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April 2009
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People are Positively Responding to Our Call for an Alternative
9 April 2009A.B. Bardhan, as the octagenarian General Secretary of the Communist Party of India, is the seniormost Left leader in active politics today since the CPM patriarch, Jyoti Basu, is ailing and at 95 cannot undertake any strenuous assignment. In (...) -
Machiavelli’s Ceasefire and the Indo-Naga Peace Process
9 April 2009, by Nandita HaksarFor eleven years the people in the Naga inhabited districts of Manipur have been living in peace ever since a ceasefire was declared between the Indian security forces and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isac-Muivah) or the NSCN (IM) (...) -
The Way We Conduct Elections In Our Country
9 April 2009, by Shree Shankar SharanThere are several features of the coming Lok Sabha elections that jar and need to change.
Elections with Police Force
The first is the heavy deployment of force for conducting elections. One of the grave consequences of heavy deployment of (...) -
A People‘s Manifesto
9 April 2009, by Kripa ShankarTwo hundred years of colonial rule in India had turned the richest country on earth into one of the poorest. The task was to make up the leeway by optimal use of the existing physical, human and financial resources and its continued renewal and (...) -
Credit Cards Under Discredit
9 April 2009, by Era SezhiyanA credit card named after the small plastic card issued enables its holder to buy goods and services based on the holders’ promise to pay for those goods and services. In this system, the issuer of the cards, whether a Bank or Non-Banking (...) -
Development as Swaraj: A Vision for a Just Society
9 April 2009, by Rehman SobhanThe original call for Swaraj by Mahatma Gandhi a century ago sought freedom for India from colonial domination by the British. This call for Swaraj was intended for a geographical space known as India but for the millions of ordinary people who (...) -
On the Centenary of Hind Swaraj
9 April 2009, by A K Biswas[(COMMUNICATION)]
Debabrata Bandyopadhyay has brought to bear his characteristic clarity and depth in analysing Gandhiji’s Hind Swaraj (Mainstream, March 7, 2009), which touches millions’ heart even after a century. Gandhiji’s views on mass (...) -
Contours of Crack-up
9 April 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyTension is mounting day by day as the parties are gearing up for the election campaign. Even before any clear picture of the alignment of parties could emerge, there are ominous signs of violence threatening to break out as the campaign gets (...) -
Indo-EU Free Trade Agreement: Should India Open Up Banking Sector?
9 April 2009, by Kavaljit SinghSince 2007, India and the European Union (EU) are negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA). The negotiations not only cover trade in goods but also services, rules pertaining to intellectual property rights, cross-border investments, competition (...) -
Remembering Rammanohar Lohia: The Che of Non-Violence
9 April 2009, by Niranjan RamakrishnanThe June 9, 1964 issue of Student Voice (published in Atlanta, GA), the newspaper of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee), carried the following news report:
JACKSON, MISS.—A member of India’s Parliament was twice refused service (...)