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Prof Prabhat Patnaik’s piece “Why the Left Matters” in The Indian Express, reproduced by Mainstream (March 26, 2011), is a mix of the serious and the comic. In the portion in which he presents an expose of the practitioners of (...)
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When the Left becomes Bereft of Pro-people Ideology and Conduct
21 April 2011, by Sailendra Nath Ghosh -
Mass Response to Anna Hazare’s Crusade
14 April 2011, by SCAfter the scenes of widespread jubilation portraying unprecedented national unity in the cricket field with India’s successful wresting of the World Cup defeating Sri Lanka on April 2, a remarkable phenomenon has rocked the country as a whole. (...) -
A Case of Conscience - Letter to the Prime Minister
14 April 2011by Shiv Vishwanathan
(This letter was sent sometime ago. But it is being published now as the movement for Dr Binayak Sen’s release is gathering increasing momentum with every passing day.)
Dear Dr Manmohan Singh,
I hope you don’t mind the (...) -
Fukushima Lessons
14 April 2011by A.H. Nayyar, M.V. Ramana and Zia Mian
The March earthquake and tsunami in Japan have already claimed more than 10,000 lives, and some 17,500 people are still missing.
This disaster has been compounded by the continuing threat of widespread (...) -
Deceptive Diplomats and Disloyal Officials of India
14 April 2011, by Era SezhiyanWikiLeaks was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange, an Australian software developer and internet activist. As a computer programmer and hacker, he exposed some of the secret documents on extra-judicial killings in Kenya, toxic waste dumped in the (...) -
Uranium Enrichment Plant: Focus on Mysore
14 April 2011, by N.S. Chakravarthy, S G VombatkereThe nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan, has placed the integrity of nuclear power establish-ments and their claims of nuclear power being safe-cheap-clean under public scrutiny. The Fukushima disaster has exceeded the grim expectations of (...) -
Truth Behind the Fire in Sabarmati Express (Godhra, February 27, 2002)
14 April 2011, by K S SubramanianThe special fast-track court judge, P.R. Patel, has pronounced his verdict on the mystery behind the fire incident in the Sabarmati Express at Godhra on February 27, 2002. The conspiracy theory put forward by the Gujarat Police has been upheld. (...) -
Gujarat Nine Years On
14 April 2011, by Humra QuraishiThat ghost of Godhra, that ghost of the Gujarat pogrom, those killings in that politically charged communal surcharge, still hover around. In fact, getting compounded as legalities come by. Seeing shots of those 63 men acquitted in the Godhra (...) -
Are these Anti-Naxal Operations, Mr Chidambaram?
14 April 2011, by Gladson DungdungIndia’s security budget grows up every year and even the economic crisis does not make any difference to it. The Indian Government spends most of its money for the security of its own people. Apart from this, the government also has special (...) -
Vilified at Home, Lionised Abroad
14 April 2011, by M K Bhadrakumar“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
—Pericles (495-429 BC)
Mikhail Gorbachev’s historical legacy is hard to sum up. He means different things to different people. Maybe it (...)
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