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Black Money: Political Will Missing
8 November 2011, by Arun Kumar[This is the third article in the series on black money by the author. The other two articles, first published in The Tribune and The Hindu respectively, were reproduced in this journal’s July 30, 2011 issue (“Tacking Black Economy: SC Takes (...) -
DVC Oustees Suspend Agitation
8 November 2011The people, mostly tribals of Jharkhand and West Bengal, displaced due to the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) project since the fifties—who were on dharna and relay fast at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar from October 17, 2011—were able to wrest a (...) -
Tribute to Dr Rajbahadur Gour
8 November 2011, by Suravaram Sudhakar ReddyWith the passing away of Dr Rajbahadur Gour, one of the heroes of the Telangana armed struggle, one of the last links of the present generation with the past in the Hyderabad state has snapped. Comrade Raj, as he was popularly known in (...) -
Guiding Principles for Acquisition of Land by the Government
8 November 2011, by Syed ShahabuddinThe draft Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill 2011, introduced in the Lok Sabha on November 7, 2011, stands referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development. The Committee invited views and suggestions from (...) -
On the Ramayanas Affair
8 November 2011, by Mukul DubeThe Delhi University’s Academic Council decided, in the firt half of October 2011, to remove from its “concurrent course in history” for all BA (Hons) students, A.K. Ramanujan’s essay “Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on (...) -
Realising Telangana State: Issues, Apprehensions and Hope
8 November 2011by Madhusudan Bandi
1. Context
The closer a government to its people, the better it works is how Stigler (1957) defined effective governance. And the demand for ‘Telangana’, if looked purely from this theoretical perspective, appears to hold (...) -
On Nikhil Chakravartty’s 98th Birth Anniversary
8 November 2011[(November 3 this year marks Nikhil Chakravartty’s ninetyeighth birth anniversary. While remembering him on this occasion we are reproducing the following message sent to the Mainstream editor by Justice P.B. Sawant who was then the Chairman of (...) -
Role of Media in Crises Situations
8 November 2011, by P.B. SawantThe role the media plays in crises situations depends upon the role it assigns to itself even in the normal situation. Does it look upon itself as a leader of the society? As a reformer? As a catalyst of change? Or as a mere messenger of news (...) -
Real Threat to Press Freedom
8 November 2011, by Ajit BhattacharjeaAs we come to the end of this two-day celebration of Press Day, I would like to join the other speakers in paying homage to Nikhil Chakravartty. Long before death took him away, he became a father figure for the press, always ready to help and (...) -
Open Letter to Pravda
8 November 2011, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
[(The following open letter to Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party’s daily organ, was written fortynine years ago by N.C. as an ‘Indian Marxist’ of 20 years’ membership of the Communist Party. It appeared in Mainstream (November (...)
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