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March 15, 2008
P.B. SAWANT
My Lords, the Fundamentals are Missing
MUKUL DUBE
The Hindutva Experiment: from Lab to Factory?
BIJOYA CHANDA
My Latest Experiences in Nandigram
MATHEW AERTHAYIL
Agrarian Crisis in India is a Creation of the Policy of Globalisation
M.K. BHADRAKUMAR
China, India play it again for Uncle Sam
SURENDRA MOHAN
Tribute : A Journalist with a Vision
EDITORIAL
Reverse the Trend
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A Journalist with a Vision
16 March 2008, by Surendra Mohan
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Upendra Vajpayee, who passed away last month, was a life-long journalist. After his release from the jail in 1945, he completed his education and joined the profession. His father, Ambika Dutta Vajpayee, was a distinguished freedom
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What is Fundamentalism?
16 March 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
Fundamentalism has become a much-used term today—in politics and in the academia. And there are in vogue various types of the so-called fundamentalists—political, religious and cultural.
But before cataloguing these various tribes of
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Perils of Judicial Activism
16 March 2008, by Ranbir Singh
The rise of judicial activism has been rightly described by the Editor-in-Chief of India Today as one of the sixty revolutions in independent India’s sixty-year history. But it could also be viewed as one of the most controversial, if not
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Tug of War between Judiciary and Parliament : A Burning Question
16 March 2008, by Narain Dutt
On August 15, 1947, after ruling the subcontinent for over 200 years, the British surrendered power and India became a free country. India adopted the path of parliamentary democracy. The British parliamentary system left a lasting impress on
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Death Penalty—State Hate
16 March 2008, by Sangeeta Mall
The only files the outgoing President, Dr Abdul Kalam, did not clear were the mercy petitions of 50 prisoners on death row, some of them there for as long as 10 years. Going by the rate at which justice is delivered to these convicts, these
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Dera Controversy in Punjab:
16 March 2008, by Kavaljit Singh
“Choon kar az hamaan heelte dar guzashat, halaal ast burden ba shamshir dast (When all the modes of redressing a wrong have failed, raising the sword is pious and just),” Akal Takht Jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti quoted Guru Gobind Singh, while
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