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October 2009
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Citizens Initiative for Peace and the Maoist Challenge
1 November 2009, by Nandita HaksarI have read the Resolution (entitled “Stop offensive Hold Unconditional Dialogue” in Mainstream) made by the Citizens Initiative for Peace very carefully and I would like to raise some questions about the list of six demands that have been (...) -
After Indira Gandhi
1 November 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyTwenty years after her great father’s passing away, Indira Gandhi fell, her frail body riddled with the assasin’s bullets, in the winter morning of October 31, 1984.
She died as she lived—taking danger as her constant companion. And she left (...) -
to indira gandhi
1 November 2009, by Sumit Chakravarttya year has passed
without you;
tears dry up
on the surface,
but the pain persists
down below
where my heart writhes
like a wounded fawn
as it dawns on me
with every passing day:
how (...) -
Remembering Indira Gandhi Today
1 November 2009, by Sumit Chakravartty“The ‘Indira hatred’ slogan of her opponents has died with her, but for a long time the rallying cry in India was her call of ‘Garibi Hatao’ (end poverty). Witnesses bear testimony to the fact that where millions wept at her demise, beyond the family (...) -
Growth Despite Bloodshed?: Intra-state Conflict in South-East Asia
1 November 2009, by Anna Louise StrachanInternal conflict poses one of the greatest obstacles to South-east Asian integration and regional development today. Daljit Singh claims that “for the near future, the main sources of South-East Asia’s insecurities will continue to lie not in its (...) -
State Assembly Poll Results and Beyond
25 October 2009, by SCThe results of the elections to the three State Assemblies of Maharashtra (288 seats), Haryana (90 seats) and Arunachal Pradesh (60 seats)—that went to polls on October 13—have come in following the counting of votes today.
At one level it is a (...) -
Quest for Socialism
25 October 2009, by Surendra Mohan(The Congress Socialist Party was formed on October 21-22, 1934 in Bombay. The following article, by the leading Socialist ideologue in the country, is being published on the occasion of the CSP’s 75th anniversary.)
The Congress Socialist Party (...) -
JP: Some Reflections
25 October 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyJayaprakash Narayan has carried with him fulsome tributes from all political circles-his adherents and admirers, his adversaries and detractors. A life of ups and downs of heroic times and despairing moments Living beyond the Psalmist’s assigned (...) -
An Open Letter to Sasi Tharoor, my Representative in Parliament
25 October 2009, by N A KarimDear Mr Sasi Tharoor,
I am a voter of the Thiruvananthapuram parliamentary constituency from which you were returned to the Lok Sabha in the last elections. With the political glamour of a recent Malayalee contestant to the world’s greatest (...) -
Why India’s Diplomacy is in Disarray
25 October 2009, by M K BhadrakumarIndia has a substantial policy crisis on its hands with the US indicating that the Taliban did not pose a direct threat to its interests,
The United States couldn’t have chosen a worse moment to reveal its mind on the Taliban than on October 8 (...)