July 26, 2008

• Novel Presentation of Freedom Struggle and Partition
  30 July 2008, by Mahi Pal Singh
  [(Book Review)]
  Company Raj Se Gantratra Tak by Prof Mushirul Hasan (Hindi translation of the author’s ‘From John Company to the Republic’—translated by Mrs Madhuri Pal); Aakar Books, New Delhi; pp. 275; Rs 395.
  There has been a great need and  (...)
• Learning from Clinton Climb-down
  30 July 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  Sometimes the man-in-the-street’s reactions to world events turn out to be more pertinent than the profundities of foreign-policy pundits. Not that the foreign policy of a country could be decided by the public excitement of the day. There are  (...)
• Confidence Motion and Communists
  30 July 2008, by Chaturanan Mishra
  I don’t mind Communists voting with the BJP because I think in the parliamentary system such a situation is unavoidable particularly as the BJP has acquired the position of one of the biggest all-India parties. But this time it was our own  (...)
• Open Letter to the Prime Minister to Scrap the Indo-US Nuclear Deal
  30 July 2008
  Dear Prime Minister,
  We, the undersigned, demand scrapping of the Indo-US nulcear deal with immediate effect. The content of the deal, which is currently being negotiated between India and the US, was first laid out in the Joint Statement  (...)
• An Open Letter to the UPA Government from an Independent
  30 July 2008, by Nina Dey Gupta
  The ‘Trust Vote’ has been cast and won by 19 votes on July 22 but at what price?? The distrust of the government by the people does not decrease in the awareness of the immoral ladder used to acquire the ‘magical’ number for survival. Post-Left  (...)

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