For A Programme of Caste-Ending Bourgeois Democratic Revolution And Socialist Transition
‘…. He (communist/socialist) will be compelled to take account of caste after (socialist) revolution if he does not take account of it before revolution…You (...)
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February 2009
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Search For Aborigines, or Sudra Varna, or Caste-Ending Equality?
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US Options to Restore Security in South Asia after 26/11
2 March 2009, by Neha KumarIt has been almost three months since the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai generated tension between two nuclear neighbourhoods in South Asia. Pakistan was reluctant to accept Kasab as a Pakistani national and take appropriate action to curb the (...) -
Apt Addition to Discourse on Religious Diversity
2 March 2009, by Amna Mirza[(BOOK REVIEW)] Inter-Religious Communication—A Gandhian Perspective by Margaret Chatterjee; Promillla & Co. Publishers, New Delhi; 2009; pages 200; price: Rs 425.
Religion in India is a realm where diversity clashes with faith and belief. A (...) -
New Delhi‘s Legitimate Concern
23 February 2009, by SCThere is justified concern in New Delhi over the latest development in Pakistan: Islamabad signing a peace deal with the founder of the Tanzim Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) so that there is cessation of fighting in the Swat valley (...) -
Interim Budget: An Ordinary Exercise in Extraordinary Times
23 February 2009, by Kamal Nayan KabraAn Interim Budget that expressly avoids making big policy choices except presenting projections over the likely values of the main budgetary variables for the coming fiscal year in the form of a Vote on Account may stand on sound footing in (...) -
On Limitations of Pre-Election Interim Budget
23 February 2009, by Era SezhiyanThe last session of Parliament before a General Election is normally intended to present Interim Budget and get Vote on Account to provide the government with necessary funds for the following financial year, pending the vote of final supply.. (...) -
State of the Economy and Interim Budget 2009-10
23 February 2009, by Arun KumarMuch was expected from the Interim Budget for 2009-10 given the deep economic crisis facing the Indian economy. These expectations were belied. The FM took refuge behind constitutional propriety for not announcing any new policy initiatives. (...) -
How India should Respond to Western Duplicity
23 February 2009, by Kunal GhoshThe signals coming out of Obama’s Washington D.C. and the message conveyed by the Foreign Secretary of UK, David Miliband, during his recent trip in India (January 2009) are concerted. Miliband conveyed in no uncertain terms that Kashmir is an (...) -
Obama’s Middle East Policy: Beyond Special Envoys…
23 February 2009, by Seema SridharThe Middle East quandary is perhaps the most crucial legacy in foreign policy that Obama inherits as the 44th President of the United States. The mounting of tensions with the Israeli blockade of Gaza has effectively rendered the policy of (...) -
Remembering Ajoy Ghosh on his Birth Centenary
23 February 2009, by SCThe birth centenary of Ajoy Ghosh, the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (October 1951-January 1962), falls on February 20, 2009. He took over the reins of the party at a critical period when the CPI was ravaged by the (...)