November 15, 2008

• Disturbing Trends
  16 November 2008, by SC
  Lately there have been disturbing trends of communalisation of the polity. The “encounter†at Batla House in the Capital’s Jamia Nagar gave a vivid demonstration of the manner in which organs of state power are targetting a particular community  (...)
• Obama Wonder and Bush Blunder:
  16 November 2008, by V R Krishna Iyer
  Barack Hussein Obama is now a White House supremo in the making, the hero of a historic event in the happening, a democratic pheno-menon incarnating as the President and a unique symbol of an awakened young generation lying latent till now in  (...)
• Khushbu: Eye-opener for Muslim Girls
  16 November 2008, by N Jamal Ansari
  COMMUNICATION
  It was interesting and informative to go through your editorial, “Voyage to the Moon†(Mainstream, October 25, 2008). You have thrown light on all aspects of the Chandrayaan mission but unfortunately the people who were behind  (...)
• Terrorism Inc.: Nexus between CIA and Mossad
  16 November 2008, by Shyam Chand
  [(Shyam Chand’s article “Ugly Hidden Face of Terrorism: Vigilance is the Price of Liberty†that appeared in Mainstream (September 6, 2008) was a good piece of investigative journalism exposing the nefarious activities of the saffron terrorists (on  (...)
• India Seeks ‘Velvet Divorce’ from Iran
  16 November 2008, by M K Bhadrakumar
  Amid the rubble of the Middle East policy of the George W. Bush-Ehud Olmert duo, there has been a true success story. The United States and Israel have largely succeeded in snatching India from the “other†side of the Middle Eastern geopolitical  (...)
• The Crisis of the Human Spirit
  16 November 2008, by Jawaharlal Nehru
  [(November 14 this year marks Jawaharlal Nehru’s one hundred and nineteenth birth anniversary. On this occasion we are reproducing the following pieces by Nehru as well as three contributions of Prof V.K.R.V. Rao, Shyam Benegal and Sadiq Ali in  (...)
• Socialism, Capitalism, Monopoly Capital
  16 November 2008, by Jawaharlal Nehru
  Nearly two years ago, we adopted, at the Avadi Congress as well as in Parliament, the socialist pattern of society as our goal. That was not a sudden decision, but a natural development of our thinking and our national movement. Ever since the  (...)
• Nehru’s Economic Philosophy
  16 November 2008, by V K R V RAO
  Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is not only a great patriot and one of the great sons of India, but also a great son of the world who played a significant role in the achivement of freedom for the colonial countries in both Asia and Africa. Even before  (...)
• A Finely Tuned Sensibility
  16 November 2008, by Shyam Benegal
  Aristocratic in taste, democratic by temperament and egalitarian by conviction, Jawaharlal Nehru comes through as a man with a finely tuned artistic sensibility, with an unceasing curiosity in the world around him, never losing his sense of  (...)
• Wedded to Eternal Values
  16 November 2008, by Sadiq Ali
  We remember Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru today for a whole variety of reasons. He worked hard for the liberation of our country in loyal and effective co-operation with Mahatma Gandhi, his illustrious leader. Both he and the Mahatma, whilst seeking  (...)

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