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• 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 (…)

• For Drafting an Ideal Lokpal Bill

  14 June 2011, by Arun Kumar

  The drafting of the Lokpal Bill is back in the news after the round of Assembly elections. The co-chairperson of the high-power committee involved in the drafting has said that progress is slow and that the June 30 deadline is likely to be missed. Some civil society groups made suggestions on what the Bill should contain. The chairperson of the drafting committee responded with alacrity, sensing an opportunity to let the government have its way by claiming divisions in civil society. (…)

• There is Much More to Say

  14 June 2011

  by NOAM CHOMSKY
  After the assassination of bin Laden I received such a deluge of requests for comment that I was unable to respond individually, and on May 4 and later I sent an unedited form response instead, not intending for it to be posted, and expecting to write it up more fully and carefully later on. But it was posted, then circulated. It can now be found, reposted, at http://www.zcommunications.org/my-reaction-to-osama-bin-laden-s-death-by-noam-chomsky.
  That was followed by a (…)

• Closer Understanding between India, Pakistan and Afghanistan Needed

  14 June 2011, by Balraj Puri

  ISI Chief Ahmad Shuja Pasha warned India that any Abbottabad-like attack by it would invite a befitting response from Pakistan as targets inside the country (India) had already been identified and a rehearsal carried out. Pasha’s warning came as he addressed the in- camera joint session of the Pakistan Senate and National Assembly on May 13.
  He repeated the warning of Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary, Salman Bashir, who was the first senior official of his country to speak at a news (…)

• The Balance-sheet of Partition after 60 Years for Muslims of the Subcontinent

  14 June 2011, by Syed Shahabuddin

  Though Iqbal had limited his concept of a Muslim homeland in the subcontinent (he enunciated it in 1929 to the NW only), partition was conceived in 1940 for the benefit of the Muslim majority living in the northwest as well as the east of the subcontinent. The Pakistan Resolution, adopted by the Muslim League in March 1940, spoke in terms of ‘Muslim-majority areas’ in these two regions and the creation of Muslim states therein. The Resolution conceived that the religious minorities, living (…)