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June 2009
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The EMS I Admired
22 June 2009, by Kuldip NayarI was Home Minister Govind Ballabh Pant’s Press Secretary when I saw E.M.S. Namboodiripad for the first time at the meeting of State Chief Ministers. He looked different from the rest. He wore a coloured bush shirt while they donned white khadi (...) -
EMS on Planning
22 June 2009, by Prabhat PatnaikMarxism, as is well-known, does not see ‘theory’ and ‘praxis’ as two separate entities. The journey from the abstract to the concrete, from ‘theory’ to ‘praxis’ is as much a theoretical effort as an effort of praxis. E.M.S. Namboodiripad’s theoretical (...) -
Poverty Syndrome: Various Facets
22 June 2009, by Vinod AnandThe literature review shows that poverty definitions currently used by various countries (especially developing) for administering their poverty programmes are inadequate, because very little research has been done in this area.
In fact, (...) -
Punjab: What Next?
22 June 2009, by Nikhil Chakravartty[(This month marked the twentyfifth anniversary of ‘Operation Bluestar’ that culminated in the liquidation of Jarnail Singh Bhindarwale in Amritsar’s Golden Temple but eventually led to the assassination of Indira Gandhi on the last day of October (...) -
Economic Crisis and Women: A Draft
22 June 2009, by Devaki Jain[(Women’s World)]
The recently generated turbulence in the global economy has not only drawn attention to various forms of distress, but also generated a flood of introspection on economic reasoning, and a flood of ideas on other ways of (...) -
Stimulating Exercise unfolding Socialist Future
22 June 2009, by K S Subramanian[(Book Review)]
Workers Politics, the Ethics of Socialism by William Ash; Bread Books, Coventry, UK; 2007; pp. 340.
This is a remarkable book by a remarkable author! William Ash is an acclaimed novelist, script editor, journalist and (...) -
Lest We Forget
22 June 2009[(Several noted personalities, some of them friends and associates of Mainstream, have left us in the last few months. We pay our sincere, though belated, homage to their abiding memory.)]
On November 9, 2008 passed away in New Delhi Mahendra (...) -
Substantive and Meaningful
13 June 2009, by SCThe last seven days have been witness to two striking events.
President Barack Obama‘s historic and landmark speech in Cairo on June 4 through which he sought to reach out to the Islamic world was indeed refreshingly new from the side of (...) -
Cairo, Islamabad, Delhi And Washington D.C.: Unitive Quantrangle through Obama Incarnation
13 June 2009, by V R Krishna IyerThe world is never static. It is ever dynamic. Obama is the new avatar for transformation of a new unitive world order inspired by a spiritual-material comity of humanity rid of the pathology of theological obscurantism and terrorist inhumanity. (...) -
Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils
13 June 2009, by Era SezhiyanEra Sezhiyan, a former Member of Parliament, has brought to light the documents relating to India’s co-sponsoring and supporting the Sri Lankan resolution to the UN Human Rights Council on May 27, 2009, commending the acts of the Sri Lanka. Below (...)