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March 2009
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Growing Complexities in Prevailing Scenario
15 March 2009, by SCAs we go to press the situation in Pakistan remains uncertain with civilian unrest having spread across the country spearheading the demand for withdrawal of Governor’s rule in Pakistan Punjab, abrogation of the Supreme Court verdict (...) -
Significance of March 10, 1959 for Tibet
15 March 2009, by Inder MalhotraIt is now fifty years since the famous Tibetan revolt that forced the Dalai Lama to flee to India where he was readily given political asylum as a result of which Tibet became a far greater strain than before on the already uneasy India-China (...) -
Bangladesh: Anatomy of the BDR Mutiny
15 March 2009, by Amitava MukherjeeAlthough the mutiny by the Bangladesh Rifles has now come to an end, yet Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was right while expressing doubts about the limited time-span of the rebellion to convey her anxiety that some more (...) -
BDR Mutiny: A Rude Shock to Democracy in Bangladesh
15 March 2009, by Muchkund DubeyThe Bangladesh polity is going through a grave crisis following the mutiny on February 15 by the BDR forces stationed at its Dhaka Headquarters. The worst phase of this crisis has been tided over, but the government has yet to deal with its (...) -
Call for a National Movement for Muslim Reservation
15 March 2009The Joint Committee of Muslim Organisations for Empowerment organised a National Convention on Muslim Reservation in New Delhi on February 1, 2009; Syed Shahabuddin, the distinguished erstwhile MP, was its Convenor. The following are the Concept (...) -
Crises of Indian Parties
15 March 2009, by Vandana MishraDemocracy in India has survived for about six decades now. During these years India has witnessed numerous open threats to competitive politics, both from within and without and still she has survived. What is, however, important is that the (...) -
Tribute to Victor Gordon Kiernan
15 March 2009Last month passed away in the UK Victor Gordon Kiernan, 95, about whom his historian colleague, Eric Hobsbawm, has written in The Guardian after his death that he was
… a man of unself-conscious charm and staggeringly wide range of learning. (...) -
Some Reminiscences of India and the CPI
15 March 2009, by Victor G. KiernanIn Britain Marxism was having a modest growth in the 1930s, and interest in India was kindling at the universities, especially in London, Oxford, and Cambridge where Indian students were most numerous, all of them nationalists and some turning (...) -
A Few Days More
15 March 2009, by Faiz Ahmed FaizOnly a few days, dear one, a few days more.
Under oppression’s shadows condemned to breathe,
Still for a time we must bear them, and tears, and endure
What our forefathers, not our own faults, bequeath:
Fettered limbs, each impulse held on a (...) -
An India Connection
15 March 2009, by Prakash KaratVictor Kiernan belonged to the group of British Marxist historians who made a great contribution to the writing of history. Having spent eight years in India, he was in close touch with the fledgling Communist Party and became a friend of P.C. (...)