September 1, 2007

Hyderabad and Bhagalpur
4 September 2007, by SC
While the Left-Congress standoff on the nuclear deal continues, the two sides have lately been able to reach some agreement on the mechanism to be adopted to address the objections to the deal as well as evaluate the implications of the Hyde Act (...)
Letter to PM on Nuclear Deal
4 September 2007, by V R Krishna Iyer
Revered Prime Minister,
Onam salutations to you!
I address you, Dr Manmohan Singh, as a statesman who, when convinced, will change your view in tune with embarrassing truth and the inviolable obligation of high office to the supreme value of (...)
Why The Stand-Off?
4 September 2007, by A B Bardhan
[(CPI General Secretary A.B. Bardhan is the seniormost Left leader on the national plane after CPM patriarch Jyoti basu and former CPM General Secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet. This article of Bardhan is being published to help our readers get (...)
Dealing with United States
4 September 2007, by Nikhil Chakravartty
A strange situation of apparently contradictory facets marks the present phase of India’s relationship with the United States of America.
Of late, there is a surfeit of talks about “shared values” ranging from commitment to democracy, individual (...)
New ‘NATO of the East’ Takes Shape
4 September 2007, by M K Bhadrakumar
If optimism is a force multiplier, as former US Secretary of State Colin Powell once said, it has worked well so far for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. There were times in the past seven years when it seemed doubtful that the SCO would (...)
Urgent Need to Give the Children their Due
4 September 2007
[(Book Review)]
Locked Homes, Empty Schools: The Impact of Distress Seasonal Migration on the Rural Poor by Smita; photographs by Prashant Pranjiar, foreword by Amartya Sen; published by Zubaanbooks; pp. 200 Hb, 8"x11", landscaped, four colour (...)
Towards a Culture of Peace
4 September 2007, by Eduardo Faleiro
The last three decades have witnessed unprecedented conflict within and among nations, and religion has often been misused and invoked to justify sectarian strife. The United Nations, which was created “to save succeeding generations from the (...)
Importance of Productive Choices and Education in Reviving the Indian Economy: Lessons from the South Korean Model
4 September 2007, by O P Sha, R Sharma
“The Indian political system is far from participatory. In fact, it is elitist.” —Prof Jean Dreze1
Although Prof Dreze’s observation is on India’s political system, even a cursory look reveals the same bitter truth about the Indian (...)

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