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'Rajapaksa's Defeat is a Progressive Change from the Democratic Standpoint'
AAP and the New Language of Politics
AAP Politics: Paradigm Change in Indian Politics
Appeal to Voters of Delhi
BJP's Fall and Emergence of Ethical Questions in Delhi Elections
Black Is Not So Beautiful
Break the Siege
Caste Pride
Crony Capitalism and its Implications
Defending Conviction, Discussing Progress
Delhi's Valentine Day Gift
Educational Leadership of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Glorious Dust
Govind Pansare succumbs to Cowardly Attack
Have Faith in the People's Faith
In Defence of Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand
India-US Bilateral Investment Treaty: Not An Easy Ride
Introspecting on the Aam Aadmi Party and its Historic Triumph
Is India Finally Changing? The Powerless won Power in Delhi. That's a New Game
Je ne suis pas Charlie; Sorry, I am not Charlie
Kalpana Dutt
Kamath of Dalal Street
Legacy of Anti-Communal Struggle: Gandhiji and Nehru
Lohia's Quarrel with Nehru
Long Live Charlie Hebdo!
Modi on the Backfoot
morning after delhi poll outcome: so what really happened? Facing the Anger of the Sane and the Just
Netaji on India after Independence
NITI Aayog: Much Ado about Nothing
Obama's Visit
People Assert — Modi-Shah Duo Bites the Dust
Preamble, Secularism and Constitution
Professor Rajni Kothari: Homage by a Socialist Worker
Rebirth of Aam Aadmi
Regional Parties: New Challenges
Resolutions adopted by the 75th Session of Indian History Congress
Revolt of the Disenchanted: How the Mighty are Pulverised
Rewriting History for Political Gains
Some Major Issues related to Adivasis
Storm in a Teacup
Sunil Dasgupta Is No More
The Fall of the Sri Lankan "Monarch"
The Giant is Awake / Allround Decadence and Ray of Hope
The Great Suicide
The People For Ever
This Is Treason, Mr Prime Minister
Travails of keeping Foreign Cows in Rural India!
Tribute to B.G. Verghese: A Thorough Gentleman
Tribute to R.K. Laxman by Jayaraj Vellur
Tribute to Som Benegal
Tribute: Goodbye Comrade! Alvida Mehdi Chacha!
Tribute: Remembering Perin
Trying to cage a Tigress: Roused Civil Society defends Teesta Setalvad against Gujarat Attempt to Humiliate Her
Tweaking the Republic for a Make-Over
Ukraine: Will the Second Minsk Summit Succeed in Ending Conflict?
Victory for Democracy: The Voter's Mind
What a Victory!
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December 02, 2006
A Comic Tragedy
Armed Forces Special Powers Act: Governance by Ballot or Bullet?
Bhishma Loses Out to Our Modern VIPs
Consequences of Persisting Instability in the Korean Peninsula
Grim Warning from Bhopal
Lebanon War II : Exploring its Outcome
North-East and the Act called AFSPA
Ominous Portents
Panchayats and Neo-Liberal Economy
Some Stray Thoughts
Technology Cannot Be Monopolised
Towards Tri-Continental Perspective
December 09, 2006
Book Review: Making Art of Life
Challenges Ahead for Abe's Japan
Ethical Reasoning on Human Rights and Deliberation on Justice and Otherness
Gandhi in 21st Century
Growing Demand for Separate Telangana and Unethical Politics
Human Rights : Basic Issues
Human Rights: No End to Denial of Right to Life
In Search of a Radical Legacy of B. R. Ambedkar
Industrialise and Perish
Kerala : Soft Hindutva
On Development and Loss of Livelihood
Singur and CPM's Development Paradigm
Small is Not Always Beautiful
Special Economic Zones - Neo-Zamindari zones?
TELANGANA STATE: A Case of Undemocratic Response to a Democratic Demand
December 23, 2006
A Question of Half of India
Agrarian Relations in Two Bihar Districts: A Field Study
Champion of Equity and Justice in International Economic System
For Left Expansion in the Hindi Region
Launching into a Self-destructive Path: West Bengal Government's Blinkers and Perverse Logic
Madhubani Revisited
Minority Rights in India: Christian Experiences and Apprehensions
Political Status of Indian Women: Progress since independence
Renewing Resolve amid Formidable Challenges
Sachar Committee Report : A Review
Sachar Committee Report on Indian Muslims: Right Wing Lies Exposed
Should Rule of Law Mean Rule of Flawed Laws?
SINGUR! Do We Really Want Rabindranath?
Socialists-Communists: Need for a Continuing Dialogue
Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries
Upsurge of the Underprivileged
Violence in Singur
November 11, 2006
Afzal Guru's Hanging and President's Dilemma
Contemporary Relevance of India's Position in Unscop
Jawaharlalji : Some Reminiscences
Meaning of the Two Verdicts
Nehru and Socialism
Nehru for Today
Synthesis Is Our Tradition
Taking a Blunderbuss to a Mouse
November 18, 2006
A Year after the Mau Riots
Children's Voices : A Wake-Up Call at India Social Forum
Clinton's Bombs for Votes
Globalisation of Terrorism
Indian Muslims : What Is To Be Done?
Indo-Pak : Positive Direction
Lame Duck Session: Why US Senate Must Pass Civilian Nuclear Deal
No More Death Sentence, Please
Our Concept of Globalisation
The Creamy Layer
Three Articles on Singur
Urbanising Farmers: Bleeding the poor, fattening the rich
November 25, 2006
A Profile in Experience
'Karmayogi' Golwalkar Guruji - Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You
Citizens' Chargesheet On West Bengal Government's Development Policies
Electoral Verdict in the USA
Hu Jintao spells out China's New Approach to India
India Social Forum: Another World or Yet Another Event?
Meaning of Nobel Prize to Phelps
Nitish's Bihar Vision
Open Letter to the Prime Minister
Perception and Reality in the Making of Foreign Policy
Reflections On Our Time
Reservation and Affirmative Action : The JNU Model
Sealing Controversy in Delhi: The Way Out
Use of Madrasas in the Light of Sachar Committee Report
What Undid Pramod Mahajan?
Who will Muzzle the Cry from Vidarbha?
April 14, 2007
Contents - 14 Apr 2007
April 21, 2007
Contents - 21 Apr 2007
April 28, 2007
Contents - 28 Apr 2007
Face of the Danger
How to Run a Coalition Govt in J&K
In Search of the Destabiliser
SEZs : Modern Enclaves to Reward Capital by Exploiting Labour and Displacing Livelihoods in the Agrarian Economy
SEZs: One More Anti-Bharat Act by India
Where 'to kill' is the Byword for Growth
August 11, 2007
Arms Salesmanship
At Stake : National Interest
How Taiwan is the Taiwanese?
Human Rights in the Time of Patriotism
India-US Nuclear Deal : A Few Hard Questions
Left Parties' Statement: On the Indo-US Bilateral Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
Need to Develop Close Ties with Eurasian Centre of Power
Possibility of Free Trade and Identity of Nations
This Business of a US-India Nuclear Deal
August 18, 2007
Alternatives to Globalisation : A Search
Amartya Sen's False Logic
Candid Tale of a Simple-hearted Great Man
Gandhi, Democracy, and Days of Struggle: Political Scientists Views on M N Roy
Impact of Gandhiji's 'Non-Violence' on UN Agenda
India 60: The Task Ahead
India at 60: Justice Still Delayed
Legacy We Uphold
Momentous August
Police Reforms at Sixty
Some Reflections on 60th Anniversary of our Independence
The Fire in Our Hearts
Towards New Horizons
August 4, 2007
A Defiant Rebel
A Threat to Middlemen
As Lectures Flow. . .
Bal Thackeray's Big Heart! - Do Not Cry for the Bombay Riot Victims
Birthday in Myanmar
Chandra Shekhar : Some Reminiscences
Chandra Shekhar and other Socialists' Fight against Globalisation
Democracy, Justice and Sanjay Dutt's Sentence
Heir Gloom
Hindustani Classical Music is in Good Health
How Mayawati Can Create Employment
Moscow Trials and Lenin Enrolment
Pedagogy of the Oppressor
Raisina Hill's New Tenant
The Little Man's Ballot is Burked If Election Law Not Reformed
This Is Not A Story About Binayak Sen
Valuable Contribution to Literature on Conflict and Peace in the North-East
December 1, 2007
'Grapes-are-sour' Syndrome
A Communist Rishi
Buddha's Killing Fields of Nandigram!
Global Oil Politics
My Reminiscences of Professor Hiren Mukerjee
NACO and HIV/AIDS in India
Nandigram : CPM Exposed
Nandigram: A Dangerous Chapter in the History of Human Rights
Nuances of Change in the Indian Judicial Paradigm
Perils of Judicial Policy-making
Prescription for Disaster—the 'Modi Model' of Governance
Remembering Hiren Mukerjee
Reminiscences of Radhakrishnan
Share Market Gyrations:
Statement on the Gujarat Carnage 2002
The 'Deal'
Tibet and Indian Diplomacy
Transparancy versus Contempt of Court
December 22, 2007 - Annual Number 2007
Abduction Simpliciter!
Barriers to Historical Research: Restrictive Accessibility to Public Records
Bihar's Manmade Woes
Bundelkhand: Is the Journey from Despair to Hope Possible?
Did India let down Aung San Suu Kyi?
Implications of Plutonomy
In the Wake of Nandigram
Is the Cult of Non-Violence opposed to the Fight against the Culture of Tyranny, Injustice, Oppression and Exploitation?
Moral Warfare
Nandigram : Another Symbol of Challenge to Democracy in India
Nandigram : The Gujarat of Sonar Bangla
National AIDS Control Programme-Phase III: A Socio-Political Disaster in the Making
Need to Redefine Socialism after the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Nuclear Deal: USA's Game Plan and GOI's Abject Surrender
On 150th Anniversary of 1857 Revolt: Sepoy Mutiny and Indian Patriotism
On Rabindranath's Prasna and Nandigram Events
On Socialism and its Version as Practised in China Today
P.C. Joshi : A Political Journey
Pakistan : Re-emergence of Nawaz Sharif
Please, No Ecstasy for Pakistan's Agony
Questions that beg Answers from the CPI-M
Ray of Hope
Re-imagining Women in Islam
Remembering S.V. Ghate
Swaraj—Unto the Last
Taslima Nasreen's Agony Must Come to an End
The Centenarian Alvas
The Road Ahead
Urgent Need to Mend Fences with Iran
US Exaggeration of Iran's Ballistic Missile Threat
Violence and Our Youth
We are Politically Correct—for What?
December 8, 2007
Appointment of CAG
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Should Resign
Coalition Dharma and Drama
Defend the Legitimate Interests of Every Downtrodden Segment
Desire to Dominate : Overriding US Perception in West Asia
Dr Ambedkar on Democracy
Emergence of Rahul Gandhi in Indian Politics
Lower Depths
Naroda Patiya to Nandigram: Distinctions and Similarities
Not Sorrow but Atonement
Progressive Middle Class Deserts Bengal CPM
Sketchy, though Faultless, Analysis of Naxalite Uprising
Wages of Gulagism
West Bengal Governor's Statement in the Wake of Events in Nandigram
July 07, 2007
Age of the Nonaligned
An Enlightening Publication
An Exemplary Revolutionary
Coronation by Divination : History by Hearsay
India-United States Nuclear Deal : Issues and Challenges
Land Acquisition and Industrialisation in West Bengal : Report of a Workshop
Looking Back
New Maharajas in India
On Presidential Poll and Shrimati Pratibha Patil
Ramchandra Gandhi—Philosopher and Teacher
Rice's Message and Indian Response
Sarkozy's 'Mediterranean Union': What Does It Mean?
Shocking Lapse
Thanksgiving and History
July 14, 2007
A Trickster Extraordinaire—Sordid tale of the Hathua Raj
A Year in Power with the People - An Appraisal of The LDF Rule In Kerala
'Global Islamism', 'Liberal Modernity' and Corporate Globalisation : Today's Complex Global Scene the Author Fails to Dissect
Chandra Shekhar's Unforgettable Resistance to Globalisation
Face of the Danger
Ode to a Garbage Bin
Social Justice for the Muslim Community—Panacea for Upliftment
July 21, 2007
An Open Letter to Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
Bhagat Singh, Bose and the Mahatma
Can India Mutely Watch the Massacre of Democracy in Bangladesh?
Chandra Shekhar : A Profile
China's Everest Conquest is India's Waterloo
D.G. Vanzara and the Culture of Fake Encounters: A Rapid Appraisal
Educational Development through Participatory Orientation in Indigenous Schooling in Northern Canada and Orissa
Gandhi and Jean Baudrillard
Lal Masjid : What Lies Ahead?
National Figure with Deep Insight into Political Processes
Need for a Just Deal for Denotified and Nomadic Tribes
New Ringtones from Condy Rice - Align with Dubya, or Pay Big Price
On Agriculture, Land Reforms and Industrialisation
Political Entrepreneurs and the resulting Vicious Circle of Rent-seeking
Public Service Broadcasting : Illusion and Reality
Reflections on the Print Media
Sociology of Presidential Elections in India
Soldier of the Socialist Cause
Taj Mahal
Treason and Terrorism Soak Saffronazis
Vilma's Struggles
Welcome Initiative
July 28, 2007
150 years of 1857
A New Chapter Unfolds
Close Examination of Haryana's Paradoxes
Culpable Derelection of Duty by Police Officers
Dacoits Rule the Pilgrimage Centre of Chitrakut
Democracy in Peril in Bangladesh
Japanese Defence Chief's Gaffe may Prove Costly for Abe
Lessons of Presidential Poll
Rethinking Marxism and Democracy
Second Freedom Movement
The Sociology of a Mandate
June 02, 2007
A Difficult Question
A Fresh Look at Singur in the Light of Climate Change Warning
Assault on Human Rights
Basic Causes of Muslim Backwardness
Foreign Policy : Going back to Thucydides
Getting Ready for Lok Sabha Poll
Hunger, Thirst and Indebtedness—Bundelkhand's Deepening Agro-Ecological Crisis
J' Accuse! - A Children's Doctor and a Mighty State
Lessons of UP Assembly Elections
Message to India Inc in Prevailing Scenario
The Scheduled Castes in Higher Education
UP Polls Outcome : End to Mandal-Masjid Politics and Emergence of Mayawati
June 09, 2007
Book Review: A View from Within
By-elections and Beyond
Climate in Turbulence
Corporate Accountability : Is Self-regulation the Answer?
Don't Say No To A Dream
FDI in Higher Education : Aspirations and Reality
Harbinger of Genuine Change?
Inhuman Economics of the 'Human Face'
Mayawati, no Ataturk, Still has a Chance
P.C. Joshi and Indian Cultural Renaissance
Public Sphere and Participatory Development: A Critical Space for the Left in Kerala
Punjab: Let the Clergy Stay its Hand
Social Realities Cannot be Ignored
The Turnaround in Uttar Pradesh : A Significant Inaugural?
VVER-type Reactors : Some Irrefutable Facts
June 16, 2007
At Home and Abroad
In Search of a President
On Poverty, Food Inadequacy and Hunger in West Bengal
President, Constitution and Democracy
Religious Tolerance in Sikhism
SEZ: Tinkering Won't Help—the Law should be Repealed
Slower Poverty Reduction but Increasing Inequality
To Acquiesce
Union Budget and the Rural Sector
Urdu and Muslim Identity
June 22, 2007
After Thirty Years
Asiad Games versus the Poor
Drop Charges, Release Dr Binayak Sen Forthwith
For Whom the Bell Tolls
If Kashmir is Disputed so can be Pakistan?
Implications of Unimaginative Politics
Musings on the Nineteen Months
On P.C. Joshi and Communist Unity : A Response
Ramsey Clark's Statement to the Convention
June 30, 2007
Amend Bhim Smriti to Annihilate Caste
Enough is Enough!
Internet In China : The Media's Changing Face
Left and Right in Time of New Cold War in Europe
Message from the President
Nikhil Chakravartty
Open Letter to the Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Remembering Nikhilda
Secularism, Nationalism and Democracy in the Context of the 2001 Parliament Attack
The Speaking Flower
The Story of a Gadfly
The WTO, Governments and People's Movements
May 05, 2007
Contents, May 5, 2007
Family Lies
Free Economy At Work
Globe for the rich - Zero for the poor: Globalisation of Indian Economy
Kashmir : Long Haul
Left Must Unite
Meeting the Challenge
No New Cold War
Peace and Development
Some Issues Concerning Industrialisation of West Bengal
The Myth of Inefficiency
May 12, 2007
1857 In Our History
Bangladesh: Khaleda, Hasina and Caretaker Government
Correct Diagnosis of CPM's Political Ailments
Marx and Engels on 1857 Revolt
Neighbours in Foreign Policy
OBC Quota : Letter to Justice Sachar
Report of an Independent Fact Finding Team on Orissa's POSCO Project
May 19, 2007
A Mature Response is the Need of the Hour
Appeal To The Indian Left From A Progressive Pakistani: Evolve Alternative Paradigm of Economic Growth
Behind Mayawati's Spectacular Success
Book Review: Understanding the Nuances of Development
Cricket and India's Soft-power Miscarriages
Democratic Colonialism
Diversion of Crops and Small Farmers
On Left Expansion in Hindi Speaking Region
Our Democratic Pretensions
P.C. Joshi and 1857
The Moral Highs of India's "Cultural Nationalists"
Union Budget 2007-08: An Exercise sans Realism
We Need No Taliban Here
Yeltsin and Putin in Retrospect
May 25, 2007
Any Apologies for the Paddars?
Beauty And the Beast: Baroda episode underscores threat to creative expression
Cultures and Vultures : Wake-up Call from Vadodara
From Nero to Nixon, it's Not a Long Way
Nehru's Dream of Socialism
Secular Outlook
Some Memories of Nehru
The Ethos of Jawaharlal
The First War of Independence
The UP Election
This was a Man
Three Years of UPA Government
Unexpected Turn-around in UP
Validity of Nehru
November 10, 2007
"Conflagration Nandigram"
A Betrayal!
A Velvet Divorce in China
Birth Of A New World
Festival of Freedom
Indomitable Indira—Strategist Par Excellence
Musharraf's Gamble
Red Star Glows Brighter...
