by Pravesh Kumar
Naxalism has been branded as a serious problem for national security by various intellectuals and the media. The Planning Commission of India has also highlighted this as a serious problem with regard to India’s national (...)
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Is Naxalism a Problem or a Voice for Social Justice?
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Day One in Calcutta
30 October 2010, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
[(The following report by Nikhil Chakravartty, the Calcutta correspondent of People’s Age (published from Bombay), appeared in the weekly’s August 24, 1947 issue (it was wired from Calcutta on August 17, 1947) under the (...) -
A National Loss
30 October 2010, by S ViswamTempus fugit. Time flies. And how! I was completely taken aback on being reminded by Sumit that the tenth death anniversary of Nikhilda will fall on June 27. “No, it cannot be,” I protested. “Not ten years already.” “Yes, yes,”said Sumit, “it is, it (...) -
An Undeceived Leftist
30 October 2010by N.S. Jagannathan
My acquaintance with Nikhil Chakravartty began in the mid-sixties when I was working with The Hindustan Times. Mainstream had just been launched and my Leftist friends had introduced me to the journal and, a little later, to (...) -
The Power of One
30 October 2010, by T J S GeorgeFrom the end of the 1950s, Delhi became India’s densest journalistic jungle. The transplantation there of a wholly Bombay phenomenon like Frank Moraes was a pointer to the inexorability of the process. No one will understand the economics of (...) -
Commanding Moral Presence
30 October 2010by Hiranmay Karlekar
It is only with time that the magnitude of the void created by Nikhil Chakravartty’s passing becomes clear to some of us. Initially, we took the news with resignation; sorrow was tempered by the realisation that he was (...) -
Terror Cauldron in Response to Policy Failures
30 October 2010, by Rakesh GuptaThe drone attacks on the Afghan-Pak border killing civilians and terror alert in Europe fairly strongly link up with terror attacks by Mend in Nigeria, raising of the terror threat alert from red to scarlet in France and the stone-pelting youths (...) -
A Movement having the Potential to Benefit Millions of Poorest People
30 October 2010, by Bharat DograThe movement initiated by the ‘Campaign for Information and Employment (Suchna Evum Rogjar Adhikar Abhiyan—SERAA)’ in Rajasthan has the potential to benefit millions, even crores, of poorest people not only in Rajasthan but eventually all over (...) -
Dams on Rivers: Learning from Overseas Experience
30 October 2010BOOK REVIEW
by Raj Kumar Sen
Economics of River Flows: Lessons from Dam Removals in America by Bharat Jhunjhunwala (ed.); Kalpaz Publications, Delhi; pp. 311; Rs 750.
This book under review attracts the attention of its readers from the (...) -
CWG, Karnataka, POSCO, Mumbai
24 October 2010, by SCLast week it was written in these columns:
Despite all the mismanagement, inadequacy of preparations and allegations of mega-size corruption that at one stage threatened the very holding of the XIX Commonwealth Games in the Capital, the Games (...)
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