Building on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
by V.S. Ramamurthy and Saurabh Kumar
The MGNREGS is a radical measure, based on the concept of entitlement of the most vulnerable sections of the nation’s (...)
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2012
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Pedal Power as the 21st Century Charkha
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Combining Land Reforms and
Watershed Development
3 January 2013, by Bharat DograMany landless (or almost landless) persons who got land under various land-distribution programmes in India could not actually occupy and cultivate their land due to the resistance of powerful big landowners, including those who had encroached (...) -
Evolution of Political Corruption
3 January 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyIn just about a year’s time, we shall be celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the country’s independence when power was transferred from the unwilling hands of the British rulers to the leaders of our freedom struggle. And it is exactly fifty (...) -
Questions of Freedom and People’s Emancipation — V (b)
3 January 2013, by Kobad GhandyKobad Ghandy from Tihar Jail is writing on the concept of freedom vis-s-vis present-day society as also in relation to a future just order, bringing out some causes for the failure of the erstwhile socialist states. It will comprise a series of (...) -
Battle against Separatism
3 January 2013, by K. KamarajI have heard it said that it is a sad commentary on our national character that after 15 years of our independent and free existence we should still be discussing the question of national integration. I am inclined to agree with this statement. (...) -
Secularism: Corner-stone of Our Political Faith
3 January 2013, by Sheikh Mohammad AbdullahIndian polity is an admixture of variegated ethos and divergent cultures. Many are the common ideals and objectives which we share. Amidst this apparent sea of diversity there is a common bond which unifies us, that is, our heritage of being (...) -
Politics of Succession
3 January 2013, by Rammanohar LohiaBarring us, Socialists, all Opposition politics in the country today have degenerated into succession politics.
Opposition parties seem to have decided that the task of changing the attitudes of the people is far too difficult for them; or will (...) -
Marxism and Aggression
3 January 2013, by S.A. DangeMainstream has put to me the question: How is it that a Socialist country can commit aggression?
The question is quite natural and legitimate. It arises from the fact of history itself. Way back in 1959 when we were confronted with the (...) -
The Nehru Legacy: A Self-critical Communist Evaluation
3 January 2013, by P.C. JoshiThere is the danger of paying fulsome tributes to Nehru and then drifiting with the current so far as Congressmen are concerned. And as for the Left, of being coldly formally correct and then sit aside on the sandy shore and curse the rest. (...) -
A Tribute
3 January 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyGenerations spanning over centuries have been told that the French Revolution devoured its own children. In a sense, this could be said also of the Russian Revolution in which many of its heroes had themselves to face the firing squad.
There is (...)