October 11, 2008

Although there have been umpteen number of attempts to belittle the mass movement launched by the Singur Krishi Jomi Raksha Committee (SKJRC), it will certainly not be an overstatement if the Singur movement is described as one of the most important social developments in post-independence West Bengal that has the potentiality to influence the dynamics of change not just in the State but in other parts of India as well. The course of events has also brought into focus the irresponsible roles (…)

COMMUNICATION
Permit me the following comment on the Lok Sabha Speaker, Shri Somnath Chatterji’s contention that since he had conducted himself in a non-partisan manner as the Speaker, he was not bound by the whip of his ‘erstwhile’ party, the CPI-M, to resign. . First, it has neither been the convention nor the practice for Lok Sabha Speakers formally to announce their dissociation from their party on assumption of Speakership. Under the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy in (…)