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Which Way, Dushanbe?
14 February 2012, by Bashir MohammadCentral Asia has for quite sometime now become the arena for a new Great Game involving Russia, the US and China. Such players like India close to the region as well as neighbouring Pakistan and Iran frequently fail to keep pace with the fast (...) -
Nature of the Broad International Solidarity Movement with the Indian People
14 February 2012by JAN MYRDAL
The following are excerpts from the speech delivered by the reputed Swedish Communist writer, well known for his support to peoples’ movements the world over, at a public meeting, held under the aegis of the Forum Against War on (...) -
The Boisterous UP Election Scene
14 February 2012by ATUL KUMAR THAKUR
Had Uttar Pradesh been a country, it would have been more populous than as many as 170 countries and if by choice it was a democracy, it would have been the fourth largest democratic nation. However, it’s equally true that (...) -
Mid-Term Monetary Policy Review: The Way Ahead
14 February 2012, by Anshuman GuptaIn a sovereign state, the economy is regulated largely by the monetary and fiscal policies. Their roles increase in significance even more in a market economy, where there is no scope for direct controls. There is always a need for the judicious (...) -
Global Capital, Compliant Nation-States and Totalitarian Communities
14 February 2012by RAVI SINHA
The following is the keynote address on “Global Hegemonium and Challenges to Democratic Rights” delivered by the author, a physicist by training and Left-wing activist by choice, at the Eighth Joint Convention of the Pakistan-India (...) -
The Untold Story of US Retreat from Iraq
14 February 2012, by M K BhadrakumarThe plot was believed to be as follows: Washington wanted to keep long-term US military presence in Iraq but the popular opinion in Iraq militated against it, which ultimately left the Barack Obama Administration no choice but to comply with the (...) -
Judicial Activism, Right or Wrong
14 February 2012, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
When politicians as a community are in a state of siege in the eyes of the public, it is extremely short-sighted on the part of any government to make any move that may appear to the public as a means to cover up or to close (...) -
Tribute: A.K. Damodaran
14 February 2012TRIBUTE
On the last day of last month verteran diplomat A.K. Damodaran, 90, died in the Capital’s Escorts Hospital. A freedom fighter who was inprisoned for more than 12 months during the ‘Quit India’ struggle in 1942, he taught English at Delhi (...) -
Tribute: K.S. Duggal
14 February 2012TRIBUTE
Eminent writer Kartar Singh Duggal, 95, passed away in New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (where he was admitted on January 20) in the evening of January 26, 2012, after a brief illness due to old age. He wrote in (...) -
Constitution, Governor and State Governments
14 February 2012, by Barun Das GuptaRecently on several occasions the West Bengal Governor has permitted himself to make some critcal comments about the State Government publicly. When some college principals were heckled by students belonging to different unions affiliated to (...)
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