July 14, 2007

Face of the Danger
14 July 2007, by SC
The latest developments on the global terror front are definitely a cause for worry. The substantial Indian involvement in the three botched attempts at exploding car bombs in central London and Glasgow airport is indeed a matter of grave (...)
Chandra Shekhar’s Unforgettable Resistance to Globalisation
14 July 2007
[(Tribute)]
As the first phase of liberalisation in India drew to its completion, Chandra Shekhar, on August 9, 2000, the 58th anniversary of the ‘Quit India’ Movement, launched the Vikalp Abhiyan— a protest march against the forces of (...)
A Year in Power with the People - An Appraisal of The LDF Rule In Kerala
14 July 2007
It is too difficult for a government, especially a Left Government, to survive in a hypercritical society like Kerala. History shows that while the ‘pragmatic’ decisions of the Left governments were criticised for diluting radicalism and (...)
‘Global Islamism’, ‘Liberal Modernity’ and Corporate Globalisation : Today’s Complex Global Scene the Author Fails to Dissect
14 July 2007
BOOK REVIEW
by K. S. Subramanian
Rethinking Islamism: The ideology of the New Terror by Meghnad Desai; I. B. Tauris, London; 2007, pp. 196.
The distinguished author, an expatriate Indian, was Professor of Economics at the London School of (...)
Social Justice for the Muslim Community—Panacea for Upliftment
14 July 2007
[(COMMUNICATION)]
THROUGH EMPOWERMENT, PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT Shri Chaturanan Mishra, in his article “Basic Causes of Muslim Backwardness” (Mainstream, June 2, 2007), has failed both to diagnose the social malaise of which the Muslim (...)
Ode to a Garbage Bin
14 July 2007
This poem has been sent by Major General (retired) S.G. Vombatkere with a letter that reads: “Garbage Cess is being collected with effect from January 1, 2007 for door-to-door collection of garbage but the Garbage Bins at street corners are (...)
A Trickster Extraordinaire—Sordid tale of the Hathua Raj
14 July 2007, by D. Bandyopadhyay
The Bihar Land Reforms Commission visited Gopalganj on March 23, 2007. The mission was to hold a Jan Sunwai at Thave (near the Durga temple). On arriving at Gopalganj the Commission went to the Circuit House to have a broad view of the land (...)

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