July 19, 2008

• Ominous Portents
  22 July 2008, by SC
  The murky goings-on in the Capital prior to the trust vote next week is not only most unfortunate, its consequence could weaken our democratic structure. The signs of desperation in the Congress circles are palpable; hence concealing facts all  (...)
• Nuclear Deal, Left Parties and Priorities for People
  22 July 2008, by K Saradamoni
  The media in general has made the question of the Indian Government’s ‘nuclear deal ‘ with the United States of America into an affair between the Congress and the Left parties; or to be precise a few leaders in select Left parties. Both the print  (...)
• Partition and Friendship
  22 July 2008, by Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan
  [(The following piece appeared as a letter in the Pakistani daily Dawn from where it is being reproduced with due acknowledgement.)]
  For many years I had been searching for Suvira Mann to condole her husband K. C. Mann’s death, I just could not  (...)
• Reject the Nuclear Deal
  22 July 2008, by Prem Singh
  All conditions and regulations related to controversial Indo-US Nuclear Deal have been framed and finalised outside India in America. If the American Congress finally passes the agreement then the role of Indian Parliament is confined to merely  (...)
• Looking back on August 1942
  22 July 2008
  [(Aruna Asaf Ali’s Birth Centenary Celebrations Begin
  Aruna Asaf Ali’s yearlong birth centenary celebrations have begun on July 16.
  Born as Aruna Ganguly in Barisal (now Bangladesh) on July 16, 1909, she emerged as one of the most striking freedom  (...)
• Aruna Asaf Ali: A Tribute
  22 July 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  Generations spanning over centuries have been told that the French Revolution devoured its own children. In a sense, this could be said also of the Russian Revolution in which many of its heroes had themselves to face the firing squad.  (...)
• On Third Anniversary of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal
  22 July 2008, by Amna Mirza
  As the third anniversary of the Indo-United States (US) Nuclear Deal approaches on July 18, and the determined leaders—Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George Bush—want it in ‘haste’ to prove their legacy before they depart from the  (...)
• Nervousness of the Government and Increasing Burden of Subsidies
  22 July 2008, by Ruddar Datt
  It is now really over a decade that a comprehensive paper on subsidies was presented by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) in 1997. The situation has changed drastically since then and there is a need to re-examine the  (...)
• End of Hindu Rashtra: Nepalese People Have Finally Stood Up!
  22 July 2008, by Subhash Gatade
  There are rare occasions when one is witness to the making of history before our own eyes. The dismantling of the 240-year-old Nepalese monarchy and the transformation of Nepal into a Republic has been one such occasion.
  As rightly said by  (...)
• Presidential Elections in the US
  22 July 2008, by Manan Dwivedi
  The American President, Thomas Jefferson, in one of his observations, is known to have stated that “If I am given an opportunity to survive with a Government without newspapers or with newspapers without a Government, then, I would opt for the  (...)

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