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August 2009
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Dr Ambedkar—A Conscience-keeper of Gandhiji
19 August 2009, by Shyam ChandDr Ambedkar was against hero worship. But the Dalits worship him as a liberator, a social reformer and a great crusader who fought for their political rights. Dalits, who have read Dr. Ambedkar and Gandhiji, not only equally revered Gandhiji but (...) -
Concern Over a Pernicious Agreement
19 August 2009, by Ashok ParthasarathiA critical agreement finalised during US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to India last month was the Indo-US End-Use Monitoring Agreement, or EUMA. It involves US Government inspectors continuously monitoring all hi-tech weapons and (...) -
Book Review: A Deeply Reflective Study of India’s Foreign Policy
19 August 2009, by S D MuniChallenge and Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy by Rajiv Sikri; Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi; 2009; pp. XX + 317; price: Rs 595.
Those writing and researching on India’s foreign policy often are constrained by the lack (...) -
Soldiers in the Nationalist Struggle
19 August 2009, by Pritish AcharyaThe national movement in India was one of the longest and most widespread mass movements in the history of the modern world. Though it was initiated by a handful of newly educated persons, gradually more and more people got associated with it (...) -
Tribute: Baba Bhagat Singh Bilga and Vimla Dang - Pride of Punjab
19 August 2009, by Chaman LalBaba Bhagat Singh Bilga, the lone surviving Ghadarite revolutionary of India, breathed his last on May 22, 2009 at England in his son’s house. He had just completed 102 years of age the previous month. He was as alert as ever when I met him last (...) -
Committing to Continuity
19 August 2009, by Namrata GoswamiWhen Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama emerged as a front-runner in the 2008 US Presidential elections, many in India especially in the policy circles were worried. The argument was that “the George W. Bush Jr years” had been (...) -
Was Partition of India Inevitable?
19 August 2009, by R M PalThis article was sent to us quite sometime back but could not be used earlier for unavoidable reasons. —Editor
On the black Saturday evening my family and I switched on the TV and heard the black and sad news of Pakistan coming under emergency (...) -
A Sell-Out to the Powerful: History Repeats Itself
19 August 2009, by Sudhir VombatkereIntroduction
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are not a new concept, but the scale, speed and socio-economic ambience in which these are being created are entirely new. Since the enactment of the SEZ Act 2005, 300 SEZs are functional and 560 more (...) -
Tribute to Subhas Chakraborty: A Maverick Communist with Mass Following
19 August 2009, by Sumit ChakravarttyThe untimely death of Subhas Chakraborty, 68, West Bengal’s Minister for Transport, Sports and Youth Affairs, in Kolkata on August 3 has caused a genuine void in the State’s Left circles. A maverick Communist in every sense being unorthodox and (...) -
On Batla House and NHRC, Shopian Killings and Para-military Behaviour
19 August 2009, by Humra QuraishiSeveral academics and activists together with legal experts have countered the NHRC report on the alleged encounter at Batla House. Space constraints will come in the way, so let me focus only on two such reports.
One report is sent by Anhad’s (...)