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July 2009
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Landmark Judgment on Gay Rights: Litmus Test for Tolerance
18 July 2009, by Praful BidwaiThe Delhi High Court judgment in the Naz Foundation case is a landmark verdict which decriminalises homosexuality and strikes a blow in favour of personal freedom on the solid foundations of inclusiveness and respect for diversity. It deserves (...) -
Need for a New Poverty Line
18 July 2009, by Kamal Nayan KabraA food security law, steps to strengthen the NREGA, and so on, form parts of the pro-poor agenda of the UPA Government. For implementing these initiatives a fresh exercise to identify the below poverty-line (BPL) people has become necessary. It (...) -
What Binayak Sen Stands For
18 July 2009, by Sandeep PandeyBinayak Sen has been released on bail from Raipur jail after an unprecedented national and international campaign for two long years. But the man is worried about civil liberties of thousands of others like him who still continue to languish in (...) -
Agrarian Struggles: Yesterday and Today
18 July 2009, by Bhowani SenOn July 10, 1972 passed away in distant Moscow one of the most creative Marxist-Leninists this country has produced—Bhowani Sen (whose birth centenary was observed this year on January 26).
As was noted during his birth centenary in Mainstream (...) -
2009 Lok Sabha Elections in Haryana: An Analysis
18 July 2009, by Kushal Pal, Ranbir SinghThe fact that Congress was able to win nine out of 10 seats in Haryana is bound to give an erroneous impression that it received an overwhelming mandate. But the fact of the matter is that there was a marginal decline of 0.67 per cent in the (...) -
Minorities in India
18 July 2009, by Sarabjit KaurThe recent spate of attacks on Christians in Orissa and those on Muslims in the present and past provokes one to study the status of minorities in India. But before getting into the details of the issue, which is the concern of the present (...) -
Road-map for Police Reforms in South Asia
18 July 2009, by Prakash SinghBook Review
Feudal Forces: Reform Delayed—Moving from Force to Service in South Asian Policing researched and written by Sanjay Patil; published by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in partnership with the Fur Die Freiheit (Friedrich (...) -
Serious Misrepresentation
18 July 2009rejoinder
In his article “Diffident Us versus Combative Them” [Mainstream (June 27, 2009)], T.J.S. George has seriously misrepresented the attitude of the Australian Government towards the recent incidents involving Indian students in Australia. (...) -
Emphasising ‘Inclusive Growth’
11 July 2009, by SCOn Monday, July 6, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented in Parliament the UPA Government‘s full Union Budget for 2009-10 that envisages the highest total expenditure of Rs 10,20,835 crores with a yawning fiscal deficit which is to rise (...) -
Union Budget 2009-10: Logic, Limitations and Prospects
11 July 2009, by Kamal Nayan KabraIn the wake of the unprecedented fiasco and impasse reached by the global hegemonic system without facing any external threat, many ideological and policy debates are kicking up a lot of dust and at the same time producing some enlightenment all (...)