December 09, 2006

• Gandhi in 21st Century
  24 April 2007
  Dr Manmohan Singh claims the heritage of Gandhiji. He travelled in the rail compartment from which Gandhiji was thrown out in South Africa with much fanfare. But is he following the policies suggested by Gandhi? Gandhi was a strict proponent of  (...)
• Kerala : Soft Hindutva
  24 April 2007
  Secular souls went gaga over the miserable showing of the BJP in the Assembly elections in Kerala last May. Not only did the Hindutva party fail to win a single seat, a number of its stalwarts fared miserably. O. Rajagopal, who was a Minister in  (...)
• Book Review: Making Art of Life
  24 April 2007
  So Many Journeys by Shiela Gujral; Allied Publishers Private Limited, New Delhi; Rs 295.
  It is maintained that a creative writer takes to biographical writing when he or she finds the creative in him or her drying up. Rajinder Singh Bedi,  (...)
• Growing Demand for Separate Telangana and Unethical Politics
  24 April 2007
  Rejoinder to Sreedhar’s “Separate Telangana: Beginning of the End†Telangana is today a hot issue and something no party can ignore to address. It has become imperative for every political party worth the name in Andhra Pradesh to  (...)
• Small is Not Always Beautiful
  24 April 2007
  The recent decision of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) supremo and Union Minister for Labour and Employment, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, to quit the UPA Government at the Centre for its failure to form a separate State of Telangana merits an  (...)
• TELANGANA STATE: A Case of Undemocratic Response to a Democratic Demand
  24 April 2007
  The Jai Telangana Movement (JTM) has once again attracted the national headlines. The movement that evoked popular response in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh in 1969 is back to square one. It reminds one of those momentous events which  (...)
• Ethical Reasoning on Human Rights and Deliberation on Justice and Otherness
  24 April 2007
  The concept of human rights presupposes that the individual himself is the basis of rights. The realisation of such rights must depend on the actualisation of these rights in individual relations.1 The major ideological division is between  (...)
• Challenges Ahead for Abe’s Japan
  24 April 2007
  Shinzo Abe, the newly elected Prime Minister of Japan, is generally considered to be a hawk and a nationalist. He has declared that he wants to make Japan ‘a country that is trusted and loved’ by the entire world. In his first address to the  (...)
• Human Rights : Basic Issues
  24 April 2007
  The government’s decision to set up a National Human Rights Commission is a significant indication of its being able to read the signs of the times. The Prime Minister has made the eloquent claim about his government’s commitment to upholding  (...)
• Singur and CPM’s Development Paradigm
  24 April 2007
  While Union Coal Minister Shibu Soren’s conviction and sentence on grave charges of abduction and murder has caused acute embarrassment to the UPA dispensation at the Centre and the Opposition BJP has predictably seized the opportunity to corner  (...)

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