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May 2009
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Ajmer Sharief Blasts: Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence
23 May 2009, by Subhash GatadeAbhinav Bharat, the Hindu extremist group involved in the Malegaon blasts, may also be the hidden hand behind the Ajmer blasts. The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Rajasthan Police says investigations into the blasts that shook the Ajmer (...) -
Return of Indira Gandhi
23 May 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThe ground-swell in the Lok Sabha election has been a phenomenon that nobody could even remotedly foresee. Not only the political commentators, including the present one, are made to eat crow—as a famous American newspaper said about its mistaken (...) -
Ideological and Development War Ahead
23 May 2009, by Kunal GhoshPakistan’s Permanent Representative Abdullah Haroon made a link in the UN between Darul Uloom Deoband in India and terrorism in Pakistan’s NWFP and FATA areas where the Al-Qaeda and Taliban ideology flourishes. The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind protested to (...) -
Talibanisation or Disintegration?
23 May 2009, by Sukumar PathakPakistan had started out with five provinces in 1947: Punjab (its west part), North-West Frontier Province or NWFP, Sind, Baluchistan and East Bengal (or East Pakistan). Of these East Bengal seceded from the parent body after a bloody war of (...) -
The Left‘s Exit: Notes for Consideration of All Concerned
23 May 2009, by Sobhanlal Datta GuptaHistory, at times, is a cruel reminder. Twenty years ago, 1989 signalled the impending collapse of the Soviet Union, as the Berlin wall crashed. Two years thereafter, the year 1991, watched how the USSR, together with the regimes in Eastern (...) -
Overall Reality of Indian Democracy
18 May 2009, by SCThe elaborate poll exercise in the world’s largest democracy is over. With 62 per cent of the electorate turning out in the last, that is, fifth, phase of the polling for the 15th Lok Sabha, the average voting percentage of this year’s (...) -
Open Letter to Sonia Gandhi
18 May 2009, by V R Krishna IyerThe following is a letter by V.R. Krishna Iyer, the distinguished retired judge of the Supreme Court, to Sonia Gandhi on the current developments in Sri Lanka. Krishna Iyer has sent the letter to us for publication in this journal. We are (...) -
Boycott Will Only Isolate The West
18 May 2009, by Reshmi KaziThe walkout of European diplomats following the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the United Nations conference in Geneva disparaging Israel was a puerile act. The United States, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, New (...) -
Lok Sabha Election 2009: Emerging Trends in National Politics
18 May 2009, by Kamala PrasadThree phases of the five-phase election are over. This extended period of suspense in ushering in a new government is a commentary on the deteriorating standard in political conduct. Barring areas seriously affected by extremism and cross-border (...) -
The People’s Mandate and After
18 May 2009, by Surendra MohanAfter the instability of the 1990s at the Central level, the present decade has brought about stability. However, the era of coalition politics has continued undisturbed since 1996. The two processes of kamandalisation, that is Hindutva, and (...)