by PRATIP CHATTOPADHYAY
The following is an article written specially on the occasion of Communist stalwart S.A. Dange’s 113th birth anniversary on October 10, 2012.
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Reading Mohit Sen’s Autobiography in the Ideological Twilight of Indian Communism
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Remembering Theatre Critic Ramesh Chander ’Charlie’ (1917-2012)
16 October 2012, by S.K. PandeTRIBUTE
On September 26, 2012 at the ripe age of 97, veteran theatre critic Ramesh Chander, popu-larly known as ‘Charlie’, died in the Capital after a prolonged illness. With his death, India lost one of its oldest critics while Delhi definitely (...) -
Yet Another Mega Scam
16 October 2012, by P R DubhashiThe nation was reeling under the impact of two mega scams—the Commonwealth Games scam and 2G spectrum scam—when it was struck by yet another scam now known as the ‘Coalgate’ scam relating to the allocation of coal mines. It burst open when a (...) -
Behind Second Round of Big-ticket Reforms
11 October 2012, by SCThe massive countrywide bandh of September 20 against the UPA Government’s decisions to hike diesel prices, cut subsidy in cooking gas as well as introduce 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail and 49 per cent FDI in aviation obviously has had no (...) -
Tribute to Eric Hobsbawm
11 October 2012Eric Hobsbawm, 95, one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century, has passed into history. He breathed his last in London on Monday, October 1, 2012. When his historian colleague Victor Kiernan passed away in 2009 (also at the age of (...) -
War, Peace and Hegemony at the Beginning of the Twentyfirst Century
11 October 2012by Eric Hobsbawm
Let me begin by thanking The Book Review Literary Trust for inviting me to enjoy the privilege, tonight, of giving this second lecture in memory of Nikhil Chakravartty. I have a small personal qualification for giving it, for he (...) -
FDI in Multi-Retail is Anti-Aam Aadmi
11 October 2012, by Shyam ChandThe following article, by a Congress leader, is being reproduced from Mainstream (May 26, 2012).
Sam Walton, who created the largest and most powerful retail marketing organisation, died in 1992 as the richest man in America. Now his (...) -
Face of the New World Order
11 October 2012, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Turmoil in heaven—the heaven which is presided over by the supreme superpower of the day, possessing History’s largest number of deadly nuclear bombs and missiles, the Cruise to the Patriot, who at the same time lords it over (...) -
The Imperial ‘Pivot’ to Asia-Pacific
and the New Cold War
11 October 2012, by Ninan KoshyThe Pentagon document on Strategic Guid-ance, entitled “Sustaining Global Leadership: Priorities for Twenty First Century”, released in January 2012, has inaugurated a new cold war. If the theatre of the ‘old’ Cold War was Europe, the new theatre is (...) -
Questions of Freedom and People’s Emancipation — III
11 October 2012, by Kobad Ghandy[(Kobad Ghandy from Tihar Jail is writing on the concept of freedom vis-s-vis present-day society as also in relation to a future just order, bringing out some causes for the failure of the erstwhile socialist states. It will comprise a series (...)
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