Tempered Steel
Why the Indo-US 123 Agreement should be Firmly Opposed
November 17, 2007
Blackmail Again
Gandhi-Nehru Tradition and Indian Secularism
Jawaharlal Nehru and World Order
Lessons from Pakistan
Nandigram: Statement of Concerned Citizens
Nehru : Some Reflections
Pakistan : Repeat of 1971?
PM's Moscow Visit And Indo-Russian Ties
Portraying Nehru's Essence through Use of Metaphors
Remembering India Gandhi
Temper of Tolerance
US Dilemma over Pakistan's Emergency Rule
West Bengal's Agony and Rabindranath's Prasna
What is Happening in West Bengal?
November 24, 2007
Badge of Shame
Blood On Their Hands
Has the Left taken one Right Turn too many?
Instrumentality of the CAG and the Executive's Accountability
Nuclear Deal, The Left Parties and Priorities for People
Some Reflections on Gulf War
To Defend Secularism
West Bengal : A Case of Costly Arrogance
Why does the Prime Minister Not Lose Sleep over Dr Binayak Sen?
November 3, 2007
Benazir Bhutto's Magic Works
Bravo, Jessoda!
Burma: The Glass Palace Prison
China's 17th Communist Party Congress : An Assessment
Complications of the Present Political Situation
Conscience-Keeper of Civil Society
Displacing Livelihoods
Durga Puja As Protest
Morphing India's Afghanistan Policy
My Earliest Recollections
No-Work, No-Pay for the Legislators : A Welcome Move
On Tehelka's Gujarat Sting
One Year of Pranab Mukherjee's Proactive Foreign Policy
P.C. Joshi, the Organiser, Communicator and Culturalist
Remembering Two South Asian Stalwarts
Subrata Banerjee is No More
The Rizwanur Affair and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Two Messages
October 13, 2007
After Years of Fruitless Sanctions, Time for Effective Cooperation
Challenge before the Left Parties
China : Where is the Red Star?
China's Generation 'One-Child'
Erosion of our Democratic Values and Unconcern of Political Parties
India holds the Key in NATO's World View
JP : Some Reflections
JP's Message
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The Many-splendoured Figure
Land Reforms — Agenda For Action
Myanmar's Silent Revolution
N-Deal : Behind the Aggression and Undue Haste
Remembering JP Today
Who Partitioned India?
October 20, 2007
Black and White
China's Posture on the Indo-US Nuclear Deal
Indian Universities, Classless Societies
Might of Religion Revalidated in Myanmar
Nuclear Deal and Our Nuclear Programme
Nuclear Shadow over Democracy
Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Peasant in Present-day India
Poverty in India
Reasserting Nuclear Option
October 27, 2007
Being a Proud Indian
Capital Punishment : A Penological Barbarity
Civil Society Team Opposes POSCO Project
Gandhian Ideology of Trusteeship and Natural Resource Management
Indira Gandhi—An Outstanding International Leader
M.N. Vijayan : The Scholar Who Knew Too Much
No Illegality in Bandh
Projecting Farmers' Plight
Russia Bolsters its Ties with Iran
Strategic Alliance with the USA in a World of 'Civilisation'-based Alignment
Triumph and Tragedy in Karachi
Warning Signals for the US
World Development Report on Agriculture:
October 6, 2007
A Secular Pope, a Scapegoat or a Secretary-General
An Alternate Approach to the Traditional Paradigm of Peace and Security
Bhagat Singh as I knew Him
Bhagat Singh for Today
Brief Narrations of Day-to-Day Realities
Bring the Skeletons Out
Choice between Quadrilateral of Democracies and SCO
Impact of Lenin on Bhagat Singh's Life
Indo-US Agreement on Civil Nuclear Energy
Why We Oppose Indo-US Nuclear Deal
Woefully Inadequate
September 1, 2007
Dealing with United States
Hyderabad and Bhagalpur
Importance of Productive Choices and Education in Reviving the Indian Economy: Lessons from the South Korean Model
Letter to PM on Nuclear Deal
New 'NATO of the East' Takes Shape
Towards a Culture of Peace
Urgent Need to Give the Children their Due
Why The Stand-Off?
September 15, 2007
A New Milestone in the Movement for Dalit Emancipation
Christians : A Faith under Assault in Secular India
Citizen India, Stand Up: The Unacceptable Excesses of Irreligion
Countdown begins for Bush's friend Mush
Data Exclusivity : Access to Medicine in Danger
Defining India's Identity : An Alternate Vision
Demystifying the Indo-US Civilian Nuclear Deal
Growth, Employment and Inclusion
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - Towards New Dynamism
The Blind and the Deaf
UPA Government : Ominous Moves
September 22, 2007
Another Leap towards Land Reforms in J&K
Fragility of Our Secular System
In the Wake of US Double-Standards
Independence of Contradictions
India and the US in 'nuclear deal' - The Tribal and the Moneylender
India's Options for Economic Progress : Clues from South Korea
Indo-US Nuclear Deal, Congress and CPM
Letter to President, PM, Sonia Gandhi on Ram Setu and Sethusamudram Project
Reality behind the Bush Smokescreen
Release Veteran Burmese Journalist U Win Tin
Report of a Conference on Indo-US Nuclear Deal
Unemployed India At Sixty : The Reality Bites
Wheat Imports Lack Rationale
September 29, 2007
Allow Public Debate and Review Sethusamudram Project
An Open Letter to the Andhra Pradesh CM
Constituent Assembly Elections in Nepal
Iraq and the End of the American Century
Measuring the Colossus
O, Gandhiji, Where Art Thou?
Problem with Postmodern Gandhi
Ram Setu: Myth or Reality?
Relevance of Gandhi-Nehru Nexus
South Block's Indifference to Burma's Struggle for Democracy
The UPA Government should Fulfil its Promise on Land Reforms
September 8, 2007
An Open Debate on the N-Deal Won't Hurt India
Book Review: 'The Hindu-Muslim Divide : A Fresh Look by Amrik Singh'
Coalition Contradictions: Emerging Political Scenario in Karnataka
Give Unorganised Sector Workers A Fair Deal
Hyde Act : Relevant Excerpts
Indian State on Trial: Selective justice is not the answer
Reflections On Our Time
Relevance of Burrows Dunham Today
Salute the Left
The Pluses and Minuses of Leadership
The Question of Democracy
April 12, 2008
2008 Russian Elections and the Future Scenario
Ambedkar's Work and Mission
Black and White
Cluster Bombs—Is it Possible to Ban this Cruel Weapon?
Dismal Experience of NREGA : Lessons for the Future
Documenting Nandigram
Galloping All-round Costs of the Iraq War
Not in the Image of God
P.C. Joshi : Organiser of Historic Movements
Tackling Narcotics in Myanmar, US Style
Taiwan's Presidential Election and the Future of Cross-Strait Relations
Tibet and Indian Diplomacy
April 19, 2008
Dr Ambedkar : An Ambassador of Humanity
Extend Loan-Waiver to Landless Farm Workers
Flawed Attempt to Analyse the Evolution of Modern India
Honouring Ambedkar
In response to the statement on Taslima Nasreen's departure from India
New Dawn and Epochal Change in Nepal
Open Letter to Prakash Karat and VS on the Chengara Struggle
Panchayati Raj after 15 Years : Challenges Ahead
Problem of Iraqi Refugees and Western Responsibility
Rights Reserved
Social Compliance, Social Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility
April 26, 2008
A Shelter in the Tempest of History
Belated Response to US' Arms-Twisting Tactics
Chinese Olympics and the Tibetan Question
Critique of Neo-classical Economics
Cultural Heterogeneity and Exclusion in India
Lest We Forget
Locational Disadvantage
Metaphor of the Centaur
Minor Nandigrams of Uttarakhand
On Taslima Nasreen: A Rejoinder to Shahabuddin's Letter
Politics and Economics of Sugar
Politics of Protest in the Global Context
Rising Commodity Prices overrides Collapse of the Share Market
Should the Meaning of India Change?
The Renaissance of the Asian Identity
Who Would Wipe Professor Sanaullah Radoo's Tears?
April 5, 2008
A Paradise Derailed
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
China in Tibet
Difficult Times
Hollowness of China's Claims over Tibet
India's Relations with Myanmar, Bangladesh
Left Unity : Long Haul
Opening the Floodgates of Corruption
Political Implications of India-US Cooperation on Missile Defence
Rival Faiths in Tibet
Statement on Taslima Nasreen's Departure from India
Taslima's Ouster
August 16, 2008
A Betrayal of India's Constitutional Vision
Best Tribute to Freedom Fighters
Calibrating Change
Independence Day Special - August 16, 2008
Left Must Do its Utmost to Protect Parliamentary Democracy
Political Scene In The Wake Of Trust Vote
Quest for Justice
Role of the Left in the Changing Political Scenario
Sikhs in the Freedom Struggle
Thirty Years After
US' Grand Game in Central Asia
Whither Washington Consensus?
You Disrobed the Temple
August 2, 2008
Emerging Right-wing trend in the Congress
Food Crisis Exposes Failings of India's Agricultural Reforms
Formation of an Alternative Front Cannot be Further Delayed
Futures Trading and Inflation : A Tragedy and a Farce
In the Wake of the Storm
Iraq Crisis and Gujral Government
Nuclear Deal : Mr Prime Minister, Why this Haste?
Slaying of A.T. Babu
Terror Strikes Again
Threat to State Security : Incarceration of a Public Health Practitioner
August 30, 2008
Anatomy of Atrocities on Dalits in Haryana
Georgia Marks End of US Unipolar Moment
Heal and Renew
Imperative of Strengthening Democracy
Indian Season of Troubles
Kashmir : Nearing Zero Hour
NSG Waiver : Hardball Diplomacy Needed
Singur: How Buddha 'Implemented' Jyoti's Pledge
Trust Vote, L.K. Advani, Hindutva and RSS
August 9, 2008
Bridging the Divide in J&K
Can We Fail Any Lower?
China in Africa
Communists and 'Quit India' Struggle
Comrade Surjeet—the True Marxist
Creatively Abstract the Legacy of Buddhist Samgha
Election-Eve Political Scene
How to Protect the Weakest OBC Communities
I have Consciously taken a Principled Decision
Nuclear Deal and Some Strategic Considerations
On a Federal Agency for Metro Terrorism
Renegotiate What in the 123?—An Enormous Amount!
Renegotiate What?
The Conciliatory Revolutionary
Tribute to Harkishan Singh Surjeet
Trust Vote 2008: Indian Political Parties and the "Deal"
December 20, 2008 - Annual Number 2008
'Maya' in Indian Politics
A Long Winter of Political Discontent?
Abolition of Child Labour and Right to Education
Across The Atlantic To Hell
Assembly Election Verdict
Behind the CIA-run Prison in Thailand
Bhagat Singh ki Murat (Statue of Bhagat Singh)
China, India and Tibet—Strategies and Responses
Dealing with Terrorism: Alternatives for India
Defending Democracy and Peace Process against Terrorism
Dismal Scene in 2008
Embrace Fidel Castro: Historic Opportunity for Obama
Failure of Loan Waiver to Help Most Farmers
For a New Crusade
From Ayodhya to Mumbai: Communal Frenzy stands Demolished by Indian Secularism
India 60: Multiple Readings
Lasting Way to Fight Recession: Revamp NREGA
Lexicon of Insolence!
Making Pakistan Pay the Price
Medvedev Visit to India: A Significant Indo-Russian Summit
Mumbai Terror Attack : Some Reflections
Myth and Reality of Capitalism: Neo-Liberalism and Globalisation
On Nexus between CIA and Mossad
On Re-Hyphenating India and Pakistan
Our Task Today
Piracy and Terrorism at Sea
Recasting Tradition: Dress, Difference and Dissent in Darjeeling Hills
Some Aspects of Self-Sufficiency in Energy
Status of Urdu in India
Ten Poems on Bhagat Singh
Terrorism: Threat to India's Unity
Unique Chronicle of a 'Barefoot' Engineer's Experiences of Floods in North Bihar
Why 'Sanatan Sanstha' and 'Hindu Janajagruti Samity' should be Banned
Why V.P. Singh Must Be Defended
December 6, 2008
Challenges before the Human Rights Movement
Denial of Right to Life
In the Name of Ram
Mumbai 11/26 and Our Response
Mumbai Terror Attack: Thus Far and No More
Open Letter to Our Dear Brothers in Pakistan
Please Pay Your Bill Before You Leave, Mr Tata!
Strange Storm Brews in South Asia
Tribute to V.P. Singh
Voice of a Responsible Citizen
February 16, 2008
All in the Name of Power Politics
Desire for Sameness
Ejection from India would mean Cold-blooded Murder of my Most Cherished Ideals
February 23, 2008
CCU to CCU (Coronary Care Unit to Calcutta)
Danger Signal from Bombay
Intellectuals Demand Indian Citizenship To Taslima Nasreen
Reduce Tax Burden on Common Man
Resurrection of Democracy in Pakistan
Rule by Military can No Longer be Tolerated
Woman and Development : A Gender-sensitive Global Perspective
February 9, 2008
Do We Have Democracy?
Letter to the Union Home Minister
Our Battle
Promising Prospect
Taslima Is No Mean Prisoner
January 26, 2008
Darkness in Pakistan
How GM Crops Endanger Environment and Agriculture
In Gandhian Mould
India 2008 : Continuing Paradox
Innards Of the Indian State!
Letter to PM on his Trip to China
Measuring the Colossus
Modiphobia to Modiphoria
More to Gandhi and Gandhism
People's Struggles for Equality in Society
Reflections on January 30
Should Bihar be Developed on a Gandhian Model?
Terrorism's New Signature
The Economic South : Economic Wars or Economic Peace?
The Other India and Media
Threat To The Nation
Watershed Management—India's Crying Need
Why the Nuclear Energy Path is Suicidal
July 12, 2008
A Question of Leadership
Adequately Protected in India?
Bhutan And The Happiness Index
Democracy, Who Needs It?
Essence of Left Revolt
India Blows Up A Monsoon
India's Stake in Afghanistan
Obama as Presidential Candidate in the US
Politics of Food
Some Notes on Rethinking Marxism for the Future of Socialism in India
Subjectivism in CPI-M on the History of CPI Split
Tribute: An Iconic Army Chief
July 19, 2008
Aruna Asaf Ali: A Tribute
End of Hindu Rashtra: Nepalese People Have Finally Stood Up!
Looking back on August 1942
Media : Journalism in the Hallowed Tradition
Nervousness of the Government and Increasing Burden of Subsidies
Not Oil, Infatuation with Foreign Capital will drown the Government
Nuclear Deal, Left Parties and Priorities for People
Ominous Portents
On Third Anniversary of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal
Partition and Friendship
Presidential Elections in the US
Reject the Nuclear Deal
SEZs : A Closer Look
July 26, 2008
An Open Letter to the UPA Government from an Independent
Confidence Motion and Communists
Globalisation and India's Economic Identity : An Overview
India's Roughshod Ruling Class
India-Specific Safeguards Agreement
Indo-US Nuclear Deal: India Backtracks on Disarmament
Judge the Nuclear Deal on Facts, not Convictions
Learning from Clinton Climb-down
Nation Bruised, Democracy in Peril
Novel Presentation of Freedom Struggle and Partition
Nuclear Deal—Another Client State of USA
On CPM Leadership and Somnath Chatterjee
Open Letter to the Prime Minister to Scrap the Indo-US Nuclear Deal
Pasmanda Movement and the Question of Secularism
Who is Worried about the National Interest?
July 5, 2008
Congress should Concentrate on Important Tasks and Stop Pursuing the Nuclear Deal
Defending the Indefensible
Don't Go Ahead with the N-Deal : Top Scientists
Indira Gandhi at Crossroads
Kerala's Flourishing Spiritual Bazar
Need For A New Left
Nepal Constituent Assembly Election 2008: An Observer's Account
On Unrest in Darjeeling
Panch Sheel of Swaraj
Parliamentarisation versus Federalisation
Risky Gamble for a Paradigm Shift at the Policy Level
Tribute: Sipra Sarkar
June 07, 2008
Are We Becoming A Nation Of Toadies?
Commercial Banking for the Rural Sector : Some Suggestions
Exploring the Different Meanings of Autonomy
Heavy Blow to Aam Aadmi
Importance of being Urs
In Defence Of Freedom Of The Press
Indian Cultural Heritage and Environmental Conservation through Traditional Knowledge
Indo-Pak Ties: Difficult Period of Uncertainty Ahead
Nepal: Herald of a New Dawn
Obama's Tryst with History
People's Discontent and System Failure
Should India have a New Political Party?
Terrorism's 'Tenkasi' Moment
The Challenge of Diversity
West Bengal, Genesis of Violence : Time for Left Introspection
June 14, 2008
A Critique of Neo-Liberal Development and Alternatives
Capabilities' Qualifier: Can the Gap be Bridged?
Electing the Nepal Constituent Assembly: A People's Mandate
Innovative Measures for Inclusive Women's Reservation
On the Creativity of Indian Muslims
Practical Steps to Peace in Kashmir
The State's Response
To Talk about Austerity…!
Unrest in Darjeeling Hills
West Bengal: Panchayat Election Outcome shakes the Roots of Left Politics
June 21, 2008
A Few Questions to the Prime Minister on the Proposed Indo-US Nuclear Deal
Bankruptcy Writ Large
Bundelkhand's Serious Drought Demands Immediate Attention
Caricaturing Cricket
Cricket as Surrogate Kill
Free Trade leads to Hunger
In Defence of National Interest
Indepth Study of Farmers' Suicides, their Causes and Remedies
Not Cricket but a Gambling Sport
Some Concerns about GM Foods
The Tryst of a Woman of Nandigram
June 28, 2008
A Letter
A Media Legend of India's Underbelly
A National Loss
A Perennial Void
Conscience of a Progressive Polity
Day One in Calcutta
Dealing with United States
Do We Need Nehru Today?
Emergency: What it meant
Good-bye Feroze
Letter to the President
Musings on Tamil Nadu
N.C.'s Two Qualities
Nikhil at the Gates
Nikhil Chakravartty
Nikhil Chakravartty : I Salute You
Nikhilda through the Mists of Memory
Nikhilda, the Unimpeachable Journalist
Nikhilda—A Glorious Human Being
Ray of Sunshine
Requiem for an Old Comrade
Rural Loan Waiver or Moral Hazard?
