March 1, 2008

• Call to the Creative Community
  5 March 2008, by Suhas Borker
  [(Fifteen years ago, in early 1993, following the Ayodhya crisis and Mumbai riots, artists and writers came under a serious threat from communal and divisive forces. In July that year, the Convention on Freedom of Expression was held in New  (...)
• A Positive Move
  1 March 2008, by SC
  This week has witnessed several noteworthy developments on the domestic front. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, presenting his fifth and the UPA Government’s last full Budget, took some concrete steps towards helping the aam aadmi so that, to use  (...)
• A Bag of Tricks to Get the Vote: Union Budget 2008-09
  1 March 2008, by Arun Kumar
  The Union Budget 2008-09 has been greeted in the media as an election Budget, a farmer’s Budget and a common man’s Budget. This has strengthe-ned expectation that the Congress party may announce elections in the coming months and cash in on the  (...)
• Uncle Miltie displaces Uncle Nehru!
  1 March 2008, by Girish Mishra
  Even a cursory glance at the Economic Survey 2007-08 is enough to convince that the process of replacing, nay ridiculing, Jawaharlal Nehru’s economic approach appears to be complete. Now, it is no longer Nehru’s but Milton Friedman’s approach  (...)
• Dawn over Pakistan
  1 March 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  After a long, dark night, there are signs of a new dawn over Pakistan. The overpowering interest and excitement over the recently-held general elections in that country—at many places taking the form of a veritable mass upsurge—demonstrated the  (...)
• Trade Unions should Actively take up Social and National Issues
  1 March 2008, by Chaturanan Mishra
  During the freedom movement trade unions used to take up national issues as well. When the Simon Commission came, trade unions, at that time under the banner of the AITUC, which was then the only all-India trade union centre, joined the boycott  (...)
• The US Elections: Excellent Spectacle and Jamboree
  1 March 2008, by Manan Dwivedi
  This article reached us some time ago, but could not be used for unavoidable reasons. It is now being published as its contents have not yet lost their validity. —Editor
  Jean Kirkpatrick, the former Ambassador of the United States to the  (...)
• Putin Persona and Forthcoming Elections in Russia
  1 March 2008, by Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
  The forthcoming presidential elections in Russia in March 2008 have naturally cought the world’s attention. Scholars on Russia agree that Putin is going to shape the emerging political scenario, but there is divergence of views about the exact  (...)
• Bird Flu: Crucial Issues that were Ignored
  1 March 2008, by Bharat Dogra
  The recent outbreak of bird-flu in West Bengal led to the culling of about 29 lakh birds. Before this the outbreak of bird-flue in Navapur, Maharashtra in February 2006 had also led to very large-scale culling of birds. This has raised a serious  (...)
• The Room in which I am Forced . . .
  1 March 2008, by Taslima Nasreen
  The room in which I now live has a closed window,
  A window that I cannot open at will.
  The window’s covered with a heavy curtain that I cannot move at will.
  I live in a room now,
  Where I cannot open the door at will, cannot cross the threshold.
  I  (...)

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