May 25, 2007

• Three Years of UPA Government
  31 May 2007, by SC
  The Manmohan Singh-led United Progressive Alliance Government has just completed three years in office. On this occasion it has presented a “Report to the People†. What does this Report convey? According to the Report, in these three years the UPA  (...)
• The UP Election
  31 May 2007, by Shree Shankar Sharan
  The UP election verdict has stirred the nation as few things recently have. For one thing, it was wholly unexpected. Every political pundit or soothsayer worth his name had predicted a hung Assembly. Ms Mayawati romped home with an absolute  (...)
• Unexpected Turn-around in UP
  31 May 2007, by Surendra Mohan
  The Bahujan Samaj Party President, Mayawati, has led her party to victory in the recently held general elections to the State Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. While political observers and the media were agreed that the BSP would emerge as the largest  (...)
• Any Apologies for the Paddars?
  31 May 2007, by Subhash Gatade
  The name of Canadian-Syrian Mahel Arar is not unfamiliar today in the rest of the world.
  The travails and tribulations of this young software engineer who became a victim of the US Government’s extraordinary rendition programme have been  (...)
• Beauty And the Beast: Baroda episode underscores threat to creative expression
  31 May 2007, by Anil Dharker
  Who is Chandramohan Srilamantula? Is he such a famous artist that the entire art community is staging protests against his arrest? Actually, Chandramohan is only 23 and still a student, and it is his project work that’s made an impact far beyond  (...)
• From Nero to Nixon, it’s Not a Long Way
  31 May 2007, by T J S George
  It’s scary to realise that decisions affecting the lives of multitudes are often in the hands of crazy men, drunkards and egomaniacs. A passing fancy, a momentary whim—and wars break out, massacres are launched.
  We dismiss Caligula as  (...)
• The First War of Independence
  31 May 2007, by Jawaharlal Nehru
  [(May 27 this year marks the fortythird death anniversary of the architect of modern India, Jawaharlal Nehru; on this occasion we are carrying here the text of his address, as the first Prime Minister of independent India, at Delhi’s Ramlila  (...)
• Some Memories of Nehru
  31 May 2007, by Renu Chakravartty
  [(The following are tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru by some noted public figures, members of the National Committee for the Commemoration of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary; these were published in a collection Nehru: The Nation Remembers brought  (...)
• This was a Man
  31 May 2007, by Hiren Mukerjee
  For four decades and more, this gentle colossus strode our Indian world and his place among the great figures of our time is secure. But his uniqueness lay in the unobtrusive opulence of endowment which gave him, in the thick of politics and in  (...)
• Secular Outlook
  31 May 2007, by Rafiq Zakaria
  Jawaharlal Nehru while in power, it must be conceded, could not implement many of his ideas which he so passionately advocated when fighting against the British during our freedom struggle. He himself admitted:
  Some years earlier I would not  (...)

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