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In the Age of Climate Change and WMDs: How do We Need to Change?
13 April 2012, by Bharat DograFor thousands of years human beings, who reflected on the purpose of human life and reasons of distress, came to the conclusion that our life needs to change in very significant ways. At various levels they spoke against exploitation, injustice, (...) -
Energy Security
13 April 2012, by Bharat JhunjhunwalaThe energy crisis appears to be deepening. The global price of oil is increasing. United States’ President Obama has blamed this on higher consumption by India and China. Growing global energy shortage has encouraged coal-exporting countries like (...) -
Bismillah through the Motions
13 April 2012, by Mukul DubeFor some years now I have been going to protest demonstrations and meetings and seminars to take photographs which can then be used on the Internet and in other ways. In this work I try not to be sectarian: I go where I find myself agreeing with (...) -
Left at the Crossroads
13 April 2012, by Kripa ShankarThe tragedy of the communist movement in India has been that it wholly depended on the Soviet Union for guidance and considered any directive from it as the last wisdom which could not but be accepted as a religious tenet. The Soviet Union was (...) -
Chhattisgarh’s Wandering Tribes: Problems of IDPs on the Chhattisgarh-AP border
13 April 2012by MEDHA CHATURVEDI
Intense violence in Left Wing Extremism affected States has left hordes of local people homeless. The problem of internally displaced people within the Red Corridor is most acute in the areas falling on the (...) -
How Many Indians Are Poor?
13 April 2012by SANTOSH KUMAR MOHA PATRA
After more than six decades of independence, India is still groping in the dark in search of a realistic definition of what constitutes poverty and how many Indians are actually poor? Successive governments have (...) -
All India March to Parliament by SUCI (C)
13 April 2012Under the auspices of the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), a massive People’s March to Parliament was held on March 14 in New Delhi with the participation of nearly one lakh people from all over the country.
Raising slogans demanding (...) -
Silver Lining
2 April 2012, by SCProblems and crises don’t seem to leave the ruling United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre. The Army Chief, General V.K. Singh, has been regularly coming out with startling revelations and taking steps causing huge embarrassment for (...) -
Nuclear Energy and Rutherford-Szilard Episode
2 April 2012COMMUNICATION
As soon as Mainstream’s March 17, 2012 issue reached Kolkata, I received two phone calls from my two esteemed friends enquiring about the source of my information about the Rutherford-Szilard episode. (‘UN Must Outlaw Nuclear Power (...) -
Fourth BRICS Summit: Delhi Declaration
2 April 2012DOCUMENT
The following is the text of the Delhi Declaration issued by the Fourth BRICS Summit attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Presidents Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, Dmitry Medvedev of Russia, Hu Jintao of China and Jacob Zuma of (...)
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