October 18, 2008

Beyond Politics
25 October 2008, by SC
While the global financial crisis continues unabated despite fire-fighting by major players on the international scene, the IMF has slashed growth projections for the world economy with a sombre warning: “It is now entering a major downturn in (...)
Letter to the PM on taking Urgent Measures for Peace in Kandhamal
25 October 2008, by Debiprasanna Pattanayak, Manoranjan Mohanty, Pralay Kanungo
Dear Sir,
As academics who have studied the socio-economic conditions of modern Orissa and who have been extremely pained by the recent outbreak and persistence of violence in Kandhamal we present the following suggestions which we believe are (...)
On Goa and the Challenges before It
25 October 2008, by Eduardo Faleiro
The last few decades have witnessed vast changes in political ideology and economic policies across the world. People of different countries have been affected differently but always in a significant manner everywhere. Goa has achieved (...)
Who Lives if the Nation Dies?
25 October 2008, by P K Chatterjee
This Constitution of India must be scrapped. It is designed to maintain status quo ante and substantially it is only an adaptation of the Government of India Act, 1935. It has failed to give any impetus to national integration; on the contrary, (...)
Karl Polanyi and Globalisation
25 October 2008, by Girish Mishra
If one wants to understand the real nature of the ongoing globalisation, based on the Washington Consensus and its impending fate, one needs to turn to Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, published in 1944. Polanyi’s formulations are more (...)
Yugo-Nostalgie–II
25 October 2008, by Branislav Gosovic
The following article, being carried in two parts, is based on the author’s remarks at the conference “Human Security and Reconciliation” organised by the European Centre for Peace and Development (ECPD), Belgrade, October 27-28, 2006. The article (...)
A Tragic Road Map
25 October 2008, by Manas Ghosh
The improper resettlement and rehabilitation package for 2500 agricultural households of Singur owning 164 hectares (400 acres) of rich multicrop land forcibly acquired by the Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Government for the Nano car project would (...)
Real Face of Manmohanomics
25 October 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
After the smart management of the Parliament debate on the JPC Report, which was neatly turned into a panegyric session for Manmohan Singh, raising the suspicion that his resignation offer was really a stunt calculated to pre-empt attacks in (...)

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