May 10, 2008

An Immeasurable Tragedy
14 May 2008, by SC
Beyond all trivialities in the domestic field the tabling in the Rajya Sabha on May 6 of the Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill that guarantees one-third reservation of seats for women in Parliament and State Legislatures is indeed a (...)
Mounting Inflation and the Common Man
14 May 2008, by Ruddar Datt
The wholesale price index (WPI) touched the high level of 226.0 by end March 2008 as against 210.4 end March 2007 (1993-94=100) signalling a 7.4 per cent rise in the WPI during the year, the highest witnessed during the last ten years. It (...)
A Great Force of Peace and Harmony is No More
14 May 2008, by Manoranjan Mohanty
The news of the sudden passing away of Nirmala Deshpande, the most prominent Gandhian of contemporary India, is a great shock to all the workers in the peace and social transformation movements of India. Rajya Sabha MP, leader of the Harijan (...)
Significance of Vladimir Putin’s Presidency
14 May 2008, by Vladimir Radyuhin
Russia has a new President. On May 7, President Vladimir Putin has stepped down after serving two straight four-year terms and his chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev, who won the presidential election overwhelmingly in March, has taken over. (...)
Central Asia in World Politics
14 May 2008, by M K Bhadrakumar
Introduction
The doomsday predictions about the future of the newly independent Central Asian states that were endemic in the 1990s have died down. No one speculates anymore that it was inevitable that the region would descend into anarchy. (...)
Higher Education : Basic Problems
14 May 2008, by R M Pal
[(REVIEW ARTICLE)]
Towards a New Paradigm in Higher Education by Ashok Celly (ed.); Papaz Publication, Delhi; pp. 206; price: Rs 400.
Dr Celly has selected writings of well-known intellectuals and academics like Tagore, Professors Daya Krishna, (...)
Black and White
14 May 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
On September 2 came a proud moment in the nation’s history when Ms Harita Kaur Deol, a young girl from Chandigarh, landed at the Air Force Station at Yelahanka near Bangalore after completing her first solo flight—the first woman cadet of the (...)
A Few Unanswered Questions and Inherent Problems of Communist Movement
14 May 2008, by D P Sen
[(DISCUSSION
CPI leader and former Union Agriculture Minister Chaturanan Mishra, in his article “Need to Redefine Socialism after the Collapse of the Soviet Union” (Mainstream, Annual 2007), called for a discussion on the subject. D.G. Bokare’s (...)
Socialism : The Terminator of Democracy
14 May 2008, by K G Somasekharan Nair
At present a hot discussion on the subject—whether socialism is possible in future—continues after negative observations of Jyoti Basu on the subject recently. Along with a discussion on the possibility of socialism, a study on its acceptability (...)
Mayhem in Catalonia
14 May 2008, by Subrata Banerjee
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Spain was one of the most backward countries of Europe. The fabulous wealth plundered by the conquisitadores from America by utmost brutality was wasted in the conspicuous consumption of a decadent (...)

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