May 05, 2007

• Some Issues Concerning Industrialisation of West Bengal
  8 May 2007, by Kamal Nayan Kabra
  Like any predominantly agricultural economy, West Bengal (WB) too needs to go in for a strong drive for industrialisation. More so after its farm sector has made a reasonable progress as its average yield level is higher than the national  (...)
• Kashmir : Long Haul
  8 May 2007, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  Can the light be at last seen at the end of the tunnel in Kashmir? This question has now come up with the statement by the Union Home Minister that the time to resume the political process in Kashmir has arrived and with the report that Farooq  (...)
• The Myth of Inefficiency
  8 May 2007
  Celebrations began among anti-reservationists with the SC putting a stay on the decision to reserve 27 per cent of seats for OBCs in educational institutions—such as central universities, IIMs, IITs, AIIMS—funded, managed or under the aegis of the  (...)
• No New Cold War
  8 May 2007
  A unipolar world has not been and cannot be created, because the available military, political, financial, economic and other resources are not sufficient to build an empire in today’s conditions of globalisation. For some time, though, the myth  (...)
• Peace and Development
  8 May 2007, by K S Duggal
  Born during World War-I and entering active life, after my University education, during World War-II, no wonder I felt virtually scorched. I have, therefore, cherished peace all my life. At one time a peace-campaigner as an activist of the  (...)
• Globe for the rich - Zero for the poor: Globalisation of Indian Economy
  8 May 2007
  The novel Tale of Two Cities of Charles Dickens begins with a piquant description of the contradictions of the times: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch  (...)
• Free Economy At Work
  8 May 2007
  †And Men Have Lost Their Reason.†—’Julius Caesar’ (Act III)
  Threat of Global Warming
  According to a new study by scientists from the National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Texas Tech University (USA) and Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre  (...)
• Contents, May 5, 2007
  8 May 2007
  VOL XLV No 20 New Delhi May 5, 2007
  Meeting the Challenge
  Editorial
  Globalisation of Indian Economy : Globe for The Rich—Zero for The Poor
  Era Sezhiyan
  Some Issues Concerning Industrialisation of West Bengal
  Kamal Nayan Kabra
  Free Economy At  (...)
• Left Must Unite
  8 May 2007
  ========COMMUNICATION==========
  This communication appeared in the Mainstream issue of May 6, 1967. In view of its abiding relevance it is being reproduced after exactly forty years. —Editor
  History once again beckons the progressive Left  (...)
• Family Lies
  8 May 2007, by Mukul Dube
  When the Election Commission took the BJP to task for the communally charged content of its UP election propaganda CD, that party reacted immediately by disowning the CD. We see here a response which characterises the Sangh Parivar: an outright  (...)

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