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• My Rabindranath is Different

  20 June 2011

  by BISHWAJIT SEN
  Tolstoy, since he was a great creator, could be appreciated by two persons of diametrically opposite views. While Lenin called him “The mirror of the Russian revolution”, Gandhi sought solace in him, as he stood up against the South African ruling classes to ensure that Indian settlers got a human treatment at least. Gandhi’s “Tolstoy Farm” was the starting point of a long journey, which culminated in the Indian freedom.
  Similarly, Rabindranath too, during his life-time (…)

• Celebrating Swami Vivekananda

  20 June 2011, by Balmiki Prasad Singh

  Great men are seldom born. It is sheer good fortune of ours that in one decade of the 19th century, three great men were born in India: Swami Vivekananda on January 12, 1863, Rabindranath Tagore on May 4, 1861 and Mahatma Gandhi on October 2, 1869. Each one of them became a formidable figure in his sphere of work: Swami Vivekananda in religion and spirituality, Gurudev Tagore in literature, and Mahatma Gandhi in the freedom movement and public life. Swami Vivekananda was the first leader (…)

• Getting Stuck

  20 June 2011, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  FROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
  In an interview to Patriot and Link this week. Smt Indira Gandhi has said that life cannot be divided into stages because ”one takes some steps forward and then sometimes one gets stuck”. She has claimed that on the whole the nation’s progress has been “quite consistent”. She admits there have been “bad patches”, but the people have not allowed themselves to be defeated, rather they “have faced the challenges and ultimately emerged stronger”.
  There is little doubt (…)

• Russia’s Libya Role Irks China

  20 June 2011, by M K Bhadrakumar

  Russia went to the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Deauville as an inveterate critic of the “unilateralist” Western intervention in Libya, but came away from the seaside French resort as a mediator between the West and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The United States scored a big diplomatic victory in getting Moscow to work for regime change in Libya.
  No sooner than he got back to Moscow, President Dmitry Medvedev ordered his special envoy to Africa Mikhail Margelov to travel to (…)

• Nero’s Sublime Flute-recital: Teaser for Teacher-education in India

  20 June 2011, by Dev N Pathak

  Emperor Nero did intend it to happen, rumours suggested. The fire broke out in the city area of Rome and metamorphosed into a mythological inferno swallowing the eleven districts of Rome out of total fourteen. Numbers of all and sundry helplessly charred to death and fumes of destruction leaving the ruins behind: the vivacious dance of death. The proverbial flute (lyre) recital of Nero was well atop the flames that burnt down the city of fame. Recollecting this instance, at a time when Nero (…)

• Economic Theory: Its Applicability to Non-Humans

  20 June 2011

  by VINOD K. ANAND
  Economics as a social science has progressed immensely from being a science of wealth (Smith, 1776) to a science of well-being (Marshall, 1920), to a science of welfare (Pigou, 1920), to a science of scarcity (Robbins, 1932), and then to a science of wantlessness (Mehta, 1959). At every stage its domains have enlarged to cover wider horizons. Beyond all this, there has occurred a revolutionary paradigm shift from its assumptions of ‘exogeneity’ to that of ‘endogeneity’ (…)

• China-Zimbabwe Relations

  20 June 2011, by Gunjan Singh

  The Chinese Government’s need for regular flow of resources and energy is quite vital for its sustainability. This is also because economic development is quite crucial for its survival and also maintaining peace and order in the country. With the erosion of ideological support the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) today is dependent on continued economic growth in order to gain legitimacy to be power.
  The heavy emphasis on economic growth is a very important factor behind the major Chinese (…)

• Problems of Equality of State and Territorial Interests as per the Roman and Greek Viewpoints

  20 June 2011

  by RUZIMAT JURAEV
  Roman lawyers, generalising the natural and positive ideas of rights, put forward the fundamental concept that nothing can contradict the nature of society and a person; otherwise they will disappear. The idea of justice was taken as the motto and the fate of views and political regimes which contradicted the nature of society and a person can be an example for it. But the ideas of the utopian socialists, T. More (1478-1535), T. Campanella (1568-1619), A. de Saint-Simon (…)

• UPA-II and Police Attack at Ramlila Maidan

  14 June 2011, by SC

  The past-midnight police attack on Baba Ramdev’s supporters at the Capital’s Ramlila Maidan on June 4-5 and its consequences are still being discussed among wide sections of the public, horrified as the people are by the wanton assault on thousands of peaceful agitationists backing the yoga-guru’s campaign against black money, the ostensible reason for his indefinite fast to force the recalcitrant government take urgent steps to bring back such unaccounted wealth stashed away abroad. Since (…)

• Death of Democracy

  14 June 2011

  by TARUN PATNAIK
  The atrocities of the Delhi Police on Baba Ramdev’s supporters in Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on June midnight must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. Power has been abused. Force has been used to suppress the innocent public who were but inspired by the feeling of patriotism and compassion for compatriots. They were raising their voice against corrupt citizens who by their anti-national activities have kept money, earned by looting the government exchequer and by (…)