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Who Will Be India’s Next PM?
22 April 2013, by P R DubhashiWho will be India’s PM after the 2014 general elections? This is a question being hotly debated in the print and electronic media. It is taken for granted that the incumbent Prime Minister, who has held the position for two consecutive terms (...) -
A Journey to Afzal’s Village in Sopore
22 April 2013This piece was sent sometime ago but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons.
by Gazala Peer
When the seven-day siege of Kashmir was over, I decided to pay a visit to Sopore to the family of Afzal Guru who was murdered on February (...) -
Sri Lanka: Behind Rajapaksa’s Defiance
22 April 2013, by Apratim MukarjiWhat was widely anticipated has now been confirmed. The Sri Lankan Government reaffirmed on April 9 that it does not concur with the US-sponsored resolution adopted at the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva on March 22 and that the (...) -
Chronicles of a Gamechanger
22 April 2013, by Uttam SenBOOK REVIEW
Rabindranath Tagore: An Interpretation by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya; Penguin Viking, India; 2011; Rs 499.
A realistically insightful volume sheds light on the process by which ideas percolate a culture and arguably create their own (...) -
On Prabhat Patnaik’s Rejoinder
22 April 2013COMMUNICATION
I approached with eagerness the rejoinder of Prabhat Patnaik (PP) in Mainstream no. 16 of April 6, 2013. I have to say that I was rather disappointed. He basically avoided the subject matter of my paper, namely, how the working (...) -
West Bengal’s Creditable Record
22 April 2013, by Barun Das GuptaThe report card on the creditable performance of her governent in several respects that the West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, presented to the Planning Commission during her discussions about the Plan allocation for West Bengal for (...) -
Lenin and New International Economic Order
22 April 2013, by Anil RajimwaleApril 22 this year marks V.I. Lenin’s 143rd birth anniversary. On this occasion we are carrying the following piece by a well-known Marxist ideologue and senior CPI leader.
It was way back in 1922 that Lenin advanced the concept of new (...) -
Sexuality and Conspiracy: National and International Spheres
22 April 2013, by Sunita SamalWOMEN’S WORLD
Introduction
Is sexuality a stigmatised knowledge? Is it ego’s freedom? Sigmund Freud characterised it as melancholia or inability to grieve or as narcissistic disorder. There is a individual quest for instinctual freedom but (...) -
Is Democracy Bad For Women?
22 April 2013by Tamanna Khosla
Women have always had a strong stake in democracy. Democracy requires that citizens’ interests be heard, deliberated and legislated on. Women are half of the world’s population, and as such their voice should be heard in the (...) -
On Modi’s Social Engineering
22 April 2013, by Subhash GatadeThe system of untouchability has been a goldmine for the Hindus. This system affords 60 millions of untouchables to do the dirty work of scavenging and sweeping to the 240 million Hindus who are debarred by their religion to do such dirty work. (...)
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