May 17, 2008

• Fighting Terror—of Different Hues
  23 May 2008, by SC
  The terrorist blasts in the Pink City of Jaipur on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 have jolted the people at large not just because of the scale of the success achieved by the demented persons indulging in such inhuman criminal activities—80 killed and  (...)
• Mongolia: Beware of Colour Revolution
  23 May 2008, by Ash Narain Roy
  Revolutionaries are usually the last people to grasp that they are past their sell-by date. More so when they act as agents of outside powers. The colour revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia seem to be turning pale precisely on this account. Now  (...)
• Nandigram Act II: Politics of Governance in West Bengal
  23 May 2008, by Arup Kumar Sen
  Nandigram is witnessing the ugly face of violence on the eve of the panchayat elections. Recent media reports suggest that violence has become an organic part of the structure of governance in the region.
  It may be recalled in this connection  (...)
• Aao Ham Sangharsh Karen
  23 May 2008, by Sudhir Vombatkere
  The “Sangharsh Dharna†held from April 28-30, 2008 at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi was in opposition to the general trend and large portions of the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill 2007, and the Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2007. These  (...)
• Burma: Referendum and Resistance
  23 May 2008, by J Sri Raman
  It is a bestseller, but barely popular with its readers. The 194-page volume, which hit the bookstands in Burma on April 24, was the long-awaited draft Constitution authored by the country’s military junta, without consulting most of its people.  (...)
• Nepal Must Not Repeat History
  23 May 2008, by Bharat Jhunjhunwala
  The three main points in the programme of the victorious Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) are land to the tiller, autonomy to regions and ‘industrial capitalism geared towards socialism’. Land to the tiller is clearly a winner. India  (...)
• Valuable Addition to Literature on Past and Present Afghanistan
  23 May 2008, by Amna Mirza
  BOOK REVIEW
  State Building in Afghanistan: Linkages with International Politics by Uma Shankar; Academic Excellence Publishers; 2008.
  To understand the significance that Afghanistan commands in international politics, here comes a  (...)
• Violence in the age of Empire
  23 May 2008, by Rajesh Kumar Sharma
  Dictionaries are notoriously status-quoist when it comes to registering change. They continue to explain violence principally as the unlawful exercise of physical force causing physical injury or damage to a person or property. Decades after the  (...)
• Release Eminent Hindi Journalist Dr Mehruddin Khan
  23 May 2008, by Bharat Dogra
  COMMUNICATION
  Several journalists, writers and their organisations have expressed their distress at the recent arrest of Dr Mehruddin Khan, an eminent Hindi journalist and writer. His journalism is concerned with highly relevant social  (...)
• Another Election Where Voters Will Lose
  23 May 2008, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS Only fools and TV channels predict election results. And IPS-IAS opportunists. In 1977, after two years of Emergency repression, the Intelligence Bureau famously advised Indira Gandhi that she would easily win a general election. She  (...)

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