August 9, 2008

• Bridging the Divide in J&K
  10 August 2008, by SC
  The all-party meeting called by the UPA Government to tackle the Jammu unrest and bridge the J&K divide was indeed overdue. While it is true that differences did surface between the BJP, which projected the feelings of the agitators in jammu  (...)
• Can We Fail Any Lower?
  10 August 2008, by Rajindar Sachar
  The whole drama of the confidence-seeking vote in Parliament on the nuclear deal reminded me of what transpired during the 2000 US Presidential election between Gore and Bush. During the counting, the votes cast in the State of Florida had  (...)
• Tribute to Harkishan Singh Surjeet
  10 August 2008, by SC
  In the afternoon of August 1, 2008 passed away in NOIDA’s Metro Hospital, former CPM General Secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet, 92, after a prolonged illness. Since he relinquished the post of party General Secretary in 2005 he had been ailing  (...)
• Election-Eve Political Scene
  10 August 2008, by Harkishan Singh Surjeet
  The last four years have been years of great disappointment for the toiling millions of the country. These have been years showing the failure of the Central Government to fulfill the pledges given to the people. The policies pursued by the  (...)
• The Conciliatory Revolutionary
  10 August 2008, by Darshan Singh
  On October 2, 2006, the thought of writing a novel based on the life of CPM stalwart Harkishan Singh Surjeet began to germinate in my mind. The idea took me to Surjeet’s residence where I sat with him and other members of his family in the  (...)
• Comrade Surjeet—the True Marxist
  10 August 2008, by Sitaram Yechury
  * Comrade Surjeet is no more. A flood of memories overwhelms me as I start to write this. I met him first in 1973, 35 years ago. His sharp and, at times, mischievous eyes, and the speed of his speech would often leave me and fellow comrades  (...)
• I have Consciously taken a Principled Decision
  10 August 2008, by Somnath Chatterjee
  Document
  On August 1, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee broke his silence on his expulsion from the CPI-M with a lengthy press statement. We are carrying here the text of that statement for the benefit of our readers. —Editor
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• Creatively Abstract the Legacy of Buddhist Samgha
  10 August 2008, by Sharad Patil
  Communication
  After the parliamentary session on the trust vote was over, Communist veterans in Kerala and West Bengal, who were thrown out of the party, raised the outcry against Somnath Chatterjee’s expulsion from the CPI-M that “there  (...)
• Renegotiate What?
  10 August 2008, by G. Balachandran
  [(The issue of renegotiating the 123 Agreement between India and the US has come to the fore of late. We reproduce here the following article appearing in The Indian Express (July 22, 2008) and publish its rejoinder by a distinguished scientist.  (...)
• Renegotiate What in the 123?—An Enormous Amount!
  10 August 2008, by Ashok Parthasarathi
  The article by G. Balachandran in The Indian Express of July 22, 2008 entitled “Renegotiate What?†(in the 123 Agreement) is grossly inadequate, indeed dismissive. There are numerous Articles in the so-called Indo-US 123, “frozen†with effect  (...)

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