Sonia Gandhi has to take the Political Call
Tagore for Today
The Power of One
The Story of a Gadfly
US' Violation of Human Rights in Afghanistan
March 1, 2008
A Bag of Tricks to Get the Vote: Union Budget 2008-09
A Positive Move
Advani's Remarks Most Disturbing
Appeal for the Release of Binayak Sen
Bird Flu: Crucial Issues that were Ignored
Call to the Creative Community
Dawn over Pakistan
Indira Gandhi : A Candid Evaluation
Padmabibhushan to Pranab Mukherjee and its Effect in West Bengal
Putin Persona and Forthcoming Elections in Russia
Role of the Governor and Multiparty System
Secret Killings, Open Truths?
The Room in which I am Forced . . .
The US Elections: Excellent Spectacle and Jamboree
Trade Unions should Actively take up Social and National Issues
Tribute to Indira Gandhi
Uncle Miltie displaces Uncle Nehru!
Union Budget 2008-09
March 15, 2008
A Journalist with a Vision
Agrarian Crisis in India is a Creation of the Policy of Globalisation
Are you Women or Just Representing Husbands and Fathers?
China, India play it again for Uncle Sam
Death Penalty—State Hate
Dera Controversy in Punjab:
Inevitability of Copyright Law?
Malati Chaudhuri — First Wave Feminist
My Latest Experiences in Nandigram
My Lords, the Fundamentals are Missing
Perils of Judicial Activism
Reverse the Trend
The Hindutva Experiment: from Lab to Factory?
Tug of War between Judiciary and Parliament : A Burning Question
Union Budget 2008-09
What is Fundamentalism?
March 22, 2008
Bhagat Singh and the Ghadar Movement
Callous Indifference to Struggle for Human Rights
Colossal Wastage of Human Resources in West Bengal
Defining Socialism
Millions of Suffering People ask: When will the Colossal Human Tragedy caused by Landmines End?
Need to Escape from the Death Chamber
Political Correspondence of Bhagat Singh
Russia throws a Wrench in NATO's Works
Tibet : Growing Prospects of Reconciliation
Union Budget 2008-09: Dominant Impressions
March 29, 2008
A Roving Review of a Police Masterpiece
Agro-Economic Ramblings
Ambiguities, Incongruities, Inadequacies in Scheduled Tribes and Other Technical Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006
Arab Christians: A Fight against Annihilation
Awards like Cookies
Beijing's Suppression Of Tibetan Unrest
Georgia: Saakashvili Manipulates his Return to Presidency
Implementing Janadesh—The Task Ahead
In the Midst of Gloom
Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Federalise Foreign Policy
Intrigue takes Afghanistan to the Brink
Is Kosovo the End of Europe?
Neglected Function of Indian Universities
Right to Information Act : An Instrument for Stronger and Vibrant Democratic Process in India
Role of Civil Society in the Empowerment of the Disabled
Statement of Students Against Nuclear Power (SANP) on Indefinite Hunger Strike in Protest against Indo-US Nuclear Deal
Time to Smash the Mafia
March 8, 2008
A Book-keeper's Exercise
In Celebration of Womanhood on March 8
Increasing Prosperity, Growing Insecurity
Is Socialism a Non-Viable Casualty and Capitalism the Only Alternative?
Kerala People's Plan Revisited
Looking beyond Farmers' Suicides and Loan Waivers
Lop-sided View of Indian Politics and Misgivings
Prospering India, But For Whom?
Socialism stands Betrayed — by Socialists!
Union Budget 2008-09
Women's World
May 10, 2008
A Few Unanswered Questions and Inherent Problems of Communist Movement
A Great Force of Peace and Harmony is No More
An Immeasurable Tragedy
Black and White
Central Asia in World Politics
Higher Education : Basic Problems
Mayhem in Catalonia
Mounting Inflation and the Common Man
Significance of Vladimir Putin's Presidency
Socialism : The Terminator of Democracy
May 17, 2008
Aao Ham Sangharsh Karen
Another Election Where Voters Will Lose
Burma: Referendum and Resistance
Fighting Terror—of Different Hues
Indian Iron Needs a Solid Steel Heart
Mongolia: Beware of Colour Revolution
Musical-chair Politics
Nandigram Act II: Politics of Governance in West Bengal
Nepal Must Not Repeat History
Release Eminent Hindi Journalist Dr Mehruddin Khan
Valuable Addition to Literature on Past and Present Afghanistan
Violence in the age of Empire
May 24, 2008
Ahmadinejad's Visit: A Defining Moment
Bravo, Alok Raj!
CPI-M's Sleight of Hand delays Justice for Victims of Massacre at Shuchpur
Current Inflation: Deconstructing the Underlying Social Factors
Food Crisis and Cooperation on Global Plane
Gresham's Law in Present-day India
Indira and the Legacy
Judgment on OBC Reservation
Media: Dismal Coverage of Jaipur Blasts
Nehru's Scientific Attitude
On Nehruvian Humanism
On World Situation, Tibet and Nepal
Political Parties besieged by Fatigue?
Reflections on Nehru
The Nehru I didn't Caricature
The Perpetual Struggle
The Universal Didi
The Unvanquished in Nandigram and Singur
May 3, 2008
Anand Karaj
Choice for Kashmiris: Independence, Autonomy and Freedom
Deterrence, CPM-Style
Emerging Trends in Trade Union Movement
Inflation Today
Light and Dark
Nagaland Talks Going Slow
Nandigram Act II - Rape and Democracy in West Bengal
P.N. Jalali — Homage to an Uncommon Man
Perceptive Analysis of European Left
Remembering Lenin
The Basic Imperative
Tribute: Didi
May 31, 2008
'Marxist' Metamorphosis and the Positive Alternative
Budget and the Rural Sector
Causes and Consequences of Food Price Behaviour
Era of Dual Rule in Russia
Food Crisis and the Patriotic Task of Kisan Organisations
Karnataka: Behind the BJP Success
Left's Misfired Missive
Meaning of Bombay Bomb Blasts
Momentous Event against a Depressing Backdrop
On Sethusamudram Project
Social Security for Contractual Labour : Issues and Challenges
They Insist Your Show Must Be Cancelled!
Veteran Historian and Versatile Personality
November 1, 2008
'Transforming' Pakistan
A New Crisis Looming?
Choking the Workers' Voice
Deceptive Presentation of Government Accounts
Delhi Convention demands Release of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti Leader Abhay Sahu
Face of the Danger
Finance Capitalism and the Spectre of Crisis
Mumbai Cowboy
Nikhilda's Eternal Silence
Russian Scholars on Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Internal Situation of China
Salutations to a Dear Comrade
The Multipolar Truth of Kandhamal Conflict
Why I Was Drawn To Him
November 15, 2008
A Finely Tuned Sensibility
A Left Front in the Service of the Bourgeoisie
Birth and Growth of Communist Party in Delhi
By Decree Alone
Disturbing Trends
India Seeks 'Velvet Divorce' from Iran
Khushbu: Eye-opener for Muslim Girls
Nehru's Economic Philosophy
Obama Wonder and Bush Blunder:
Remembering Nehru when Communalism is at its Peak
Socialism, Capitalism, Monopoly Capital
Terrorism Inc.: Nexus between CIA and Mossad
The Crisis of the Human Spirit
Wedded to Eternal Values
November 22, 2008
America's Defining Moment
Coming to Terms with Barack Obama
Electoral Reforms in India: Proactive Role of Election Commission
Face of the New World Order
Free-Market Illusion and Global Financial Crisis
From Slavery to the White House
Implications of the Majoritarian Offensive
Left Alternative and the Struggle for Toilers'
Obama And The Euphoria: What India May Expect
Obama, The World Rejoices, But What Will You Do?
Remembering I.K. Shukla
Sri Lanka: History Revisiting?
Understanding Obama's Victory
Watching History in Harlem
November 29, 2008
Can the Caste Problem be Solved?
Extraordinary Times, Unexpected Happenings and Real Economy
Hindu Terrorism: The Shock of Recognition
Indira Vs Syndicate: First Round
Japan: Taro Aso faces Critical Challenges
My Questions for Obama
Obama Wins
Rediscovering Nehru
Relevance of Gandhi-Nehru Nexus
Rise of BRIC, and the US' Desperate Move to Retain its Stranglehold
Russian Economy is Roaring Again
Sabotaging Indigenous Production of Vaccines
Sonia Gandhi's Unambiguous Pronouncements
November 8, 2008
'Where we are met with cynicism and doubt, we will respond with ... Yes We Can'
Africa, African Diaspora and the Prospect of Global Cultural Dialogue
Energy Superpower Emerges in the Caspian
India's Most Dangerous Move
Lights of Moscow
Mullahs, Indian State and Muslim Backwardness
Nehru's First Visit to Soviet Union
November Revolution : Some Reflections
November Revolution in United States
Obama's Victory: Dawn of a New Era
Rise Up to a Black House
Salute From Prison
The Red Vignettes
US Presidential Poll Outcome: A Welcome Win, but Don't Expect Too Much
Work for All: An Alternative Path of Development
October 11, 2008
Exceptional Significance of Singur Movement
Fighting the Flood Ravages of Kosi
Godless in Kerala : Bitter Battle on Books
India and the World of Tomorrow
Indo-US N-Deal: US Power Elite Gains All, India Loses Every Way
Looking beyond the Summit
Media: The Synergy that keeps Us Going
On Somnath Chatterji
Quotidian Consequences of Terror-strikes
Sufism, Wahabism and Kashmiriyat
Time for Introspection
October 18, 2008
A Tragic Road Map
Beyond Politics
Karl Polanyi and Globalisation
Letter to the PM on taking Urgent Measures for Peace in Kandhamal
On Goa and the Challenges before It
Real Face of Manmohanomics
Who Lives if the Nation Dies?
October 25, 2008
A Mad Scramble over Afghanistan
Collapse of the Financial Institution of American Capitalism
Global Financial Crisis: A Classic 'Ponzi' Affair?
India: Puzzled Vendors of Washington Consensus
Politics in the Age of George the Great
Politics of Paper Tiger
Tatas' and Governments'
Terror, Batla House and the Indian Police
TULF's Appeal to Leaders of Political Parties and People of Tamil Naad
Voyage to the Moon
October 4, 2008
Contesting Postmodern Notion of Truth through Gandhian Vision of Satya
Democracy and Self-Representation
Gandhiji—Missing Nobel Peace Laureate
How Gandhi's Ideas can Help to Combat Globalisation related Threats
Interim Report of Concerned Citizens' Independent Fact-Finding Mission to Kandhamal (Orissa)
Mahatma or Dharmatma
Nanavati Commission and Gujarat 2002
No Draconian Law, Please
Report on Encounter in Jamia Nagar
Threat to National Integration
Unfinished Revolution
September 13, 2008
Exploring Azad-Iqbal Synthesis
Face of Deception and Betrayal
Flood Havoc by Kosi River in Bihar
Guns Versus Bread
Hindu Gods Spike Chinese Dragon
Kashmir and Conscience
Manmohan Outsources Political Sovereignty
Memorandum to CEC on State Assembly Elections in Chhattisgarh
Moral Victory for Evicted Peasantry
On Sikhs in the Freedom Struggle
Short-term and Long-term Causes of Popular Uprising in J&K
September 20, 2008
A PM's Scrap Book
Brave New Words
Clinton's Bombs for Votes
Communal Violence in Orissa
Crisis of Capitalism
Eyeless in Meeting the Challenge of Terror
Inscrutable Chinese Behaviour at NSG Meet in Vienna
Irrigation Alternative—An Analysis
It's Enough Now, Uncle Sam!
Land and Food Security in Kerala: The Issues are Much Bigger
Politics of the Nuclear Deal
Securing Capitalist Accumulation for America's Ruling Corporate Caste
Singur Agitation and Beyond
Step Back from the Precipice of the Self-injurious N-Deal
Turkmen Gas Pipeline : Hurdles Galore
September 27, 2008
Conversions, Lawlessness and the State
Crisis on Wall Street and India
Dissecting Anew Hindu-Muslim Ties And Partition
Education for All : An Introspection
Greater Terror
Terror Will Not Work
The Unsung Heroes of 1946
Two Incidents
UPA Should Not be Myopic to World Events
We Need No Taliban Here
Why India Became Free
September 6, 2008
Between Emerging Tiger and the Poor
Bravo! Mr Speaker, Sir
Democracy At A Discount
Fury of Floods in Bihar
Hopeful Signs
Letter to the PM on Flood Catastrophe in North Bihar
National Family Health Survey III, Punjab: A Brief Account
Pentagon's Loss
Scuttling 'Dangerous' Integration Independent of the West
Singur—Sowing Problems
Some Reflections on Naga Ceasefire
The Chief Minister is Lying
The Kashmir Imbroglio
The Rising and Retribution in 1857
The South Ossetian War: Lessons for the Future
Towards Appropriate Knowledge
Urban Terrorism on Maharashtra
Vigilance is the Price of Liberty
Where is the Copywriter?
1) January 2009
Amid Ominous Forebodings
Climate Change and Massive Distress in Bundelkhand
Cuban Revolution in Retrospect
Dynamics of Indian Federalism
Getting to the Roots of Global Terror
Israel's Shifting Strategy in Gaza Strip
Israeli Invasion of Gaza
Kashmir in Perspective
Lessons from the Jammu and Kashmir Elections
Media Must Observe Restraint: South Asian Editors
Modernity Trouncing Tradition
Moral Warfare
National and Global Actions: Essential for Inclusive Growth
Netaji: The Undying Legend
On Kashmir and Palestine
Rapid Inclusive Economic Growth: The Only Way Forward
Remembering Bhowani Sen On His Birth Centenary
Requiem on Singur
South Asia gets a Makeover
The Challenge
The Many Roads to Iraq…
10) October 2009
Quest for Socialism
The Valley of Incongruities
Use Doha Round to Correct Past Mistakes of the WTO Regime
Victims of the Home Ministry?
A Nowhere Approach to India's Nowhere Revolution
After Indira Gandhi
An Open Letter to Sasi Tharoor, my Representative in Parliament
At Pittsburgh and New York
Balagopal's Legacy Will Live Forever
Behind Sri Lankan Bloodbath
Challenge before the Democratic Forces
Chidambaram's Dud Blows Up Strategic Deterrent
Chinese Intellectuals: State versus New Left
Chinese Threat on Border and India's Defence Preparedness
Citizens Initiative for Peace and the Maoist Challenge
Crisis from the Balkans to Caucasus: Munich Speech to Reset Button
Deep Transpersonal Ecology: Gandhian Connection
Deserved Recognition for a Courageous Step
Dr Mukerjee on Hindutva and Article 370
Edward Moore Kennedy—Defender of a Dream
Fanatic Dalits, Empowered Dalits?
Gandhi and Dr Lohia—Eternal Optimists
Gandhi should have Led a Nationwide Movement to Save Bhagat Singh
Gandhi's Words in Present Context
Great Loss to the Media World
Growth Despite Bloodshed?: Intra-state Conflict in South-East Asia
How World Bank Prevents Development
Human Rights Groups Condemn Maoist Violence in Jharkhand and Maharashtra
Indian State and the Spectre of Naxalism
Indira Gandhi's Place In History
Indonesia Today: Post-Election Reassessment of the Military
Jinnah, Direct Action Day (1946), CPI, Partition
JP: Some Reflections
K. Balagopal: A Memory to be Cherished
Letter From Kolkata: Dissecting Vedic Village Scandal
Making a Farce of Vulgarity, too
Maturity of Democracy in Japan or Acid Test for Hatoyama?
Musahar-Maoist Combination: Are the Poorest Asserting themselves in Bihar?
Need for a New Economic System
Nikhilda: Some Nostalgic Reflections
Open Letter to the CM of Bihar
Pakistan warns India to 'Back Off'
President Obama in the Eyes of the American Left
President Obama's Landmark Initiative towards World Peace and Security
Reasserting Nuclear Option: Need of the Hour
Regrettable Lapse
Relevance of Gandhiji's Message Today
Remembering Balagopal: A Feminist Pays Her Tribute To A Comrade
Remembering Indira Gandhi Today
Remembering Lohia: A Legacy for the Left
Remembering Somnath Lahiri on His Birth Centenary
Reply: Private versus Public Purpose
Sri Lanka: Five Months After
State Assembly Poll Results and Beyond
Stop Offensive, Hold Unconditional Dialogue
Subjective Obsessions diminish Quality of Historical Analysis
Tagore and Victoria Ocampo
The Withering Lotus
To be a Kashmiri and/or a Muslim!
to indira gandhi
Tottering Britain and Partition
Two Messages
Unfinished Agenda of Gandhi's Gram Swaraj: Fifty Years of Panchayati Raj
What has Driven the Tribals of Central India to Political Extremism?
Why India's Diplomacy is in Disarray
World Bank's Reforms: Different Image, Same Tune?
11) November 2009
A Contemplative Testament
A Finely Tuned Sensibility
A Peace Prize for Vague Promise, not for Real Performance
A Splendid Partnership
A Total Commitment
Afghanistan: 'Cronies and Warlords' wait in the Wings
An Analytical Look at McChrystal's Report
Austerity: Is it a Drive or the Usual Practice?
'There can be No Greater Betrayal or Crime in a Democracy'
Beyond Populism
Brace Yourself, Crisis will Worsen!
CIA's Clandestine Plans in Afghanistan
Developed Countries Must Pay for Historical and Ecological Debt
Development for Whom?
Drought, Food Prices and the Poor in India
Emerging Role of Kazakhstan
Engaging Study of Ongoing Cultural Transformation
For Judicial Transparency
Foreign Policy Perspectives and the American Scene
Genetically Engineered India
Haryana: Setback in Electoral Battle after Defeat in War on Development Deficiency
Has India a Policy on Myanmar?
India Must Beware of the Chinese Dragon
India Steps Up Climate Change Efforts
India-China Row Over Arunachal Pradesh: A New Irritant or Mere Posturing?
