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July 2009
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Union Budget 2009-10: Delivering on Mandate for Inclusive Growth
18 July 2009, by Sudipto MundleThe stock market once again reacted to the Budget with irrational pessimism, as it had done during the Interim Budget. When Pranab Mukherjee started his Budget speech, the Sensex was up 150 points and by the time he finished, it had declined 756 (...) -
Union Budget 2009-10
18 July 2009The first Budget presented by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government since being re-elected to office was supposed to send a signal of its intentions. Of course, there were wide differences about what that signal would be. There were (...) -
Union Budget 2009-10: Accentuating Agrarian Crisis
18 July 2009, by K. Varadarajan, S. Ramachandra PillaiThe 2009-10 Budget has been presented at a time when recession has hit all sectors of the economy. The Congress-led UPA Government was expected to come up with concrete measures to meet the extraordinary situation. The agrarian sector has been (...) -
Remembering Aruna Asaf Ali on her Birth Centenary
18 July 2009, by SCAruna Asaf Ali’s birth centenary falls on July 16, 2009.
Born as Aruna Ganguly in Barisal (now Bangladesh) on July 16, 1909, she emerged as one of the most striking freedom fighters especially at the last stage of our battle for emancipation from (...) -
Aruna Asaf Ali
18 July 2009, by Jawaharlal NehruIt is easy to criticise any set of views in this complicated world that we live in. And Aruna Asaf Ali often says and writes something that is liable to criticism. But that criticism, however justified, would be poor stuff, for it would deal (...) -
Looking back on August 1942
18 July 2009How do you reflect on those unforgettable days of August 1942 after fifty years?
Aruna Asaf Ali: Gandhiji’s ‘Do or Die’ message and his statement that every person is his own leader thrilled the masses and some of us. A few of us decided that going (...) -
An Agenda for National Renewal
18 July 2009, by Aruna Asaf AliThe following paper by the late Aruna Asaf Ali was received from her in November 1991. The paper was prepared in response to a request from the Indian Association of Social Science Institutions (IASSI) for a publication to be edited by Professor (...) -
A Tribute to Aruna Asaf Ali
18 July 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyGenerations spanning over centuries have been told that the French Revolution devoured its own children. In a sense, this could be said also of the Russian Revolution in which many of its heroes had themselves to face the firing squad. (...) -
I Salute You
18 July 2009, by Som BenegalOne more link with the past has gone,
One more patriot gone to rest forever,
United with history in the journal of her life.
O, Aruna Asaf Ali, I salute you
For your tireless wanderings
Through the maze of revolution,
But never faltering even (...) -
Feminism or Reservation?
18 July 2009, by Malini BhattacharjeeA die-hard feminist at heart, I find the recent controversy revolving around the Women’s Reservation Bill disturbing. At a time and age when it has been established over and again that women are equal, if not better than men in terms of their (...)