Is the law supposedly meant for the protection of Dalits and tribals put to misuse?
It is a theme which recurs regularly in the discussions engaged in by the chattering classes of the country. While nobody can deny that frivolous cases are (...)
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Where is Brahmeshwar Singh ‘The Great’?: Myth of Misuse of Laws meant for the Protection of Dalits and Tribals
21 May 2010, by Subhash Gatade -
Afghanistan - Guarantees are the Best Way Out
21 May 2010, by H K DuaAfghanistan has always been a prisoner of its geography and history and this imponderable has blocked its emergence as an independent and sovereign nation with a will of its own. Its strategic location could have been an asset for the region and (...) -
Back to Market Fundamentalism: The Myth of Inclusive Budget
21 May 2010, by K B SaxenaThe changes introduced in the strategy of growth during the past two years had created an impression that politics has triumphed over economics in the sense that the concerns of the poorer sections of society have prevailed over the ambitions of (...) -
India Closes Ranks with Hamid Karzai
21 May 2010, by M K BhadrakumarAfghan President Hamid Karzai’s recent visit to New Delhi lasting two days took place at a defining moment in the Afghan civil war. Karzai is about to embark on a crucial peace and reconciliation project. He just completed talks in three (...) -
Bribing Iraqi Officials, US-Style
21 May 2010, by Benjamin ToddExecutives at the US security firm, Blackwater, approved secret payments of about one million dollars to Iraqi officials to “silence their criticism” after company guards killed 17 civilians in Baghdad in 2007, according to the New York Times. (...) -
Death Sentence to Ajmal Kasab
10 May 2010, by SCIn the end the Indian judicial system and democracy have triumphed. Ajmal Amir Kasab, the young Pakistani who with his group of motivated terrorists, trained in and supervised from Pakistani soil, carried out the audacious Mumbai terror attack (...) -
Parliament and the People
10 May 2010, by Surendra MohanA cut motion was moved by the Opposition parties in the Lok Sabha on April 27 to ensure that the government is censured on the issue of raising the prices of petrol and diesel. Simultaneously, 13 Opposition parties called for a Bharat bandh to (...) -
Can the Left become the National Alternative?
10 May 2010, by Chaturanan MishraThe country is heading towards a political vacuum in the sense that the two national level parties—the Congress and BJP—are weakening day by day. The Congress, a secular party, is no longer in a position to mobilise the masses to protect their (...) -
Bright or Ugly?
10 May 2010, by Nikhil ChakravarttyWith his return from the Dhaka Summit, Rajiv Gandhi’s budget for foreign tours for the current year is exhausted, the most impressive that any Prime Minister of India has undertaken in the first year in office. The time for drawing up the (...) -
Potentialities of South Asian Identity
10 May 2010, by Balraj PuriThe potentialities of South Asian identity were unfolded in a three-day SAARC writers and literature conference which I attended recently in Delhi. It became fairly obvious that bilateral disputes, which have retarded the growth of the region, (...)
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