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Tribute to S.R. Sankaran
10 November 2010[The following e-mail from S.P. Shukla was read out at a meeting held at the Council for Social Development, New Delhi on October 18, 2010 to offer homage to the memory of S.R. Shankaran. The e-mail was sent to Prof Manoranjan Mohanty in (...) -
S.R. Sankaran: A Path-breaking Civil Servant
10 November 2010, by K S SubramanianS.R. Sankaran (SRS hereafter), the unosten-tatious but remarkable civil servant who passed away recently, was known for his many qualities of head and heart. His simplicity, modesty and commitment to the rural poor was rivalled only by that of (...) -
Prasar Bharati Must Perform
10 November 2010, by Bharat JhunjhunwalaThe government has decided that Door-darshan and Akashvani will be provided limited financial assistance in future. These services are run by their parent organisation, Prasar Bharati. Presently the deficit in current expenditures is wholly met (...) -
Rethinking Poverty: The Disputed Dividing Line
10 November 2010, by Suranjita RayThe co-existence of widespread poverty with high economic growth during the last few years has concerned both policy-makers and academics to get back to what constitutes poverty and where to draw the line below which poverty can be estimated. (...) -
An Open Letter to Ten Per Cent India, Myself Included
10 November 2010, by Badri RainaI
The Commonwealth Games (CWG) are over. Our revels have ended for now. Many White people have gone satisfied; some even impressed. What might have been a bland and colourless event elsewhere was rendered magical as the hooded cobras put in (...) -
Future belongs to ‘Bolshevism’
10 November 2010[(October Revolution: Ninetythird Anniversary
Seventh November this year will be observed as the ninetythird anniversary of the historic October Revolution. Although the socio-economic system in Russia has been overturned and the once mighty (...) -
Evil as Spectator Sport
10 November 2010, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
One Chief Minister, four days, two confidence votes. That certainly puts Karnataka in the history books. But the twin victories are more Pyrrhic than the one Pyrrhus won against the Romans at unsustainably high cost. They have merely (...) -
Whither India: The Way Up or the Way Down?
10 November 2010, by P K Chatterjee[(TRIBUTE
Prabhat Kumar Chatterjee, eminent senior Supreme Court advocate, who passed away at his New Delhi residence in the morning of October 28, 2010, was born on October 10, 1922. His father, the late Rai Bahadur A.D. Chatterjee, was a (...) -
Absorbing Narrative of a Community on the Move while being in Confrontation and Crisis
10 November 2010, by Dipak MalikBOOK REVIEW
The Warp and the Weft: Community and Gender Identity among Banaras Weavers by Vasanthi Raman; Routledge, New Delhi; 2010; pages 384; Rs 795.
The Warp and the Weft is a serious attempt in building blocs in study of ‘the invisible’ (...) -
US in Afghanistan: A Catch-22 Situation
10 November 2010, by Mansoor AliThe US strategy in Afghanistan is “unsustai-nable”, writes Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times. Why? Because, as he opines, “it is inadvertently financing its adversaries” while simultaneously “backing a corrupt government that drives people to (...)
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