December 8, 2007

• Lower Depths
  11 December 2007, by SC
  A few days ago an eminent historian with distinct Leftist leaning had indigantly declared that “West Bengal’s Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is like Gujarat’s Narendra Modi†. What he had in mind was Buddha’s “paid-back-in-the-same-coin†statement  (...)
• Appointment of CAG
  11 December 2007, by Era Sezhiyan
  About the importance of the Comptroller and Auditor General in the parliamentary system of governance, Dr B. R. Ambedkar said in the Constituent Assembly on May 30, 1949: “I am of opinion that this dignitary is probably the most important officer  (...)
• Not Sorrow but Atonement
  11 December 2007, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  The following piece, which was published as ’Political Notebook’ in Mainstream (December 12, 1992), is being reproduced on the fifteenth anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid. —Editor
  The vandalism that brought down the Babri  (...)
• Desire to Dominate : Overriding US Perception in West Asia
  11 December 2007, by M Hamid Ansari
  Any discussion of contemporary West Asia must begin with three questions: What is happening in the region? Why is it happening? What is the way out?
  The answer to the first question is obvious. It focuses on a set of well-known situations:  (...)
• West Bengal Governor’s Statement in the Wake of Events in Nandigram
  11 December 2007, by Gopalkrishna Gandhi
  The ardour of Deepavali has been dampened in the whole State by the events in Nandigram. Several villages in Nandigram are oscillating from the deepest gloom to panic. Large numbers of armed persons from outside the district have, it is  (...)
• Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Should Resign
  11 December 2007, by Bharat Dogra
  We are passing through critical times in which it is extremely important to defend the basic values of democracy, socialism and secularism. Another basic task is to protect environment and to evolve a path of sustainable development in these  (...)
• Progressive Middle Class Deserts Bengal CPM
  11 December 2007, by Sunandan Roy Chowdhury
  Rarely does Kolkata or West Bengal make headlines in Delhi, Bombay or Bangalore. But 2007 has proved to be different. On March 14, the West Bengal Government’s police, under orders from the Chief Minister of the State, marched on to a cluster of  (...)
• Naroda Patiya to Nandigram: Distinctions and Similarities
  11 December 2007, by Pamela Philipose
  It is inevitable that when large-scale violence, which has the open or tacit support of the state, takes place, as in Nandigram 2007, Gujarat 2002 is recalled—just as Gujarat 2002 itself drew parallels with Delhi 1984. Such comparisons, by  (...)
• Coalition Dharma and Drama
  11 December 2007, by Som Benegal
  Musings
  If there is one thing that is painfully obvious it is that coalition dharma is nothing but drama—in fact, just empty, negative melodrama. When people talk of the coalition era, which has come to stay in India’s politics, and polity  (...)
• Sketchy, though Faultless, Analysis of Naxalite Uprising
  11 December 2007, by K S Subramanian
  Book Review
  Maoist ’Spring Thunder’: The Naxalite Movement (1967-1972) by Arun Prosad Mukherjee; K.P. Bagchi and Company, Kolkata; 2007; pages: 319; price : Rs 595.
  The distinguished author of this interesting and important book was  (...)

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