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• How Branded Products are Cheating the Consumers

  10 April 2010, by P K Bhargava

  In the process of growth of an economy like India, the level of income of the people, though unevenly, has also been continuously increasing. The increased level of income of the people has a significant impact on their consumption levels. In the process, not only does the demand for existing products increase but at the same time people prefer to shift to better quality products. One can, therefore, notice that industries per-taining to the ‘consumer goods’ sector are making rapid progress (…)

• Intricate Study of India and China in Comparative Analysis

  10 April 2010, by Amna Mirza

  BOOK REVIEW
  Chasing the Dragon: Will India Catch Up with China? by Mohan Guruswamy and Zorawar Daulet Singh; Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd., licensees of Pearson Education in South Asia; Second Impression, 2010; pages 188.
  In the comparative analysis for the South Asian neighbourhood and world geopolitics, pitching India contra China is customary. The two nations sharing historical and civilsational bondages, frontiers, alongside asymmetry in terms of resources, territory, (…)

• Pakistan’s Wish for a Nuclear Deal!

  10 April 2010, by Priyanka Singh

  Even before the dust could settle down after the India-Pakistan Foreign Secretary level talks failed to generate much hope on the roadmap of peace, there is furore on the possibility of the US offering a nuclear deal to Pakistan. Prior to the US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue, there was widespread speculation on a nuclear deal between the US and Pakistan similar to the India-US civilian nuclear agreement. At the end of the dialogue on March 25, both sides pledged “wide-ranging, long-term and (…)

• Implications of the US-Pakistan Strategic Nexus on Our Region

  10 April 2010, by M K Bhadrakumar

  This following article was published in The Hindu several days ago. It is being reproduced now for the benefit of our readers as its contents remain broadly valid at this point in time.
  The idea of engaging the Taliban, which welled up stealthily to the surface during the London Conference on Afghanistan on January 29, has since become the official American and British policy. It has imparted a competitive edge to the region’s political environment. The resultant tensions complicate the (…)

• Rebuff Washingon’s Game-plan

  10 April 2010, by Bashir Mohammad

  A vivid example of the symbiosis of terrorists and criminals is the self-proclaimed Kosovo Republic in the Balkans. The Albanian leaders from the former Kosovo Liberation Army (that sought to “libeate” Kosovo from Serbia) were mostly engaged in human and drug trafficking. What is noteworthy is that Sali Berisha, Ramush Haradinal and Hashim Thaci—who have all served as Kosovo’s Prime Ministers—had been allegedly involved in illegal trade in the human organs of kidnapped Serbs. However, the (…)

• On Modi, G.P. Koirala and Kanu Sanyal

  27 March 2010, by SC

  While several publications in the Capital have highlighted the US dilemma over how much to appease the Pakistani Army as well as those in authority in Islamabad owing allegiance to the Generals, three names have come into prominence in the course of the last few days: Narendra Modi, Girija Prasad (GP) Koirala and Kanu Sanyal.
  Narendra Modi, the Gujarat CM, failed to turn up on March 21 before the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigating Team inquiring into the massacre in (…)

• Remembering Gujarat Pogrom after Eight Years: Interview with Harsh Mander

  27 March 2010, by Humra Quraishi

  Harsh Mander quit the Indian Administrative Service to work as an activist-writer. His latest book, Fear and Forgiveness—The Aftermath of Massacre, published by Penguin in 2009, focuses on the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 and its aftermath. This interview was taken in the backdrop of the aftermath of the 2002
  pogrom and what realities stand out today in Gujarat after eight long years.
  How can the continuing climate of ‘dread‘ get diminished in the riot affected areas of (…)

• Reducing Democracy to a Farce

  27 March 2010

  COMMUNICATION
  Two thousand five hundred crores of rupees splurged on statues of self and elephants! Two hundred crores of rupees for a rally! And a garland worth five crores of rupees! Is this the simple and modest lifestyle of a Dalit Chief Minister (Mayawati), or the vulgar display of power and pelf by a modern-day queen, who could not afford to pay compensation to the victims of a stampede? But then, does she not have company in many of our politicians, who lead a life of opulence, at (…)

• Statehood demands Time to try the Assam Model

  27 March 2010, by Anil Nauriya

  That the case for the formation of a Telangana State is strong tends to be widely accepted. Many of the districts which make up Telangana have remained economically backward; undoubtedly their development requires special attention. While this is readily conceded, what worries many observers is the cascading effect that the creation of Telangana would have on similar demands for Statehood elsewhere. A new State can engender new social problems as well with the coming to the fore of “new (…)

• Lessons from the Telangana Movement

  27 March 2010, by Inukonda Thirumali

  The Telangana movement, that is going on for the last few months, is an expression of the people’s democratic yearnings. It is a silent but people’s revolution for a separate Telangana State. The people’s protests are taking place in the forms of dhoom-dhams (songs and dances), garjanas (hullabaloos), and padayatras (marches). Sometimes it is celebrating vijayayatras (victory marches) in anticipation of the Telangana state, and at times it is taking out shava yatras (processions carrying the (…)