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• Deceptive US Initiatives for Palestinians and Threats to International Relations

  20 September 2010, by Arshi Khan

  There have been various phases in the history of international relations which signify the changing pattern of the behaviour, policies and actions of some political units resulting in creating a kind of balance and expectations for a better future. Such dynamism does ensure, if not guarantee, a great chance for peace in the chaotic situation of the the contemporary world order. On the other hand, there are few actors whose policies, actions and designs certainly threaten the teleological (…)

• Unity to Partition: A Sad Saga of the Subcontinent

  20 September 2010, by Ajeet Jawed

  September 11 happened to be the sixtysecond death anniversary of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the architect and founder of Pakistan. We are belatedly carrying the following article while remembering him.
  September 11 marked the death anniversary of M.A. Jinnah, the Father of the nation of Pakistan, which came into existence on August 14, 1947. In 1937 the Muslim League, under Jinnah’s leadership, had declared the complete independence of India as its goal and had also expressed its willingness to (…)

• Disgrace in the Name of Sports

  20 September 2010, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Miracles happen, so the Commonwealth Games may take place without some stadium roof collapsing. But that is not the issue. What we should really be worried about is: How do dunderheads, frauds and double-dealing fixers come to represent this great country? How do humbuggers, thimbleriggers and pettifogging pretenders get the power to humiliate us before the world?
  It is possible to see thugs in leadership positions when the government itself loses its legitimacy and is (…)

• Winter Games Scandal

  20 September 2010, by Harish Chandola

  The South Asian Winter Games, which were to be held in Auli in Uttarakhand in 2008, have not been held due to lack of preparations and irregularities. However, about Rs 200 crores (Rs 110 crores allotted by the Union Government), have already been spent on the preparations, which, three years later, are still incomplete. The Games are now scheduled to be held this winter, in December, which also seems unlikely, in view of the conditions on the ground.
  It is not only the Commonwealth Games (…)

• Kashmir Crisis

  20 September 2010, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  For long it has been fashionable to talk about the Kashmir crisis as the most intractable challenge before the country and yet do pretty little to deal with it and thereby let the blood-letting go on. Recently, however, one notices some stir in diverse circles both at home and abroad to tackle the Kashmir problem. A feeling appears to have crept in both within the government and in the Opposition that Kashmir can no longer be kept on the back-burner. This sense of urgency has to a large (…)

• Solve Kashmir Problem The Gandhian Way

  20 September 2010, by Sailendra Nath Ghosh

  The people of Kashmir Valley had, on several momentous occasions, made their intention clear that they prefer to remain Indians. This they did by participating in successive State and federal elections, despite the boycott call by separatists, through State Assembly Resolutions in 1953 and 1956, and through their iconic leader Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah’s pronouncement in 1975 that “Kashmir’s accession to India was irrevocable”.
  The present chief of the National Conference, Dr Farooq (…)

• Jnaneshwari Express Sabotage and Mass Murder Case

  20 September 2010, by Dipak Kumar Ghosh

  The following article appeared in Bengali in Dainik Statesman and was later rendered into English and sent to us by the author who has taken full respectively for its publication. His first article on the Jnaneshwari Express sabotage and mass murder case appeared in Mainstream (July 10, 2010).
  Umakanta Mahato, the CID-CBI got-up game’s alleged mastermind of the Jnaneswari Express sabotage and mass murder case (May 27, 2010), was compelled to embrace death on August 26, 2010 midnight. The (…)

• Khairlanji Dalit Massacres: Justice for the Victims Aborted

  20 September 2010, by A K Biswas

  Part-I
  “If someone takes someone’s life (deliberately and not accidentally) then he forfeits the right to his life”.
  —John Stuart Mill
  The judgment delivered by a Division Bench in quadruple murders of members of the Bhotmange family, village Khairlanji, district Bhandara in Maharashtra left everyone with a sensitive mind shocked and dismayed. Surekha Bhotmange and her 18-year-old daughter and two sons, including one who was disabled, were brutally murdered by an upper-caste mob on (…)

• Comprehensive Analysis of Applied Linguistics in Complex Multilingual Societies

  20 September 2010, by Madhulika Sharma

  BOOK REVIEW
  Multilingual Education for Social Justice: Globalising the Local by A.K. Mohanty, M. Panda, R. Phillipson and T. Skutnabb-Kangas (eds.); Orient Blackswan Private Limited, New Delhi; 2009; pages 400.
  One of the aspects of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is the preservation of linguistic heritage. Linguistic globalisation, which has given English a predominant position, can lead to the extinction of many indigenous languages. To preserve the (…)

• Call for Dialogue—the Only Way to Tackle Maoism

  20 September 2010

  by Swadha
  In a bid to give a sharp edge to the anti-Naxal operations in the four worst affected States of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Orissa, the Union Government has recently decided to set up a powerful Unified Command headed by the respective Chief Secretaries to fight the Maoist menace. The government has been unusually proactive in grappling with the surge in the violence unleashed by the Maoists. It is clearly ruffled as is evident from the urgency and seriousness being (…)