by Anwar Sadat
Finance constitutes one of the most crucial aspects of negotiations dealing with the two major global environmental problems—biological diversity and climate change. It not only has the potential to ensure broadest possible (...)
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Mistaken Stress on Doubling the
Fund for Biological Diversity
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Whither Left?
3 January 2013, by C.N. Chitta RanjanAfter the fall of the Janata Government at the Centre, a process of realignment of political forces appeared to have begun, rousing hopes for the emergence of a broad Left and democratic front embracing the whole spectrum covered by this (...) -
For a New Frontier
3 January 2013, by C.N. Chitta RanjanFifteen years have gone by and yet the Kashmir dispute has defied settlement. And today it has got entangled in a mass of other issues, ranging from defence against the Chinese menace to the securing of Western aid.
The six rounds of ministerial (...) -
Bijbehara: A Challenge to Nation’s Conscience
3 January 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyAutumn has set in—the chinar in its gorgeous robe. But it is an autumn of bitter sorrow for the hapless people of Kashmir. The Valley which was known as the paradise on earth has been turned into a trough of hatred, of blood and tears. On Friday (...) -
Grim Warning from Bhopal
3 January 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyIt was a massacre of innocents by all counts. What happened at the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in the early morning of December 3 was not just a tragedy but a heinous crime which killed nearly two thousand and hospitalised countless others, (...) -
After Nehru; Lobbies Squabble
3 January 2013As the golden flame licked up the funeral pyre, an unforgettable scene ended near the banks of the Jumna and under the shadow of the Red Fort.
It was an emotional experience without precedence, to watch this mightiest demonstration of love and (...) -
Good-bye to all that
3 January 2013There comes a moment in the life of a paper, as in the life of many an individual, when the sense of purpose is in danger of being lost by the constraints of circumstances. Such a moment has come today for Mainstream, after more than fourteen (...) -
New Stature, New Tasks
3 January 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyIt is like the end of a long night for men, women, and children of this country as Bangladesh proclaims her independence from Pakistan’s military junta. The rejoicing is not merely in the feat of arms—though the military defeat of the much-vaunted (...) -
Indo-Pakistan Relations: New Perspective
3 January 2013Military aid has suddenly become the main topic of political discussion in New Delhi, almost downgrading Sheikh Abdullah’s olive-branch mission to Pakistan and Sri Nehru’s repeat offer to Peking to open negotiations.
This is somewhat natural in (...) -
Baptism of Fire
3 January 2013Dear Reader,
Our country and our people have been through a baptism of fire on the northern border in the past month. The Chinese aggressor by his unprincipled and unscrupulous rape of our soil has brought home to us many disturbing truths. What (...)