November 22, 2008

• Implications of the Majoritarian Offensive
  25 November 2008, by SC
  A week ago it was written in these columns:
  The constituents of the Sangh Parivar have been overactive in ... stereotyping a specific minority community by going to the extent of even suggesting, sometimes overtly but mostly covertly, that  (...)
• Sri Lanka: History Revisiting?
  25 November 2008, by Apratim Mukarji
  There was scarcely any surprise when the pro-rebel Tamilnet website of Sri Lanka accorded the pride of place in its news items on November 12 to the unanimous resolution adopted by the Tamil Nadu Assembly earlier, calling for a ceasefire in the  (...)
• Free-Market Illusion and Global Financial Crisis
  25 November 2008, by Kalim Siddiqui
  The financial crisis facing the Wall Street is the worst since the Great Depression and will have a major impact on the US and global economy. The ongoing global financial crisis will have a ‘domino’ effect and spill over all aspects of the  (...)
• Obama, The World Rejoices, But What Will You Do?
  25 November 2008, by Badri Raina
  Dear, dear Obama,
  You are a bright man,
  An upright man,
  A man above hate and recrimination,
  A just man whom suffering makes wince,
  Having suffered much—
  A man who means well by his people,
  Black, White and others,
  And by the world.
  Your people  (...)
• Understanding Obama’s Victory
  25 November 2008, by Arup Kumar Sen
  Barack Hussein Obama made history by becoming the first African-American President to occupy the White House. In his victory speech at Chicago he hinted at a dialogic concept of democracy for resurrection of the dream of the Founders of the  (...)
• America’s Defining Moment
  25 November 2008, by Uttam Sen
  Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th and the first African-American President of the USA, is the son of a Kenyan father and White American mother from Kansas. He graduated from Harvard Law School and was a civil rights lawyer. Indian pundits on  (...)
• From Slavery to the White House
  25 November 2008, by N V K Murthy
  November 4, 2008. This will indeed be a historic day for the United States of America. The citizens have emphatically voted to make Barack Obama the 44th President of the USA. It is as historic as the day when the Rev Martin Luther King Jr.  (...)
• Watching History in Harlem
  25 November 2008, by Sandipto Dasgupta
  After he saw Napoleon march into Prussia after the Battle of Jena, an elated Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel wrote that he had seen history on horseback. Barack Obama is no Napoleon, and I am certainly no Hegel, but there is no way I can avoid the  (...)
• Coming to Terms with Barack Obama
  25 November 2008, by M K Bhadrakumar
  A dichotomy is visible in the Indian reaction to the stunning victory of Barack Obama in the United States presidential election. The public opinion ranges from intense curiosity to a sense of participation. Obama’s historic pole-vault over the  (...)
• Obama And The Euphoria: What India May Expect
  25 November 2008, by A K Biswas
  Years ago, I had read a four-line verse composed by a Black student of the United States of America, giving vent to his feelings and impressions of life around him. A teacher had asked students in a school to do it. That was in the tumultuous  (...)

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