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March 2009
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Reflections on a Visit to Bangladesh
2 April 2009, by Ranjan GuptaMy father was a Bengali from East Bengal though he lived most of his life in Calcutta. After the age of ten I have never lived in Bengal and only visited it occasionally. It may sound exaggerated, a bit of a hyperbole, but on my first proper (...) -
How do We React to Varun’s Outbursts?
2 April 2009, by Chandra SenBefore the country gets into the real election mode, we, secular Indians of all persuasions, have been shocked into silence by the fulminations of young Varun Gandhi. Some veterans, in whose minds his father Sanjay’s deeds during the infamous (...) -
Smitu Kothari Is No More
2 April 2009Distinguished environmentalist and prominent scholar-activist Smitu Kothari is no more. He passed away at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on March 23.
Smitu, 59, was attending a Delhi Solidarity Group meeting at (...) -
On People‘s Movement at Singur and Mainstream
2 April 2009, by D. Bandyopadhyay[(COMMUNICATION)]
This has reference to Mr D.P. Sen‘s piece entitled “Mainstream and Nano Car Project of the Tatas at Singur” published in Mainstream (March 14, 2009). I am not surprised to go through this fairly provocative comment of Mr Sen. (...) -
Momentous Victory for Pakistani People
21 March 2009, by SCIt has indeed been a momentous victory for the people of Pakistan. While the pre-poll political alignments and realignments as well as seat-sharing problems plus inner-party dissidence and bickerings (alongside blatantly communal pronouncements (...) -
In Defence of Professor Lotika Sarkar
21 March 2009Professor Lotika Sarkar is a widely-known pioneer in the fields of law, women’s studies and human rights. She taught criminal law and conflict of laws at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi and has been an active member of the Indian Law (...) -
New Focus—Dynamic Paradigm—and New Accountability for Parliamentary Polls
21 March 2009, by V R Krishna IyerElections are for Parliament not for constituencies or parties. We need Members of Parliament, not of constituencies but to represent the nation, not to indulge in vocal magnum battles to earn more emoluments and power but fighters for the (...) -
Meaning of ‘Instability’
21 March 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThe general elections have already come and the political parties have been getting ready how they will enter the mass campaign in the next two months or so. Here is an election that has been forced upon us because the parties that returned to (...) -
On Rammanohar Lohia’s 99th Birth Anniversary
21 March 2009The birth centenary celebrations of Dr Rammanohar Lohia, the stormy petrel of the Indian socialist movement, one of the most talented and versatile personalities in the freedom struggle, and a profound, innovative and original socialist thinker, (...) -
Meaning of Modern Civilisation
21 March 2009, by Rammanohar LohiaI once asked a philosopher from America, Scott Buchanan, what modern civilisation meant. At that time stood before me the tall and graceful buildings of Paris and there moved before me the pageant of Parisian men and women with their health and (...)