March 2009

• Pitfalls of Toeing the US Line
  2 April 2009, by SC
  The policy of rapprochement with Washington, as has been steadfastly pursued by PM Manmohan Singh, has alienated large sections of the people from the principal ruling party, the Indian National Congress. Though the Congress spokesmen publicly  (...)
• Sri Lanka: Human Rights under Attack
  2 April 2009, by Apratim Mukarji
  As Sri Lanka’s long-drawn civil war is drawing to a close, human rights abuses by both the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are reaching unprecedented proportions.
  In a telling commentary on the status  (...)
• In Defence of Professor Lotika Sarkar
  2 April 2009
  Communication
  I am both an admirer and life subscriber of Mainstream (No. 1593). I am deeply touched and gratified to read the feeling of distress expressed by some of the justice-holders of our society in the March 21, 2009 issue of  (...)
• Obama’s USA
  2 April 2009, by Shree Shankar Sharan
  Obama is certainly a new phenomenon for America in more honestly diagnosing the country’s major problems and bringing a change from the Bush policy—to change the diagnosis to suit favourite remedies.
  Security and democracy, two watch-words  (...)
• Global Meltdown and its Impact on the Indian Economy
  2 April 2009, by Ruddar Datt
  With the collapse of Lehman Brothers and other Wall Street icons, there was growing recession which affected the US, the European Union (EU) and Japan. This was the result of large scale defaults in the US housing market as the banks went on  (...)
• Coalition Politics and Impending Poll
  2 April 2009, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  The dragging-on of the Presidential talks with leaders of different political parties has no doubt exasperated the patience of the average citizen as much as the President himself. What has been found is that no political formation worth the  (...)
• Global Democracy: Consolidation and Expansion
  2 April 2009, by Mubashir Hasan
  Global Democracy
  Democracy at any level—global, regional, national or at the level of communities—means, above all, peace and justice, filled stomachs, health, education, shelter; all regulated by an organisation in which citizens collectively  (...)
• Communalism and Hate Speech
  2 April 2009, by Ambrose Pinto
  Ordinary terms used by ordinary people to express significant experiences can be turned into hate speech. The word “conversion†, for example, means a profound experience of personal or social transformation. For Ambedkar, conversions were a  (...)
• Why the US Stimulus Package is Bound to Fail
  2 April 2009, by David Harvey
  Much is to be gained by viewing the contem-porary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The tectonic plates are now accelerating their motion and the  (...)
• Working of NREGA — Voices from Panchayats
  2 April 2009, by Bidyut Mohanty
  Introduction
  Bureaucratic implementation of the NREGA has bypassed the Panchayati Raj Institutions which were intended to play an important role in planning and executing this flagship programme to respond to the local needs of the people. As a  (...)

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