September 27, 2008

• Two Incidents
  1 October 2008, by SC
  Following the encounter at Batla House in the Capital’s Jamia Nagar on September 19 (that saw two terrorists being gunned down while an Inspector of the Delhi Police’s Special Cell was critically wounded and subsequently succumbed to his injuries,  (...)
• Crisis on Wall Street and India
  1 October 2008, by Girish Mishra
  Notwithstanding the soothing words of the Indian Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, the Indian economy is in for a great deal of trouble. Looking back at the Great Depression of 1929-33 when the Indian economy was not so much integrated with the  (...)
• UPA Should Not be Myopic to World Events
  1 October 2008, by M K Bhadrakumar
  If diplomacy is a lot about timing, the “Malabar Exercises†have been most crudely timed. Our diplomats should have known that issues of war and peace are hanging by a thread.
  The times seem to have changed in South Block. There was a time not  (...)
• Terror Will Not Work
  1 October 2008, by Namrata Goswami
  On September 13, between 1807-1838 hours, five serial bombs shattered a peaceful weekend across several popular market complexes in New Delhi. More than 20 innocent civilians lost their lives in the process and nearly 80 were injured. As was the  (...)
• Greater Terror
  1 October 2008, by K.B.
  The Batla House encounter at Jamia Nagar in the Capital has raised a few fundamental questions about Indian democracy, its health and its ability to resolve conflicts on its own.
  The most important players in the whole episode are the media and  (...)
• Conversions, Lawlessness and the State
  1 October 2008, by S G Vombatkere
  Religious conversion involves change of belief system and habits, and usually change of name. The changes reflect on the ways of living and doing, and in the way the convert interacts with the world around him or her. This is sometimes precisely  (...)
• We Need No Taliban Here
  1 October 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  Maqbool Fida Hussain is at the very centre of a storm whose after-effects are extremely relevant for our democracy—both for the democratic structure of our state and for the preservation of democratic values in our society.
  It is not that  (...)
• Dissecting Anew Hindu-Muslim Ties And Partition
  1 October 2008, by Amarendra Nath Banerjee
  BOOK REVIEW
  HINDU-MUSLIM RELATIONS IN A NEW PERSPECTIVE BY PANCHANAN SAHA (FOREWORD BY DR ASGHAR ALI ENGINEER); BISWABIKSHA, KOLKATA; PP. FORWORD +392; RS 300. Hindu-Muslim relations are very much complicated—the knottiest problem in Indian  (...)
• Education for All : An Introspection
  1 October 2008, by Arvind Kumar
  More than two years ago Krishna Kumar, in an article published in the The Hindu, had fervently argued for our collective responsibility towards children and making a legislation for universal elementary education. Since then the government has  (...)
• The Unsung Heroes of 1946
  1 October 2008, by Ajeet Jawed
  The history of our freedom movement is the saga of innumerable armed struggles. One after another, these struggles kept on challenging the British rule in India. However, during and after the Second World War, these struggles acquired a new  (...)

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