March 8, 2008

• In Celebration of Womanhood on March 8
  10 March 2008, by SC
  In the midst of the national euphoria generated by the cricket triumphs recorded by the Indian seniors and U-19 cubs in Australia and Kuala Lumpur we are observing the International Women’s Day on March 8.
  On this occasion one needs to give more  (...)
• Is Socialism a Non-Viable Casualty and Capitalism the Only Alternative?
  10 March 2008, by V R Krishna Iyer
  IS THIS BIZARRE BULL OF MARXIST SUPER-PRAGMATIC DISCOVERY A TRAGEDY, TRAVESTY OR ‘HISTORIC BLUNDER’?
  Socialists of India unite! You have nothing to lose except a few crypto-capitalist super-pragmatic Marxists. You have a creative crimson destiny  (...)
• Looking beyond Farmers’ Suicides and Loan Waivers
  10 March 2008, by M S Swaminathan
  Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s Budget 2008-09 has aroused widespread interest in the methods of saving our small and marginal farming families from indebtedness and acute economic distress, which lead to occasional suicides. The steps proposed  (...)
• Union Budget 2008-09
  10 March 2008, by Jayati Ghosh
  This was supposed to be a “people-friendly†Budget. After all, the government has completed nearly four years of its tenure and this was almost its last chance to make good on its promises to the people in the National Common Minimum Programme.  (...)
• A Book-keeper’s Exercise
  10 March 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  It’s like a political rope trick, Chidambaram’s maiden Budget as the Finance Minister of the United Front Government. Everyone from V.P. Singh and Somnath Chatterjee to the captains of the corporate giants have praised it and the Finance Minister  (...)
• Increasing Prosperity, Growing Insecurity
  10 March 2008, by Girish Mishra
  It is beyond dispute that, in recent decades, the prosperity of a large segment of the Indian middle and upper classes has increased rapidly. With accelerating average annual rate of economic growth, these segments have cornered most of its  (...)
• Prospering India, But For Whom?
  10 March 2008, by Ch. Paramaiah, Vinod Anand
  Economists and various studies conducted across the globe envisage India and China to rule the world in the 21st century. For over a century the United States has been the largest economy in the world but major developments have taken place in  (...)
• Kerala People’s Plan Revisited
  10 March 2008, by Gilbert Sebastian
  Although the decentralised approach for governance and development had gained wide recognition in India even before independence, it was only as late as in 1992 that this approach got the much needed constitutional recognition with the enactment  (...)
• Women’s World
  10 March 2008, by Minakshi Sethy, Prabira Sethy
  Introduction
  March 8 happens to be the International Women’s Day. To mark the occasion the following article is being published to focus attention on a societal problem involving women’s dignity and safety.
  The recent disgraceful molestation  (...)
• Lop-sided View of Indian Politics and Misgivings
  10 March 2008, by Amna Mirza
  BOOK REVIEW
  Political and Incorrect: The Real India, Warts and All by Tavleen Singh; Harper Collins, New Delhi; 2008.
  Here comes a compilation of articles by Tavleen Singh, who needs no introduction to the journalist fratenity in the  (...)

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