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November 10, 2007
Mainstream Vol XLV No 47, New Delhi, November 10, 2007
Musharraf’s Gamble
V.R. Krishna Iyer
“Conflagration Nandigram†:
Letter to West Bengal Governor
D. Bandyopadhyay
A Betrayal!
M. K. Bhadrakumar
A Velvet Divorce in China
On 90th Anniversary of October Revolution
• Sumit Chakravartty : Tempered Steel
• Birth Of A New World
• Nagarjun : Festival of Freedom
From N.C.’s Writings
Red Star Glows Brighter...
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Musharraf’s Gamble
14 November 2007, by SCIt was not an unexpected development. For several weeks now there were reports in the press that President Pervez Musharraf was planning to proclaim Emergency or Martial Law in Pakistan. In fact the news of Benazir Bhutto travelling to Dubai (...) -
"Conflagration Nandigram"
14 November 2007, by V R Krishna IyerVenerable Gopal Gandhi,
I write this letter reluctantly but feel it my duty to request you, as the head of the State of West Bengal, to consider what measures, if any, may taken to see that the people of the State, particularly of Nandigram, (...) -
A Betrayal!
14 November 2007, by D. BandyopadhyayPersons in political authority tend to think that they have an official prerogative to prevaricate. In an open democracy certain manipulation of truth, like the famous example of a glass half full or half empty, is permitted and tolerated. But (...) -
Indomitable Indira—Strategist Par Excellence
14 November 2007, by C. Sheela ReddyThis article, written on the occasion of Indira Gandhi’s twentythird death anniversary (which was observed on October 31, 2007), could not be used last week; hence it is being published now. —Editor
Prime Ministers come and go, but some (...) -
A Velvet Divorce in China
14 November 2007, by M K BhadrakumarBeijing thoughtfully chose a sub-provincial city on the banks of the Songhua River in the far northeast corner of China as the setting for the third “stand alone†trilateral meeting with Russia and India at the Foreign Ministers’ level, which (...) -
Tempered Steel
14 November 2007, by Sumit Chakravartty[(November 7 this year marks the ninetieth anniversary of the historic October Revolution that heralded the birth of the USSR and transformed the world. On this occasion we reproduce the following report by the Mainstream editor written while he (...) -
Red Star Glows Brighter...
14 November 2007, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThe Red Star over the Kremlin spires will shine brighter this week when on November 7 the world celebrates the grand jubilee of the greatest revolution in history.
The pilgrimge to Moscow today is indeed the triumphant proclamation of man’s (...) -
Birth Of A New World
14 November 2007This brief record of the first few days of the Great October Revolution shows the titanic effort and the energy Lenin displayed in guiding it. The popular uprising that swept the country was led by the Bolshevik Party.
Evening, November 6 (...) -
Festival of Freedom
14 November 2007, by NagarjunOn the bitter cold November night when the sailors of the battleship Aurora fired at the Czar’s Winter Palace at Petrograd they knew that they were participating in a historic revolution, but were perhaps unaware of the fact that they were (...) -
Why the Indo-US 123 Agreement should be Firmly Opposed
14 November 2007, by Bharat DograOne important reason for the many confusions and contradictions in the recent debate on the India-US 123 Agreement is that these merely reflect some glaring contradictions in the wider debate on nuclear energy and atomic weapons.
• The existing (...)
