COMMUNICATION
Holding of plebiscite having become irrelevant and inoperative, and military and militant efforts having been proved fruitless so far, the following steps may be given a try:
1. First priority should be given by the (...)
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December 2009
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Resolving Kashmir Problem: Some Preliminary Steps
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On Shopian Tragedy, Mulk Raj Anand
26 December 2009, by Humra QuraishiOne tragedy after another has been hitting the Valley and there seems to be a mockery of the very system, of the very democratic framework. And even if there have been peaceful-cum-non-violent ‘Gandhian’ protests by the Kashmiris, the ongoing (...) -
Communist Unity—Time for Introspection
26 December 2009, by D. GnaniahFor three days in New Delhi from November 20 to 22, 2009 an international meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties of 47 countries, 55 parties was held fruitfully. This was called the 11th meeting starting from the first one held in 1960 in (...) -
Ajoy Ghosh: The Creative Marxist
26 December 2009, by Anil RajimwaleThe year 2009-10 is being celebrated as the birth centenary of one of most outstanding Marxist theoreticians and Communist leaders of the world communist movement, Ajoy Ghosh. That provides us an occasion to trace some of his most lasting (...) -
West Bengal: On the Degeneracy of a Political Party
26 December 2009, by D. BandyopadhyayIt was indeed an inspired canard of the radical Right to call the Communists in India as anti-national and pro-imperialist.
That the Indian Communists called Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose as the “running dog of General Tojo” and a “Quisling” in (...) -
All-encompassing Economic History of Indian Peasantry
26 December 2009, by Sekhar BandyopadhyayBOOK REVIEW
Peasant History of Late Pre-Colonial and Colonial India by Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri; Pearson Education, New Delhi; 2008; pp. xxv+939.
It is always difficult to review a book by a teacher. Such a review always tends to become a (...) -
Climate Change and Struggle for Self-determination
26 December 2009, by Sunita SamalThe following article was written before the inauguration of the Copenhagen Summit (December 7, 2009).
Currently, ethnic and religious antagonism stand out as the most important forces shaping most of the world’s armed conflicts in the post-Cold (...) -
Where is Hemant Karkare’s Bullet-proof Jacket?
26 December 2009, by Subhash GatadeI
Hemant Karkare’s family—his wife Kavita, his son and daughters and other near and dear ones—have slowly, albeit silently, come to terms with the fact that he is no more. Yes, there are occasions when his son takes out the laptop and scans the (...) -
Judicial Activism and Investigative Journalism: Editors as PIL Litigants
26 December 2009, by Prabhakar KulkarniA Public Interest Litigation (PIL) can be filed in any High Court or directly in the Supreme Court. It is not necessary that the petitioner has suffered some injury of his own or has had personal grievance to litigate. The PIL is a right given (...) -
Genetic Engineering: Instrument of Western Agribusiness to Control India’s Food and Farming System
26 December 2009, by Bharat DograThe recent high-pressure tactics to introduce genetically engineered food crops in India are another rude reminder that Western agribusiness companies have a deeprooted strategy to obtain a stranglehold on India’s food and agriculture system.
In (...)