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March 29, 2008
B.K. ROY BURMAN
Ambiguities, Incongruities, Inadequacies in Forest Dwellers Act 2006
S. NIHAL SINGH
Questions Chinese Leadership Cannot Ignore
ASH NARAIN ROY
Is Kosovo the End of Europe?
M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
Intrigue takes Afghanistan to the Brink
ASHOK CELLY
Neglected Function of Indian Universities
SUDHIR VOMBATKERE
Consequences : Agro-Economic Ramblings
EDITORIAL
In the Midst of Gloom
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Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Federalise Foreign Policy
29 March 2008, by S K Jain
The Indo-US nuclear deal has generated enough heat to cloud the stability of the Congress-led UPA Government. Without going into the argument over whether the nuclear deal is in or against our national interest, it has raised an important issue
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Neglected Function of Indian Universities
29 March 2008, by Ashok Celly
Universities are supposed to perform three major functions: teaching, research and extension. While the debate in our country, both in the academia and the media, has centred round the first two functions, the third is hardly talked about. Which
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Implementing Janadesh—The Task Ahead
29 March 2008, by Bharat Dogra
The Janadesh foot-march of 25,000 ‘oppressed of the earth’ from Gwalior to Delhi received a lot of well-deserved attention and praise. I talked to many of these members when they reached Delhi, when they were sitting on dharna and when they were
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Arab Christians: A Fight against Annihilation
29 March 2008, by Ginu Zacharia Oommen
West Asia is the birthplace of Christianity and home to some of the world’s most ancient Christian denominations, namely, Maronite Church, Greek Orthodox, Chaldeans, Nestorians, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic Church, Assyrian Church, Syrian Catholic
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Agro-Economic Ramblings
29 March 2008, by Sudhir Vombatkere
Small farmers survive on acre-sized plots
and landless labourers work on rich farmers’ lots.
They plough and they dig, work hard and save
while scientists learned rant and rave
that such methods are backward, and hi-tech can do
with chemical
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Role of Civil Society in the Empowerment of the Disabled
29 March 2008, by Duryodhan Nahak
Understanding disability has undergone a sea- change in the last few decades especially in the Western countries; this has been significantly shaped by what is known as the social model of disability. The ‘social model of disability’ was a
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Statement of Students Against Nuclear Power (SANP) on Indefinite Hunger Strike in Protest against Indo-US Nuclear Deal
29 March 2008
[(Kerala students, who have set up an organisation, Students Against Nuclear Power (SANP), were on indefinite hunger strike at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to project their demand that the Indo-US civil nuclear deal be scrapped, gave up their fast
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