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• Mad Dog on Rampage

  5 November 2011, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  FROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
  The position that the President of the United States of America holds in the affairs of the world carries with it a modicum of dignity and a certain degree of responsibility. It is amazing that the present occupant of that high office has recently demonstrated that he possesses neither. Leaders of nations sometimes indulge in bitter polemics and hurl harsh words at each other, but none of them has called another head of a state a mad dog. Not at least since Adolf (…)

• Pakistan Has Indeed Failed Jinnah

  5 November 2011

  COMMUNICATION
  With reference to the article by Ajit Jawed, "Pakistan Failed Jinnah" (Mainstream, September 10, 2011), I want to point out that the write-up does not talk about the letter which Habibur Rahman, an ex-Muslim League member, wrote to his party members. In this letter he says that Jinnah was a follower of Chengiz Khan and Hitler. He wanted the Hindus to be killed and looted. He wanted that Hindu girls should be abducted and raped en-masse. I have compiled this letter from the (…)

• Beyond the Chains of Illusions of Inclusive Development

  5 November 2011, by Ananta Kumar Giri

  POVERTY, CREATIVITY AND CHALLENGES OF TRANSFORMATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY ODISHA AND THE WORLD
  "Dreams are made out of the impossibles. We cannot reach the impossible by using the analytical minds trained to deal with hard information that is currently available. These minds are fitted with flashing red lights to warn us about obstacles we may face. We’ll have to put our minds in a different mode when we think about our future, will have to dare to make bold leaps to make the impossible (…)

• Ernesto ’Che’ Guevara

  5 November 2011

  by K.P. BHANUMATHY
  Ernesto Che Crevana was executed by the Bolivian Army in Bolivia on October 9, 1967 when he was just 39 years in age. On the occasion of his fortyfourth death anniversary this year we are carrying the following article by veteran journalist K.P. Bhanumathy who interviewed him when he visited India in July 1959. This has been included in her book Candid Conversations with Towering Persons (first published in 2007 and then republished in 2010 by the National Book Trusts, (…)

• Taming the Beasts

  5 November 2011, by Samit Kar

  West Bengal has seen Friday, May 13 this year. The majority of the Bengalis might not have considered this day horrifying as the poll outcome did suggest. Instead, this day did mark the cut-off point of a long legacy which made West Bengal to be a State with a difference. The difference was not limited to the gamut of political affiliation. There had been a rise of a number of impediments which made this State to become unmanageable to render good governance. This happens to be the horror of (…)

• Impeach the Magna Carta, not Judges

  5 November 2011, by K G Somasekharan Nair

  A judge of the Calcutta High Court, Justice Soumitra Sen, had been summoned up by the Rajya Sabha on August 18, 2011 to switch on the impeachment process on certain allegations levelled against him. The judge being subjected to impeachment and the members impeaching him scourged at the judiciary with different perspectives apocalyptically. The words of the perspicacious judge under shadow may be ignored as it may be his last subterfuge. But criticisms unleashed by the members of the Rajya (…)

• Wake-up Call for Congress and Allies in UPA

  25 October 2011, by SC

  The results of the by-polls in the four States of Haryana, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar have clearly demonstrated the wide gulf separating the principal constituent of the ruling coalition at the Centre from the public at large. Not only has the UPA lost all the seats, the Congress candidates could not save their security deposits in the Hisar Lok Sabha by-election in Haryana and the Darounda Assembly by-poll in Bihar, since they came a distant third in both the contests. (…)

• Damodar Valley Corporation’s Inhuman Treatment of Tribals

  25 October 2011, by Girish Mishra

  The DVC (Damodar Valley Corporation) is one of the oldest and prestigious river valley projects in which Jawaharlal Nehru took very keen interest. It was intended to provide irrigation facilities and generate electricity so that both agricultural development and industrialisation of two important States, namely, West Bengal and Bihar (now Jharkhand), would get a big boost. Not only would agricultural and industrial production increase but lots of jobs would also be generated in the services (…)

• ‘Occupy Wall Street’—Sit-in at the Seat of Global Capitalism and Corrupt Corporate Power

  25 October 2011

  The following was the lead piece in ML update, the weekly news magazine of the CPI-ML (Liberation), in its issue of October 11 to 17, 2011. It is being reproduced with due acknowledgement.
  For the past three weeks, a very remarkable protest has been unfolding at the heart of the US economic power and global capitalism. Thousands of American people have ‘occupied’ a site near Wall Street, and hundreds of solidarity actions and sit-ins have followed both in the US and in other countries. (…)

• Wall Street Spring: Americans Demand Democracy

  25 October 2011

  by SASWAT PATTANAYAK
  The homeless and the Hippies, the socialists and the students, the communists and the commoners—the Wall Street has been occupied for good by the countless human beings demanding dignity of life denied to them under American capitalism. Every disenfranchised minority is now decrying the citadel of private capital, greed and monstrosity. And contrary to White House assertions and corporate media verdicts, the defamed Wall Street has been denied a bail-out—by the people (…)