This is another lengthy article Marxist-Maoist thinker Kobad Ghandy sent from Tihar Jail where he is still lodged; it was sent sometime ago but could not be used earlier on account of space constraints.
There is panic in the air—a crashing rupee, (...)
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The Economic Chakravyuh — Who Will Bell the Cat?
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Reflections on GATT Debate | Economic Reforms: Need for Reappraisal
29 December 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The following lines, written by N.C. precisely twenty years ago, carry considerable relevance in the present scenario.
Reflections on GATT Debate
The storm over the government’s meek submission to the Dunkel Draft as now (...) -
Deterioration of Indo-Pak Ties: Who is More to Blame?
29 December 2013, by Kuldip NayarPakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has repeatedly asked India to resume talks which had got snapped following the terrorists’ attack on Mumbai in November 2008. His brother, the Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, has echoed (...) -
The Economics of Pope Francis
29 December 2013, by Ambrose PintoThe Catholic Church is the largest denomination among Christian churches with a membership of more than 1.2 billion.1 Its membership is scattered across the globe with a large institutional presence. The Pope as the Head of the Catholic Church (...) -
Crisis in Greece: Capitalism on Trial
29 December 2013, by Apratim MukarjiThe crisis in Greece, which began five years ago with its economy collapsing, is now reaching a stage where the spectre of a civil war is no longer a patently preposterous idea. In fact, as the political battle between neo-fascists and (...) -
Ukraine in Dilemma—East or West? Revenge of History?
29 December 2013by R.G. Gidadhubli
Ukraine has been passing through the worst period of crisis in its post-Soviet history. Protests of unprecedented magnitude are taking place during the last few weeks unmindful of the cold winter at the Independence Square in (...) -
India-US Standoff over Diplomat’s Humiliation
29 December 2013by Sudhanshu Tripathi
It is shameful for a country like America, which boasts of being a land of freedom and liberty with highly civilised cultural traditions ensuring endless opportunities to all talented and meritorious persons and, (...) -
Tamil Nadu and the Sri Lankan Conflict: Evolving Centre-State Understanding on the Ethnic Issue
29 December 2013by Aditi Mukherjee
The much-discussed Tamil Nadu factor in Indo-Sri Lanka relations recently came to prominence once again in the wake of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s decision not to attend the last CHOGM summit in Colombo as intense pressure (...) -
War without End
29 December 2013, by Javed JabbarBOOK REVIEW
This review of Prof Stephen Cohen’s latest book appeared in a Pakistani peirodical, Newsline, last November. Since it was sent to us by the reviewer, a noted Pakistani intellectual, politician, and media-person, it is being reproducd (...) -
A Letter from Central Prison, Nagpur
29 December 2013COMMUNICATION
A Letter from Central Prison, Nagpur
Booked u/s 13,20,39 UAPA: An Affidavit for Ouster of the Real Incumbent
The arrest (and interrogation) of as nondescript a journalist and marginal an activist as me, even if for the second (...)