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Questions of Freedom and People’s Emancipation — V
12 December 2012, 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 (...) -
China’s Energy Insecurity: Challenges in the Twentyfirst Century
12 December 2012by DIVYA GANGADAR
Introduction
In a highly industrial and mechanised world that we live in today, energy in all forms becomes crucial to the success of a nation. Energy security refers to the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an (...) -
Jan Sansad and the Countdown to 2014
12 December 2012by B.D.
The organisation of Jan Sansad or People’s Assembly by nearly 56 people’s organisations in New Delhi from November 26 to November 30 is an important milestone in people’s reaffirmation of constitutional vales and their determination to (...) -
Life and Times of a Journalist
12 December 2012BOOK REVIEW
by B.R.P. BHASKAR
The Scribe Remembered: N. Gopinathan Nair, His Life and Times (Janayugom Gopiye Orkumbol) edited and published by K. Saradamoni; 2012; pp. 482; b&w plates 14, colour plates 10; Rs 450, US $ 25; ISBN: (...) -
Politics of Psychoanalysis and Human Rights of the Stranger
12 December 2012, by Sunita SamalIntroduction
The predominant liberal multi-culturalist model has neglected the very direct encounter with the ‘human rights of the other’. The politics of psychoanalysis as the very core of inter-subjective relations is rooted in an unconscious (...) -
Whither Congress?
3 December 2012, by SCThe logjam over how to discuss in Parliament the issue of the government’s introduction of FDI in retail has finally been broken today. The Manmohan Singh dispensation, having succeeded in bringing the DMK on board, is now confident of its (...) -
People’s Movements say No to Cash Transfer, Yes to PDS
3 December 2012by MOHAMMAD ALI
A day after the Union Government rolled out cash transfer for subsidies and entitlements, Jan Sansad, a coalition of more than 60 people’s movements, rejected it for being “anti-people”.
Terming the scheme “an attempt by the (...) -
Attack on Malala — Islamic or Un-Islamic?
3 December 2012by ASGHAR ALI ENGINEER
The recent attack on Malala Yusafzai, a 14-year-old tribal girl from the Pakhtunkhwah province of Pakistan, shocked not only Pakistan but the whole world. There was near unanimity among the people of Pakistan that the (...) -
Pitiable Plight of Women
3 December 2012, by Kuldip NayarEven as Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old activist who advocated girls’ education, recovers from the bullet shots by the Taliban at Swat in Pakistan, there is no let up in atrocities against women in the subcontinent. Haryana in India witnessed (...) -
Menace of Corruption in India — the Way Out
3 December 2012, by Rajindar SacharCAG Vinod Rai’s pained expression on the brazenness of government decisions—obviously alluding to the way decisions have been taken resulting in corrupt deals in the matter of telecom, coal allocations, miscues of allotments of land on political (...)
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