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September 2009
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Political and Social Legacy of Michael Jackson
26 September 2009, by Namrata GoswamiMichael Jackson’s musical message of social and political equality amongst races the world over influenced the political and social thinking of many around the world with a liberal ideology of progress, change, human emancipation and equality. (...) -
The Ever Elusive Goal of Education for All
26 September 2009, by N A KarimThere is a significant sentence in the report of the Education Commission (1964-66), popularly known as the Kothari Commission: “India’s destiny is being shaped in her classrooms.” Indeed the statement of the Commission was inspired by an ideal (...) -
Proposed Reform in Higher Education by Yash Pal Report: A Critique
26 September 2009, by Prasenjit BiswasThe Professor Yash Pal Report (YPR) makes right noises about many of the inherently self-defeating practices, ideas and notions that have been the ‘ruling ideas’ of India’s higher education sector for the last four decades. The Report significantly (...) -
Message of ’Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom’
26 September 2009, by Rakesh GuptaBook Review
Language and Politics in India by Asha Sarangi (ed.); Oxford University Press, New Delhi; 2009; pp. 431; Price: Rs 795.
The book under review is published as a part of a series of Readers on specific themes in Political Science (...) -
Af-Pak: The World’s Most Dangerous Place
26 September 2009, by Manan DwivediOne out of a myriad Political Contest Models developed by the arcane theorists, the present one posits a sanguine and diligent comprehension of the notion of a state actor pitted against the non-state actor in a Gladiatorial contest of (...) -
Beyond Social Exclusion
26 September 2009, by J.J. Roy BurmanThe concept of Social Exclusion has been on the anvil of social sciences for over a decade or so. This is mainly so due to the mobilisations of the nation-states against embedded social inequalities. In a country like India, the drives against (...) -
A Tribute to G.S. Bhargava
26 September 2009Veteran journalist G.S. Bhargava is no more. He passed away in New Delhi on Tuesday (September 23) afternoon; he was 85 and is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. The funeral took place at the Lodhi Road crematorium the same evening. (...) -
Take Timely Action to Prevent Uttar Pradesh’s Nandigram
26 September 2009, by Bharat DograCOMMUNICATION
At a time when it is being widely realised that the displacement of farmers cultivating fertile and irrigated land should be minimised as much as possible, it is shocking that farmers cultivating nearly 650 acres of fertile, (...) -
Austerity Drive
26 September 2009, by Suhas Borkercome share a single course of gruel with me
I shall be waiting outside my hovel
not very far from where you live
to welcome you with a v sign.
come this will help you show up
a mindset that never mirrors
a faceless down-and-under like me
but (...) -
Beyond the Drama
21 September 2009, by SCWhile the BJP’s victories in the by-elections to the State Assemblies of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand have somewhat lifted the drooping spirits of the party faithfuls, the Trinamul-Congress combine’s electoral success in ousting the (...)