepening divisions and conflicts—both within and between societies. We see around us a spreading “culture of wars” that justifies the use of coercive means to realise the
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Projecting Farmers’ Plight
31 October 2007, by Anilkumar Sharma
[(BOOK REVIEW )]
River Stones (novel) by Kota Neelima; Book Wise, New Delhi; pp. 300.
The author highlights the sad plight of the poor farmers from different angles: failure of crops, the farmers’ inability to clear debts, especially to private
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Civil Society Team Opposes POSCO Project
31 October 2007
[(DOCUMENT )]
A team of academicians, journalists, human rights activists and leaders of people’s movements have expressed their categorical opposition to the proposed POSCO steel project in Orissa as anti-people, ecologically degrading and
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