September 13, 2008

• Moral Victory for Evicted Peasantry
  18 September 2008, by SC
  Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee characterised the accord reached late at night on Sunday (September 7) between the West Bengal State Government on the one hand and the agitators in Singur calling for land-for-land rehabilitation of  (...)
• Flood Havoc by Kosi River in Bihar
  18 September 2008, by Chaturanan Mishra
  North Bihar has floods every year and therefore there is a feeling that this year too it is largely the same as before even as the floods this time have devastated 16 districts, badly affecting some four million people. But this is not the case.  (...)
• Guns Versus Bread
  18 September 2008, by Bharat Dogra
  While the proliferation of arms has proved costly everywhere in terms of the increased risk to human lives, this cost has been the highest in communities already burdened heavily with poverty and denial of basic needs. As a recent report by  (...)
• Short-term and Long-term Causes of Popular Uprising in J&K
  18 September 2008, by Balraj Puri
  The Jammu and Kashmir State is passing through an unprecedented popular upsurge, for the first time simultaneously in its two main regions, though in divergent directions.
  Apparently, the cause of this upsurge is difference over government land  (...)
• Kashmir and Conscience
  18 September 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  In the brochures and posters of Indian tourism, Kashmir still figures with its enchanting attractions. In reality, however, the picturesque Valley of Kashmir is becoming out of bounds for the peace-loving citizens of this country.
  In a sense,  (...)
• Face of Deception and Betrayal
  18 September 2008, by Satish Chandra
  The UPA Government’s deception of the Indian people on the nuclear deal has been clearly exposed in the answers provided by the US State Department, on January 16, 2008, to the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in response to the  (...)
• Manmohan Outsources Political Sovereignty
  18 September 2008, by Sandhya Jain
  Some things are scandalously evident in the current nuclear tamasha in the Capital, even to a non-specialist like this writer.
  One, the drama over India getting the so-called waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group was totally engineered by the  (...)
• Hindu Gods Spike Chinese Dragon
  18 September 2008, by M K Bhadrakumar
  India’s National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan made an astounding claim in a television interview on August 6 that “divine intervention†might have secured for the country a “waiver†from the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG). The “waiver†  (...)
• On Sikhs in the Freedom Struggle
  18 September 2008, by Prem Singh
  REJOINDER
  There are a few inaccuracies in Kartar Singh Duggal’s article on the above subject which appeared in the ‘Independence Day Special’ issue of Mainstream (August 16, 2008). For example, the Punjab Land Colonisation Act, 1907 did not  (...)
• Conversions
  18 September 2008, by Badri Raina
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  Now, as Miss Austen would have said, it is a truth universally acknowledged that India is the world’s largest democracy.
  What, however, is less well-known is that it is also the most sinuously adjustable.
  Take any of India’s political  (...)

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