June 28, 2008

• Sonia Gandhi has to take the Political Call
  30 June 2008, by SC
  In the wake of the failure of the UPA-Left committee on the nuclear deal to break the deadlock over taking the India-specific safeguards agreement worked out with the IAEA to the atomic watchdog’s Board of Governors for approval, it is necessary  (...)
• Rural Loan Waiver or Moral Hazard?
  30 June 2008, by Girish Mishra
  For almost a decade or so, the news of suicides by debt-ridden farmers has been constantly hogging the headlines of Indian newspapers. These suicides have been taking place largely in relatively more advanced States like Punjab, Maharashtra,  (...)
• Day One in Calcutta
  30 June 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  Ten years ago, in the afternoon of June 27, 1998, Nikhil Chakravartty breathed his last. Remembering him after 10 years, we are reproducing some of his finest reports, editorials and articles that appeared in this journal and elsewhere over the  (...)
• The Story of a Gadfly
  30 June 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  [(The following is one of the best exposés of N.C. as a reporter and it was carried in the India Press Agency feature news service N.C. had founded with another outstanding Communist journalist, David Cohen (who thereafter left the Communist  (...)
• Musings on Tamil Nadu
  30 June 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  The ouster of the Karunanidhi Ministry and the imposition of President’s Rule in Tamil Nadu can hardly be regarded as anything more than the streamlined extension of the Emergency dispensation over a State whose government by devious means tried  (...)
• Do We Need Nehru Today?
  30 June 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  Twelve years ago Jawaharlal Nehru died in harness on May 27. Inevitably, much has changed in these twelve years among his people and in the humanity at large. He was not the man who would have preferred the status quo to change; and if the  (...)
• Good-bye Feroze
  30 June 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  Parliament has just repealed the Parliamentary Proceedings (Protection of Publication) Act which came into force twenty years ago in 1956. Late Feroze Gandhi, who initiated and piloted the Bill in Parliament, made a powerful case which might  (...)
• Dealing with United States
  30 June 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  A strange situation of apparently contradictory facets mark the present phase of India’s relationship with the United States of America.
  Of late, there is a surfeit of talks about “shared values” ranging from commitment to democracy, individual  (...)
• Ray of Sunshine
  30 June 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  The enthusiasm generated by the two-day India-Pakistan Peoples’ Convention, which was held last week in New Delhi, is certainly not a government-sponsored outfit.
  The organisers on the Indian side are well-known for their severely critical stand  (...)
• Nikhilda—A Glorious Human Being
  30 June 2008, by K R Narayanan
  [(On June 27, 1998 passed away in New Delhi the founder of this journal. On the occasion of his tenth death anniversary we carry the following pieces as a token of our remembrance and homage to his memory.)]
  It is a poignant moment for me to  (...)

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