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April 26, 2008
Belated Response to US’ Arms-Twisting Tactics
SHREE SHANKAR SARAN
Chinese Olympics and the Tibetan Question
P.R. DUBHASHI
Critique of Neo-classical Economics
TERRY EAGLETON
A Shelter in the Tempest of History
VIVEK KUMAR
Cultural Heterogeneity and Exclusion in India
SHEETAL SHARMA
Locational Disadvantage
DEV N. PATHAK
Politics of Protest in the Global Context
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Cultural Heterogeneity and Exclusion in India
27 April 2008, by Vivek Kumar
For some politicians it is difficult to understand India’s diversity and appreciate it too. The lesson taught in our school days that there exists ‘unity in diversity’ in Indian society is taught even today in our schools and colleges. Although the
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Should the Meaning of India Change?
27 April 2008, by T J S George
Arun Jaitley, named Senapati of the BJP’s akshauhinis, has visited his troops. S.M. Krishna, appointed charioteer of the Congress armies, has inspected his field formations. The conches have finally sounded announcing the order of battle.
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Politics of Protest in the Global Context
27 April 2008, by Dev N Pathak
Instances of assent and dissent to the relay of the Olympic torch, along with the protests in the European streets and one in India, reminds us once again that protest is one of the effective arsenals ‘we the people’ have at our disposal to
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Politics and Economics of Sugar
27 April 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
The government had an awkward time facing an angry Parliament on the sugar price scandal. Although the adjournment motion could be defeated by the government in the Lok Sabha by the sheer force of its brute majority, it was clear to the members
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Lest We Forget
27 April 2008
[(Several noted personalities have left us in the last few months. We offer our sincere homage to their abiding memory.)]
P.N. JALALI, born in 1926 in Srinagar, was a self-effacing freedom fighter attracted to the national movement drawing
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Rising Commodity Prices overrides Collapse of the Share Market
27 April 2008, by Bharat Jhunjhunwala
We should not get too worried due to the collapse of the share markets. The immediate reason is the huge losses incurred by the American bank, Bear Sterns. This bank had aggressively given massive loans to persons with weak credit ratings known
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