November 1, 2008

• Face of the Danger
  4 November 2008, by SC
  As we go to press, news has just come of fresh terror strikes—this time in Assam: nine synchronised, high-intensity blasts, all within a span of 30 minutes, this morning killed as many as 61 persons and injured over 350 others in crowded areas of  (...)
• ’Transforming’ Pakistan
  4 November 2008, by Mansoor Ali
  Washington deliberately engineers “controlled conflicts†in Asia to justify US military presence in the region. The Bush Administration has wielded American military might to serve its foreign-policy objectives, one among them being US  (...)
• Finance Capitalism and the Spectre of Crisis
  4 November 2008, by Arup Kumar Sen
  The recent financial crisis initiated by the collapse of the 158-year-old giant US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, has completely shattered confidence in the global financial system. Joseph Stiglitz has stated categorically that the Bush  (...)
• A New Crisis Looming?
  4 November 2008, by Apratim Mukarji
  There is increasing disquiet in the international community about a probable air strike on Iran toward the end of this year. Speculation is growing in Russia and various other countries, including the USA, about an enhanced probability of such  (...)
• Mumbai Cowboy
  4 November 2008, by Kumar Ketkar
  It is a win-win situation for Raj Thackeray. He must have desired to get arrested. That keeps him in the headlines and also steals the media limelight from his main rival, the Shiv Sena. To his followers, indeed to a large number of Marathi  (...)
• Russian Scholars on Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Internal Situation of China
  4 November 2008
  Recently on October 18, the Russian Information Centre in the Capital witnessed an interesting interaction of several leading Russian scholars with Indian journalists. The scholars, who were in India to attend a seminar at the Jawaharlal Nehru  (...)
• Delhi Convention demands Release of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti Leader Abhay Sahu
  4 November 2008
  The following is a press release of the Delhi Convention on the release of Abhay Sahu and other activists of the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti, issued by Prof Manoranjan Mohanty, B.D. Sharma, Dr Usha Ramanathan, Ashok Agarwal, Ravi Hemadri,  (...)
• Deceptive Presentation of Government Accounts
  4 November 2008, by Era Sezhiyan
  The Ministry of Finance is responsible for the administration of the finances of the Central Government. The Budget has become an important part of the general economic policy. If a government department makes serious mistakes in  (...)
• Cameos
  4 November 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  [(FROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
  On November 3 this year falls Nikhil Chakravartty’s 95th birth anniversary. On this occasion we reproduce here one of his earliest writings, published under the pseudonym ‘Vanguard’ in The Calcutta Municipal Gazette  (...)
• Salutations to a Dear Comrade
  4 November 2008, by V R Krishna Iyer
  TRIBUTE
  What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form, in moving, how express and admirable! Dear Nikhil is dead. Is he? It is blaspheme to say he is dead. He dwells in the hearts of millions within  (...)

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