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Some Questions around Kasab’s Case
1 June 2010, by Anand TeltumbdeThere was expected jubilation on May 6 when Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, that little devil who felled 72 innocent people including 14 policemen jointly with his deceased partner, Abu Ismail, on 26/11, was awarded death sentence by the Special Judge, (...) -
Impasse in Myanmar
1 June 2010, by Sonu TrivediMulti-party elections, as announced by the junta, to be held later this year raises hopes for ending the impasse in Myanmar. The pro-democracy activists and ethnic nationalities leaders are now awaiting the elections due this year. The (...) -
Power to the People and its Enemies
1 June 2010, by George MathewThe Open Society and its Enemies by Karl Popper saw way back in the 1940s how the open society was being wrecked from within, something the enemies of the Panchayati Raj are doing at present. All efforts to give power to the people through (...) -
A Feasible Solution to the Kashmir Imbroglio
1 June 2010, by Syed ShahabuddinThe heart of the Kashmir Dispute is the triple claim on the sovereignty over the state by India, Pakistan and the people of Kashmir. This continuing conflict has cast its shadow not only on the main protagonists or even the sub-continent as a (...) -
Contribution to Reduction of GHG Emissions by Grassroots Struggles
1 June 2010, by Bharat DograIn India (and elsewhere) we have several people’s struggles which are protesting against displacement and trying to protect their sustainable life-styles and livelihoods based on farmlands, pastures and forests, rivers and coastal areas. These (...) -
Rascal or Rogue? The Choice is Yours
1 June 2010, by T J S GeorgeJharkhand is a classic example of the damage the political class does to India. One of the richest parts of the country, it has been reduced to a cesspool of iniquity, graft, deception and crime. One statistic sums it up: in the nine years of (...) -
Cheonan Sinking: Implications for Peace in Northeast Asia
1 June 2010, by Rajaram PandaOn March 26, 2010, the Republic of Korea’s Navy corvette—1200-tonne Cheonan—sank in the Yellow Sea south of the disputed Northern Limit Line (NLL) near Baengnyeong Island. An explosion in the ship’s stern broke it into two parts.1 There were 104 (...) -
In the Wake of the Dantewada Killings
1 June 2010COMMUNICATION
This is with reference to the killing of 44 people —including 28 civilians and 16 special police officers—reportedly by Maoists, by blowing up a bus in Dantewada district (in Chhattisgarh) on May 17. (The Times of India, May 18, (...) -
CPI (Maoist) and Operation Green Hunt
1 June 2010COMMUNICATION
Introduction
About one hundred and fifty years ago Karl Marx in a historic study observed that British Imperial Capitalism smashed the economic foundation of the then pre-colonial India based on self-contained and self-sustained (...) -
Haunted by History
1 June 2010, by Mukul DubeIn this benighted present, with a bleak future stretching ahead, pieces of our history have come back to haunt us. There are differences, of course, but there are samenesses also.
“Naxalism” was described as a threat in the late 1960s and (...)
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