June 2009

• Eyeless in Tackling the Maoist Problem
  2 July 2009, by SC
  While the Lalgarh operation involving the State and Central forces in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district is still on with the security forces unable to apprehend a single Maoist of eminence in the area, the people of the region are being  (...)
• Swine Flu and Indian Strategy to Combat the Menace
  2 July 2009, by A K Biswas
  The World Health Organisation has issued a warning that swine flu has assumed the threat of a pandemic disease, which is likely to visit scores of countries across the continents. The Government of India has invoked provisions of the Epidemic  (...)
• Report of the All-India Fact-finding Team on Lalgarh
  2 July 2009
  West Bengal’s Lalgarh is very much in the news due to the para-military operation undertaken there by the Central and State forces to ostensibly fight the Maoists and eliminate them. In this context we present here a report of an all-India  (...)
• Diffident Us versus Combative Them
  2 July 2009, by T J S George
  By any standard, the violence against Indian students in Australia is nasty business. What lends an astonishing edge to it is the Indian Government’s routine, pedestrian, unfeeling handling of it. Indeed, non-assertiveness seems to be a  (...)
• Yes, You Can: Signs of Hope in Obama’s Message - An Indian Muslim’s Response
  2 July 2009, by Iqbal A Ansari
  Dear President Obama,
  Greetings from an Indian Muslim, a member of one of the non-majority communities of the ‘Muslim world’, who did not find any direct mention in your powerful, moving speech, delivered in Cairo on June 4, 2009 though  (...)
• Revisiting the Iranian Revolution
  2 July 2009, by M K Bhadrakumar
  The following article was written four years ago in 2005 soon after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s landslide victory in the first presidential election in Iran. It is being reproduced here because of its current relevance.
  Persians invented the game of  (...)
• Why are Farmers Moving to the Cities?
  2 July 2009, by S G Vombatkere
  Technology-driven industrialisation has necessarily caused a shift in human values, certainly among those sections of society that have benefited from industrialisation in India. Such people speak and think about liberty and freedom without  (...)
• Emergency: What it meant
  2 July 2009, by Amiya Rao, B G Rao
  Lest We Forget
  Thirtyfour years ago on June 26, 1975, Emergency was proclaimed throughout the country as the ruling leadership bared its fangs nakedly displaying its dictatorial proclivities. We present here write-ups and poems that bring back  (...)
• Tagore for Today
  2 July 2009, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  The Editor’s Notebook in Mainstream (June 28, 1975) after the promulgation of Emergency and the imposition of press censorship appeared as follows:
  Somewhere in the excitement of National Emergency, the editor has lost his notebook. However,  (...)
• An Eye-witness Account
  2 July 2009
  Published in The Morning News—Sunday Times Service (London) on July 3, 1975. An introduction to the article read:
  “An uncensored account from Jonathan Dimbleby who was in Delhi last week for the Thames Televivsion programme: ‘This Week’.  (...)

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