by Vaishnavi Tannir
Many feel that the recent Chinese activity in the region of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan spells trouble. At this point, fully comprehending the critical implications this move has, and will have, on the region and its (...)
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2010
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Growing Chinese Assertiveness: Love Thy Neighbour?
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Taking Solar Energy to Remote Villages: Barefoot College Shows The Way
24 October 2010, by Bharat DograWhile renewable energy was always considered more desirable from the point of view of environment protection, its importance has increased several times in these times of climate change. Solar energy is particularly seen as a very promising (...) -
Burma/Myanmar: A Boycott turns the Clock Back
24 October 2010by Khin Zaw Win
In the emotion-wracked months following the popular uprising in 1988 in Burma/Myanmar, I had thought of writing something titled A Burmese Sense of the Tragic. Now, 22 years later, something I write could well be titled A (...) -
Dr Suraj Bhan
24 October 2010, by Ranbir SinghTRIBUTE
The death of Prof Suraj Bhan, who passed away at the age of 79 years at Rohtak on July 14, 2010, has left a void which cannot be easily filled. He was an embodiment of courage, conviction and consistency. Dr Suraj Bhan could squarely fit (...) -
Acclaimed People’s Theatre and Music Director, Communist and Friend
24 October 2010, by Shamsul IslamTRIBUTE Acclaimed people’s theatre and music director Amitava Dasgupta, known to his friends as Amit-da, breathed his last on October 9, 2010 (he was born on July 1, 1947). He did not recover well from a heart surgery in July and continued (...) -
Our Shame overshadows Our Glory?
19 October 2010, by SCDespite 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 have on the whole gone off well till now and (...) -
Faking an Encounter: Killing the Peace Process
19 October 2010Report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Killing of Azad and H.C. Pandey
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High Court Verdict on the Babri Mosque: Implications for the Rule of Law
19 October 2010, by Arshi KhanIn his commentary on the Greek Political Thought, C.L. Wayper says: if the king is virtuous, law becomes unnecessary; if the king is not virtuous, law becomes useless. In today’s terms, it can be referred to as the endorsement of the Rule of Law (...) -
BJP’s Dangerous Politics
19 October 2010, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
One of my eaerliest reporting experiences was the great Calcutta killing of 1946. Fierce communal passions were unleashed and thousands were done to death on both sides in the course of a couple of days. But behind that gory (...) -
Retrograde Verdict Rewards Hindutva Zealots
19 October 2010, by Anand TeltumbdeThe much awaited Ayodhya verdict pronounced by three judges of the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on September 30, 2010 stunned the entire progressive establish-ment of the country. All the three independent versions of the judges (...)
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