July 5, 2008

Editorial
– Risky Gamble for a Paradigm Shift at the Policy Level

Document : Don’t Go Ahead with the N-Deal : Top Scientists

V.R. Krishna Iyer
– Panch Sheel of Swaraj

N.A. Karim
– Kerala’s Flourishing Spiritual Bazar

Tribute : Sipra Sarkar
– Reproduction of Sipra Sarkar’s “Need For A New Left”

On Unrest in Darjeeling
11 July 2008, by D. Bandyopadhyay

[(Communication)]
This has reference to the editorial captioned “Unrest in Darjeeling Hills” (Mainstream, June 14, 2008). While one could easily agree with the general tenor of the editorial that the CPI-M did not allow the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council experiment to succeed because of their sectarian interests, one could not, however, agree with the view that “the proposal to grant Sixth Schedule status to Darjeeling should have been allowed to materialise”.
Nepalis settled in (…)
Nepal Constituent Assembly Election 2008: An Observer’s Account
11 July 2008, by Uddhab P Pyakurel

Many Nepalese and foreigners who have been carefully watching and following the political developments of Nepal have been surprised by the results of the Constituent Assembly (CA) election which was held on April 10, 2008. There were many pre-poll surveys, guesses etc. regarding the possible election results. There were arguments that voters would again favour the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) to be the first and second largest (…)