May 3, 2008

• Light and Dark
  9 May 2008, by SC
  Several major developments have taken place of late on the national plane as well as in the international sphere. One such was the working visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to New Delhi. Even before the trip it had caught the  (...)
• Inflation Today
  9 May 2008, by Kamala Prasad
  Inflation is back on the government agenda with a bang. This is natural. What is unusual is the scale and speed of rise in the inflation numbers. In the course of just five weeks or so, the wholesale price based inflation not only breached the  (...)
• Tribute: Didi
  9 May 2008, by Sumit Chakravartty
  It is difficult to believe that Nirmala Deshpande—Didi to all of us—is no more.
  She was, of course, a Gandhian by conviction and practice and spent long years with Acharya Vinoba Bhave (who regarded her as his manaskanya) having joined his  (...)
• The Basic Imperative
  9 May 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  The Union Government, according to press reports, has woken up to the urgent need for firm measures for the protection of the Harijans. The Bihar Chief Minister, it has been publicised, has been telephonically pulled up to see to it that there  (...)
• Nandigram Act II - Rape and Democracy in West Bengal
  9 May 2008, by Soumya Guhathakurta
  “We have broken the backbone of the inhabitants of Nandigram. There will be no further resistance there.â€
  —Lakshman Seth, CPI-M Member of Parliament, to the Chief Minister of West Bengal
  (Reported in Dainik Satesman, Kolkata, of April 27, 2008)  (...)
• Deterrence, CPM-Style
  9 May 2008, by Sunanda Sanyal
  Not much evidence remains of the alleged gangrape of Ms Radharani Ari because of the time lost in prosecuting the case. Still there should be an investigation into what happened and why no enquiry has been held. The appropriate authorities are  (...)
• Emerging Trends in Trade Union Movement
  9 May 2008, by Ruddar Datt
  May 1 is the International Working People’s Day. On this occasion we are carrying the following article.
  Historical Background
  Before understanding the emerging trends in Indian trade union movement, it would of interest to understand the  (...)
• Choice for Kashmiris: Independence, Autonomy and Freedom
  9 May 2008, by Balraj Puri
  What sustains the separatist movement in Kashmir is a certain measure of popular alienation among Kashmiri-speaking Muslims of the State; this is not a result of external factors alone but for which internal causes are also responsible.
  The  (...)
• Anand Karaj
  9 May 2008, by K S Duggal
  Of late Anand Karaj, ‘the Ceremonial Bliss’, has been a great deal in the news. A few weeks ago Pakistan gave it legal sanction for the first time after the partition of the subcontinent in 1947. And now Punjab (India) has recognised it by passing  (...)
• Nagaland Talks Going Slow
  9 May 2008, by Harish Chandola
  A new round of negotiations between the Government of India and the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) was held in Delhi on April 16, at which it was decided that the next round would take place next month, for which no dates were  (...)

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