October 2009

• Two Messages
  1 November 2009, by SC
  The one-day trilateral summit of the Foreign Ministers of Russia, India and China (RIC) successfully concluded in Bengaluru on October 27 with the joint communiqué issued at the end of the meet (their ninth) highlighting the need to coordinate  (...)
• Indira Gandhi’s Place In History
  1 November 2009, by K. Natwar Singh
  October 31 marks the twentyfifth anniversary of Indira Gandhi’s martyrdom. On this occasion we are carrying the following piece by the former External Affairs Minister who had worked under her for several years and seen her from close quarters.  (...)
• To be a Kashmiri and/or a Muslim!
  1 November 2009, by Humra Quraishi
  The detention-cum-interrogation of the two young Kashmiri cricketers by the Bangalore Police is yet another of those ongoing instances of bias and insensitivity. How easy it is for the police to arrest Kashmiri Muslims! The ground-work is well  (...)
• Nikhilda: Some Nostalgic Reflections
  1 November 2009, by P.V. Narasimha Rao
  On November 3, 2009 N.C. would have completed 96 years had he been alive. On the occasion of his ninetyseventh birthday we reproduce what a former PM and a veteran journalist (both of whom are no longer in our midst) wrote about him after he  (...)
• Nikhilda
  1 November 2009, by Chanchal Sarkar
  When I first came to work in Delhi the most respected journalistic figure here was Sir Usha Nath Sen, one of the founders of the Associated Press of India which eventually became the PTI (Press Trust of India). Sir U.N. once told me of his guru  (...)
• Regrettable Lapse
  1 November 2009, by Nilokheri Ranbir Singh
  COMMUNICATION
  I am grateful to you for publishing my piece “Unfinished Agenda of Gandhi’s Gram Swaraj: Fifty Years of Panchayati Raj†(Mainstream, October 10, 2009). But in this context I must bring to your kind notice a serious lapse that I have  (...)
• Making a Farce of Vulgarity, too
  1 November 2009, by T J S George
  Mukesh Ambani’s salary is Rs 44.2 crores a year, about three-and-a-half crores a month. In a country where the poor outnumber the well-to-do, that seems vulgar. On the other hand, the big salary works out to 0.23 per cent of the Ambani  (...)
• A Nowhere Approach to India’s Nowhere Revolution
  1 November 2009, by Ajay K. Mehra
  The political, social and administrative discourse on Naxalism, India’s hydra-headed ‘nowhere revolution’1 , that in the past five years has spread from ten States to twenty, from 168 districts to 223 (out of about 626) and 2000 police stations, is  (...)
• Indian State and the Spectre of Naxalism
  1 November 2009, by Arup Kumar Sen
  Very recently, our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reiterated once again that the Maoists pose the greatest internal security threat to the country. The Central Government is going to launch the biggest-ever operation against the Maoists,  (...)
• Musahar-Maoist Combination: Are the Poorest Asserting themselves in Bihar?
  1 November 2009, by A K Biswas
  The latest round of agrarian violence reported from Khagaria district’s Icharwa char under Alauli Police Station1 of Bihar, disturbing though it is, it seems, is a powerful attempt by the weakest to ultimately defend themselves by the last  (...)

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