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Right to Education: Challenging Tasks Ahead
12 December 2010Dr Kishore Singh (Ph.D in international law, Sorbonne, 1977) has been responsible for the Right to Education at UNESCO (1998-2009). He has been the Secretary of the Joint Expert Group, UNESCO (CR)/ECOSOC (CESCR) on the Monitoring of the Right to (...) -
Principle versus Piecemeal Approach
12 December 2010by Gautam Navlakha
In order to understand the significance of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and our response we must understand the role of the armed forces of the Union in wars of suppression. Because, we tend to overlook the magnitude of (...) -
Right to Education: Challenging Tasks Ahead
12 December 2010Dr Kishore Singh (Ph.D in international law, Sorbonne, 1977) has been responsible for the Right to Education at UNESCO (1998-2009). He has been the Secretary of the Joint Expert Group, UNESCO (CR)/ECOSOC (CESCR) on the Monitoring of the Right to (...) -
Open Letter to Our Dear Brothers in Pakistan
12 December 2010, by Shree Shankar Sharan[(REMEMBERING MUMBAI 26/11
On the second anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai we remember the martyrs of those refarious assaults and reproduce the following piece that appeared in Mainstream (December 6, 2008) since it embodied one (...) -
Why is an Alternative Political Party Needed and What will be its Essentials?
12 December 2010, by Bharat DograI would like to take forward the debate initiated by Sumanta Bannerjee’s letter to the national stage. Here I try to answer two basic questions:
1. Why is an alternative political party needed when so many political parties already exist?
2. What (...) -
Niira Radia Tapes and the Stench
12 December 2010MEDIA
[(In the wake of the Niira Radia tapes, now in circulation due to the publication of their operative parts in the Open Magazine and Outlook, a series of commentaries on the role of the media and today’s journalists have appeared in the (...) -
Glamour is not Credibility
12 December 2010, by T J S GeorgeMEDIA
Journalism started going astray with the birth of financial dailies in the 1960s. With full-fledged newspapers devoted exclusively to business, corporate houses became hyperactive. The next thing we knew was press conferences ending with (...) -
Karat’s ‘Poverty of Philosophy’ and Indian Left on the Kerala Scene
12 December 2010, by K G Somasekharan NairWhile delivering the Victor Kiernan Memorial Lecture in Cambridge University on October 23, Mr Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the CPI-M, said: “Kiernan who lived in British India between 1938 and 1946 often criticised Communists for their (...) -
Exposing Churchill’s Role in Bengal Famine 1943
12 December 2010BOOK REVIEW
by Firdaus Ahmed
Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee; Tranquebar Press, Chennai; 2010; pages 352; Rs 495.
India’s most widely read historian, Ram-chandra (...) -
Incorporating Political Theory in the Study of Corporate Management
12 December 2010, by Sunita SamalIn the beginning, management education was concerned with industries and corporate bodies. Next, it was dominated by academicians and lastly it emphasised on customer satisfaction and business ethics. Corporate management has been primarily (...)
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