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November 2009
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Nehru as PM and Foreign Minister
24 November 2009, by K. Natwar SinghFortyfive years after Jawaharlal Nehru’s death, has history done him justice? Regrettably not. In surveys that rank India’s best Prime Minister, he is placed below his daughter, and on some occasions he figures third. This is preposterous. Only (...) -
Village Pradhans from Weaker Sections on the Reality of Panchayati Raj
24 November 2009, by Bharat DograOn the one hand, there is a growing demand for strengthening the panchayati raj system as there is a widespread realisation that genuine powers, functions and the resources to match them have not yet reached the panchayats. On the other hand, (...) -
New Social Movement in West Bengal
24 November 2009, by Arup Kumar SenWe have witnessed a new kind of social movements in recent world history. People in civil society everywhere are moving to mobilise themselves through a myriad of social move-ments beyond or besides, and often instead of, political parties, the (...) -
Outrageous!
17 November 2009, by SCThe results of the by-elections for 31 seats in seven State Assemblies and one Lok Sabha constituency in UP are before us. The Congress has won all the three seats in Kerala, two in Assam, one in Chhattisgarh, and one each in West Bengal, UP, (...) -
The Kingdom of Money is here
17 November 2009, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
There is a strong case for Bellary to be made a separate State, if not an independent, sovereign republic. That such a consummation will save both Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh from political paralysis is only an incidental benefit. (...) -
US Goofs the Afghan Election
17 November 2009, by M K BhadrakumarAbdullah Abdullah’s refusal to take part in the Afghan presidential election runoff on November 7 is a watershed event. From his point of view, the former Foreign Minister did the sensible thing, having carefully assessed he had no stake (...) -
Nehru for Today
17 November 2009[ November 14 this year marks Jawaharlal Nehru’s one hundred and twentieth birth anniversary. On this occasion we are publishing the following excerpts from Panditji’s speeches carried in Jawaharlal Nehru: An Anthrology (edited by Sarvepalli (...) -
A Finely Tuned Sensibility
17 November 2009, by Shyam BenegalAristocratic in taste, democratic by tempera-ment and egalitarian by conviction, Jawaharlal Nehru comes through as a man with a finely tuned artistic sensibility, with an unceasing curiosity in the world around him, never losing his sense of (...) -
A Total Commitment
17 November 2009, by Bipan ChandraWe who have lived through one part or the other of the Nehru era look back on that period with nostalgia as a sort of Golden Age; we tend to regard those times as the “good old days”. In fact, those years were, more than at present, filled with (...) -
A Splendid Partnership
17 November 2009, by A.K. DamodaranOf the many achievements of Jawaharlal Nehru as a national leader, world statesman and a sensitive individual who had the rare opportunity of shaping the destinies of a whole nation and, at the same time, possessed the gift for standing back and (...)