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West Bengal: Younger CPM Leaders’ Attitude to Jyoti Basu
1 March 2010, by Barun Das GuptaHas the death of the nonagenerian party patriarch, Jyoti Basu, really caused an “irreparable loss” to the CPI-M or created a “void” in the party difficult to fill—as is being talked about in political circles? This writer does not think so. In his (...) -
Maoist Upsurge and the Development Strategy
1 March 2010, by Rakesh GuptaBOOK REVIEW
Maoism In India: Reincarnation of Ultra-Leftwing Extremism in the Twentyfirst Century by Bidyut Chakravarty and Rajat Kujur; Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, London and New York; 2010; pages (...) -
Turning a Blind Eye to “Economic Terrorists”
1 March 2010COMMUNICATION
I would support Naxalism sans its violence. Some call the Naxals “terrorists”. If at all they could be called terrorists, they are too small a section of the society. There is a larger and stronger class of capitalists, who should (...) -
Undercurrents of Kaimur
1 March 2010, by Amarendra KishoreBlood-curdling screams, spine-chilling blood-bath and heart-rending mass killings—these are an integral part of life in the Kaimur hills of Rohtas district in Bihar. With untamed dense forests, rain-kissed lush vegetation, challenging terrain, (...) -
Australian Violence Jai Ho!
1 March 2010, by T J S GeorgeOne reason for the continuing attacks by White Australians on Brown Indians is the Australian Government’s refusal to take them seriously, let alone see racism in them. They don’t take it seriously because they don’t take India seriously. And they (...) -
Terror Strikes at Pune and Silda
22 February 2010, by SCThe return of terror after a gap of 15 months (following the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008) has naturally caused consternation across the country: on February 13 a bomb blast ripped through Pune’s popular German Bakery, close (...) -
Right to Information versus Might of Disinformation
22 February 2010, by Era SezhiyanThe sine qua non of a functioning democracy is free and fair elections of the representatives by an enlightened citizenry. However, conduct of free and fair elections depends more on having a free and fair electoral machinery, free from the (...) -
Abuses of Biotechnology posing Threats to Survival
22 February 2010, by Sailendra Nath GhoshThe following is the lucidest possible exposition of transgenic genetic engineering. There has been no other exposition anywhere with comparable lucidity of this intricate subject. Since this kind of engineering poses a threat to life’s survival (...) -
3 Idiots versus ‘Two Idiots’
22 February 2010, by Braham DuttThe recent developments in Maharashtra are against the very spirit of our Constitution and unhealthy for the future of democracy in India. Both the senior and junior (Raj) Thackerays are competing with each other for their political survival and (...) -
Bt Brinjal is Neither the Beginning Nor the End
22 February 2010, by K SaradamoniA few days back, on January 26, 2010, we celebrated our sixtieth Republic Day, reminding us that we declared ourselves to be a sovereign Republic sixty years ago. We proclaimed that all people, living in this country, irrespective of religion, (...)
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