India's First Woman Ambassador
Interim Report of Independent Citizens Fact-finding Mission to Manipur
Journey beyond Marx
Juridical Contours of the Right to Education
Lalgarh and Jungle Mahal: Where are we Heading?
Managing Disasters and Displacement
Mapping the Al-Qaeda Linkages in South-East Asia: How Real is the Threat?
Mixed Signals
Nehru as PM and Foreign Minister
Nehru for Today
New Delhi Meeting's Call: Repeal AFSPA
New Social Movement in West Bengal
Outcome of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election 2009
Outstanding Champion of Human Rights
PM in US, BJP on Mat, Sena on Rampage
Politics and Economics of Sugar
Prabhash Joshi
Privatisation of Judiciary!
Reflections on October Revolution and Crisis in Communist Movement Today
Remembering Gopi
Remembering P.N. Haksar: A True Friend of Bangladesh
Reminiscing the Political Legacy of Balagopal
Requiem for the October Revolution
Save Aami River and Lakhs of Villagers from Pollution
Save Brinjal, Save Ourselves
Sheikh Hasina's Resolve to Foil the Conspiracy of Destabilisation in Bangladesh
Should We Have Talked to the Chhattisgarhi Mother?
South-East Asia: A Beacon of Maritime Collaboration?
The Editors Guild of India mourns the demise of Prabhash Joshi
The Kingdom of Money is here
The Meanness of Mean India
Tribute to Prabhash Joshi
Twenty Years After
US Goofs the Afghan Election
US' Dalliance in Beijing is Short-lived
Village Pradhans from Weaker Sections on the Reality of Panchayati Raj
We welcome the reports that the Government of India and the CPI (Maoist) are agreeable to the idea of talks
West Bengal: Bye-Election Lessons
Whither Rural India?
Why Panic about the Prefix 'Maoist'?
12) December 2009
A Banana Republic Indeed!
A Rare Case of Wit and Wisdom
A Wall Collapses, the World Changes
Ajoy Ghosh: The Creative Marxist
All-encompassing Economic History of Indian Peasantry
Azadi, Autonomy and Self-Rule vs Freedom
Bangladesh: Promise of Change
Changing Perception of US Policy towards China under Obama
Changing Weather and Shifting Glaciers: Deeper Ecological Concerns
Climate Change and Struggle for Self-determination
Cogent Analysis of Terrorism and Governance
Communist Unity—Time for Introspection
Cyber Infection? An Appeal to Call Centres
Dialogue in Democracy: Challenges for Government-Maoist Talks
Eastern Europe: Impressions of a Journey
Efforts Towards Fiscal Consolidation: A Critical Review
Election Defeat of the Leftist Parties and Its Aftermath
Evolve Alternative Paradigm of Economic Growth
Gay Marriages: A Controversy
Genetic Engineering: Instrument of Western Agribusiness to Control India's Food and Farming System
Grim Warning from Bhopal
HCUSU Elections: Status of Democracy and Lyngdoh Committee's Recommendations
In the Aftermath
In Utter Desperation
India Needs a Stronger Partnership with Russia in the Emerging Multipolar World
Indo-Russian Strategic Partnership Enters New Stage
Indo-US and India-Russia: Strategic Partners All?
Jharkhand: Economic Growth for Whom?
Judicial Activism and Investigative Journalism: Editors as PIL Litigants
Justice Liberhan Report: Half-Truthful and Half-Untold
Kashmir: Manufacturing a Suitable Story
Key to Good Governance: a Perceptive, Responsive and Sensitive Administration
Letter to PM on the 25th Anniversary of Bhopal Tragedy
Need to Realise Full Benefits of the Protective Law for Tribals
Needed: India's Positive Role for Universal Nuclear Disarmament
Not Sorrow but Atonement
Nuclear Issues: Pokhran Row
Obama treads Soviet Road out of Kabul
Obama's Visit to China
On Shopian Tragedy, Mulk Raj Anand
On the Liberhan Commission
On Thermonuclear Weapon Capability and its Implications for Credible Minimum Deterrence
Poetic Justice!
Politics of Disability Estimates in India: A Research Note
Reflections on the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Resolving Kashmir Problem: Some Preliminary Steps
Respect Samatha Judgement, End Hostilities, Start Dialogue
Return to the Basics
Rural Industrialisation as the 'Mahayana' of International Cooperation: A World Waiting to be Born
Securing a Nuclear Weapon Free World
Shame of Bhopal, Real Test at Copenhagen
The Babri Controversey and Liberhan Report
This Business of English
Tribute to N.C.
Very Serious Scientific Data Falsification by Ramachandran-Chidambaram
West Bengal: Citizens Beware! Killer Convicts At Large!
West Bengal: On the Degeneracy of a Political Party
Where is Hemant Karkare's Bullet-proof Jacket?
Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression
World Communist Meet in New Delhi: My Impressions and Suggestions
2) February 2009
'Yes, We Can'
26/11: Is China Important….?
A Forgotten Communist
A Historic New Era Begins in US: Great Expectations
A Tribute to Former President Ramaswami Venkataraman
Ajoy Ghosh
Analysing The Satyam Affair: Pointers to Business Fraud in India
And Then They Came For Me
Apt Addition to Discourse on Religious Diversity
Army Chief's Impermissible Public Statement
Bangladesh: 'People Voted Freely Against Terror, Religious Bigotry'
Barack Obama and US-Pakistan Ties based on CIA-ISI Cooperation
Challenges to Governance within the Problematique of Urbanisation
Clarity of Thought and Rich Experience in Public Life
Collapse of the Make-believe World
Communalism Most Serious Menace
Cuba Fifty
Desperate Capitalism, Disparaged State, and Doctored Democracy
Enforcing Cultural Values: Attack in a Mangalore pub
Exposing the Fallacy in the Current Policy of Economic Development
Follies of the Republic
Forging National Unity for Security and Ending Recession
Gaza: Damages beyond Destruction
How India should Respond to Western Duplicity
In the Wake of the Mumbai Bloodbath
In the Wake of the Mumbai Terror
India At Crossroads: Instrumentality of the Military
Interim Budget: An Ordinary Exercise in Extraordinary Times
Lawyers, Judges and Justice Jujitsu
Making Panchayat Raj Work
Mumbai Aftermath: India's Disciplined Response Helped Avert Major Threat to World Peace
Need for Deeper Engagement in South Asia to Fight Terrorist Machinations
New Delhi's Legitimate Concern
New Situation and Our Tasks
No Dirge for George W. Bush
Nothing Left to Say
Obama's Middle East Policy: Beyond Special Envoys…
On Justice Sachar's Dignified Rebuke of Army Chief
On Limitations of Pre-Election Interim Budget
Pakistani Military Sizes Up 'Smart Power'
Peace Prospects in Sri Lanka
Pitfalls in the Nayachar Chemical Hub
Press Freedom in Nepal
Principled Political Unifier of the CPI
Raj Kapoor: Man of the Masses
Remembering Ajoy Ghosh on his Birth Centenary
Satyam Episode and India's Corporate Image
Search For Aborigines, or Sudra Varna, or Caste-Ending Equality?
Sena on Rampage, Kavita Karkare and 'Surgical' Strikes
South Asia: Peace and Conflict in the Context of the War on Terror
State of the Economy and Interim Budget 2009-10
Strong Support for Demand for Freedom Fighters' Memorial near India Gate
Terrorism: Some Questions
The Slumdog Phenomenon
Time for Basic Approach
Tragic Finale to a Courageous Nationalist
Trying Times
Upholding Objectivity beyond the Culture of Sycophancy
US Options to Restore Security in South Asia after 26/11
War is not the Best and Most Effective Option
When scars grow tongues
3) March 2009
A Few Days More
A Letter from Nagpur Central Jail
An India Connection
Bangladesh PM and Army Chief's Exemplary Role in Handling Mutiny and Preserving Democracy
Bangladesh: Anatomy of the BDR Mutiny
BDR Mutiny: A Rude Shock to Democracy in Bangladesh
Call for a National Movement for Muslim Reservation
Centenary of Hind Swaraj
China Breaks its Silence on Afghanistan
Coalition Politics and Impending Poll
Communalism and Hate Speech
Crises of Indian Parties
Declaration of a Conference on NREGA and Panchayats
Developed Punjab Evading Females
Dr Lohia—Our Revolutionary Mentor
Dr Lohia's Life and Thought: Some Notes
Global Democracy: Consolidation and Expansion
Global Meltdown and its Impact on the Indian Economy
Good Man Muthalik
Growing Complexities in Prevailing Scenario
Have Family Courts lived up to Expectations?
He Marched to Death
How do We React to Varun's Outbursts?
In Defence of Professor Lotika Sarkar
In Defence of Professor Lotika Sarkar
India and China in the Neo-Liberal World
India-Pakistan: Need to Tackle Basic Issues
Karimov's Gamble
Lohia Line on Destruction of the Caste System
Mainstream and Nano Car Project of the Tatas at Singur
Meaning of 'Instability'
Meaning of Modern Civilisation
Momentous Victory for Pakistani People
National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme: Issues and Challenges
New Focus—Dynamic Paradigm—and New Accountability for Parliamentary Polls
No Excuse for Fascism
Obama's USA
On Danny Boyle and Goras in Love with India
On People's Movement at Singur and Mainstream
On Rammanohar Lohia's 99th Birth Anniversary
Passing of an Era
Pitfalls of Toeing the US Line
Politics of Succession
Rammanohar Lohia
Reflections on a Visit to Bangladesh
Regional Disparities, Smaller States and Statehood for Telangana
Resurgent Russia and its Growing Engagement with South Asia
Review Article: Financial Crisis and How to Tackle It
Significance of March 10, 1959 for Tibet
Smitu Kothari Is No More
Some Reminiscences of India and the CPI
Sri Lanka: Human Rights under Attack
The Demise of Solzhenitsyn
The New Pitfalls
Tribute to Victor Gordon Kiernan
Wanted: A Measure of Statesmanship
Washington to Dacca
Why The Complete Truth About Bangladesh Eludes Us
Why the US Stimulus Package is Bound to Fail
Women's Participation at Grassroot Level: An Analysis
Working of NREGA — Voices from Panchayats
4) April 2009
A People's Manifesto
A Story of the Bees—A Fable for Our Times
April 8, 1929: A Day to Remember
Behind Terror Attack on Lahore Outskirts
Beyond Election-season Trivialities
Bravo, Mr Naveen Patnaik! Keep It Up!
Bunkar Sandesh Abhiyan: A Campaign for Protecting Livelihoods of Weavers and Artisans
Clean Politics demands No Corporate Funding to Political Parties
Congress, Left Must Get Together Again
Contours of Crack-up
Credit Cards Under Discredit
Development as Swaraj: A Vision for a Just Society
Doormats Cast(e) Aside
Election Titbits, Sad Absence of Ideology
Elections and the Maoist Phenomenon
Elections: Trends and Projections
Electoral Kaleidoscope of India 2009
Fighters for a Great Yesterday! Brand Advani: Perils of Rebranding!!
Honouring Ambedkar
Impact of US Stand on World Economic Crisis
Indo-EU Free Trade Agreement: Should India Open Up Banking Sector?
J&K: Elections with a Difference
Kandhamal Violence: Secularism and Democracy under Siege
Karl Marx and Lessons of 'Capital' Are Back!
Language and Politics
Letter from Kolkata: Decadence of Bengali Intelligentsia
Letter to PM on Binayak Sen's Incarceration
Machiavelli's Ceasefire and the Indo-Naga Peace Process
Mahesh Bhatt on Indo-Pak People-to-People Contacts
No Time for Banality
Ominous Neighbourhood Scene
On Ajmal Kasab's Trial
On G-20 Summit
On the Centenary of Hind Swaraj
Oust the Tyrants!
Partition and Present-day Ills in West Bengal
Peace in Kandhamal
People are Positively Responding to Our Call for an Alternative
Please Help Mallika Sarabhai's Election Campaign
Politics of Alliance in Bihar
Rally behind Mallika Sarabhai in her Fight against Communal Fascism
Reinforcing New Stereotypes
Remembering Lenin
Remembering Rammanohar Lohia: The Che of Non-Violence
Reservation and Sustainable Development of Muslims
Right to Fair Trial and Ajmal Kasab
Salute to Poet Darwish
Scanning P.C. Joshi's Biography
Stage set for a High-Profile SCO Role in Afghanistan
The Newspaper as a Looking Glass
The Way We Conduct Elections In Our Country
Tibet and Indian Diplomacy
Towards a New International Monetary and Financial Architecture
Towards the Second Year of Mockery
Track Record of the Shiela Dikshit Government in Delhi
Tribute: Smitu Kothari
Varun Gandhi: Albatross Round BJP's Neck
Venomous Communalism
We Admire Taliban
Whither General Elections 2009?
Whom to Vote?
Would Terrorism become a Thing of the Past: When and How?
5) May 2009
'Q' Factor Returns to Revive Bofors' Ghost
Agricultural Prospects and the Rural Economy in China and India
Ajmer Sharief Blasts: Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence
Alchemist (in Memory of fellow-activist Smitu Kothari)
An Appeal
Apex Court's Welcome Step
'Major Hindrance to Democratic Movement among Sri Lankan Tamils has been Removed'
'Chhattisgarh Government Seems to Want to Kill Me': Binayak Sen
Boycott Will Only Isolate The West
Collapse of Leftist Front
Communist Parties have Let Down the People in Kerala
Conspiracy by Chhattisgarh Administration
CPM and "Third Front"
Crucial Ballot
Crushing Democracy in Myanmar
Dalit-centric Parties may Need a New Plan
Deepest Condolences to Satyapal Dang
Devouring Tiger: Marauding Tiger?
Economic Ideology of the Congress: Empowering the Poor
Election 2009 : The People For Ever
Election Results: Some Reflections
Election time or tamasha time?
Electioneering in India: No Agenda for the Common People
End of an Era
Exploring South Asia's Varied Nuances
Global Challenges before the New Government
Global Financial Crisis, Health Care and Poverty
Globalisation and its Impact on Women: A Critical Assessment
Grassroots Issues and Elections
Gravy Train to Pakistan
Gujarat: Ghosts of the Past and Future
Has the Congress earned Dividend from the NREGA?
Ideological and Development War Ahead
India in the SCO Today
India-Israel Defence Nexus Deepens
India's Black Wealth in Global Tax Havens: Looking Beyond Elections
Is India a 'Dar-ul-Harb'? Are Hindus 'Kafirs'?
Is Nehru Coming Back?
Jawaharlal Nehru : excerpts from his speeches and writings
Joint Study on Secret Detention
Lok Sabha Election 2009: Emerging Trends in National Politics
Lok Sabha Poll 2009: UPA Returns to Power
Mahatma Gandhi's Inclusive Approach to Humanity
Mayawati's Gimmicks
Multiculturalism and Coalition Politics: The Indian Experience
Nehru and Non-alignment
Nehru Must Be Turning In His Grave
Nehru, the Parliamentarian
Not that Fair
On the Anniversary of Victory over Fascism
On Varun Gandhi, BJP and Advani
On Violence and the Question of Means and Ends
Open Letter to Sonia Gandhi
Overall Reality of Indian Democracy
Post-Election Scenario
Prachanda triggers Political Crisis in Nepal
President Obama's Initiative for Achieving a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
Protect the Centre
Recession—Diagnosis and Remedies
Repressive State
Return of Indira Gandhi
Rise and Fall of Prabhakaran
Save Human Lives, Human Rights and Democracy in Sri Lanka!
Talibanisation or Disintegration?
The Giant is Awake
The Great Pole (Poll) Vault
The Hidden State
The Keshpur Line
The Left's Exit: Notes for Consideration of All Concerned
The People's Mandate and After
The West Bengal Verdict
Tribute: Ruddar Datt
Tribute: Vimla Dang
Twenty Years After
Unfair Representation to Fair Sex in Lok Sabha from Haryana
Verdict 2009 Interpretations: What Lies Ahead?
West traps Russia in its own Backyard
Why do Urban Voters not Register their Votes?
Why Fool Yourselves?
6) June 2009
A Mix of Relief and Disappointment
A Requiem for CPM
After Congress' Rejuvenation in Election 2009: Need for an Indigenous New Deal
An Eye-witness Account
At Home and in the Neighbourhood
'Fifty Per Cent Democracy': Demolition of a Gandhian Ashram in Chhattisgarh
Binayak: A Tribute
Cairo, Islamabad, Delhi And Washington D.C.: Unitive Quantrangle through Obama Incarnation
Chhattisgarh Government's Self-destructive Act
China Today and Tomorrow
Comrade EMS - A Homage
De Facto Colonisation Continues Unabated
Deras, Caste Conflicts and Recent Violence in Punjab
Diffident Us versus Combative Them
Does it Matter?
Economic Crisis and Women: A Draft
Emergency: What it meant
EMS on Planning
End of Maoist Monolith
Eyeless in Tackling the Maoist Problem
Fact-finding Team on Latest Developments in Chhattisgarh
From Employment Guarantee to National Food Security
General Election 2009—A Gentle Breeze of Change
Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils
Global Economic Crisis: Lessons for India
Habib Saheb and the Gonds' Story of Creation
He Always Thought of People's Welfare
Indian Left Today
Interim Report of Fact-finding Team on Developments in Chhattisgarh
Labour Absorption: A Unique Strength of the Informal Sector in India
Lalgarh and Beyond: Disaster in the Making
Legal Literacy for Ensuring Justice and Equality
Lest We Forget
Memories of a Many-splendoured Man
Mumbai Festival: Looking for that Golden Age
New Government, Economic Strategy and National Consensus
North Korean Nuclear Brinkmanship and its Global Impact
Our Poverty + their Wealth=India
Outcome of General Election 2009
Poverty Syndrome: Various Facets
Punjab: What Next?
Rebuilding the Left and Renewal of Socialism
Reflections on the Election Results and Tasks Ahead
Remembering E.M.S. Namboodiripad on his Birth Centenary
Report of the All-India Fact-finding Team on Lalgarh
Revisiting the Iranian Revolution
Roots of Current Violence are in Oppression under Colonialism and Dictatorships
Shopian Killings Don't Stir Us!
