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July 26, 2008

Editorial
– Nation Bruised, Democracy in Peril

Chandra Sen
– On CPM Leadership and Somnath Chatterjee

Ashok Parthasarathi
– Judge the Nuclear Deal on Facts, not Convictions

Chaturanan Mishra
– Confidence Motion and Communists

Arun Kumar
– Who is Worried about the National Interest?

Badri Raina
– India’s Roughshod Ruling Class : Manmohan Goes Washington

  • Novel Presentation of Freedom Struggle and Partition
    30 July 2008, by Mahi Pal Singh

    Book Review
    Company Raj Se Gantratra Tak by Prof Mushirul Hasan (Hindi translation of the author’s ‘From John Company to the Republic’—translated by Mrs Madhuri Pal); Aakar Books, New Delhi; pp. 275; Rs 395.
    There has been a great need and demand of various scholarly books on all subjects in the regional languages in India. In fact, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties has filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court for directions to the NCERT and the University of Delhi to make (…)

  • Learning from Clinton Climb-down
    30 July 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty

    Sometimes the man-in-the-street’s reactions to world events turn out to be more pertinent than the profundities of foreign-policy pundits. Not that the foreign policy of a country could be decided by the public excitement of the day. There are occasions when a wise statesman may not hesitate to go against the tide in the conviction that the public would ultimately acknowledge the wisdom of a decision which may not have evoked instant applause.
    The importance of public opinion in the (…)

  • Confidence Motion and Communists
    30 July 2008, by Chaturanan Mishra

    I don’t mind Communists voting with the BJP because I think in the parliamentary system such a situation is unavoidable particularly as the BJP has acquired the position of one of the biggest all-India parties. But this time it was our own creation. We demanded a confidence motion in the Lok Sabha. Communists did not realise that their withdrawal of support to the Manmohan Singh Government will please the corporate sector and they will do their best to see that the Manmohan Government wins (…)

  • Open Letter to the Prime Minister to Scrap the Indo-US Nuclear Deal
    30 July 2008

    Dear Prime Minister,
    We, the undersigned, demand scrapping of the Indo-US nulcear deal with immediate effect. The content of the deal, which is currently being negotiated between India and the US, was first laid out in the Joint Statement issued by the Prime Minister and the US President on July 18, 2005 from Washington D.C. and further reiterated on March 2, 2006 in another Joint Statement issued by them from New Delhi. The signing of the Henry Hyde Act on December 18, 2006 is a (…)

  • An Open Letter to the UPA Government from an Independent
    30 July 2008, by Nina Dey Gupta

    The ‘Trust Vote’ has been cast and won by 19 votes on July 22 but at what price?? The distrust of the government by the people does not decrease in the awareness of the immoral ladder used to acquire the ‘magical’ number for survival. Post-Left withdrawal of support, the ‘life-savers’ who kept you from drowning and will keep you afloat (hopefully!) till the next General Election a few months from now, come from an amorphous group and it certainly did not behove a great party as the (…)