June 21, 2008

SAILENDRA NATH GHOSH
– A Few Questions to the Prime Minister on the Proposed Indo-US Nuclear Deal

Report of Expert Group on
– "Development Issues to Deal with Causes of Discontent, Unrest and Extremism" : Recommendations

S.G. VOMBATKERE
– Some Concerns about GM Foods

BHARAT JHUNJHUNWALA
– Free Trade leads to Hunger

BADRI RAINA
– Cricket as Surrogate Kill

EDITORIAL
– In Defence of National Interest

Bundelkhand’s Serious Drought Demands Immediate Attention
25 June 2008, by Bharat Dogra

Recently a lot of attention has been drawn to hunger, poverty and five-year long drought situation in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
Hunger and malnutrition are reaching extreme limits. Cattle and other farm animals suffer from very serious fodder shortage. As I noticed during field-visits from December to May, despite some improvement in government efforts to tackle the serious drought situation, feudal oppression and corruption have combined with ecological (…)
Bankruptcy Writ Large
25 June 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty

Even if the Finance Minister’s wishes were horses, there is no escape from the economic blizzard that India is about to encounter. Without claiming to be a pundit one can without much difficulty discern from Venkataraman’s Budget oration that our economy is today in doldrums. Leaving aside the inescapable impact of the alarming rise in oil prices, the mismanagement of the economy itself is bound to create serious difficulties.
Six months of the new government has seen no coherent policy (…)