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June 2009
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North Korean Nuclear Brinkmanship and its Global Impact
6 June 2009, by Quaisar AlamNorth Korea, stunned the world community yet again, defying its perceived threat perceptions, sending jitters across the region by conducting an underground nuclear test. Thereafter this was followed, reportedly, by the test-firing a series of (...) -
Global Economic Crisis: Lessons for India
6 June 2009, by B P MathurThe global economy is today facing unprecedented crisis with falling production and job losses. Most advanced countries are already in the grip of recession and the economic outlook for the developing countries is deteriorating rapidly. To (...) -
The Rise and Fall of Prabhakaran
6 June 2009, by M K BhadrakumarThe Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran’s death circa May 19, 2009, in circumstances we will never quite get to know, concludes a morality play.
As the curtain comes down and we leave the theatre, the spectacle (...) -
The Naxalite Movement that was Not in Naxalbari
6 June 2009, by J.J. Roy BurmanPeasant movements have drawn a lot of attention among academics and social activists. The Naxalite movement too has gained a lot of acclaim as a peasant movement. The movement at present is very active in the tribal belts of Chotanagpur, (...) -
Varied Muslim Projections in the Media
6 June 2009, by Amna Mirza[(BOOK REVIEW)]
Muslims and Media Images: News Versus Views edited by Ather Farouqui; Oxford Universiity Press, New Delhi; pages 354; price Rs 695.
The debates on minority and majority, inclusion and exclusion are a fact of life in a plural (...) -
Labour Absorption: A Unique Strength of the Informal Sector in India
6 June 2009, by Vinod K AnandThe end objective of a nation, notwithstanding its economic, political, and social scenarios and the accompanying constraints, is the “well-being” of its people. The multi-faceted connotation of “well-being” is captured by what is termed in (...) -
Twenty Years after Tiananmen Crackdown
6 June 2009, by Nimmi Kurian[(June 4, 2009 marks the twentieth anniversary of the massacre of countless Chinese students and youth at Beijing’s famous Tiananmen Square. On this occasion we are reproducing, with due acknowledgement, an article published in The Indian Express (...) -
China Today and Tomorrow
6 June 2009, by SCFigures have lost all meaning in the conditions prevailing in the People’s Republic of China today. The fact is that what began in the early hours of June 4, 1989 at Tiananmen Square in the heart of China’s capital, Beijing, culminated in a (...) -
End of Maoist Monolith
6 June 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyAnarchy has gripped China. The massacre of unarmed people by tanks and armoured carriers could not bring a semblance of order even in the capital city of Beijing. Instead, the horror of ghastly killings—estimated anywhere between 1000 to 2000 in (...) -
‘Fifty Per Cent Democracy’: Demolition of a Gandhian Ashram in Chhattisgarh
6 June 2009, by Ramachandra GuhaIn the early hours of May 17, while the rest of India was asleep after an election conducted honestly and won fairly, a massive contingent of police and paramilitary descended on a Gandhian ashram in the interior of Chhattisgarh. They woke up (...)