January 2009

The following article, that appeared in The Indian Express (December 31, 2008), is being reproduced, with due acknowledgement, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution which took place on January 1, 1959.
Half-a-century ago, to this day, the city of Santa Clara in Cuba fell to a guerrilla army led by Che Guevara. The next day, the Dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba, and triumphant guerrillas entered Havana to complete what would resonate around the world as the (…)

BOOK REVIEW
Federalism in India: A Quest for New Identity by Dr Sarita; Regal Publication, New Delhi; 2009.
On account of the powerful impact of the trauma of partition and euphoria of indepen-dence, the makers of the Indian Constitution virtually glossed over the multi-national character of our polity and decided to set up such a highly centralised federal system that the scholars on federalism questioned its very claim of being a federal system. So much so that a well-known expert on (…)