April 2009

• Elections and the Maoist Phenomenon
  26 April 2009, by SC
  Exactly a week ago, on April 16, the process of the 15th general elections was set in motion when 124 Lok Sabha constituencies in 17 States and Union Territories went to polls in the first phase of the massive electoral exercise. These included  (...)
• Please Help Mallika Sarabhai‘s Election Campaign
  26 April 2009, by Ashoke Chatterjee
  Dear Friends,
  I am sure you know that Mallika Sarabhai is standing as an Independent candidate from the Gandhinagar constituency, opposing Shri L. K. Advani. The challenge as well as the significance of Mallika’s effort is relevant not just  (...)
• Bravo, Mr Naveen Patnaik! Keep It Up!
  26 April 2009, by D. Bandyopadhyay
  It was sheer delight to watch your performance in the TV interview with Mr Karan Thapar. Your clipped upper-class monosyllabic replies warmed up the heart of an old Anglophile. After all, the British did not rule this country in vain. Today we  (...)
• Letter to PM on Binayak Sen‘s Incarceration
  26 April 2009, by V R Krishna Iyer
  The following is the text of a letter written by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, the former Supreme Court Judge, to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, dated April 17, 2009.
  I would like to bring to your attention a case of grave injustice which is a  (...)
• Language and Politics
  26 April 2009, by Sharad Rajimwale
  Why is it that as the date of polling gets closer, the politicians’ tongues tend to break all bonds of decency within which they have long been tutored to remain? It is indeed disturbing for us to witness all this day in and day out. To say that  (...)
• Clean Politics demands No Corporate Funding to Political Parties
  26 April 2009, by Rajindar Sachar
  Recently there has been a heated public debate on TV about donations being made by the corporate sector to various political parties for elections, mainly to the Congress and BJP and to some others—depending on which area a particular company has  (...)
• Tibet and Indian Diplomacy
  26 April 2009, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  In the hurly-burly of day-to-day politics, Tibet has receded quite a distance in our horizon. Even when we talk about the political environment in our neighbourhood, Tibet rarely figures in it.
  In the discussions with the Chinese, whether  (...)
• Elections: Trends and Projections
  26 April 2009, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  In the midst of a general election, it is obviously unfair to predict who or which party is going to emerge victorious or be in a position to form the next government. This is doubly true in a situation facing us today in which no party can  (...)
• Election Titbits, Sad Absence of Ideology
  26 April 2009, by Shree Shankar Sharan
  This must be one of the dullest elections held and the most uncertain in terms of the outcome. People have walked in and walked out of parties. Winnability and notoriety have been equated. Past performance has ceased to matter. Ideology has been  (...)
• Electoral Kaleidoscope of India 2009
  26 April 2009, by Ranbir Singh
  The forthcoming elections to the Lok Sabha have witnessed the emergence of a kaleidoscopic pattern of electoral competition which is baffling the Indian voter. The pattern of frequently changing political alignments has made her/his confusion  (...)

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