December 6, 2008

Mumbai 11/26 and Our Response
12 December 2008, by SC
It is more than a week since the monumental tragedy unfolded on the night of November 26 with the terrorists striking high-profile targets in South Mumbai. The people of Mumbai have once again been compelled to bear the brunt of yet another (...)
Tribute to V.P. Singh
12 December 2008
[(Former PM V.P. Singh, who headed a non-Coongress National Front, at the Centre in 1989-90 and introduced the reservation system for the OBCs on the basis of the recommendations of the Mandal Commission that changed the course of the Indian (...)
Open Letter to Our Dear Brothers in Pakistan
12 December 2008, by Shree Shankar Sharan
Our dear brothers in Pakistan,
In the intense grief that I am in due to the mindless raid and killings in the Taj and Oberoi Trident hotels which visitors from Pakistan or in undivided India would vividly remember, Nariman House, Leopold (...)
Mumbai Terror Attack: Thus Far and No More
12 December 2008, by Bharti Chhibber
India is a great country. India is a vibrant and resilient democracy. We can be resilient in the face of international economic recession, slowdown in our economy, we can be resilient in the face of economic sanctions imposed on us as we became (...)
Voice of a Responsible Citizen
12 December 2008, by Reshmi Kazi
Yet another terrorist attack on November 26 has rocked the entire nation. The country’s economic hub—Mumbai—was held hostage for over 62 hours leaving 195 dead and counting and injuring over 300 innocent people. Preliminary investigations reveal (...)
Strange Storm Brews in South Asia
12 December 2008, by M K Bhadrakumar
No sooner had the guns fallen silent and the terrorist carnage ended in Mumbai than a keen three-way diplomatic tussle began involving India, Pakistan and the United States. The two South Asian nuclear powers are locked in a race to get the US (...)
Challenges before the Human Rights Movement
12 December 2008, by Nandita Haksar
The attack on Taj and Oberoi Hotels in Mumbai by a group of militants has united the middle classes on the need for greater security measure, zero tolerance approach to terrorism and the corollary to that is a zero tolerance to human rights (...)
Denial of Right to Life
12 December 2008, by B N Arora
Even After Sixtyone Years of Independence, the Vast Indian Humanity Remains Sunk in the Quagmire of Poverty and Hunger
Considerable rhetoric about violation of human rights is being heard all around us. But the negation of the most basic human (...)
In the Name of Ram
12 December 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
[(The following piece, which appeared within a fortnight of the demolition of the Babri Masjid (December 6, 1992), is being reproduced on the sixteenth anniversary of that infamous event.)]
To build a temple to mark the brithplace of Ram, a (...)
Please Pay Your Bill Before You Leave, Mr Tata!
12 December 2008, by D. Bandyopadhyay
On October 3, 2008, at a press conference at Kolkata, Ratan Tata formally announced his decision to move out the Nano Project from West Bengal squarely blaming the agitation led by the Trinamul Congress for his decision to relocate the plant. (...)

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