November 8, 2008

• November Revolution in United States
  11 November 2008, by SC
  At the fag end of his life Rabindranath Tagore delivered the now famous ’’Crisis in Civilisation’’ speech on his last birthday in May 1941. In the midst of World War II, the poet observed therein:
  As I look around I see the crumbling ruins of a  (...)
• Obama’s Victory: Dawn of a New Era
  11 November 2008, by Nilofar Suhrawardy
  Barack Obama’s victory in the US presidential election spells not only a major win for him, his party, his supporters but symbolises the dawn of a new era for the US Government, the Americans and the entire world. Long, endless lines of voters  (...)
• US Presidential Poll Outcome: A Welcome Win, but Don’t Expect Too Much
  11 November 2008, by Praful Bidwai
  The election of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th President of the United States marks a welcome turning-point in American history and real progress in a society where a Black could have been sold literally as a slave just 140 years ago, and  (...)
• Africa, African Diaspora and the Prospect of Global Cultural Dialogue
  11 November 2008, by M. OLABIYI BABALOLA JOSEPH YAÃ
  Mr Chairman,
  Distinguished Elders,
  Excellencies,
  Dear Friends
  Bharat ki yatra par âna, meré liyé ek sapné ka poora hona hé. Meré mann mai Mahatma Gandhi aur Rabindranath Tagore ké liyé aapaar shraddha aur sam-mân ki bha van hé. Mujhe yahaa  (...)
• Energy Superpower Emerges in the Caspian
  11 November 2008, by M K Bhadrakumar
  Turkmenistan knows better than any other country that predators will go to any extent to take away its valuable possessions. Five successive empires—Scythian, Parthian, Ywati, Hun and Turkmen—invaded the area to locate the “Akhal†oasis  (...)
• Mullahs, Indian State and Muslim Backwardness
  11 November 2008, by Abhay Mishra, Badre Alam Khan
  The following article reached us on October 27. The authors wrote in a covering note: “We are with the Jamia Millia Islamia. We are sending an article in the wake of Arif Muhammad Khan’s piece which appeared in The Indian Express. Our article was  (...)
• Work for All: An Alternative Path of Development
  11 November 2008
  DOCUMENT
  “Discussions with Prof Amit Bhaduri regarding his concept of “Development with Dignity†led some of us to think that the alternative path of development he was trying to chart could present before the resistance movement against  (...)
• India’s Most Dangerous Move
  11 November 2008, by Ghulam Muhammed
  COMMUNICATION
  As if Israeli Army Chief Major General Avi Mizrahi’s visit to India, in these trouble times, is not provocative enough, the Indian adminis-tration has allowed him to visit the inflamed State of Jammu and Kashmir, to put oil on  (...)
• The Red Vignettes
  11 November 2008, by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  [(Remembering October Revolution on its 91st Anniversary
  Seventh November this year marks the 91st anniversary of the historic October Revolution. Although the politico-economic situation in Russia has undergone a sea-change since 1991, the  (...)
• November Revolution : Some Reflections
  11 November 2008, by Hiren Mukerjee
  Sixtyone years have passed since the November Revolution, “the ten days that shook the world†—in the American eye-witness John Reed’s memorable words—almost in literal fulfillment of the prophecy in the International hymn—-
  The world will shake to  (...)

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