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We Don’t Need US Advice, US Warships or the Anti-Nation N Deal
In yet another audacious expression of the carrot-and-stick approach, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has almost promised that the US-India nuclear deal would be finally concluded by the end... (read full text)
Conscience and Cross-Voting in the Presidential Polls
Much as anticipated, the UPA nominee Pratibha Patil has made it to Raisina Hill. She polled nearly twice the number of votes as her NDA rival Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. In... (read full text)
Woman President Equals Women’s Empowerment?
A World Economic Survey ear lier this year placed India ahead of many western countries in terms of women’s political empowerment. The basis for the Survey’s optimism was the fact... (read full text)
1857: Some Reflections
We are in the 150th anniversary year of 1857. The debate over how to characterize it continues, though its aspects have changed. Earlier the dominant debate was over whether or... (read full text)
Corruption in Kerala CPI(M) – Is it an Aberration?
A corruption scandal is rocking the CPI(M) in Kerala. The CPI(M)’s Malayalam organ Deshabhimani has accepted two crores of rupees out of total 3.2 crores, popularly known as “bonds”, from... (read full text)
Punitive Purges of Student Activists
The public lynching of Prof. Sabharwal on an Ujjain campus is the symbol of ‘student politics’ at its worst – and it is this image that University authorities evoke as... (read full text)
Mining Policy: A Few Burning Questions
Consider the questions listed below concerning some of the key aspects of mining policy, and reflect on the possible answers from among the options suggested: 1. Who has the right... (read full text)
Dollar Nationalism, Dollar Secessionism
An annual global study con ducted by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini, two global financial advisories, has some good news for India. Globalisation and the much-vaunted New Economic Policies are finally... (read full text)
Delhi Government’s Transport and Road Policy: Urban Planning for Whom?
The Delhi government’s sudden attempts to change the face of the nation’s capital at the cost of the city’s poor have exposed the anti-people character of the Congress. The beautification... (read full text)
People’s Hero of Champaran: Comrade Gambhira Sah
On July 3, 1977, when Com. Gambhira Sah (06.08.1946-03.07.1977) embraced martyrdom in police custody of the then Janata govt. of Karpuri Thakur, Blitz commented... (read full text)
Red Salute to Comrade Jita Kaur
Comrade Jita Kaur passed away on 23 June after a battle with cancer. She was a mass leader whose life’s work in the party spanned a wide range – from... (read full text)
Bhoodan Unmasked
Reversal of land reforms has been the trend of recent times. Many states have already passed laws amending the land ceiling laws; some like West Bengal have attempted to do... (read full text)
Arvind N Das on Bhoodan
A N Das’ Agrarian Unrest and Socio-economic Change, 1900-1980, Manohar, 1983 quotes from the National Commission on Agriculture 1976: Abridged Report which had observed about the experience of land reform... (read full text)
When Workers Challenge Violations of Labour Laws, Government Brands Them ‘Anti-Development’
The industrial area demarcated by the State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttaranchal Ltd. (SIDCUL) in Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, may not be an SEZ – but it is certainly a ‘special’ new... (read full text)
UP Diary
Along with the continuing spate of assaults on dalits, women, and other weaker sections of society, recently, two major incidents rocked the state: gangrape of Muslim women in Shravasti and... (read full text)
A Nandigram in Karnataka
The recolonization of India is slowly but surely gaining ground as the days pass by, with the Central and state governments hell bent on establishing Special Economic Zones( SEZ), a... (read full text)
Report : Killer Ship Go Back : Demonstration in Chennai
Killer Ship Go Back: Demonstration in Chennai Nuclear powered aircraft carrier, the killer ship USS Nimitz, infamous for its role in world politics since World War II, reached Chennai port... (read full text)
Report : Joint Women’s Convention at Guwahati + 1
A joint women’s convention of AIPWA and other tribal women organizations – KNCA (Karbi), MMK (Mising), Sonowal-Kachari and Tiwa was held at Guwahati’s Tirthanath Sarma Sabhaghar on 14th July, 2007... (read full text)
Periyar: DMK’s Attempt to Appropriate the Legacy
Several controversies have shrouded the release of Periyar, a film on the life of the great rationalist thinker and social reformer, who hailed from Tamil Nadu. However, the film is... (read full text)
Overcoming the Conspiracy Against Palestine
(Ali Abunimah is cofounder of The Electronic Intifada and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. Article courtesy Countercurrents, 19 July 07) “Be certain that... (read full text)
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