June 22, 2007

After Thirty Years
25 June 2007, by SC
Thirty years ago, on this day, that is, June 21, the Left Front Government came to power in West Bengal led by the organisationally well-knit cadre-based CPI-M and headed by one of the most outstanding personalities in State and national (...)
Ramsey Clark’s Statement to the Convention
25 June 2007
The following is the statement to the Convention from Ramsey Clark, the former US Attorney-General, whose outspoken indictment of the lawless US bombing of Iraq during Gulf War I in 1991, embodied in his report to the than UN Secretary-General, (...)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
25 June 2007, by C Raghavan
[(Remembering Emergency June 26, 1975)]
“Never trust your sons, nor treat them during your lifetime in an intimate manner; because, if the Emperor Shah Jehan had not treated Dara Shikoh in this manner, his affairs would not have come to such a (...)
Musings on the Nineteen Months
25 June 2007, by Harji Malik
[(Remembering Emergency June 26, 1975 )]
The nineteen-month nightmare is over. Emergency India with its strangulated press, its overcrowded jails, its emasculated courts, its stifling climate of fear, of suspicion, of helpless drifting towards (...)
Drop Charges, Release Dr Binayak Sen Forthwith
25 June 2007
We, the undersigned, are dismayed at the continued detention of Dr Binayak Sen, General Secretary of the Chhattisgarh People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), since May 14. Dr Binayak Sen is also the National Vice-President of the PUCL, one of (...)
On P.C. Joshi and Communist Unity : A Response
25 June 2007, by Satyapal Dang
The article “Let Us be Sincere about PCJ’s Centenary” by Com Diwan Singh Bajeli (Mainstream, April 14, 2007) criticising my article “CPI-M and P.C. Joshi: A Rejoinder” (Mainstream, September 23, 2006) was seen and read by me only on April 23, 2007 (...)
Asiad Games versus the Poor
25 June 2007, by Rajindar Sachar
I am greatly relieved that the Asiad Games bid by the Government of India has failed. I know, I am inviting the charge of being anti-patriotic and sports-spoiler but I feel so strongly about it that I am prepared to take the risk of being so (...)
Implications of Unimaginative Politics
25 June 2007, by Dev N Pathak
The doyen of sociologists, M.N. Srinivas, wrote toward the fag end of his sociological engagement, distilling his understanding on the inevitable connection between caste and politics in India, that Indians are ‘living in a revolution’. (1986) The (...)
If Kashmir is Disputed so can be Pakistan?
25 June 2007, by Suvrokamal Dutta
For several years now Pakistan and its dictatorial regimes have questioned the accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to India by stating and restating it again and again that the State of Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory. By (...)

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