Stimulating Exercise unfolding Socialist Future
Substantive and Meaningful
Swine Flu and Indian Strategy to Combat the Menace
Symbol of a Heroic Age
Tagore for Today
The EMS I Admired
The Fine Art of Government Formation
The Left's Exit
The Legacy for Tomorrow
The Naxalite Movement that was Not in Naxalbari
The Rise and Fall of Prabhakaran
Tribute to Kamala Das: Love in the Time of Pain
Tribute: Kamala Suraiya - Femme Fatale of Indian Literature
Troubadour of Our Times
Twenty Years after Tiananmen Crackdown
UPA Must Change the Fate of Seven Hundred Million Downtrodden Indians
Varied Muslim Projections in the Media
West Bengal: Khejury — The Truth
What People Expect in the Next Hundred Days
Whither BJP?
Why are Farmers Moving to the Cities?
Women's Groups Condemn State Cover-up in Shopian Case
Yes, You Can: Signs of Hope in Obama's Message - An Indian Muslim's Response
7) July 2009
2009 Lok Sabha Elections in Haryana: An Analysis
A Creeping Paralysis
A Tribute to Aruna Asaf Ali
Abolish Capital Punishment
Adivasi: A Contentious Term to denote Tribes as Indigenous Peoples of India
Agrarian Struggles: Yesterday and Today
An Agenda for National Renewal
An Open Letter to the Finance Minister
Appeal and Open Letter to the Prime Minister
Armageddon and After
Aruna Asaf Ali
'Colour' Revolution Fizzles in Iran
Bharatiya Janata Party: Searching a New Subterfuge?
China : Who's Counter-revolutionary?
Contours of the National Scene
CPI-M and Politics of Governance
CPI-M's Downhill Journey in Bengal
Diagnosis of Left's Debacle Still Undetected
Dissecting the Agrarian Crisis in Punjab
Economic Agenda: Global Crisis Calls for Fresh Thinking
Emphasising 'Inclusive Growth'
Feminism or Reservation?
GM Crops are the Highway to Genetic Holocaust
Historic Delhi High Court Judgement flows from Nehruvian Vision of 'Equality'
How Lakhs of Livelihoods can be Protected and Promoted in Handlooms and Khadi
I Salute You
Indians Down Under
Indo-Sri Lankan Economic Cooperation: Contemporary Scenario
Internationalisation of the Arctic: A Move Fraught with Dangers
Iran: Rafsanjani's Gambit Backfires
Issue of Higher Education in India
Lalgarh: Intellectuals, Maoists and the State
Landmark Judgment on Gay Rights: Litmus Test for Tolerance
Limits of Growth-centric Approach in Targeting Poverty and Inequality
Looking back on August 1942
Marxism in India: Need for Total Rectification
Micro Credit—The Hidden Agenda
Minorities in India
Need for a New Poverty Line
Obama's Visit to Russia in Retrospect
Of RIC, BRIC and BRICSA
On Death Row
On Economic Survey 2008-09
Political Logic underlying Pranab's Budget
Pope looking for Third Economic Alternative
Preliminary Statement on the Movement in Lalgarh
Prospect from Simla
Remembering Aruna Asaf Ali on her Birth Centenary
Remembering Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Respond to the MPs' Legitimate Concerns
Road-map for Police Reforms in South Asia
Serious Misrepresentation
Spectacular Music, Spectacular Wreck
Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa's "Final Resolution" of the Tamil Problem and India's Options
The Poison in Bangladesh Polity
Time to say: BJP-CPM Bhai-bhai!
Union Budget 2009-10
Union Budget 2009-10: Accentuating Agrarian Crisis
Union Budget 2009-10: Delivering on Mandate for Inclusive Growth
Union Budget 2009-10: Growth with a Conscience
Union Budget 2009-10: In Tune with the Thinking of the National Movement
Union Budget 2009-10: Logic, Limitations and Prospects
Union Budget 2009-10: Quality of Fiscal Deficit
Wanted: A Holistic Approach
What Binayak Sen Stands For
Why Rs 1417030000000 won't Save Us
8) August 2009
Ethnic Violence Shocks Xinjiang (New Territory)
A Close Look at the Union Budget 2009-10
A Dangerous Move threatening Food Security
A Sell-Out to the Powerful: History Repeats Itself
An Eye-opener
Andhra Pradesh Elections 2009: Some Reflections
ASEAN Tryst and India's Signature to it
"When the People Lead, the Leaders will Follow"
Bihar: Implement Bandyopadhyay Commission's Recommendations for Land Reforms
BJP in Turmoil, Opposition in Disarray
Bomb Blasts in Nepal: Global Dimensions of Hindutva Terror
Book Review: A Deeply Reflective Study of India's Foreign Policy
Can Money Compensate for Rape?
Can Money Compensate Scheduled Tribe Victims for Rape?
Change of Guard seems imminent in Japan
Committing to Continuity
Communists and 'Quit India' Struggle
Concern Over a Pernicious Agreement
Conscience and Charar-e-Sharief
Dr Ambedkar—A Conscience-keeper of Gandhiji
Economic Reforms in India: Is there a Political Consensus?
For a Legal Discussion on UI Number
Free Market—Disinformation of the West
Freedom Day at Amritsar
From Niyamgiri: Rise Aflame
From Slavery to Debt-bondage: Two Centuries of Exploitation in India
How the PM fared in Parliament
How we Smashed a Jewel
India and the New Great Game
India Will Be What We Are
India's 11th Five Year Plan 2007-12: Challenges and Constraints
Indian Communists versus Marxism-Leninism
Jallianwala in Beijing
Manmohan Singh and Naxal-Maoist Upsurge
Manmohan Singh breaks New Path in Indo-Pak Relations
Marital Discord and Divorce in India—The Changing Profile
Murder of Judicial Trial
Must End-users end up as Fools?
NAM: Abiding Relevance
On Batla House and NHRC, Shopian Killings and Para-military Behaviour
Our Nation's Self-Enduring, Self-Correcting, Self-Renewing Impulse
Our Pledge Today
Remembering the Massacre
Salute the Death-defying Sentinels of Our Freedom
Shocking and Shameful
Soldiers in the Nationalist Struggle
The Night Must End
The Sharm el-Sheikh Sell-out
The Slum, the Dog and the Millionaire
Tribute to Subhas Chakraborty: A Maverick Communist with Mass Following
Tribute: Baba Bhagat Singh Bilga and Vimla Dang - Pride of Punjab
Was Partition of India Inevitable?
Whither India: The Way Up or the Way Down?
Whither Information Technology in India?
Why We Must Oppose the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill of 2009
Will RSS see the Ground Reality and join to Salve India's Core Values?
Xinjiang: China's Palestine
9) September 2009
'Hindu Rashtra' in Delhi?
'Innovation Universities'
A National Loss
A Tribute to G.S. Bhargava
Af-Pak: The World's Most Dangerous Place
Affirmative Action: State's Contrasting Approach towards Castes and Minorities
Afghan War reaches a Tipping Point
Andhra also going the Dynastic Way?: The Miracle of Indian Democracy Gets Further Strengthened!
At Random
At Random
Austerity Drive
Babri Masjid: Role of the Congress
Beyond Social Exclusion
Beyond the Drama
BJP etc.: The Death of Ideology
BJP's Gift to Jinnah: A New Life
Brain Gain?
Centenary of Madan Lal Dhingra's Martyrdom
Chief Justices' Conference 2009
China and Xinjiang
Chinese Soldiers on Indian Borders
Commodities, Comforts and Chaos
Crisis in Indian Journalism
Dealing with China on the Border
Disturbing Developments
Education Then and Education Now: War against Private Universities in Orissa
Fake Encounters in Gujarat, Khushwant Singh on Partition
For Aung San Suu Kyi
Hindutva Undermines the Pristine Values of Hinduism
Hotting up with China?
How to Minimise Displacement through Alternative Patterns of Development
Impact of Special Economic Zones on the Agriculture Sector
India-China Dialogue Process Must Continue
India-Kazakhstan Relations: Challenges and Prospects
India's Look-East Policy and Vietnam
Jinnah and Nehru
Jinnah Episode: Searching for Relevance
Judge Sonia Sotomayor
Kandhamal: What Next?
Latest Moves by Islamabad and Beijing
Letter from Kolkata: Behind Buddhadeb's Fulminations
Message of 'Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom'
Military Balance and Partition
Murder of Leon Trotsky: Criminality of International Gulagism
Obama Drops a Missile Bombshell
Of Desire, Logic and Social Conscience
On Gandhi's Deep Interest in Saving Bhagat Singh
On Opposition to the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill
Pokhran-II Thermo-Nuclear Test: A Failure
Political and Social Legacy of Michael Jackson
Political Struggle within the CPI-M
Powers Line Up to Stir Afghanistan's Pot
Proposed Reform in Higher Education by Yash Pal Report: A Critique
Rajni Palme Dutt, a Genuine Friend of India
Remembering Sarat Chandra Bose
Renewed Threat from China
Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2009: The Story of a Missed Opportunity
Sino-Indian Relations and the Probabilities of War
Something Rotten in the State of Gujarat
South Block: Time for Reorientation
Swine Flu, Panchayats and NRHM
Swiss Bank Accounts: Need to do More to get the Money Back
Take Timely Action to Prevent Uttar Pradesh's Nandigram
The Ever Elusive Goal of Education for All
The Yashpal Committee Report: A Review
To Talk about Austerity . . .!
Universalisation of Education: India in a Trap
Was Jinnah Secular and Solely Responsible for Partition?
Writer in the Time of Terror: The 'Other' as a Metaphor
A Non-Communist's Salutations to Jagannath Sarkar
A Tribute to Dr K.N. Raj
Back to Market Fundamentalism: The Myth of Inclusive Budget
Centre's Changing Strategy
Exploring the Amazing Popularity of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
How Branded Products are Cheating the Consumers
Muslims and the Half-won Battle for Social Justice
Women's Reservation Bill and Gender Justice
'Fear of Accusation Cannot Justify Silence'
'Operation NGO Hunt' in Jharkhand
'Who Is Civilised?': In Praise of Tribal Traditions, Society, and Culture in India
1962: Twenty Years Later
3 Idiots versus 'Two Idiots'
A Failure of Leadership
A Feasible Solution to the Kashmir Imbroglio
A Learned History of the Socialist Movement
A Movement having the Potential to Benefit Millions of Poorest People
A National Loss
A New Dimension of Employment
A Note on the Current Political Situation
A Research Project on Gandhi and M.N. Roy
A Saint Editor
A Total Commitment
A United Struggle for United India-Azad Hind Fauj
Abolish Death Penalty
Absence of a Policy-Perspective
Absorbing Narrative of a Community on the Move while being in Confrontation and Crisis
Abuses of Biotechnology posing Threats to Survival
Academic-Activists Veto Police Theory
Acclaimed People's Theatre and Music Director, Communist and Friend
Acharya Rammurty
Activist in Search of an Alternative: Reflections on Contemporary People's Movements in West Bengal
Afghan Scenario: Growing Complexities
Afghanistan - Guarantees are the Best Way Out
Afghanistan: Attempts at 'Pragmatic' Course-change by New Delhi
Afghanistan: CIA's 'Army of Assassins'
Afghanistan: Essential Tasks
Afghanistan: Karzai's Strategy, Pak Moves and the West
Afghanistan: Terror Blast in Kabul, SCO's Moves and Russian Offers
Afghanistan: The March of Folly
Afghanistan: The New Game-plan
After the 'Judicial Tragedy' in Bhopal
Afzal and the Right to Fair Trial
Alternative Agricultural Policy in the Specific Context of Climate Change
Am I a Maoist?
America's Quest for Global Dominance
America's Role in Kashmir
An Enduring Loss to the Sharqi Tradition
An Examination of Conflict: Costs, Benefits and More
An Indian's Open Letter to President Obama
An Insidious Line
An Open Letter to Mahashweta Debi, D. Bandyopadhyay, Suvaprasanna, Sujato Bhadra and Other Friends...
An Open Letter to President Obama
An Open Letter to Sonia Gandhi
An Open Letter to Ten Per Cent India, Myself Included
An Undeceived Leftist
And Football Produces Gods
Aping the Adversary
Appeal to PM to Intervene in Manipur Forthwith, Defuse Tensions
Are we Missing the 'Moral' of the Economy?
Arundhati Roy's Errors and Interlocutors' Bloomers
Asiad, Akalis and AIR
Australian Violence Jai Ho!
Ayodhya Judgment - Response of All India Christian Council
Ayodhya Verdict: Appeal to Chief Justice of India and Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court
Ayodhya: Judiciary — the Latest Victim
Azad's Communication to Swami Agnivesh on Chidambaram's Offer for Talks
Azad's Murder Condemned
'Let Us Not Make Truth A Casualty In This War'
'Let Us Not Make Truth A Casualty In This War': Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad
'Marching... to keep Hope Alive for Us All'
'Shastra Pujas': What is Religious about Worshipping Weapons?
'Thank you' Speeches and Kasab: in the Structure of Perverse Capitalism
'West is West': New American Protectionism and the Indian IT Sector
'Sri Lankan Model' is No Model
Back to the Basics?
Ban Communal Bodies Involved In Terrorist Activities
Beacon of Hope
Beginning of the Present Phase of Alienation in Kashmir
Beyond Negative Trends
Beyond the Ascent of the Starving Hill
Bhagat Singh : A Tribute
Bhagwat Puran of A Different Kind: Conflating Hinduism and Hindutva
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Is No More
Bhopal Verdict—A Cruel Joke
Bhopal, Plachimada, Worth of an Ordinary Citizen and Development
Bhopal: Some Questions for Scientists
Bijbehara: A Challenge to Nation's Conscience
Biological Warfare and Genetic Engineering
BJP's Dangerous Politics
Black and White
Black Economy and the Nation's Ills: Would Churchill Feel Justified?
Bol Kisana, Halla Bol
Bribing Iraqi Officials, US-Style
Bright or Ugly?
Bringing Great Wall and Taj Mahal Closer
Bt Brinjal is Neither the Beginning Nor the End
Building a Strong Opposition in India
Burma/Myanmar: A Boycott turns the Clock Back
Burma: India's Betrayal of the Democratic Struggle
Call for Ban on Hindutva Terrorist Organisations
Call for Dialogue—the Only Way to Tackle Maoism
Callous Handling of Refugees and Migrants by India
Can the Left (Communists) become the National Alternative?
Can the Left become the National Alternative?
Can we Avoid the Present Anarchic Conditions?
Caste Census of India 2011?—Justification and Objective for Braking Caste
Caste Census—Let Us Face The Facts!
Caste in Census 2011—Is it Necessary?
Caste Wise Census
Cause for Alarm
Celebrating Independence Day
Census of Political Murders in West Bengal during CPI-M Rule—1977-2009
Central Interlocutors and Task Forces against the Ground Realities in J&K
Change in India's Stance Towards SCO: The Rise and Rise of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Changes in the Profile of the Marginalised in Rural India
Cheonan Sinking: Implications for Peace in Northeast Asia
China and Pakistan Relations: A New Chapter
China-Taiwan Relations: A Comment
China: Some Challenges and Issues
China: Straws in the Wind
China's Growing Influence in Nepal: Implications on Tibetan Refugees
China's Policy towards Non-Military Threats
Civil Society's Call for Immediate Cessation of Hostilities and Dialogue
Climate Change and Justice
Climate Change: Socio-Political Implications
Coalition Culture
Colours of Democracy
Commanding Moral Presence
Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games: The Pettiness of Eminence
Communists and 'Quit India' Struggle
Comprehensive Analysis of Applied Linguistics in Complex Multilingual Societies
Comprehensive Plan Needed for Helping the Homeless
Congress in a Tight Spot
Conscience and Charar-e-Sharief
Constitutional Crisis in Manipur
Constricting Democratic Space through Terror
Contribution to Reduction of GHG Emissions by Grassroots Struggles
Corporate Culpable Crimes
Cost of Permanent Membership of UNSC
Country's Economy has Grown but the Nation's Moral Fibre is Gone
CPI (Maoist) and Operation Green Hunt
CPI (Maoist) and Operation Green Hunt
Criminals for Hindutva? — The Hidden Hand!
Crossing the Rubicon: Indo-Japan Nuclear Cooperation
Crossing the Rubicon: Indo-Japan Nuclear Cooperation
CWG, Karnataka, POSCO, Mumbai
CWG, Kashmir and Ayodhya Verdict
Dalai Lama's Simple Words and Our Silence
Dalit Symbolism and the Democratisation of Secular Spaces
Dams on Rivers: Learning from Overseas Experience
Danger Signal from Bombay
Danger Signal of Degeneration
Day One in Calcutta
Daylight At The Thousand-Star Hotel
Déjà Vu: FCRA comes to Haunt Church and NGOs Once Again
Dealing with the Maoist Challenge
Dealing with United States
Death Sentence to Ajmal Kasab
Decentralised Educational Planning in India: A Critique on the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
Deceptive US Initiatives for Palestinians and Threats to International Relations
Deepening India-US Strategic Ties—Evidences and Repercussions
Delaying Enactment of Law on 'Honour' Killing
Denizens of the Other India
Destructive Face of Nuclear Attacks
Destructive Zombie and Return of Karl Marx
Developmental State and People's Struggle for Land Rights
Dialectical Advance of China in International Relations: An Overview
Dimensions of Mumbai's Adarsh Scandal
Directionless in Agriculture
Disgrace in the Name of Sports
Dissecting Identity Politics in J&K and Around
Documents adopted at the People's Convention on IDPs, Detainees and War Crimes in Sri Lanka, New Delhi, June 7, 2010
Dr Suraj Bhan
Economic Ideology of the Congress: Empowering the Poor
Educational Reforms: Issues of Quality and Equity
Embrace Fidel Castro: Historic Opportunity For Obama
EMERGENCY (1975-77) Mainstream's Rewarding Struggle
End of Human Rights in Post-Modern Era
Ensuring Justice to People
Ensuring Right to Education in the Red Corridor
Essence of the September 30 Verdict
Ethnicity, Religion, Politics and Nation
Evil as Spectator Sport
Experiencing the Indian Democratic State
Exploring Afpak Policy: An Indian Perspective
Exposing Churchill's Role in Bengal Famine 1943
Eye of the Crisis - Where are we heading to?
