November 3, 2007

• EDITORIAL
  3 November 2007, by SC
  With Congress President-cum-UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s visit to China and the Left leaders’ painstaking efforts to assuage the ‘hurt’ feelings of PM Manmohan Singh getting frontpage prominence in our national dailies ‘Janadesh 2007’ has  (...)
• On Tehelka’s Gujarat Sting
  3 November 2007, by Mukul Dube
  Shortly after the telecast of the Tehelka sting operating on Gujarat 2002, a friend telephoned to remind me of a discussion some of us had had in the middle of 2004. We had agreed that despite the dismal situation at the time, with the new  (...)
• No-Work, No-Pay for the Legislators : A Welcome Move
  3 November 2007, by Rajindar Sachar
  Press reports that the Lok Sabha Speaker wants to apply the principle of “no-work, no-pay†to those legislators who disrupt proceedings in the House has been universally welcomed. The legis-lators, with cheek in their tongue, term it as an  (...)
• Complications of the Present Political Situation
  3 November 2007, by Chaturanan Mishra
  The main reason behind the Left parties’ support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in 2004 so as to enable the latter form the government at the Centre was the threat of the BJP, a source of communal fascism, riding to power again. There  (...)
• Benazir Bhutto’s Magic Works
  3 November 2007, by M K Bhadrakumar
  By any reckoning, a very unusual moment comes when a politician is called upon to pass the test of public support under intense glare of the world community. For former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, October 18 posed one such  (...)
• Burma: The Glass Palace Prison
  3 November 2007, by Sagari Chhabra
  I had the privilege of living a few houses away from Aung San Suu Kyi onYangon’s University Avenue by Inya Lake, for several months. The sole reason for choosing my residence was I was hoping to meet or at least get a glimpse of the most famous  (...)
• The Rizwanur Affair and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
  3 November 2007, by Amitava Mukherjee
  Although nothing should be predicted so far as the investigation into the tragic death of Rizwanur Rehman, the unfortunate young man from Kolkata, is concerned as the CBI has just started the probe, yet his death and the consequent events have  (...)
• Displacing Livelihoods
  3 November 2007, by Sheetal Sharma
  Human displacement, whether in response to war (civil and ethnic), natural disaster, economic opportunity, or building of infrastructure within countries, is the key issue in contemporary discussions of population movements. These movements  (...)
• One Year of Pranab Mukherjee’s Proactive Foreign Policy
  3 November 2007, by Rup Narayan Das
  Pranab Mukherjee took over the reins of the Ministry of External Affairs one year ago on October 25 last year at South Block at a very trying time. When his predecessor, K. Natwar Singh, left the exalted office, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan  (...)
• Conscience-Keeper of Civil Society
  3 November 2007
  November 3 happens to be N.C.’s ninetyfourth birthday. On the occasion we remember him by publishing the following pieces that appeared after his death. —Editor
  Nikhil Chakravartty Indian journalist, died in Delhi on June 27 aged 84. He was  (...)

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