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June 2009
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New Government, Economic Strategy and National Consensus
13 June 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyBy the time these lines appear, the general election results are expected to be out and the contours of a new government should be available. No matter who forms the new government some very urgent tasks would be facing it. Bereft of all the (...) -
Chhattisgarh Government’s Self-destructive Act
13 June 2009, by Sandeep PandeyAkin to George Bush in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attack who, while declaring his war on terror, proclaimed that if one is not on the side of US Government then one is with the terrorists, the Chhattisgarh Government thinks that if (...) -
Binayak: A Tribute
13 June 2009, by Badri RainaAfter two needless years in the slammer,
you came out smiling, with a steady eye.
You seemed not resentful, but calmer—
frail in body, but in spirit high.
The deadly inert of your calling
so unshakeable in its cool,
so wholly a stranger to (...) -
Interim Report of Fact-finding Team on Developments in Chhattisgarh
13 June 2009[(DOCUMENT)]
An all-India fact-finding team visited Chhattisgarh from May 29 to June 1, 2009 in the wake of certain disturbing developments in the State plagued by Maoist violence, state terror, the Salwa Judum campaign and attacks on voluntary (...) -
Deras, Caste Conflicts and Recent Violence in Punjab
13 June 2009, by Surinder SinghThe recent violence in Punjab has taken place as a repercussion of the shootings in a Ravidass temple in Vienna in which the Dera Sachkhand head, Saint Niranjan Dass, was injured and his second- in-command, Saint Ramanand, was killed. This hurt (...) -
Legal Literacy for Ensuring Justice and Equality
13 June 2009, by Monica[(BOOK REVIEW)]
Towards Legal Literacy: An Introduction to Law in India edited by Kamala Sankaran and Ujjwal Kumar Singh; Oxford University Press, New Delhi; 2008; pp. 211.
A student of political science or law would know that the society (...) -
At Home and in the Neighbourhood
6 June 2009, by SCWith Cyclone Aila having caused widespread devastation in south Bengal in particular, the Union Government deemed it necessary to assure the West Bengal Government that it would provide a Rs 1000-crore cyclone relief package directly to the (...) -
Our Poverty + their Wealth=India
6 June 2009, by T J S GeorgeSometimes it takes a foreign eye to see India in perspective. Known statistics, for example, have been humanised by The Economist to paint a telling picture of the Indian reality in its post-election glow. The juxtaposition of facts goes thus: (...) -
The Fine Art of Government Formation
6 June 2009, by Sandeep ShastriThe formation of the Union Council of Ministers is an exercise in astute political gymnastics. The Congress President, the Prime Minister and their close confidants have demonstrated their shrewd political skills in being able to stitch together (...) -
Rebuilding the Left and Renewal of Socialism
6 June 2009, by Chaturanan MishraThe heavy defeat of the Left, particularly the Communist Parties, in the general election to Parliament has posed a serious problem of renewal of socialism and rebuilding the Communist Parties. Ordinarily this defeat should lead to thorough and (...)