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February 2009
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Satyam Episode and India’s Corporate Image
19 February 2009, by P R DubhashiThe Satyam scandal has shaken not only the corporate world but the entire governmental system at the State and Central levels. The Prime Minister was himself deeply worried. He described the scandal as a blot on the corporate image of India and (...) -
Analysing The Satyam Affair: Pointers to Business Fraud in India
19 February 2009, by Arun KumarBusiness fraud is nothing new in India. Businessmen are known to go to great lengths to make money through legitimate and illegitimate ways. Clever accountants and lawyers are employed to devise ways to generate higher profits for the (...) -
Desperate Capitalism, Disparaged State, and Doctored Democracy
19 February 2009, by Dev N PathakSatyam! Shivam! Sundaram??
The nation wakes up to the news of the day on January 16, 2009: The Prime Minister addresses the captains of industry, sending a message to India Inc. at the Trident Oberoi hotel in Mumbai. The content: ‘Everything is (...) -
Cuba Fifty
19 February 2009, by Badri RainaDear Fidel,
The Trotskyites say
That the revolution you made
Was not a proper one;
It was not even socialist.
It was not led by the proletariat,
But by petty-bourgeois, nationalist elements.
They remind us that on your
First trip to the United (...) -
Press Freedom in Nepal
19 February 2009From February 5 to 8, 2009 an International Media Mission was in Nepal for a rapid assessment of the serious situation with regard to press freedom in that country. The mission members were: Toby Mendel and Sejal Parmar (Article 19), Sukumar (...) -
Nothing Left to Say
19 February 2009, by Spencer A. Leonard[( A few days ago the Mainstream editor received the following article with a letter from the author that read:
“I’m a historian of India from the University of Chicago where I’m presently completing my dissertation under the supervision of (...) -
In the Wake of the Mumbai Terror
19 February 2009, by Arup Kumar SenThe nerve-wracking hours of terror in Mumbai are over. Now it is the time of reckoning. Sensible observers remind us that our experience of terror attacks has a long history. The eminent Indian writer, Amitav Ghosh, observes in this connection (...) -
And Then They Came For Me
19 February 2009, by Lasantha Wickrematunga[(Media)]
Lasantha Wickrematunga was the founder editor of the Sri Lankan publication, The Sunday Leader. He was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Colombo on January 8, 2009. He had a strange premonition of his impending assassination and (...) -
Peace Prospects in Sri Lanka
19 February 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThe inadvertent remarks by our High Commissioner in Colombo about payment of a good sum to the LTTE leader has not only come as a total surprise but has led to repercussions which are turning out to be highly embarrassing for the government. (...) -
Exposing the Fallacy in the Current Policy of Economic Development
19 February 2009, by B P Mathur[(Review Article)]
Alternative Economic Survey, India 2007-08: Decline of the Developmental State by Alternative Survey Group; Daanish Books, Delhi; 2008, pp. 319, Rs 295.
The global economy is today facing unprece-dented crisis with falling (...)