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  • India: The Rising - Naxalbari to now | Amrith Lal

    1 May 2005

    In Andhra, both the state and naxals are talking peace, while in eastern UP they have promised to fight it out. Even as the ceasefire lapses this week, Sunday Times looks at the changes in Naxal politics and the state’’s outlook towards it.

  • India: Do the workers vanish into the blue?

    by Nagarik Mancha, 2 April 2005

    When a factory is locked out, the workers agitate. Soon the Government apparatus swings into action. A police picket appears in the vicinity. Maintenance of law and order seems to be the top priority. Weeks merge into months and by then the threat to law and order presumably subsides. Less and less of workers gather in front of the padlocked factory gates till only a handful are left behind. Things are back to ’normal’.

  • India, Pakistan in an insecurity trap

    by Praful Bidwai, 21 December 2004
    Buying Arms, Talking Peace
    It is regrettable that India and Pakistan have made so little progress on the worthy proposal, now 14 months-old, to launch a bus service between the capitals of divided Kashmir. And it is equally distressing that they remain stuck in a conservative groove while discussing nuclear and conventional military confidence-building measures (CBMs) which will genuinely reduce the threat of a conflict in this volatile and now-nuclearised region. While the hitch on the  (...)

  • India: ’Cartoonists should be liberals and radicals’ - Interview with Abu Abraham

    26 November 2004

    Rediff on the Net interview with Abu Abraham the political cartoonist and journalist in 1997

  • The Idea of India: Text of Nehru Lecture delivered by Amartya Sen at Trinity College, Cambridge | 5th Feb 1993

    13 November 2004

    Text of Lecture delivered by Prof Amartya Sen at Trinity College, Cambridge in Feb 1993

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