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April 2009
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Stage set for a High-Profile SCO Role in Afghanistan
12 April 2009, by Vladimir RadyuhinThe Special Conference on Afghanistan, held in Moscow on March 27, reflected the growing clout of Rusia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the region. The Conference was organised by the SCO, which comprises six full members—Russia, (...) -
No Time for Banality
12 April 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyWithin the space of one month, barely thirty days, the national scene has conspicuously changed. After the traumatic experience Indira Gandhi’s ghastly end, there seems to be little realisation of the magnitude of the change that has overtaken (...) -
Varun Gandhi: Albatross Round BJP’s Neck
12 April 2009, by Sandhya JainIf politics is the art of winning power by convincing people that you have the ability to wield it wisely, then the BJP may as well pack its bags. Having closed its ears to common sense and reason, the party has permitted an absolute non-entity (...) -
A Story of the Bees—A Fable for Our Times
12 April 2009, by Sagari ChhabraThe following, published in the Sahitya Akademi’s Indian Literature (November-December 2008), is being reproduced with due acknowledgement and the author’s permission.
Once there was a woman who knew a story, but she kept it to herself. She never (...) -
April 8, 1929: A Day to Remember
12 April 2009, by Chaman LalA historic event in the political history of India took place on April 8, 1929, referring to which L.K.Advani committed a blunder, when he spoke of Bhagat Singh’s execution being related to this event. A lot is being written about Advani’s sense (...) -
Mahesh Bhatt on Indo-Pak People-to-People Contacts
12 April 2009, by Humra QuraishiEven in these surcharged times, a small group of enthusiasts travelled from here to across the border, to try and bridge gaps, get the people-to-people contacts going. And film-maker Mahesh Bhatt was one amongst them and spoke out on his return (...) -
Towards the Second Year of Mockery
12 April 2009, by Jhuma SenA month to go and India will again show that the cost of dissent a peaceful man pays in this country is a detention for two years on fictitious grounds. Almost a year ago, twentytwo Nobel winners had come forward demanding Binayak Sen’s release (...) -
Salute to Poet Darwish
12 April 2009, by S.K. Pande[(Tribute)] (This article, sent to us quite sometime back, could not be used earlier for unavoidable reasons. It is now being belatedly published as a token of our tribute to the immortal Palestinian poet. —Editor)
Mahmoud Darwish, the poet (...) -
Partition and Present-day Ills in West Bengal
12 April 2009, by Arjun Das[(Book Review)]
West Bengal in Doldrums by Dr Sailen Debnath; N.L. Publishers, Siliguri, West Bengal; 2009.
A powerful and reflective analysis of the socio-economic, political, administrative and cultural profiles of West Bengal is found in (...) -
Behind Terror Attack on Lahore Outskirts
9 April 2009, by SCLess than a month after the terrorist attack near Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium on March 3 targeting Sri Lankan cricketers—the first terror attack suffered by cricketers anywhere (as brought out in these columns a month ago in this journal’s March 7, (...)