April 26, 2008

• Belated Response to US’ Arms-Twisting Tactics
  27 April 2008, by SC
  AS the country faces manifold problems heightened by the incessant rise in prices of essential commodities, an issue that the Opposition parties, notably the BJP, are going to exploit to the hilt to put the ruling coalition in general and the  (...)
• Chinese Olympics and the Tibetan Question
  27 April 2008, by Shree Shankar Sharan
  There is an Asian sentiment attached to the Chinese Olympics and most of us strongly share in China’s coming of age and ranking among the top countries of the world. This is also a matter of joy to us in all of Asia. Her extraordinary work-ethic  (...)
• On Taslima Nasreen: A Rejoinder to Shahabuddin’s Letter
  27 April 2008
  COMMUNICATION
  A statement on Taslima Nasreen’s departure from India, signed by several persons, was published in Mainstream (April 5, 2008). Reacting to it Syed Shahabuddin wrote a letter which was published in Mainstream (April 19, 2008).  (...)
• The Renaissance of the Asian Identity
  27 April 2008, by Som Benegal
  From the islands of Japan in the Far East striding across a wide swath or chain of Manchuria, Korea, Mongolia, China and the rolling steppes of Central Asia, carrying with it island clusters, archipelagoes, peninsulas—India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,  (...)
• Who Would Wipe Professor Sanaullah Radoo’s Tears?
  27 April 2008, by Subhash Gatade
  Professor Sanaullah Radoo, the Principal of a Degree College in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, still remembers the day when his youngest son Pervez had reached the airport in Srinagar in a hurry to catch the next Spicejet flight to Delhi. (September  (...)
• Locational Disadvantage
  27 April 2008, by Sheetal Sharma
  By now discussing advantages and disadvan-tages of establishing Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is nothing new. What is new is that what was being discussed so far in theory and debates has now started to show its consequences in reality. Here is  (...)
• Minor Nandigrams of Uttarakhand
  27 April 2008, by Harish Chandola
  The Uttarakhand government is acquiring land all over the State for building, expanding and renewing 98 hydropower projects. With this large-scale activity it seeks to make the State a major powerhouse. Most of these will be, what is called,  (...)
• A Shelter in the Tempest of History
  27 April 2008, by Terry Eagleton
  Far from being dead, socialism is as relevant as it’s ever been—its task being to resist the fascism, mayhem and savagery resulting from the inevitable crises of the inherently unstable and self-destructive system of global capitalism.
  The  (...)
• Critique of Neo-classical Economics
  27 April 2008, by P R Dubhashi
  Like all academic disciplines, economics has also been continuously engaged in the examination of its definition, nature, scope and significance. This article seeks to give an overview of this from Classical Economics to modern times.
  Classical  (...)
• Metaphor of the Centaur
  27 April 2008, by Rakesh Gupta
  BOOK REVIEW
  The Raj Syndrome by Suhas Chakravarty; Rupa & Co, New Delhi; 2007; pages: 401; price: Rs 395.
  As one proceeded to read the book, a metaphor materialised to understand the layers of reality behind the flourish of literary cuisine  (...)

0 | 10