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Remembering Delhi Declaration on Non-violent and Non-nuclear World
19 February 2012, by Arun MohantyTwentyfive years have passed since the signing of the mostly-forgotten Delhi Declaration on Non-violent and Non-nuclear World. The Delhi Declaration on Non-violent and Non-nuclear World was truly a unique document that has been consigned to (...) -
India-Pakistan: Unlocking the Status Quo
19 February 2012by ALI AHMED
India is watching with bated breath as Pakistan attempts to ‘normalise’ its civil-military relations. For India there is considerable benefit in the outcome going a certain way. It looks forward to a dividend in the outbreak of (...) -
Goa — The Liberators and the Lesson
19 February 2012, by Ajoy Ghosh[(On February 20 this year falls the 103rd birth anniversary of Ajoy Ghosh, the fourth General Secretary of the CPI and the last of the undivided Communist Party (October 1950-January 1962). While remembering him we reproduce, with due (...) -
Commendable Analysis of Present Crisis in World Capitalism
19 February 2012BOOK REVIEW
by BISHWAJIT SEN
Democratic Revolution for Economic Democracy by U.N. Mishra; New Generation Press, Delhi; Price: Rs 125.
This is a brief treatise attempting to explain the present crisis in world capitalism. With banks collapsing (...) -
Importance of being the General
19 February 2012, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
Although there is us yet no clear indication as to when the Lok Sabha elections will take place, the electioneering season has already arrived. Both the Opposition and the ruling party have opened their propaganda guns, and (...) -
Publicise Nurses’ Strike in Kerala
19 February 2012COMMUNICATION
It has been months since nurses from private hospitals of Kerala are on strike. They are striking for minimum wages and basic facilities in their working place. As you know, in India the private hospital industry is in the hands of (...) -
Language of Love and Death: Fifty Years of Assam’s Language Movement
19 February 2012by NABANIPA BHATTACHARJEE
The Beginning of Things
Of the major issues that informed the culture and politics of post-independence Assam, none (other than the issue of immigration) perhaps acquired the kind of centrality that language did. The (...) -
On Death(s): Mapping the Public Culture of Death in India
19 February 2012by SRABANI RAI CHAUDHURI
The multiple connections between human lives and political affairs have been well-explored in the writings of almost every political philosopher or thinker we are familiar with.
What is politics? What is the art of (...) -
Dalai Lama on Secular Ethics, Opening China’s Mind for its Own Future
19 February 2012, by Sagari ChhabraIn the struggle over a homeland, how have you managed to keep six million Tibetans completely non-violent?
Before Buddhism, Tibet was all tribes using the sword and horse. Then Buddhism reached—the whole way of life changed. But Tibetans from (...) -
Frontal Attack on Democratic Values
14 February 2012, by SCAs the campaign for the Assembly elections in the poll-bound States, especially UP, gathers increasing momentum with political leaders of all parties of consequence in these provinces trading charges against each other and making tall promises (...)
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