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February 9, 2008

V.R. KRISHNA IYER
- Taslima Is No Mean Prisoner

Letter to the Union Home Minister

P. B. SAWANT
- Do We Have Democracy?

ANIL KUMAR JAIN and PARUL GUPTA
- Globalisation : The Indian Experience

BHARAT DOGRA
- Looking beyond Bali, More Basic Changes Needed to get Real Protection

SATYA NARAYANA SAHU
- Tribute : Usha Narayanan

Contents

- 3 Taslima Is No Mean Prisoner
- V. R. krishna Iyer
- 4 Letter to the Home Minister
- 5 Open Letter to the Finance Minister
- Kripa Shankar
- 6 Do We Have Democracy?
- P. B. Sawant
From N.C.‘s Writings
- 7 Promising Prospect
- 8 TRIBUTE : Usha Narayanan
- Satya Narayana Sahu
- 11 Looking beyond Bali, More Basic Changes Needed to get Real Protection
- Bharat Dogra
- 13 Need to Redefine ‘Party’ in Democracy
- Vandana Mishra
- 15 Globalisation : The Indian Experience
- Anil Kumar Jain and Parul Gupta
- 21 Contempt Power, Freedom of Speech and Democratic Accountability
- Vijay Kumar
- 23 Imports Don’t Make Food Security

  • Our Battle
    9 February 2008, by SC
    Editorial
    While the latest events in Mumbai have shocked the conscience of the country with a section targeting non-Maharashtrians in the cosmopolitan metropolis, it is equally shocking that 45-year-old Taslima Nasreen, the exiled Bangladeshi  (...)
  • Promising Prospect
    9 February 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
    The Prime Minister’s visit to China has falsified the wishful forecasts of his critics and adversaries at home who had pronounced in advance that it was going to be a non-event. If anything, it has turned out to be an event of positive  (...)
  • Do We Have Democracy?
    9 February 2008, by P.B. Sawant
    ‘Do we have democracy?’ This question has become most relevant after the recent nuclear deal between the Government of India and the US since the Indian Government and its spokesmen are taking the stand that the executive has the power to enter  (...)
  • Letter to the Union Home Minister
    9 February 2008
    Hon’ble Home Minister,
    We, the undersigned, are highly concerned about the health and well being of Ms Taslima Nasreen who is for the last three months being kept in a virtual detention in a secret place in Delhi. We are equally concerned about  (...)
  • Taslima Is No Mean Prisoner
    9 February 2008, by V R Krishna Iyer
    Venerable Prime Minister,
    I was pained to read about Madam Taslima Nasrin suffering de facto solitary confinement and remaining in incommunicado in the proud Indian Republic which promises to every citizen free speech, freedom of association,  (...)

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