April 5, 2008

• Difficult Times
  7 April 2008, by SC
  On the last day of the 2007-08 financial year the Union Government unveiled a slew of measures to control inflation which is at a 13-month high of 6.68 per cent. These included such steps as abolising import duty on all crude edible oils,  (...)
• Statement on Taslima Nasreen’s Departure from India
  7 April 2008
  DOCUMENT
  Taslima Nasreen has been forced to leave India. This might have brought a sense of relief, and even a degree of triumphalism, to the West Bengal and the Central governments. This is also a cause of deep frustration for all those  (...)
• Hollowness of China’s Claims over Tibet
  7 April 2008, by Nitish Sengupta
  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s retort to the Chinese saying that the Dalai Lama stands for non-violence must be considered as one right reaction among so many reactions emanating from New Delhi regarding the recent happenings in Tibet. There is  (...)
• China in Tibet
  7 April 2008, by G.S. Bhargava
  Why is China in jitters over the unrest in Tibet marking the 49th anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s forced escape from Lhasa? The Buddhist spiritual leader had to flee his homeland as much to save his life as to preserve the autonomy of his hoary  (...)
• Taslima’s Ouster
  7 April 2008, by Sailendra Nath Ghosh
  For long I have been saying that the Indian state’s founder-premier Nehru was grievously wrong in defining secularism as the fulcrum of the country’s policy. Secularism merely meant that the state would be neutral between religions. In the context  (...)
• Rival Faiths in Tibet
  7 April 2008, by Kunal Ghosh
  Anti-China protests broke out in Lhasa and other parts of Tibet on March 14, 2008. They have spread to the neighbouring Sichuan and Qinghai provinces that incorporated what used to be the Amdo region of Tibet before China took possession of  (...)
• Left Unity : Long Haul
  7 April 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  Can the Left really unite? In the three decades since Independence, the unity of the Left has virtually been a will-o’-the wisp of Indian politics.
  In the crucial years immediately following Independence the Left chose to go into disarray. The  (...)
• Opening the Floodgates of Corruption
  7 April 2008, by Bharat Jhunjhunwala
  The Sixth Central Pay Commission has recommended implementation of a Performance Related Incentive Scheme to reward good employees and improve the quality of government work. Government departments will be allowed to retain one-half of the  (...)
• Barking Up the Wrong Tree
  7 April 2008, by Krishna Majumdar
  COMMUNICATION
  This is with reference to the article “Strengthening Molestation Law for Women’s Safety in India†by Minakshi Sethy and Prabira Sethy in Mainstream (March 8, 2008).
  The menace of sexual harassment faced by women everyday is  (...)
• India’s Relations with Myanmar, Bangladesh
  7 April 2008, by Amitava Mukherjee
  Although democracy has been restored in Pakistan, it is yet to be seen whether India has taken any lesson out of it. New Delhi’s handling of military dictatorships in the subcontinent during the last thirty years does not really arouse much hope  (...)

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