May 12, 2007

Neighbours in Foreign Policy
14 May 2007, by Nikhil Chakravartty
At two ends of our far-flung country, one witnesses today visible stirrings for a democratic order. In the east, Bangladesh is in the throes of a general election promising to end eleven long years of virtual army rule. In the west, Pakistan is (...)
Correct Diagnosis of CPM’s Political Ailments
14 May 2007, by A K Dasgupta
[(COMMUNICATION)]
Even nearly two decades back Nikhil Chakravartty correctly diagnosed the political ailments of the CPI-M when he wrote in his column in the Mainstream (August 25, 1990):
Nobody denies that the Congress-I is a discredited (...)
OBC Quota : Letter to Justice Sachar
14 May 2007, by Syed Shahabuddin
Dear Justice Rajindar Sachar,
I have seen your article on the OBC question in The Times of India and subsequently in Mainstream and other papers.
Because of its wide circulation, I beg your leave to point out a basic flaw in your argument. In (...)
Report of an Independent Fact Finding Team on Orissa’s POSCO Project
14 May 2007, by Bijulal M V, Manshi Asher, Sridevi Panikkar, Sumit Chakravartty
A strong people’s resistance has been going on in parts of Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa against a steel plant and captive port proposed in the area, since July 2005, a month after the Memorandum of Understanding regarding the project was (...)
Bangladesh: Khaleda, Hasina and Caretaker Government
14 May 2007, by Amitava Mukherjee
There are now uncomfortable signals from the eastern border of our country. The caretaker government of Bangladesh, which had started well by apprehending a large number of criminals, many of them being political bigwigs, suddenly seems to have (...)
Marx and Engels on 1857 Revolt
14 May 2007, by Susobhan Sarkar
Marx’s comments on the Revolt of 1857 constitute an original contribution to the study of contemporary Indian history. They are in sharp opposition to the established orthodox theory of regarding the rising as essentially a military mutiny, (...)
1857 In Our History
14 May 2007, by P C Joshi *
[(The one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Great Indian Revolt of 1857 is being observed this month. Though the spark for the Revolt was lit by Mangal Pandey at Barrackpore earlier the same year, the Revolt actually began in May at (...)
Editorial
14 May 2007, by SC
As we observe the 150th anniversary of the Great Indian Revolt of 1857 this week, it is necessary to recount the positive features of that First Indian War of Independence which shook the edifice of the colonial empire. First of all, there was (...)

Reviving the Spirit of 1857

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