May 31, 2008

• Momentous Event against a Depressing Backdrop
  2 June 2008, by SC
  With the Gujjar protest assuming menacing proportions to affect not just Rajasthan but also other neighbouring States and even the National Capital Region, both the Rajasthan Government and the Centre have their hands full. The demand for ST  (...)
• Karnataka: Behind the BJP Success
  2 June 2008, by Sandeep Shastri
  The Karnataka Assembly election results categorically indicate that he electoral battle was very intense with several of the candidates winning their seats with wafer-thin margins. How best can one explain the rationale of the Karnataka verdict?  (...)
• Veteran Historian and Versatile Personality
  2 June 2008, by Ravindra Sharma
  On May 4, around 11 am, a close friend of mine telephoned me to inform that Professor Suhas Chakravarty is no more. I broke down. I rang up to Dr K.K. Panda to confirm the news. The news was correct. I passed the news to Dr V.C. Bhutani (a close  (...)
• Food Crisis and the Patriotic Task of Kisan Organisations
  2 June 2008, by Chaturanan Mishra
  The present food crisis is worldwide and is not a one-year affair because of some natural disasters or drought only. It is because of years of bad government policy in agriculture, as the Newsweek of May 19 has noted. The present abnormal food  (...)
• On Sethusamudram Project
  2 June 2008, by S G Vombatkere
  COMMUNICATION
  The Supreme Court has asked the government to make a statement on the historicity of the Ram Setu. If the government can show that the Ram Setu is historical, it becomes a national monument that must be preserved. If the  (...)
• ’Marxist’ Metamorphosis and the Positive Alternative
  2 June 2008, by Sharad Patil
  COMMUNICATION
  You are bravely exposing the criminalisation of the Left Front’s rule in West Bengal. The CPI’s Chaturanan Mishra’s call for discussion on socialism is being responded in earnest.
  The murder and rape squads formed by the CPM in  (...)
• Causes and Consequences of Food Price Behaviour
  2 June 2008, by Kamala Prasad
  After a long time, the price of basic foodstuffs is centre-stage. The balance of attention still remains on the overall agricultural crisis. The roots of that crisis are structural and deeper. They span structural issues in land, water and human  (...)
• Era of Dual Rule in Russia
  2 June 2008, by M K Bhadrakumar
  On a frIGID EVENING IN February, Russia’s leviathan energy conglomerate, Gazprom, the world’s third largest company by market value, held a lavish 15th birthday bash in Moscow in one of the most hallowed halls within the Kremlin’s ramparts—the  (...)
• Budget and the Rural Sector
  2 June 2008, by Kripa Shankar
  The national Sample Survey data in “Income, Expenditure and Productive Assets of Farmer Households†2003 have shown that the average annual income of a farmer household from cultivation is less than Rs 12,000 and that from all sources is less than  (...)
• Meaning of Bombay Bomb Blasts
  2 June 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  With March 12 there has arrived a new dimension in Indian politics—qualitatively diffe-rent from what we have so far witnessed since independence.
  Sometimes mainstream parliamentary politics was interrupted by outbursts of violence in some  (...)

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