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May 2009
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Tribute: Vimla Dang
18 May 2009, by SCThe year was 1965. The India-Pakistan war had just come to an end. It was then that we travelled to Chheharta, the industrial suburb of Amritsar, which was bombed by the Pak Air Force during the war. And it is in Chheharta that one first met (...) -
Tribute: Ruddar Datt
18 May 2009, by Kamal Nayan KabraMainstream offers its belated homage to the memory of Prof Ruddar Datt, who passed away last March, with the following tribute. Two of his articles were published in this journal following his death.
It is sad news for the readers of Mainstream (...) -
Prachanda triggers Political Crisis in Nepal
13 May 2009, by SCAs heat wave conditions intensify in large parts of the country and the election jamboree takes a queer turn with personal allegations being traded with vigour by all sides since policies, principles and ideologies have ceased to matter, the (...) -
Gujarat: Ghosts of the Past and Future
13 May 2009, by Mukul DubeOn April 27, 2009, over seven years after the cataclysmic violence in Gujarat, the Supreme Court of India directed the Special Investigation Team (also known as the Raghavan Committee) to look into the role of Narendra Modi, then as now the (...) -
India’s Black Wealth in Global Tax Havens: Looking Beyond Elections
13 May 2009, by Kamal Nayan KabraAmong the long-term outcomes of the 2009 elections to the Lok Sabha, besides the overall verdict of the electorate (likely to mark a watershed), it appears that the up-fronting of the malaise of gigantic amounts of wealth stashed away in various (...) -
Global Financial Crisis, Health Care and Poverty
13 May 2009, by Aasha Kapur MehtaThe impact of the global financial crisis on growth rates, trade flows, remittances, jobs and incomes has led to a range of policy responses by the state. However, the fact that the crisis will reduce access to health care for a large segment of (...) -
Joint Study on Secret Detention
13 May 2009Two Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations—the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism and the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading (...) -
Globalisation and its Impact on Women: A Critical Assessment
13 May 2009, by Bharti ChhibberGlobalisation is a process of increasing interdependence, interconnectedness and integration of economies and societies to such an extent that an event in one part of the globe affects people in other parts of world. We have often heard of (...) -
India-Israel Defence Nexus Deepens
13 May 2009, by Ninan KoshyThe launching of an Israeli made satellite on April 20, 2009 came close on the heels of an opaque missile deal of India with an Israeli company under investigation both in India and Israel, raising further questions about India’s Israeli ties and (...) -
West traps Russia in its own Backyard
13 May 2009, by M K BhadrakumarIn the normal case, pushing the reset button should not be a difficult thing to do. Yet, it is almost two months since the United States Vice President Joseph Biden offered to do just that.
When he addressed the Munich security conference (...)