March 29, 2008

• In the Midst of Gloom
  29 March 2008, by SC
  As Beijing continues to systematically crush the Tibetan people’s latest uprising coinciding with the 49th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan upsurge and the Chinese leadership persists in spouting venom at the Tibetan people’s spiritual head, His  (...)
• Beijing’s Suppression Of Tibetan Unrest
  29 March 2008, by S Nihal Singh
  Beyond the spin the Chinese Government has put on the Tibetan unrest and the world’s reaction to it is a central problem: has Beijing the suppleness and wisdom to alter its monolithic view of how China should be governed? Deng Xiaoping had the  (...)
• Georgia: Saakashvili Manipulates his Return to Presidency
  29 March 2008, by Mansoor Ali
  While the US position in the former Soviet republics, which once constituted the formidable USSR before the 1991 disintegration, has considerably weakened over the years, Georgia has, in its latest presidential election in January this year,  (...)
• Ambiguities, Incongruities, Inadequacies in Scheduled Tribes and Other Technical Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006
  29 March 2008, by B K Roy Burman
  The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Froest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006 received assent of the President on December 29, 2006 but came into force only on December 31, 2007. In the meantime the draft Rules of the Act  (...)
• Is Kosovo the End of Europe?
  29 March 2008, by Ash Narain Roy
  Rene Magritte, the celebrated Belgian surrealist painter, once painted an apple and wrote on it, “This is not an apple.†He did the same on a pipe. Today, he could as well paint his country, Belgium, and certainly Kosovo, the youngest nation in  (...)
• Intrigue takes Afghanistan to the Brink
  29 March 2008, by M K Bhadrakumar
  The people in the Amu Darya region in northern Afghanistan would vouchsafe that General Rashid Dostum’s behaviour can be depended on as an unfailing barometer of their country’s political climate. The tough Uzbek leader from Shibirghan keenly  (...)
• Awards like Cookies
  29 March 2008, by Sankar Ray
  Like Bollyood movies, political productions out of New Delhi can at times be climax-drenched, albeit unpredictably. One such tediously repetitive episode was around the choice of the 2008 Padma awards, India’s highest state honours. The new and  (...)
• Right to Information Act : An Instrument for Stronger and Vibrant Democratic Process in India
  29 March 2008, by Bharti Chhibber
  The Right to Information (RTI) Act of 2005 promises to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority. This Act is supposed to enable people to responsibly scrutinise government officials and legal processes.  (...)
• Time to Smash the Mafia
  29 March 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  The BJP leader, L.K. Advani, is right in stating, as he did in Madras on March 21, that the bomb blasts in Bombay and Calcutta had nothing to do with the Ayodhya issue. At the same time it would be naïve to claim that the communal upheaval that  (...)
• A Roving Review of a Police Masterpiece
  29 March 2008, by V R Krishna Iyer
  BOOK REVIEW
  Political Violence and the Police in India by K.S. Subramanian; Sage Publication India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi; pages 257; price: 350.
  No civilised society can survive in peace, no citizen can live in haven with happy human rights  (...)

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