September 6, 2008

• Hopeful Signs
  10 September 2008, by SC
  While the stalemate in Singur in West Bengal’s Hooghly district continues and the Tatas have threatened to pull out the Nano car project from the State in case the situation does not improve and favourable conditions are not created for  (...)
• Pentagon’s Loss
  10 September 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  [(With the exit of President Pervez Musharraf from the political scene of Pakistan following his resignation in August 2008 we are reproducing N.C.’s memorable editorial, written precisely 20 years ago in August 1988, after the accidental death  (...)
• Where is the Copywriter?
  10 September 2008, by H Y Sharada Prasad
  [(TRIBUTE
  Distinguished Gandhian freedom fighter, erudite scholar, noted writer and columnist H.Y. Sharada Prasad, 84, who was the versatile Media Advisor to two Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, passed away in New Delhi at 1.30 pm  (...)
• Between Emerging Tiger and the Poor
  10 September 2008, by H Y Sharada Prasad
  Even the cricket matches in Colombo didn’t wholly eclipse Narasimha Rao’s doings in Tiger-land this month as a weekend topic of conversation. Quite a number of people saw the direct telecast of his lecture to the Singapore Institute. More than the  (...)
• Scuttling ‘Dangerous’ Integration Independent of the West
  10 September 2008, by Benjamin Todd
  In coordination with its powerful patron, the USA, Australia is trying to undermine the processes underway in Asia that they view as ‘dangerous’. Canberra intends, in the first place, to minimise the significance of the ASEAN, AFR, ASEAN+3, EAS by  (...)
• Towards Appropriate Knowledge
  10 September 2008, by Ashok Celly
  The following is the introductory chapter of the book, Towards a New Paradigm in Higher Education (Kalpaz Publications, Delhi, 2008), edited by the author. The book was reviewed by Dr R.M. Pal in the form of a Review
  Article in Mainstream (May  (...)
• The Kashmir Imbroglio
  10 September 2008, by Shree Shankar Sharan
  The Kashmir situation has once again demonstrated that though there may be long periods of quiet and a temporary appearance of peace and normalcy, there is a boiling cauldron of discontent which will boil over from time to time and make  (...)
• Singur—Sowing Problems
  10 September 2008, by Subrata Sinha
  Singur is once again in the news. In this context we reproduce, with due acknowledgment, the following article published in Hindu Business Line (January 29, 2007) that gave a different dimension of the Singur problem barely highlighted, if at  (...)
• The Chief Minister is Lying
  10 September 2008, by Medha Patkar
  It is now clear that the Left Front Government of West Bengal has come forward in support of the Tata project in Singur by sacrificing the interests of the peasants, bargardars (sharecroppers) and agricultural labourers. As a consequence of  (...)
• Democracy At A Discount
  10 September 2008, by Sumit Chakravartty
  It was January 10, 2007. Alongwith a band of activists and concerned citizens this writer travelled to Kamarkundu in West Bengal’s Hooghly district from the Howrah Station. The objective: to visit Singur and peacefully express solidarity with the  (...)

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