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December 2009
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World Communist Meet in New Delhi: My Impressions and Suggestions
8 December 2009, by Chaturanan MishraThe Eleventh International Meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties took place in New Delhi on November 20-22, 2009. At its conclusion there was a public meeting at the Capital’s Mavlankar Hall. It took the shape of a mass reception for the (...) -
West Bengal: Citizens Beware! Killer Convicts At Large!
8 December 2009, by D. BandyopadhyayA brief recital of the event is necessary both for the purpose of recapitulation and for putting the issue in the right context. On March 16, 1970, the Second United Front Government of West Bengal imploded entirely because of its internal (...) -
Not Sorrow but Atonement
8 December 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The following piece, which was published as ‘Political Notebook’ in Mainstream (December 12, 1992), is being reproduced on the seventeenth anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Its significance is heightened (...) -
Rubble
8 December 2009, by Gopal GandhiYou lifted one fistful of salt
And an empire was shamed.
Lift
One fistful of rubble
Now
And pour it on our shameless heads.
December 6, 1992, Gopal Gandhi -
In the Aftermath
8 December 2009, by SCThe mosque was eloquent History,
Everything else was shrouded in mythology.
Yet they, under the spell of fiery oratory,
Chose to chase the mirage of a myth,
Pull down the building
And build hatred in their hearts
When I, a citizen of this vast (...) -
Dialogue in Democracy: Challenges for Government-Maoist Talks
8 December 2009, by Manoranjan MohantyPublic opinion in India seems to be building up strongly in favour of a dialogue among the government and the Maoists. This is despite the clear indications that the Central Government is going ahead with its preparations for launching the armed (...) -
Securing a Nuclear Weapon Free World
8 December 2009, by Saurabh KumarThis article was written before PM Manmohan Singh’s visit to the US as the first state guest to be hosted by President Barack Obama in the White House. But it is being published here in view of the undiminished validity of its contents.
I. A (...) -
Nuclear Issues: Pokhran Row
8 December 2009, by R. RamachandranDISCUSSION
Since the days of the Shakti series of Pokhran-II underground nuclear tests, conducted jointly by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) more than 11 years ago, controversy (...) -
Very Serious Scientific Data Falsification by Ramachandran-Chidambaram
8 December 2009, by Ashok Parthasarathi, K. Santhanam, P K IyengarA careful, in-depth study, of Graphs 4 and 1 of Ramachandran’s September 25, Frontline article “Pokhran Row” reveals:
a) Graph 4 is titled: “Gamma-Ray Spectrum of a Typical Sample of a (H-bomb) Thermonuclear Test”—not of the specific H-bomb (...) -
India Needs a Stronger Partnership with Russia in the Emerging Multipolar World
8 December 2009, by Arun MohantyIndo-Russian relations took a serious beating in the aftermath of the sudden disintegration of the Soviet Union. Russia under Yeltsin and Kozyrev, in their unprecedented enthusiasm to de-ideologise the country’s foreign policy, made an attempt to (...)