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March 22, 2008
TASLIMA NASREEN
My Last Testament on being Forcibly Driven Out from my Adopted Homeland
KAMALA PRASAD
Union Budget : Dominant Impressions
D. BANDYOPADHYAY
Colossal Wastage of Human Resources in West Bengal
Remembering Bhagat Singh on 77th Anniversary of his Martyrdom
• HARISH K. PURI : Bhagat Singh and the Ghadar Movement
• CHAMAN LAL : Political Correspondence of Bhagat Singh
EDITORIAL
Callous Indifference to Struggle for Human Rights
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Callous Indifference to Struggle for Human Rights
22 March 2008, by SC
Writing in the International Herald Tribune on the recent uprising in Tibet H.D.S. Greenway makes certain profound observations that offer considerable food for thought.
Recently I visited the Jokhang (Tibet’s most sacred shrine)... As folk from
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Need to Escape from the Death Chamber
22 March 2008, by Taslima Nasreen
[(The following is a detailed explanation as to why the Bangladeshi author-in-exile, Taslima Nasreen, was finally forced to leave her adopted homeland, Bharatvarsha. This is an open indictment of the Central authorities in New Delhi and the
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Tibet : Growing Prospects of Reconciliation
22 March 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
The Dalai Lama’s recent visit to the USA has, as expected, touched off angry reaction in Beijing, supplementing the discomforting uneasiness the Chinese officialdom had had to face with the demonstration of Tibetan women raising the question of
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Millions of Suffering People ask: When will the Colossal Human Tragedy caused by Landmines End?
22 March 2008, by Bharat Dogra
Till last count the world had nearly 473,000 victims of landmine explosions—wounded in very painful ways and frequently maimed and/or disabled, sometimes suffering from life-long disability. Thousands of people are being added to this number
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Union Budget 2008-09: Dominant Impressions
22 March 2008, by Kamala Prasad
The Union Budget for the financial year
2008-09 saw impressive build-up by the media and the powerful lobbies. Some moderation in the growth rate was played up in a sustained manner not only to protect what various industry sectors have got but
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Colossal Wastage of Human Resources in West Bengal
22 March 2008, by D. Bandyopadhyay
The Supreme Court of India in its celebrated judgement in “J.P.Unnikrishnan versus State of Andhra Pradesh†(AIR 1993 SC 2178), while expounding the inherent implication of Article 21 (Protection of Life and Personal Liberty), held that the State
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Russia throws a Wrench in NATO’s Works
22 March 2008, by M K Bhadrakumar
For the first time in the 60-year history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), Russia will attend the alliance’s summit meeting on April 2-4 in Bucharest, Romania.
It is clear that NATO will defer to a future date any decision to
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Bhagat Singh and the Ghadar Movement
22 March 2008, by Harish K Puri
[(The anniversary of Bhagat Singh’s martyrdom falls on March 23—he was executed on that day in 1931, 77 years ago. Last year Bhagat Singh’s birth centenary was befittingly observed on September 28. To mark his death anniversary we are carrying the
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Defining Socialism
22 March 2008, by D G Bokare
[(DISCUSSION
CPI leader and former Union Agriculture Minister Chaturanan Mishra, in his article “Need to Redefine Socialism after the Collapse of the Soviet Union†(Mainstream, Annual 2007), called for a discussion on the subject. The following
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Political Correspondence of Bhagat Singh
22 March 2008, by Chaman Lal
As we know by now, 107 documents of Bhagat Singh, apart from his Jail Notebook and the Hindi translation of Dan Breen’s My Fight for Irish Freedom have come to light. These include five letters published for first time in March 2007 by this
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