July 26, 2008

• Nation Bruised, Democracy in Peril
  30 July 2008, by SC
  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his overseas mentor, US President George W. Bush, can heave a big sigh of relief and they have already done so by exchanging warm compliments following the trust vote in the Lok Sabha on July 22. The PM and his  (...)
• On CPM Leadership and Somnath Chatterjee
  30 July 2008, by Chandra Sen
  By taking summary action against Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, a 10-term party MP who was elected the presiding officer of the Lower House of Parliament in June 2004, the CPM has once again exposed its undemocratic functioning. On the  (...)
• Judge the Nuclear Deal on Facts, not Convictions
  30 July 2008, by Ashok Parthasarathi
  A recent newspaper editorial says:
  It always takes political courage to stake one’s government on a matter of conviction.
  This is most surprising. All public policies must be based on facts—here facts about the Hyde Act and the 123  (...)
• Who is Worried about the National Interest?
  30 July 2008, by Arun Kumar
  Unbelievable horse-trading is going on in the corridors of power in Delhi on an issue—the nuclear deal—which, according to both sides of the divide, is a matter of national interest. It must not be lost sight of that the agreement with the IAEA is  (...)
• Nuclear Deal—Another Client State of USA
  30 July 2008, by Bikash Choudhury
  The British East India Company came to India for trade and commerce and lived to rule the country for a century. The irony of the nuclear deal is the same party, the Congress, which spearheaded our freedom movement, is falling to the imperialist  (...)
• India’s Roughshod Ruling Class
  30 July 2008, by Badri Raina
  I may be accused of ever having written a good word about L.K. Advani, the leader and now projected prime ministerial candidate of the Hindu-Rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party.
  Now is the time to make amends.
  In an elaborate interview  (...)
• Globalisation and India’s Economic Identity : An Overview
  30 July 2008, by V Mathew Kurian
  1. Introduction
  By imposing colonialism and imperialism, the British deprived of India’s ‘economic identity’. During the freedom struggle, great leaders like Dadabhai Naoroji, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and many others thought about an  (...)
• Indo-US Nuclear Deal: India Backtracks on Disarmament
  30 July 2008, by N D Jayaprakash
  The text of the Indo-US nuclear deal, which is titled “Agreement for Cooperation Between the Government of India and the Government of the United States of America Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy†(also known as the 123 Agreement) and  (...)
• Pasmanda Movement and the Question of Secularism
  30 July 2008, by Khalid Anis Ansari
  As I write these words the news of the Left withdrawing support from the UPA Government has just started to pour in. Presumably, it has not come as a surprise to anyone. It had been in the offing for quite some time now. But obviously the  (...)
• India-Specific Safeguards Agreement
  30 July 2008, by Gretchen Smith, Rekha Chakravarthi
  Since the signing of the Indo-US nuclear deal, the bilateral agreement has attracted serious scrutiny from various sources. The most recent source of contention surfaced on July 9, 2008, when the India-specific Safeguards Agreement was made  (...)

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