Eyeless in New Delhi
Faith, Fact and the Law in Ayodhya — An Appeal in the National Interest
Fake Encounters in Jharkhand
Faking an Encounter: Killing the Peace Process
Faking an Encounter: Killing the Peace Process
Fallacy of GDP Growth as a Measure of Economic Well-being
FDI in Retail Trade: Hurting People Where it Hurts them Most
Federal India's Ideal on Trial in Kashmir
Fighting Naxalism the Democratic Way
Fighting the Cancer of Corruption
Floods and Rivers: Blinded by Arrogance of Technology or Vested Interest?
For a New Frontier
For N.C. Democracy and Socialism were Inseparable
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Free Speech in the History of Ideas
Freedom Flotilla Massacre In International Waters
Fresh Breeze from Niyamgiri Hills
From 'Rajniti' to 'Lokniti': Scanning The Works Of Gandhi, M.N. Roy And JP
From Cicero to Sushma (via Bellary)
From Killing of Innocents to Eight-point Formula
Future belongs to 'Bolshevism'
G.P. Koirala: A Life Dedicated to Making History
Gandhi's Champaran Struggle
German link in the European Terror Plot
Give the Adivasis a New Deal and Change the Development Paradigm
Glamour is not Credibility
GMO Crops: A Few Questians to the Genetic Engineering
God's Chosen Rogues
Going back to Gora
Gopalaswamy Parthasarathi
Grim Warning from Bhopal
Gripping Narrative of a Meaningful Life
Growing Chinese Assertiveness: Love Thy Neighbour?
Growing Role of Defence Forces in Governance: An Invitation For Emergency
Happy but Insecure Kashmir
Happy New Year? For Whom?
Haunted by History
Have You Looked at Barsa Lakhma's Face?
Heading Towards Another Emergency?
High Court Verdict on the Babri Mosque: Implications for the Rule of Law
Hijacking—Issues and Perspectives
Hind Swaraj: Hundred Years After — How Relevant is it Today?
Hindutva, Article 370 and J&K Imbroglio
Honour and Disgrace: Meditation for the Politics of Protest
Honour Killing is Not Caste, Religion-specific
Honouring Ambedkar
How Billions of Rupees have been Snatched from Workers
How Communal Division of J&K State was Averted
How MGNREGA Is Being Undermined
How to Meet the Caste Challenge in Politics
Human Rights—Rhetoric and Reality
I Have Seen Her Crying
Illegalitity of Vedanta's Niyamgiri Mining Project is Well Established
Impact of Upper House Election Results on Japan's Political Future
Impasse in Myanmar
Impending Constitutional Crisis in Nepal
Implementing Right to Education Act
Implications of the US-Pakistan Strategic Nexus on Our Region
Improved Longevity in India: A Challenge
In Defence of N.D. Pancholi's Legal Representation of Mohammad Afzal Guru
In Quest for a Proactive Approach
In Rammanohar Lohia's Birth Centenary Year - Removing the Cobwebs
In Resurrection of Gunnar Myrdal's Asian Drama
In the Face of Ruthless Power
In the Interest of Transparency
In the Land of Gandhi....
In the Name of Ram
In the Name of Woman Unite the Adi Shakti, do not Divide it
In the Wake of the Dantewada Killings
In the Wake of the Deadliest Maoist Attack
Incorporating Political Theory in the Study of Corporate Management
India and Iran's Afpak Policy
India and the US Policy in Afghanistan
India Closes Ranks with Hamid Karzai
India Promotes what the World Shuns
India United on Corruption?
India-Bangladesh: Balance-sheet of the Hasina Visit
India-Japan Civil Nuclear Co-Operation Agreement: A Saga of Interests Eclipsing Ideals
India-Pakistan-Afghanistan: The Path Ahead
India-Sri Lanka | Changing Political Relationship: Post-1990 Phase
India's Flawed Afghan Policy
India's Role in Afghanistan irks Pak
India's Stake in Afghanistan
Indian Bourgeoisie in Post-Colonial Setting
Indian Economic Reform as an Example of Disaster Capitalism
Indian Economy: Where Do We Go From Here?
Indian People Should Extend More Support To Burma's Democratic Movement: Suu Kyi
Indian Polity—from Integration to Fragmentation
Indira and the Legacy
Indo-Pak Relations at Crossroads
Indo-US Joint Statement
Inside Khadi, Khaki and Gabardine
Institution Matters
Intricate Study of India and China in Comparative Analysis
Iraq: Continuing Occupation with a New Codename
Is 'Inclusive Growth' a New Stage before Socialism?
Is Naxalism a Problem or a Voice for Social Justice?
Is Politics being Redefined between States and Peoples?
Is South Block Listening?
Issue of Organisation of States in India
Japan - Will Hatoyama's $ 1 trillion Budget Resuscitate the Economy?
Jawaharlal Nehru's Development Vision Has Been Widely Misunderstood
Jettison Jammu And Kashmir From India-Pakistan Imbroglio
Jnaneshwari Express Sabotage and Mass Murder Case
Jnaneshwari Express Sabotage and Mass Murder Case
Judicial Corruption in Profusion Must be Wiped Out without Mercy
Judiciary at the Crossroad—Some Posers
Junglemahal: Centre Cannot Escape its Responsibility
Jyoti Basu's Bombshell
K.M. Mathew Is No More
K.N. Raj Is No More
Karat versus Maoists: Total Advantage for the Fundamentalists
Karat's 'Poverty of Philosophy' and Indian Left on the Kerala Scene
Karnataka Politics: The Road Taken and the Journey Ahead
Karnataka: A Loud Wake-up Call
Karzai Reaches Out To Delhi: A Refreshing Sight
Karzai's Move in Afghan Parliamentary Poll
Kashmir and Conscience
Kashmir Conundrum: A Simple Complexity
Kashmir Crisis
Kashmir Diary: Where do We Go from Here?
Kashmir in My Heart on Eid Morning
Kashmir: Act Now before it is Too Late
Kashmir: Retrieve the Magic
Kashmir: The Anger and the Mess
Kashmir: The Turmoil Within
Kashmir: Two Statements
Kashmiris Must Discover The Real India
Kerala: Issue of Identity Politics and New Election Strategy of the CPI-M
Khairlanji Dalit Massacres: Justice for the Victims Aborted
Khap Panchayats: Need to Review their Role in Society
Khap Panchayats: Reinforcing Caste Hierarchies
Korean Peninsula: Looking through the Lenses
Kyrgyz Crisis and Regional Security
Kyrgyzstan: A Pawn in the Geopolitical Game
Kyrgyzstan: Ethnic Genocide and Politics of Revenge
Labour Day and May Day: Some Lesser Known Features
Lead, kindly Light....
Left Unity: Lohia's Approach
Legal Regulation of Nuclear Power
Lessons from the Telangana Movement
Let us Break the Myths — Kashmir Boils Again!!
Letter to President Obama
Letter to the Bihar Chief Minister
Letter to the BJP President
Letter to the President
Letter to the Prime Minister
Life, Dignity of Kashmiris have Lost Meaning
Local Body Polls 2010 in Kerala
Lohia and Empowerment of Women
Lok Pal Bill-Promises to Redeem
Lok Sabha Elections 2009: Trends in Punjab
Looking beyond the Summit
Mahatma Gandhi and Modern Civilisation
Majority of Posco Enquiry Committee Confirms - POSCO Project Is Illegal
Make the Directive Principles of State Policy Enforceable by Court
Making Money while Helping the Poor
Mamata, Maoists and Indian Democracy
Manipur: Reactions to Nandita Haksar's Article
Manmohan's Progress
Many Forks of The Devil's Tongue: Whitewashing Crimes a la the Pracharak Way
Maoism in the Mainstream
Maoism: A Variety of Anarchism
Maoist Phenomenon and State Response
Maoist Upsurge and the Development Strategy
March 8, 2010: A Day for Rethinking, Redefining and Determination to go Forward
Marjah: The Long Haul and Naked Truth
Marx to Gandhi—Experiences of a Lifetime
Massive Mandate for Nitish Kumar
Meaning of Agni
Measures for Promoting Exports in the Short and Medium Terms
Media is Amoral, but it Works
Meeting the Challenge
Meira Paibis: Women Torch-bearers on the March in Manipur
Migration, Protection and Law
Miles to go for Pakistan
Militant Left Radicalism, State and Civil Society with Special Focus on Land Rights
Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Missing Elements in the Union Home Minister's New Security Architecture
Most Dangerous Region? Look West
Mounting Public Revulsion
Muivah's Intended Visit to Somdal Stirs up Demand for Nagalim
Musings of a Pensionjivi on Sumanta Banerjee's Letter
Muslim Activists' Call to Government and Parliament
Must the Gods Die?
My Take on the Ayodhya Verdict
Narmada Bachao Andolan — 25 Years of Resistance and Reconstruction
NATO, Karzai and the Relics of Kabul
Need for the Second States Reorganisation Commission
Need to Stop Politics on Human Rights
Nehru and Indian Socialism
Nehru for Today
Nehru for Today
Nehru Legacy for Socialism
Nehru, Maoism and Bhadralok
Neo-liberal Inclusive Growth: Contradictions, Pitfalls and Potential
Neo-liberalism, Neo-conservatism and the Inequalities in Education
Netaji on Our Freedom Struggle and India after Independence
New Life of Freedom for Aung San Suu Kyi
Next Step in Land Reforms in the Context of UP
Niira Radia Tapes and the Stench
Nine Years On: India's Strategic Hot Potato
Niyamgiri, Orissa and the Movie 'Avatar': Real And Reel—Uncanny Resemblances
No Comment on Other Original Suit No. 5
No End to the Injustice: Statement Of The Solidarity Committee For Burma's Freedom Fighters
No Honour in "Honour Killing"
No More Sunshine
Nobel Peace Prize to Lin Xiaobo: A Wake-up Call for Political Reforms in China
Nuclear Energy Path is Suicidal
Nuclear Fuel and Emerging Dynamics of Indo-Kazakh Relations
Oaths, Promises, Lucre and Bhopal
Obama & Co are Planning to Run Away from Afghanistan
Obama Visit: A Left Viewpoint
Obama: A President Under Siege
Obama's Address to Joint Session of Parliament
Obama's Short-sighted Afghan Strategy
Obama's Visit to India: Powering the Eagle
Offloading Some Ironies
On 65th Anniversary of Victory over Fascism in WW II
On 'Operation Green Hunt', Maoist Violence, Government-Maoist Talks
On 'Pokhran-II Debate' in Mainstream
On 'The Kashmir Calculus'
On Modi, G.P. Koirala and Kanu Sanyal
On Parliament's Monsoon Session
On PM's Trip to the Valley, Israel goes Killing
On Rammanohar Lohia's Birth Centenary
On Sharad Patil's Rejoinder
On Sumanta Banerjee's Open Letter
On the Tragic Beheadings of Pakistani Sikhs by the Taliban
Open Letter to Our Dear Brothers in Pakistan
Open Letter to P. Chidambaram
Open Letter to Sonia Gandhi
Open Letter to the Chief Justice of India, Chairpersons of NCW and NHRC
Open Letter to the PM
Opium Trade and Corruption: Manifestations of Afghanistan's Multidimensional Crisis
Options we have; have we the Will?
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Movement
Other Dimensions of the Women's Reservation Bill
Other Side of Transactions in a Violent System
Our First Editor
Our Shame overshadows Our Glory?
Outstanding Economist, Institution Builder, Beacon for Young People
Pakistan and the Idea of "Neutral" Afghanistan
Pakistan's Wish for a Nuclear Deal!
Paradise Lost in Terror
Paradox of Gandhiji's Champaran Struggle
Parliament and the People
Partyless Democracy: Remembering Mahatma Gandhi and JP
Pashupatinath Temple Row: Indian Priest versus Nepali Priest
Pathways to Bangladesh
Peace Now in Tribal Areas Open Letter to President of India
Peasants in India
Please Don't Use Mahatma Gandhi's Name While Promoting Weapons Sales
PM Cannot Remain A Mute Spectator
PM Should Rethink
PM's Integrity Under Attack
Political Economy of Judicial Precedent—Delay and Unaccountability
Politicians and Bureaucracy | Reinforcing Democracy
Politicising Historiography: True Story of Partition
Post Master's Office for FDI in Retail
Potentialities of South Asian Identity
Poverty Tourism: A New Growth Industry or Pilgrimage for Power!
Power to the People and its Enemies
Powerful Exposition of the Western Economic Model's Instability and Inadequacy
Prabhash Joshi and the RTI Movement
Pracharak as Terrorist—On the Bhasmasur of Hindutva Terror
Prasar Bharati Must Perform
Price Rise, Rail Budget, Maoist Offer
Principle versus Piecemeal Approach
Productive Outcome of Sarkozy Visit
Prof B.B. Sarkar is no More
Promises to Keep
Prostitution in Colonial India
Protect Tribal People, Rework Strategy to Tackle Maoism
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005—An Appraisal
Pulling Out is not Peace, Obama needs to Re-do his Sums
Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions
Rabindranath versus Tagore
Radhakrishnan as Statesman
Radia, Tusi Great Ho
Rajapakse's Visit
Rajya Sabha Creates History
Ram Niwas Mirdha
Rascal or Rogue? The Choice is Yours
Real Threat of Civil War
Rebuff Washingon's Game-plan
Reducing Democracy to a Farce
Reflections on Nehru
Regional Disparities, Inclusive Growth and Displacement in Orissa
Regional Implications of Russian President's Forthcoming Visit
Regional Parties in the Federal Union
Rehabilitation of Imre Nagy
Relevance of the Caste-based Census
Relevance of the Telangana Armed Struggle
Remembering Gujarat Pogrom after Eight Years: Interview with Harsh Mander
Remembering Karl Marx
Remembering Miss C.B. Muthamma
Remembering Rammanohar Lohia
Remembering Ravi Narayan Reddy
Remembering Surendra Mohan
Report Card of the Government in Bihar
Response to D. Bandyopadhyay
Rethink Counter-Maoist Strategy
Rethinking Poverty: The Disputed Dividing Line
Retrograde Verdict Rewards Hindutva Zealots
Revisiting Obama's Visit
Right to Education: Challenging Tasks Ahead
Right to Education: Challenging Tasks Ahead
Right to Food: Some Issues and Challenges: A Case Study of Kalahandi
Right to Information versus Might of Disinformation
Role of the Intellectuals in West Bengal
Russia and Pakistan after the Quadrilateral Sochi Summit
Russia peers into Kyrgyz Void
Russian Fire
S.R. Sankaran: A Path-breaking Civil Servant
Salute to a Purushottama
Samajwadi Party at Crossroads
Samjhauta Express Bomb Blast: Can we Ever Unravel the Conspiracy?
Save 'Socialism' and 'Revolution' from Narrow-Minded Approach
Scholarly Critique of Unipolar World Order
Scrap All Dams and Hydropower Projects on Ganga
Season of Goof-ups
Secessionist Senas
Seoul Summit: The Real Test for G-20
Shame! Shame!
Sharad Patil's Pathfinding Sautantrik Marxwad
Should Dalit Christians/Muslims be excluded from Reservation?
Should India Set Up a Sovereign Wealth Fund?
Significance of Okada's Visit to India
Silence of the Lambs?: Why The RSS Wants To Forget Pracharak Sunil Joshi's Murder
Silencing the Moderate Voice in Balochistan
Simplicity Extraordinaire: S.R. Sankaran (1934-2010)
Sino-Russian Ties: Beijing's Attempts to Rewrite History
Snapshots of Global and Internal Politics on May 23 and May 24, 2010
So, What Colour Is Terror?
Soap Bubbles in our Security Perspectives
Social Networking: Affecting Productivity in India
Social Profiling: Indian Style
Solve Kashmir Problem The Gandhian Way
Some Lessons from the Bhopal Outcome
Some Questions around Kasab's Case
Sonia in Jammu, Israelis pound Aid-carrying Ships in Besieged Gaza
Sour Men of the Central Indian Wooded Uplands!
South Block's Predicament: Stranded in Afghanistan and Marginalised in the Region
South-South Cooperation with Special Reference to Sub-Saharan African Countries
Sri Lanka at Peace, But....
Stakes in Kashmir
Stalling the Vedanta: Right to Tribal Self-determination Ignored
Starve. This is Incredible India
State of the IR Discipline in India: A Debate
State Response to Refugees in South Asia
State Terrorism in Kashmir Valley
State, Development and Communities: Anthropological Thresholds
Statehood demands Time to try the Assam Model
Statehood for Telangana: The Current Stalemate
Statement following April 6 incident at Dantewada
Statement Released by Women and Mothers on Killings in Kashmir Valley
Stop Operation Green Hunt, Start Dialogue with the Local People
Success of the Obama Visit
Sugar's Bitter Policies
Suppression Won't Work, Caring May
Supreme Court of India or Supreme Court for Indians
Surge in Food Insecurity
Surrogacy in India: A Thorny Issue
Suspend the Senior Officer involved in the Silda Fiasco
Syndicate of Terrorism and 'Af-Pak-Ind'
Tagore 2011: Advance Posting
Tagore: An Introduction in the West
Taking Solar Energy to Remote Villages: Barefoot College Shows The Way
Terror Cauldron in Response to Policy Failures
Terror Strikes at Pune and Silda
The Ajatashatru
The American Century Is So Over
The Angst of Wayward US Partnerships
The Army's Right to an Opinion
The Ayodhya Verdict
The Beautiful Valley on the Boil
The Bihar Election
The Challenge of the Maoists
The Communist Rishi
The Conspiracy of Silence
The Contrast
The Copy-book President
The Danger Of Fighting Maoists Without Knowing Who They Are
The Democracy Question in Indian Foreign Policy
The Ethos of Jawaharlal
The Great Betrayal
The Idea of Minority
The Impending Ayodhya Verdict
The International Puzzle
The Islamabad Fiasco
The Kashmir Calculus
The Kashmir Stalemate
The Lengthening Shadow over Kabul
The Overriding Task
The Panj Pyaras of Manu
The Person behind the Politics
The Power of One
The Roots of the Emergency
The Stark Reality
The Substance and the Symbol
The Third Position: Non-alignment with Violence
The Tragedy in Sri Lanka
The US War Machine—Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
The US War Machine—Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
The Valley of Incongruities
Tiibute to Jyoti Basu
Towards Understanding Naxalism
Towards Violent Uprising?
