August 16, 2008

• Left Must Do its Utmost to Protect Parliamentary Democracy
  19 August 2008, by A B Bardhan
  You have been supporting the Congress-led UPA Government for the past four years. On July 9 you formally withdrew support to the ruling coalition at the Centre by saying that the government went ahead to operationalise the Indo-US nuclear deal  (...)
• Best Tribute to Freedom Fighters
  19 August 2008, by SC
  As we approach our sixtysecond Independence Day, once again we cannot but remember our indomitable freedom fighters, drawn from all parts of this vast landmass characterised by unique diversity, who underwent superhuman sacrifices and shed their  (...)
• You Disrobed the Temple
  19 August 2008, by Suhas Borker
  Forget all the loot of the past
  Forget all the heirlooms and jewels
  Forget all the gold and family silver
  Stolen, sold, resold, melted, moulded and parked away.
  This time,
  Twentysecond July 2008
  You went for the jugular of our faith
  You disrobed  (...)
• A Betrayal of India’s Constitutional Vision
  19 August 2008, by V R Krishna Iyer
  “There are shining victories to be won in the cause of peace and social justice. We shall reach the new freedom by not submitting to economic slavery…. forward with the people.â€
  —From an editorial in Daily Mirror in 1945, as reproduced in Hidden  (...)
• Sikhs in the Freedom Struggle
  19 August 2008, by K S Duggal
  The last to lay arms and foremost to raise them against the British, the Sikhs of Punjab may not figure prominently in the galaxy of freedom fighters led by Mahatma Gandhi barring Shaheed Bhagat Singh, who, too, was consistently disowned by  (...)
• Thirty Years After
  19 August 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  Remembering August Fifteenth has become a ritual followed with religious punctilio. This is as it should be, for the august day marked the end of national bondage and the dawn of Freedom.
  But the balance-sheet of the thirty years since  (...)
• Role of the Left in the Changing Political Scenario
  19 August 2008, by TJ Chandrachoodan
  The following is the concept paper presented at the national seminar, organised by the RSP on the role of the Left in the prevailing situation in the country. The seminar, chaired by veteran RSP leader Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, was addressed by  (...)
• Whither Washington Consensus?
  19 August 2008, by Girish Mishra
  The ideological basis of the ongoing phase of globalisation is ‘Washington Consensus’, which some people call ‘neo-liberalism’ or ‘market fundamentalism’. The Washington Consensus was propounded by John Williamson in 1990. It indicated a set of  (...)
• US’ Grand Game in Central Asia
  19 August 2008, by Ash Narain Roy
  In 1904, British geographer Sir Halford Mackinder wrote: “Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the world.†A hundred years later, the heart (centre) of the world has moved east. Were Mackinder to write  (...)
• Calibrating Change
  19 August 2008, by Uttam Sen
  Second thinking thrown up by recent discourse could be suggesting a consensual paradigm. This has to do with change in the political economy since the 1990s and its ingress into the nature of both contestation within and absorption into the  (...)

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