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January 2009
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National and Global Actions: Essential for Inclusive Growth
26 January 2009, by Chaturanan MishraThe present economic crisis is global and has been caused by implementation of free trade as prescribed by the ‘Washington Consensus’. The worst victim of this crisis is the working class. Nevertheless the working class is not out on the streets. (...) -
South Asia gets a Makeover
26 January 2009, by M K BhadrakumarIndians would have remembered John Milton’s lines as they stepped into the New Year: “Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/Turn forth her silver lining on the night?” A hopeful, comforting prospect suddenly appeared from nowhere in the midst of the (...) -
Getting to the Roots of Global Terror
26 January 2009, by Gilbert SebastianThe Mumbai terror strikes on November 26, 2008 and a number of other terror attacks in the Indian cities have shocked our conscience and our sensibilities. The strikes on locations of the rich and powerful like the Taj and Trident hotels in the (...) -
The Challenge
26 January 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyWith every Republic Day come out only the glittering pageants but pious perorations. From Olympian heights come messages of exhortation for the common people all over the country. If words alone could move the millions, then every Republic Day (...) -
Remembering Bhowani Sen On His Birth Centenary
26 January 2009, by Bhowani Sen, SC, Susobhan SarkarJanuary 26 this year is not only our sixtieth Republic Day. It also marks the birth centenary of one of the most outstanding Communist leaders this country has produced—Bhowani Sen, who was described by C. Rajeswara Rao, the erstwhile CPI General (...) -
Rapid Inclusive Economic Growth: The Only Way Forward
26 January 2009, by Suhas BorkerThe only way forward, to put it simply in four words, is rapid inclusive economic growth. It is restoring the Idea of an inclusive India—which is as much an integral part of the Idea of India as a democratic and secular India, to the people of (...) -
Media Must Observe Restraint: South Asian Editors
26 January 2009[(DOCUMENT)]
The following is a press statement issued from Kathmandu on December 24, 2008.
As journalists from South Asia, we have been deeply saddened by the horrific killings in Mumbai and are also deeply concerned about the fallout of rising (...) -
Modernity Trouncing Tradition
26 January 2009, by Arun KumarI. First Impressions
There is little that prepares one for the surprise when one visits Shanghai for the first time. For all its rapid growth in the last 25 years, China is still one of the poor countries of the world and a part of the (...) -
Climate Change and Massive Distress in Bundelkhand
26 January 2009, by Bharat DograAfter nearly five years of drought conditions, rains came to the Bundelkhand region in a big way in June and July last year, and the authorities were quick to announce the end of drought. But six months later, as I sat surrounded by people of (...) -
Requiem on Singur
26 January 2009, by Subrata SinhaThe Singur land acquisition, accompanied by violence and police high-handedness in West Bengal, hit the national headlines in 2007. The forcible land annexation for the benefit of the Tata corporate group provoked a revolt by the local farming (...)