Tribal Areas in Ferment
Tribute to Harekrishna Debnath
Tribute to K.N. Raj
Tribute to LC Jain
Tribute to S.R. Sankaran
Tribute To Surendra Mohan
Tribute: Man with a Difference
Tribute: The Importance of being Mathew
Trinamul's Massive Win at the Cost of Pranab, CPM
Tripura: Strange Happenings in Red Citadel
Triumph of Vox Populi
Tryst with Destiny — Its Kismet on August 15, 2010
Turning a Blind Eye to "Economic Terrorists"
Two Decades of New Economic Policies
Two Events in Tagore's Life
Two Views on India-China Relations
Ukraine's Presidential Election—Outcome and Implications
UN Security Council Seat Will Test India's Mettle
Uncle Sam, Energy and Peace in Asia
Undercurrents of Kaimur
Understanding the Emerging Contours of Indian Politics
Understanding the Maoist Threat and Dealing with It
Understanding the Present State of Globalisation
Understanding the Status of Climate Change and Refugees
Uneasy Sits the Global Balance
Union Budget 2010-11: Too Many Gambles
Unity to Partition: A Sad Saga of the Subcontinent
Unpublished Letters of P.C. Joshi
Unsolved Question Paper of S.M. Krishna
Untouchable Ambedkar—the Saga of his Discrimination in America
Unwarranted Censure!
UPA's Report Card
UPA's Success amid Massive Protests
Upholding Objectivity beyond the Culture of Sycophancy
Upholding the Rule of Law
US Administration Beating Hasty Retreat
US Bid To Make Way For Taliban's Induction In Kabul: Compounding Earlier Follies
US Clutches at Flood Relief Opportunities in Pakistan
US in Afghanistan: A Catch-22 Situation
US is Not Opting to Lose the Afghan War
US Trapped by ISI; Advantage Taliban
Vijayagallu—A Rare Event In Troubled Times : People Celebrate a Victory
Villain In Life, Hero In Death! Hindutva's New-found Love for Hemant Karkare
Vindicating Faith, Undermining Law : New Socialist Initiative On the Ayodhya Judgement
Vivekananda—The Revolutionary Swami
Wanted Substance, Not Rhetoric
Wanted: A Measure of Vision
Warning Note from the Past
Was President Ahmadinejad Wrong at the UN?
Washington's Motive in Central Asia and its Track Record
Washington's Strategy in the Context of Afghan Elections
Wave of Crime and Labour Strikes in China
We Need No Taliban Here
We will Miss your Presence, Jain Sir
West Bengal Loses Confidence in CPI-M
West Bengal: Simmering Embers of Rajarhat
West Bengal: Younger CPM Leaders' Attitude to Jyoti Basu
What is Violence? What is Non-Violence?
What Makes Beautiful Women Beautiful?
When and How in Kandahar
When the Police Break the Law
When will the Occupation of Afghanistan End?
Where is Brahmeshwar Singh 'The Great'?: Myth of Misuse of Laws meant for the Protection of Dalits and Tribals
Where is the Holistic Understanding?
Whither India: The Way Up or the Way Down?
Whither Reservations?
Whither Tribal Autonomy in the Fifth Schedule Areas of Betul district (Madhya Pradesh)
Who wants a War?
Who's Afraid of Caste Census?
Why Afzal Must Not Be Hanged
Why are Multinational Companies So Keen to Push Hazardous GM/GE Crops?
Why don't We Listen to the Mirwaiz?
Why is an Alternative Political Party Needed and What will be its Essentials?
Why is the Union Home Minister Silent on Police Reforms and Human Rights?
Why Naxalism?
Why Nuclear Companies are Coming to India
Why the Moratorium on Bt Brinjal should Continue
Why We Oppose 'Green Hunt'
Why we Won't Learn from New York
Wider Lessons of Shiv Sena's Latest Mumbai Experience
Widespread Fraud Mars Afghan Parliamentary Poll
WikiLeaks, US, Pakistan, Afghanistan
Winter Games Scandal
Women and the Indian Political Process
Women in Panchayats: The Path Ahead
Women's Reservation Bill
Women's Resurgence: The Gandhi-Nehru Alchemy
Wooing our Neighbour?
Honouring Ambedkar
The Giant is Awake
'A Vast Majority of Muslims were Not with the Muslim League'
'Most Significant Achievement in Our Nation's Effort to Defeat Al-Qaeda'
64 Years and 32 Rupees
A Blueprint for the Revival and Expansion of the Left Movement
A Case of Conscience - Letter to the Prime Minister
A False Dawn and a Long Dark Night in West Asia
A Farewell to Nuclear Arms
A Few Pointers for the Mamata Banerjee Government
A Note on What Ails the Kashmiri Pandit Community
A Riposte
A Romantic Intellectual
A Saga of Struggle
A Statement in Neocolonialism
A Tribute to Badal Sircar
A Visit to the Killing Field of Netai
A Zillion Brilliant Blooms of Tahrir: Egypt's Tryst with Destiny
About Time Parliament Censures the Executive
Afghanistan: NATO Defeat and New US Game-Plan
Afghanistan: Need for Decisive, Collective Action
Afghanistan: US Strategy in Conflict with Indian Interests
Agonising Reappraisal of Liberalisation and Globalisation
Allround Decadence and Ray of Hope
Amar Sonar Bangla
America Does It Again
America is Already Here making Subtle Inroads
American Tradition and the Concept of Human Rights in United States' Foreign Policy
An Engineer's Observations on Economics
An Ill-conceived Essay
An Open Letter to Mamata Banerjee
An Open Letter to Ms Mamata Banerjee
An Open Letter to the Chief Minister of West Bengal
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister
And Quiet Flows the Teesta!
Anna and his Critics
Anna Hazare in Historical Perspective
Anna Hazare's Protest: Some Reflections on Law-Making, Parliament and Democracy in India
Anna Hazare's Feat: A Sceptic's Treatise
Anna Movement, Real People, Backroom Dynasts
Anna's Anti-Congressism
Anna's One-Shot War On Corruption
Antulay and All That
Any Lessons from Norway on Internal Threat from Xenophobic Fanaticism of the Majority?
Are these Anti-Naxal Operations, Mr Chidambaram?
Aruna Roy speaks of Keeping Intact RTI Law, explains Approach to Jan Lokpal
Asia - Pacific: Russia's Evolving Strategy
Assault on the Founder of Pakistan: The Untold Conspiracy
Assembly Polls (2011) in Kerala: Narrow Victory for the UDF
Assembly-line Manufacture of Books, the Surest Way to Lose Readers
Asserting the Rule of Law
Assessing Anna Hazare
At Long Last
At the Risk of Heresy: Why I am not Celebrating with Anna Hazare
August 19-21, 1991: Three Days that Changed the Course of World History in 20th Century
August 1991 Coup Against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev : Analysis and Editorials by Nikhil Chakravartty
Aung San Kuu Kyi: A "Dissident" Speaks
Ay Eye-witness Account
'Common Man' versus 'Invisible Man' through the Prism of Anna Movement
'Occupy Wall Street'—Sit-in at the Seat of Global Capitalism and Corrupt Corporate Power
'Ways and Means to Eradicate Corruption in Public Offices': A Report
B.S. Yeddyurappa Must Quit Immediately
Babas, Power Elites and the Reality Show
Ban on Temple Entry for Dalit — A New Charter Needed
Bangladesh: Before Accusing Sheikh Hasina Government Need for a Close Look at Yunus' Grameen Bank
Bangladesh: Six Months
Bantala and After
Battle over the Anti-Violence Bill
Beggars as Non-citizens
Behind The Arab Revolt Is A Word We Dare Not Speak
Bengal Bye-Elections: Message for CPI-M
Between Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev: Understanding the Civil Society
Beyond the Chains of Illusions of Inclusive Development
Bhagat Singh — A Remembrance
Bihar: Triumphant Truncated Area Development
Black Money Criminals — Who will Catch the Big Fishes?
Black Money: Political Will Missing
Blind Manmohanomics and a Billion Mutinies
Bliss was it in that Dawn!
Bodyguards: Emerging Apprehensions, Reasons and Redressal
Bribe Money, Crime Money—Safe Money
Bridging the Divide for Larger Good
BSP's Route to 2012
Can Mamata Banerjee Make a New Beginning in Rural Bengal?
Can We Get Back the Black Kohinoor?
Capital, Capitalism: A Step to Socialism of Marx
Capitalism, Republicans, and the American Spring
Caste Census, Commonwealth Games, Scams and Citizens' Responsibility
Caste System — Living Reality in Politics and Administration
Cause for Optimism
Celebrating Swami Vivekananda
Censoring Ramanujan's Essay on Ramayana
Central Budget 2011-12 in the Context of the Rural Sector
Challenges to Civil Society in India
Change Is Such Hard Work
Chaturanan Mishra
Chaturanan Mishra: A Constructive Communist
Children Show the Way
China Impressions
China-Zimbabwe Relations
China: Who's Counter-revolutionary?
China's India War — How the Chinese Saw the Conflict
Chinese Factor in Indo-Bangladesh Relations
Civil Society Activists Condemn the Attack on Prashant Bhushan
Civil Society versus Elected Government
Civil Society, Corruption and Social Change
Civilisational Cairo versus Fools
Claim of Saving the Bhilai Steel Plant is Nothing but Trickery!
Clear Case of Racial Arrogance Leading to Genocide
Closer Understanding between India, Pakistan and Afghanistan Needed
Coalition Politics and Good Governance
Combating Corruption — The Ethical Dimension
Come to Tahrir Square
Comrade in Introspection!
Concern over Corruption, Legal Measures and Limitations of Law
Confusion worse Confounded
Congress - DMK Ties, 'Monolithic' CPM's Future
Congress does a Trick, BJP stages a Farce — and Corruption is Assured a Free Run
Congress in Disarray
Congress Party and the Irrepressible Mani Shankar Aiyar
Congress: Disgrace Abounding
Contours of Emerging World
Correcting Popular Misconceptions of Marx
Corruption a Mere Symptom: The Disease is Unbridled Greed
Corruption-free Good Governance
Corruption: Need for Social Ferment
Corruption: the Great Political Divide
CPI-M, Now An Apologist Of Neo-Liberalism, Faces A Bleak Future
CPI-M: A Victim of 'Unreconstructed Stalinism'
CPM Abrogated the Regime of People's Rights
CPM confined to Infancy even after 47 Years
CPM in West Bengal: A Moment of Truth
CPM, Jyoti Basu, M.N. Roy
Credibility of Leadership
Crisis in Egypt: Iran Wins, Israel Loses in Turmoil
Crossing the Line
Damodar Valley Corporation's Inhuman Treatment of Tribals
Danger Signal of Degeneration
Dawn of Democracy in the Islamic West
Daybreak in Russia
Daylight Murders
Death For Honour : Khap Panchayats are a National Shame
Death of Democracy
Debacle in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal: Misuse of Civil Service for Partisan Interests
Debacle of the Left: Five Observations
Debate on the Land Acquisition Bill 2011
Debating Anna Hazare
Deceiving the People in Legal Ways is Still Deception. It Won't Work
Deceptive Diplomats and Disloyal Officials of India
Declaration of the Athens Conference on Debt and Austerity
Defining Moment in the War on Terror
Delhi Bleeds as Terror Strikes Again
Democratic Meaning of the Anna Movement: One View
Democratise Universities
Democratising Democracy, South American Style
Demographic Dividend and Health Concerns in India
Dilemma of Democracy and Development in India
Disturbing Trends in Anna Camp Growing
Diversity, Life and Culture
Don't Goof-up on Hazare, Comrades!
Dr Ambedkar: Architect of the Indian Constitution
Dr Radhakrishnan's Contribution to Contemporary Thought
Dr Rammanohar Lohia: A Rebel Socialist and a Visionary
Duragraha in the Name of Satyagraha: A Gandhian Perspective
Durban Census: Prime Concern was Economy, not Environment
DVC Oustees Suspend Agitation
Dynamics of Democracy and Corruption
Earthquake in Sikkim: Natural Calamity and Potential Manmade Disaster
Economic Theory: Its Applicability to Non-Humans
Effective Lokpal Not In Sight
Egypt: Fallout of US Duplicity
Electoral Reform — Will The Central Government Redeem Itself?
Electoral Results Unlearnt
Emergency: What it meant
Emerging Challenges for Indian Economy in 2011
Endosulfan And Related Issues: Pesticide Companies' Influence on Ministries and Scientific Panels
Enriching Existing Literature on Kashmir Politics and Indo-Pak Relations
Envisioning a New South Asia
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Essence of the Change that Mamata has Ensured
Even the Mahavishnu of Market Economy Cannot Equate Slumdogs with Tycoons
Everybody has a Right to Raise her/his Voice, and Protest in a Democracy like Ours; but…
Evolution of Political Corruption
Evolutionary Socialism and Lohia in the Twentyfirst Century
Expropriating the Indian Farmer
Fai's Arrest: Ansari Questions Padgaonkar's Credibility
Failed Peace Process between Mamata and Maoists: A Post-mortem
Failures of Western Countries and UNO in Afghanistan
Faiz: A Tribute
Fast Unto Death — Tide has Begun to Turn against the UPA
FDI in Retail and the 21st Century Drain of Wealth
FDI in Retail Trade — A Decision Most Foul and a Case of Self-goal
FDI in Retail: Federal Deficit in Decision-making
Fifty Years of Independence: Gains and Losses
Fight against Corruption: Are we Serious?
Fighting Terror and Eliminating Corruption
Fishermen Issue between India and Sri Lanka
Food Deficit in Kerala: Exploring the Possibility of NREGS
For Drafting an Ideal Lokpal Bill
For Real Scoundrels, Look Beyond Media
Forbidden Territory, where Life is Death, and Women are Sold on Thursdays
Foreign Policy Perspectives and the American Scene
Forty Years of the Indo-Soviet Treaty: A Historic Landmark at the Global Level
Forum Against War Crimes and Genocide Flays Rajapaksa Government's Sri Lankan Model of State Terrorism
Fourth Estate or Fifth Column?
France Sans Precedents
Fraud Crusaders
Free Trade Agreements—Impact on Livelihoods, Health and Food Security
From Bric To Brics: Thinking Big?
From Tirupati to Pashupati: Some Reflections on the Maoist Issue
Fukushima Lessons
Fukushima Nuclear Accident — Sobering Reflections
Gaddafi and After — Libya's Progress
Gandhian Alternative to Economic Development — Relevance for India Today
Geo-Politics of The Present-Day International Economic Crisis
Getting Stuck
Gigantic Hydropower Projects in Central Asia threaten the Security of Millions of People
Glaring Loopholes and the US Top Brass' Lies
Global Crisis is Brewing
Global Leadership And Global Systemic Issues
Global Leadership And Global Systemic Issues — II
Goddess Lakshmi and Cultural Traditions of Rice: Implications for Status of Women
Good-bye Feroze
Goof-ups and Refusal to Face the Reality
Governance and the Armed Forces
Grace Under Pressure
Grim Warning from Bhopal
Guiding Principles for Acquisition of Land by the Government
Gujarat Nine Years On
Guru Nanak Combined Bhakti and Social Reforms with Great Communication Skills
Harvard Dumps Subramaniam Swamy
Hazare, Indian State and Civil Society
Hazare-Card and the Government
Hazare's Fast And Its Aftermath
He Lived For Them
He was Unpurchasable
Historic Significance of October Revolution
Hopeful Signs in Regional Setting
Hounded by the State
How Deep is the Rot?
How do we Tackle the China-threat to India?
How Not to Tackle the Black Economy in India
How the RSS Dreads the Terror Tag
How will New Delhi listen to Jayalalithaa calling Rajapaksa a 'War Criminal'?
I am the Electronic Media
Ideal and Waste: Char Adhyay Reread
Identity Crisis of the Bengalis of Bihar
Illegitimacy of No-Fly-Zone against Libya: Reflections of the American World Order
Impact of Globalisation on the Poor in USA
Impact of Unabated Anthropogenic Activities on the Ganga-Yamuna system
Impeach the Magna Carta, not Judges
Imperatives for United Action
In a Society that Bribes God Himself, Corruption becomes Part of Life
In Defence of Freedom: The Role of Rammohun Roy and Rabindranath Tagore
In God We Trust … Rest Strictly Cash!!
In Search of Development Alternative
Independence Won: Independence Lost
Independent Central Asia beyond a "New Great Game"
India and the Washington Consensus
India Delivers, It's Obama's Turn Now
India without Nehru
India-Russia Ties in the Neoliberal Era
India's Moment of Truth in Afghanistan
India's North-South Socio-Cultural Divide: Which Way Now?
Indian Foreign Policy Since The End of Cold War: Containing or Coping with Unipolarity?
Indian Republic in Political Imbroglio
Indira Gandhi and Third World
Indira Gandhi: Moment of Truth
Indo - Pak Relationship and Urdu: Companions in a Paradoxical Syndrome
Indo Pak War of 1971 - Some Not-so-public Facts
Indo-Bangladesh Relations — Failure of Leadership on the Indian Side
Indo-Russian Strategic Partnership: A Reality Check
Inheritor of Tagore and Gandhi
Interrogating State and Civil Society on Malkangiri Abduction
Into That Heaven Of Freedom From Corruption, Let My Country Awake
Is Anna Hazare an Agent of the Right-wing?
Is Globalisation Going to Devour Literature?
Is Rajasthan Government Selling Farmers' Interests?
Is the RSS Trying to Hijack the People's Movement?
Is the US Now a Third World Country?
Issues that can Unite People—Ideas for the Mamata Banerjee Government
It's Peak Time in Jails Again—for VIPs: People See it as Justice, and Rejoice
J&K: The Way Forward
Japan ravaged by Disaster, UPA by Wikibomb
Japan, Libya, 'Cash-for-Votes' and WikiLeaks
JP's Message
Justice Srikrishna Committee Report and Statehood for Telangana
Kannabiran — the Fighter for Your Rights
Karl Marx Never Lied—testifies the Treasures of Sri Padmanabha
Kashmir: Whither Strategy?
