2011

An Ominous Possibility
About two years ago our Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram, planned a massive operation against the Maoists. Two years later, it seems the operation has achieved little. The Maoists have increased their manpower and firepower, and have renewed attacks on the armed forces recently. This is certainly an ominous sign for the future. There is not an iota of doubt that a war between the government and the Maoist army will ruin this country.
And now a battalion each of (…)

DOCUMENT
THE VERY EXISTENCE OF BASTARIYA PEOPLE AT STAKE!
The following is a press release of the CPI (Maoist)’s Dandakarnya Special Zonal Committee (issued on June 7, 2011).
The moment when the process of deploying the Army in Bastar is just underway, the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), one of the biggest Public Sector Units of India, has declared that the Raoghat mines would be privatised. These two acts not just coincided, but there was a conspiratorial coordination between (…)

by BISHWAJIT SEN
Tolstoy, since he was a great creator, could be appreciated by two persons of diametrically opposite views. While Lenin called him “The mirror of the Russian revolution”, Gandhi sought solace in him, as he stood up against the South African ruling classes to ensure that Indian settlers got a human treatment at least. Gandhi’s “Tolstoy Farm” was the starting point of a long journey, which culminated in the Indian freedom.
Similarly, Rabindranath too, during his life-time (…)

Great men are seldom born. It is sheer good fortune of ours that in one decade of the 19th century, three great men were born in India: Swami Vivekananda on January 12, 1863, Rabindranath Tagore on May 4, 1861 and Mahatma Gandhi on October 2, 1869. Each one of them became a formidable figure in his sphere of work: Swami Vivekananda in religion and spirituality, Gurudev Tagore in literature, and Mahatma Gandhi in the freedom movement and public life. Swami Vivekananda was the first leader (…)

FROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
In an interview to Patriot and Link this week. Smt Indira Gandhi has said that life cannot be divided into stages because ”one takes some steps forward and then sometimes one gets stuck”. She has claimed that on the whole the nation’s progress has been “quite consistent”. She admits there have been “bad patches”, but the people have not allowed themselves to be defeated, rather they “have faced the challenges and ultimately emerged stronger”.
There is little doubt (…)

Russia went to the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Deauville as an inveterate critic of the “unilateralist” Western intervention in Libya, but came away from the seaside French resort as a mediator between the West and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The United States scored a big diplomatic victory in getting Moscow to work for regime change in Libya.
No sooner than he got back to Moscow, President Dmitry Medvedev ordered his special envoy to Africa Mikhail Margelov to travel to (…)

Emperor Nero did intend it to happen, rumours suggested. The fire broke out in the city area of Rome and metamorphosed into a mythological inferno swallowing the eleven districts of Rome out of total fourteen. Numbers of all and sundry helplessly charred to death and fumes of destruction leaving the ruins behind: the vivacious dance of death. The proverbial flute (lyre) recital of Nero was well atop the flames that burnt down the city of fame. Recollecting this instance, at a time when Nero (…)

by VINOD K. ANAND
Economics as a social science has progressed immensely from being a science of wealth (Smith, 1776) to a science of well-being (Marshall, 1920), to a science of welfare (Pigou, 1920), to a science of scarcity (Robbins, 1932), and then to a science of wantlessness (Mehta, 1959). At every stage its domains have enlarged to cover wider horizons. Beyond all this, there has occurred a revolutionary paradigm shift from its assumptions of ‘exogeneity’ to that of ‘endogeneity’ (…)

The Chinese Government’s need for regular flow of resources and energy is quite vital for its sustainability. This is also because economic development is quite crucial for its survival and also maintaining peace and order in the country. With the erosion of ideological support the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) today is dependent on continued economic growth in order to gain legitimacy to be power.
The heavy emphasis on economic growth is a very important factor behind the major Chinese (…)

by RUZIMAT JURAEV
Roman lawyers, generalising the natural and positive ideas of rights, put forward the fundamental concept that nothing can contradict the nature of society and a person; otherwise they will disappear. The idea of justice was taken as the motto and the fate of views and political regimes which contradicted the nature of society and a person can be an example for it. But the ideas of the utopian socialists, T. More (1478-1535), T. Campanella (1568-1619), A. de Saint-Simon (…)