CHRI Statement
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative condemns the killings and gory violent means being adopted by the Maoists in the last few days. The merciless beheading of the police officer in Jharkhand and the brutal murder of 18 (...)
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October 2009
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Human Rights Groups Condemn Maoist Violence in Jharkhand and Maharashtra
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Jinnah, Direct Action Day (1946), CPI, Partition
17 October 2009, by D P SenCOMMUNICATION
R.M. Pal in his article “Was Partition in India Inevitable?” in the Independence Day Special of Mainstream (August 15, 2009) observed that “Jinnah did not want India to be partitioned”. (page 49) He quoted M. N. Roy to support his (...) -
Challenge before the Democratic Forces
11 October 2009, by SCAs we go to press news has come of the Indian embassy in Kabul being the target of a fresh terrorist attack. The attack took place this morning (that is, on October 8) killing 17 persons and leaving more than 80 injured. (Reports suggest that (...) -
Dr Mukerjee on Hindutva and Article 370
11 October 2009, by Balraj PuriThe BJP chief, Rajnath Singh, and the RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat, reiterated the commitment of the two organisations to Hindutva and abrogation of Article 370 which grants a special status to the Jammu and Kashmir State. They were speaking at a (...) -
The Withering Lotus
11 October 2009, by S.K. DuttaThe way things are happening in the BJP it seems it’s heading towards the doomsday. Two election debacles have had a catastrophic affect on the party. The unexpected defeat in 2004 and the near washout in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls have taken a (...) -
President Obama in the Eyes of the American Left
11 October 2009, by Sam Webb(The following commentary by Sam Webb, the Chairman of the Communist Party of the USA, on the first 100 days of President Obama, is highly significant in understanding the American Left’s view on Obama. —Editor)
After the first, perhaps (...) -
Chidambaram’s Dud Blows Up Strategic Deterrent
11 October 2009, by V. SudarshanEven though the Atomic Energy Commission certified that the dud thermonuclear device tested during Pokhran-II in May 1998 was no dud, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and R. Chidambaram, the AEC Chairman in 1998 and currently (...) -
Reasserting Nuclear Option: Need of the Hour
11 October 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyIn the midst of all the demonstration of mourning for Princess Diana to those for Mother Teresa, came Prime Minister Gujral‘s refreshing reiteration of India‘s nuclear policy. On September 8, addressing in New Delhi a high-powered seminar of (...) -
Chinese Threat on Border and India’s Defence Preparedness
11 October 2009, by Amitava MukherjeeNotwithstanding the assertion made by S.M. Krishna, the Indian External Affairs Minister, that the India-China boundary happens to be one of the most peaceful of our borders, continued Chinese incursions along the Line of Actual Control and the (...) -
Unfinished Agenda of Gandhi’s Gram Swaraj: Fifty Years of Panchayati Raj
11 October 2009, by Ranbir SinghAlthough the Father of Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, advocated for ‘a village based political formation fostered by a stateless, classless society’ for the creation of Gram Swaraj, the idea of Panchayati Raj did not find a place in the Draft (...)