March 15, 2008

• Reverse the Trend
  16 March 2008, by SC
  The presiding officers of both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha need to be commended for the measures they are taking to ensure that parliamentary proceedings are not disrupted by members raising issues that are not in the list of business. Such  (...)
• My Lords, the Fundamentals are Missing
  16 March 2008, by P.B. Sawant
  The following write up is a follow-up of the author’s earlier sequel to our statement on the nuclear deal with the US. [“Do We Have Democracy?†, Mainstream, February 9, 2008] At that time, it was not known that while dismissing the petition  (...)
• The Hindutva Experiment: from Lab to Factory?
  16 March 2008, by Mukul Dube
  In the months and years following the Gujarat genocide of 2002, many from the camp of Hindutva characterised that province as the “laboratory†where an “experiment†had been carried out. They proclaimed that the success of the experiment meant that  (...)
• My Latest Experiences in Nandigram
  16 March 2008, by Bijoya Chanda
  I am a 39-year-old advocate practising at Alipore District Sessions and Criminal Court in West Bengal and residing at P-1 State Bank Park, !st Floor, Kolkata 700063. I am a human rights activist and a member of the ‘Association for Protection of  (...)
• Union Budget 2008-09
  16 March 2008, by Arup Kumar Sen
  On the very day the Union Budget 2008-09 was presented in Parliament, Bhikhu Parekh, in his discourse on India, carried in The Indian Express, raised certain important questions. He argued that during the last few years it has come  (...)
• Agrarian Crisis in India is a Creation of the Policy of Globalisation
  16 March 2008, by Mathew Aerthayil
  The people’s protest against Special Economic Zones in various parts of the country, including at Nandigram in West Bengal, stagnation in agriculture, import of foodgrains, widespread suicide of farmers—all these are systems of simmering  (...)
• China, India play it again for Uncle Sam
  16 March 2008, by M K Bhadrakumar
  American diplomacy was on splendid display this week in two key Asian capitals—Beijing and New Delhi. China and India rolled out the red carpet to visiting cabinet officials from Washington. By a curious coincidence, the two top US  (...)
• Malati Chaudhuri — First Wave Feminist
  16 March 2008, by Bidyut Mohanty
  The following article, sent quite sometime back, could not be used for unavoidable reasons. it is now being published on the occasion of Malati Chaudhuri’s tenth death anniversary.
  Malati Chaudhuri (Numa) was born on July 26, 1904 in Kolkata and  (...)
• Inevitability of Copyright Law?
  16 March 2008, by G Narasimha Raghavan
  BOOK REVIEW
  The Copy/South Dossier: Issues in the Economics, Politics and Ideology of Copyright in the Global South edited by Alan Story, Colin Darch and Debora Halbert; The Copy/South Research Group; Kent; 2006.
  Theological affiliations  (...)
• Are you Women or Just Representing Husbands and Fathers?
  16 March 2008, by Taslima Nasreen
  [(The following piece, written by Taslima Nasreen in the nineties, brings out her views on women’s emancipation. Incidentally she is still at an undisclosed location in or near the Capital and not allowed to meet anyone, that is, in virtual  (...)

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