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April 2009
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Politics of Alliance in Bihar
26 April 2009, by Subodh KumarBihar politics continues to be full of surprises. The 14th Assembly elections in Bihar created history since Bihar is the only State in India’s electoral history where polls have been conducted twice in the same year (2005). The economy and (...) -
Letter from Kolkata: Decadence of Bengali Intelligentsia
26 April 2009, by Amitava MukherjeeAs the general election campaign is coming to a close, there are increasing signs that the Bengali intellectual life is at a crossroad, often exhibiting signs of terrible decay and partisanship, a direct result of penetration of Left ideas in (...) -
Congress, Left Must Get Together Again
26 April 2009, by Arjun SenguptaIt is high time the Congress and the Left got back together in national politics, which has degenerated into a fissiparous mess. All kinds of obscurantist, communal, and casteist forces have risen to the surface, pushing to the background the (...) -
Reservation and Sustainable Development of Muslims
26 April 2009, by N Jamal AnsariAt the outset, I wish to make it clear that the subject I have chosen is a sensitive subject, as it deals not only with the dream of development within the Muslim society of India but also the relationship with the country‘s power elite. I am not (...) -
Kandhamal Violence: Secularism and Democracy under Siege
26 April 2009, by Sunny JacobIn the light of the recent violence in Kandhamal every right thinking person of this country must be concerned of the dangers to democracy and the secularist ideals of our nation. The violence that started in December 2007 had already destroyed (...) -
Peace in Kandhamal
26 April 2009, by Ananta Kumar GiriI
It was two o clock in the morning. I had just woken up in the quiet village of Lakebadi in Kandhamal, still asleep in the lap of Nature and the Divine, and was looking at the beautiful mountains bathed in light with the rays of a blooming moon (...) -
Remembering Lenin
26 April 2009, by Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi[(April 22 this year marked the 139th birth anniversary of that immortal revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. On this occasion we carry the following tributes to Lenin from two of our most distinguished national leaders.)]
Bolshevism...aims at (...) -
Ominous Neighbourhood Scene
18 April 2009, by SCWith the pre-poll campaign bereft of any real issue, one is witness to unprecedented verbal slugfests—Gujarat CM Narendra Modi slamming the Congress as a budiya compared to the youthful BJP and then calling it gudiya in response to Priyanka (...) -
Whither General Elections 2009?
18 April 2009, by P R DubhashiThe expectations about the outcome of the forth-coming general elections are shrouded in a penumbra of uncertainty. No single political party or group of parties or political combinations is expected to win an absolute majority, leaving the (...) -
Whom to Vote?
18 April 2009, by Raj KishoreVoting is not a simple business. It is a false impression that the voter is the king. The king-maker certainly he is. But his choices are always limited. The boundaries are fixed by the contesting parties and individuals. The voter has no role (...)