Kazakhstan Presidential Election Shows How To Legalise An Authoritarian Regime
Kishenji's Killing: Some Important Questions
Krishna Menon: Not Millstone but Milestone
Kyrgyzstane: Renewed US Pressures
L(D)F's Irrevocable Tragedy in the Assembly Elections!
Land Acquisition: Government as a Facilitator is the Best Option
Last Days of the LTTE: India's Dubious Role
Latest Lokpal Bill — Vital Changes Still Needed
Leaders of Arab Non-Alignment
Left Defeat in Bengal: Lessons On How To Govern And How Not To
Left is Left Out
Leftwing Militant Radicalism, State and Civil Society
Legislating in Indian Parliament — Fact and Fiction: A Case Study
Lest We Forget
Let a Thousand Ramayanas Bloom
Let PM be probed by an Independent Agency
Let's Not Forget US' Grand Design
Letter From Kolkata: Mamata, Rajarhat and Pre-election Scene
Letter to Dr Manmohan Singh
Letter to Dr Manmohan Singh
Letter to Nandan Nilekani
Libya puts China in World Stage Spotlight
Light and Shade
Lines on the Massacres in East Pakistan, March 1971
Logjam broken in Parliament, but...
Lohia, Our Contemporary
Lohia's Prescription for Capitalism's Crises
Lokpal Bill Panel should be More Broadbased
Looking Back on December 16, 1971
Losers and Winners in Obama's Afghanistan
M.F. Husain: What was his Fault if he Loved his Traditions?
M.N. Govindan Nair—Evaluation of a Neighbour on his Birth Centenary
Mad Dog on Rampage
Mad Dog on Rampage
Madhya Pradesh Activists Attacked
Major Work on Violent Conflict
Making an Example of Binayak Sen
Maldives: Women, Abortion and Politics
Mamata propels Historic Change in West Bengal
Man-Elephant Conflict: Animal Rights are Akin to Human Rights
Manmohan a Role Model, but as PM Can Never be Above Suspicion
Manmohanomics Today: Towards Perpetuation of Poverty
Maqbool Fida Hussain Is No More
March to Panjim
Marx Sipping Tea at Nehru's Dhaba
Mass Response to Anna Hazare's Crusade
Massive Success of Gandhian Mass Crusade
May Day 2011 - Commemorating 125 Years of Workers' Uprising in Chicago
Mayawati's Gerrymandering: Fourfold Division of UP
MDGs: India Has A Long Way To Go
Meaning of 'Occupy Wall Street'
Meaning of Charles Sobhraj
Media Self-discipline? — No Comments
Medicines: For Saving Life or For Superprofits?
Memories of Bangladesh Liberation War
Middle East Rift Mars US-Russia 'Reset'
Miracles or Hoax by the Clergy?
Mohan Kumaramangalam — Cameos
Morals and Politics
More on M.A. Jinnah
Muslims' Trauma in India Today
My Rabindranath is Different
Nailing Corruption Is No Cakewalk
Narendra Modi adds a New Lesson to the Fundamentalists' History
Nation, Nationalism and Islam: Maulana Azad and Beyond
National Role for India's Veterans—Learning from USA's Veterans
NATO Settles Down in Libya
Nehru for Today
Nehru for Today
Nehru in the Era of Collapsing Neoliberalism
Nehru's Vision of Building a Modern India and its Complete Negation since the 1990s
Nehru's Words in Present Context
Nero's Sublime Flute-recital: Teaser for Teacher-education in India
Netaji's Unforgettable Words
New Capitalism and the Emerging Global Crisis—A Biblical Perspective
New Deal in Darjeeling Hills
New Socialist Initiative, Delhi Demands Justice for Aasia Bibi; Speedy Trial of Salman Taseer's Killers
New Stature, New Tasks | Meaning of Mujib
NMML's Modernisation Programme Unveiled
No Alternative
No End to Political Drama
No Need to Bribe a British Journalist
Non-violence is Mightier than Violence
Notes on Forbesganj Violence
Nuclear Industry's Cover-Up, Lies And Denial: Beware of the French Nuclear Model
Nuclear Power — Real Risks, Real Costs
Obama Doctrine of War for Peace in South Asia
Obama's Audacity of Doom
Obama's New Afghan Strategy with Pakistan to Induct the Taliban in Kabul
Occult! The Root of Consumerism
Oh, Morality's Current Standard-bearers!!
Old Left is Dying! Long Live the Left!
On Dealing with Nuclear North Korea
On Faiz Ahmed Faiz's Birth Centenary
On Hindutva Politics and Terror
On Indian Participation in a Refinery Project in Georgia
On M.A. Jinnah
On Nikhil Chakravartty's 98th Birth Anniversary
On PM's Response to SC Verdict on CVC
On Review of Jolly Kaul's Memoirs
On Sathya Sai Baba (1927-2011)
On the fortyninth anniversary of the China India war of 1962
On the Killing of Osama and Beyond
On the Ramayanas Affair
On the Threshold of a Milestone
On the Tragic Situation in Sri Lanka
One Piece of Encouraging News
One-upmanship amid Partisan Politics
Only Reacting, Not Acting
Open Letter from an Old Communist
Open Letter to Pravda
Osama — Before and After
Osama, Obama and India's Foreign Policy
Others take care of their People, India takes care of Lobbies
Our First Editor
Our Lost Moral Universe
PAC: Its History and Relevant Facts
Pakistan Failed Jinnah
Pakistan Has Indeed Failed Jinnah
Pakistan: Internal Chaos and International Isolation
Pakistan: The Kayani Strategy
Pandit Nehru and his View of History
Parliament and People are Both Supreme
Peace-talk Process in Junglemahal
Peculiar Political Situation
People can No Longer be Hoodwinked Easily
People's Power
Perjury Simpliciter!
Plea for an Alternative Development Plan for West Bengal
Plea for Truthful Analysis of Ongoing Events
PM Should Sack Montek
PM's Productive Dhaka Visit
Political Dramas Occupy Centre-Stage
Politician versus Civil Society
Politics of Identity and Gandhi
POSCO Clearance — Reason Wounded
Positive Implications of the Karzai Visit
Post-Kan Scenarios in Japanese Politics
Poverty of the Debate on Poverty
President's Letter
Prime Minister's Tour of Bangladesh
Problems of Equality of State and Territorial Interests as per the Roman and Greek Viewpoints
Professor K. Jayashankar: A Tribute
Progressive Statesman
Promise and Challenge
Promise of a New Future for Bengal and Tamil Nadu, but not Kerala
Protests Erupt in over 1500 Cities Worldwide
Putin Enters the Dragon's Den
Question Mark
Questions and Answers on Kashmir Issue
Quit Asia!
Rahul Gandhi Needs to Learn from Mahatma Gandhi's Precepts
Ramanujan's Three Hundred Ramayanas: Transmission, Interpretation And Dialogue In Indian Traditions
Reading Anna's Politics of Anti-politics
Real Threat to Press Freedom
Realising Telangana State: Issues, Apprehensions and Hope
Recalling 9/11 in US and 2002 in Gujarat
Reconciliation and Nation-building: the Mandela Way
Reflections from Eden Gardens
Reflections On A Visit To Pakistan : Hope Survives amid Despondency
Reflections on Indo-Soviet Treaty's abiding significance
Reject French Reactors for Jaitapur
Relevance of Dr Ambedkar's Demand for Separate Settlement
Remembering Aruna Asaf Ali on her 15th Death Anniversary
Remembering C.N. Chitta Ranjan on his 90th Birth Anniversary
Remembering Chernobyl after 25 Years
Remembering December 6, 1992
Remembering Delhi Declaration on a Non-Nuclear and Non-Violent World
Remembering Jawaharlal Nehru
Remembering Lenin
Remembering Nehru
Remembering R.S. Rao and His Critical Marxist Tradition
Remembering R.S. Sharma : Some Reflections
Remembering Zahida Zaidi
Repeal the Law of Sedition
Repression of Social Activists in Chhattisgarh
Requiem for My Friend Kamala Prasad
Resolving Differences on Lokpal
Retelling the Rajarhat Story
Rethink Slum Housing Scheme
Rethinking Beggary Laws in India
Revisiting a Tebhaga Village
Reviving Universal PDS: A Step Towards Food Security
Revoke the Illegal Clearance to the POSCO Project
Revolution, Freedom or Re-colonisation of Libya: An Overview
Rise of Global Terrorism
Role of Media in Crises Situations
Rural Innovator Struggles For Justice
Russia Reaches Out to Iran
Russia's Libya Role Irks China
Safeguarding the Republic
Saluting Offbeat Journalist J. Sri Raman
Satyagraha in Today's India
Say Hello to CPI (Mamata)
Scandalous Decision of Jairam Ramesh to Clear the POSCO Project
Science and Religion: Must the two Never Meet?
Scientists Speak Against GM Crops
SCO: The Great Game Expands
Should India Establish a Sovereign Wealth Fund?
Siddhartha Shankar Sibal
Silver Lining amid Ominous Forebodings
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan: An Indian Free Thinker
Socialism and Nehru
Some Aspects of the Vastanvi Episode in Dar-ul-Uloom, Deoband
Some Disturbing Thoughts
Some Thoughts on Corruption
South Block: Time for Reorientation
South, North and the United Nations in a 21st Century World—III
Speaking the Libyan Mind
Spectrum Management — Paradigm and Perspectives
Splendid Partnership
Stakeholders in Junglemahal and Battle between the Lines
Stark Reality Staring Us In The Face
Statement on Peaceful Dialogue in Junglemahal
Struggle for Peace and Struggle for Independence are Indivisible
Subverting Right To Information — The Sarkari Way
Super Radicals and Anna Hazare
Supreme Court, Naxalism and Salwa Judam
Sure, We are a Happening Country, but What Shouldn't Happen is Happening
Surging Rise in Prices and Manmohanomics
Swiss Bank Secrecy
Symbol of a Heroic Age
Symbol of Moral Courage
Systems Exist to Detect Terrorist Plans; but we Focus on Cabinet Shuffle Tricks
Tackle the Disease, not the Symptoms
Tackling Black Economy: SC Takes Control from Government
Tagore and Nehru
Tahrir Square Unnerves US, Turkey
Taliban Explain Ahmad Wali's Killing
Talking to Maoists
Taming the "Wild West" of Microfinance
Taming the Beasts
TAPI and Indian Interests
TAPI No Longer a Paper Tiger
Team Anna and the New Style of Political Activism
Terrorists can also Bestow Favours
Text of the Indo-Soviet Treaty
The Akali Accord
The Alchemy of Change
The American Crisis
The Anguish of the Republic
The Anna Factor
The Baba Ramdev Fiasco in Delhi and Anna's March of Glory
The Balance-sheet of Partition after 60 Years for Muslims of the Subcontinent
The battle shall go on...
The Big Winner? Not Mamata or Jaya. The Losers? Not Buddha or Karuna
The Case Is Not Closed
The Cost of the Black Economy
The Endless War: America, Afghanistan, and the War on Terrorism
The Enigmatic Hazare
The Farce of Bhimshakti and Shivshakti
The Formation of the Socialist Party is a Welcome Decision
The Grave Risks of Nuclear Energy
The Greatest Treasure
The Importance of being Pakistan
The Indo-Soviet Friendship Treaty and its Legacy
The Left and the Anna Movement
The Left in India: A Critical Appraisal
The Left Really Matters
The Legacy for Tomorrow
The Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi
The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism
The Nemesis
The Neoliberal Revolution
The New Face of Judicial Activism
The New Trend: A Desire to Own Bhagat Singh | Reflections on a visit to Pakistan II
The Plain Point of View
The Pre-history of the Sino-Indian Border Dispute: A Note
The Socialist Party (India) Is Formed
The State of the Empire— Some Reflections on the Geopolitical Situation
The Story of 'Palestine Papers'
The Story of Sister Valsa John (1958-2011)
The Thai-Cambodian Border Dispute: From Friction to Fire
The Tragic History of Muslim Complacency (1949-2010)
The Twilight Zone
The UID Aadhaar Project - System Design and Security Considerations
The Unforeseen Catalyst for Change
The Way Ahead for Anna is Not Easy
The World's Richest Gold-Jewel Collection? Our New Pride—and Responsibility
There is Much More to Say
There should be no Army - Adivasi Clash
They Made a Difference — Of Papiya Ghosh and Patrick Geddes
Thoughts on Bihar Assembly Elections 2010
Three Components of Jan Lokpal Campaign
Time for a New Battle
Time for Intervention
Time to beat Swords into Ploughshares
Time to Reset the Reform Agenda
Towards A Rainbow of Anti-Corruption Measures
Towards Post-Kemalism: An Analysis of The Turkish General Elections 2011
Tragedy of Culture in Indian Anthropology
Tragedy, Farce, New Revelations
Transparency in Short Supply
Travelling was at Three Miles an Hour, but in that Era too, Mamool was a Habit
Tribute to Ajit Bhattacharjea
Tribute to Chaturanan Mishra
Tribute to Dr Rajbahadur Gour
Tribute to Santosh Bhattacharyya
Tribute to Shiela Gujral
Tribute to Shree Shankar Sharan
Truth Behind the Fire in Sabarmati Express (Godhra, February 27, 2002)
Truth of Gujarat vis-a-vis Modi's Fast
Tunisia - Jasmine Revolution: Lessons Learnt, Challenges Ahead
Turning the Corner in the Subcontinent
Twentieth Century Socialism: Anti-Emancipatory, Enslaving
UID Aadhaar as if People Matter
UN Security Council Reforms: The Future Process
UN: Is it Still Relevant?
Understanding Binayak Sen's Victimhood
Understanding Corruption in India
Understanding Inequality and Deprivation amid Agricultural Growth in Telangana
Understanding the Heart and Soul of Anna Hazare's Movement
Unimpressive and Mired in Controversy
Union Budget 2011-12: A Precarious Balancing Act
Union Budget 2011-12: Please All, Please None
Union Budget 2011-12: The Road Ahead
Union Government Exposes Itself
Unjustified Aggressiveness!
UPA-II and Police Attack at Ramlila Maidan
Uranium Enrichment Plant: Focus on Mysore
Urgent Need for Left Unity and Coordinated Progressive Action
US flexes Muscle in the Black Sea
US' Pakistan Policy in Tatters
Using Water Conflicts for US Benefit in Central and South Asia
Uttar Pradesh: Rise of the Underdog Bahujans
Valuable Addition to Literature on Election Studies
Valuable Addition to the Literature on Grassroots Democracy
Valuable and Out-of-Box Study on Panchayati Raj
Victory of Lokshahi at Golibar
Vignettes from Tagore
Vilified at Home, Lionised Abroad
Wages of Drift
Wake-up Call for Congress and Allies in UPA
Wall Street Spring: Americans Demand Democracy
We Are All Occupiers
We Have Several Million 'Clean' Leaders; Our Unclean System Keeps Them Out
We Need No Taliban Here
Welcome Addition to Studies on Punjab Politics
Welcome Home, Goa!
Welcome Rulings from the Highest Judiciary
West Bengal - CPM Discredited the Left Movement by its Fascist Deeds
WEST BENGAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2011: A Perspective beyond Conventional Frame
West Bengal At Crossroads
West Bengal — What Next?
West Bengal: First Six Months of Mamata in Power
West Bengal: Land, Money and the Marxists in New Town
West Bengal: The Genocidal State under CPI-M Rule
West Bengal: Urgent Tasks before the New Government
Western Sahara: No Arab Spring?
What About Breaching People's Privilege?: Dirty Tricks Experts Blunder Again
What Anna Hazare Has Achieved
What Is Anna Hazare's Crime?
What is the RSS?
What was Built in the Soviet Union
What's Going On? There's Need to End this Dangerous Drift to Governmentlessness
Whatever happened to Netaji?
When the Left becomes Bereft of Pro-people Ideology and Conduct
Whither Parliamentary Democracy In India?
Whither NMML?
Who Killed Burhanuddin Rabbani?
Who Selects Whom and How!
Why Anger Against Civil Society?
Why I was Drawn To Him
Why Is Kashmir Quiet?
Why Not Engage In Some Self-Introspection?
Why the Court Disbanded Chhattisgarh's SPOs
Why the Left Matters
Why We Forgot to Build the 'Janata Bhawan'
Why We Oppose Biotechnology Regulation Bill
Will Green Kerala Express become All-India Express?
Wiping Out The Nehruvian Legacy
Wiping Out Transparency
Wisdom in Short Supply
World Economy Splutters: Dark Clouds on the Horizon
Worrying Thoughts
Would Rahul Effect Kill Manmohanomics?
"Irrigation Makes you Free, Irrigation Makes you Rich"
'Acting Is My Life': Zohra Segal
'Jana Gana Mana' at 100
1962 War: Leaders Failed India
1962: Twenty Years Later
A Brave Pilot Navigating a Tortuous Journey
A Cruel Joke
A Dam in Danger and Damned Delay in Settling a Simple Dispute
A Dangerous Turn
A Dark Moment of Our History
A Flicker of Hope, at last
A Major Power with No Place for Women?
A Meaningful Novel in the Backdrop of Bhopal Gas Tragedy
A Meaningful Proposal
A Pakistani Compares—Hindus in Sindh with Muslims in UP
A Parliament of Howls
A Partisan Government
A Pathetic Defence of Stalinist Repressions
A Pre - and Post - Budget Analysis
A Prejudiced View of Mahatma Gandhi Sixty Years after his Death
A Radiant Figure
A Ray of Hope in an Atmosphere of Despair
A Saint Editor
A Tribute
A Verdict in Gujarat, Silence over Delhi
A Voice From Fukushima
A Window for Peace
Acid Test for Mulayam
Afghanistan: Karzai Visit - Looming Danger
After Fifty Years
After Nehru; Lobbies Squabble
Agenda for Reforms?
Agreement between the Ministry of Rural Development (GOI) and Jan Satyagraha
Ahmedabad-based Jesuit's Letter to British Envoy
All India March to Parliament by SUCI (C)
Allround Anger at Steepest Petrol Price Hike
Amir Khusrau — A Hero for Our Times
An Agenda for Afghan Peace Talks
An Anatomy of the Rapes in Haryana
An Appeal for Legal Help
An Eye-witness Account
An Overview of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Analysing the 'OBC-Minority' Sub-Quota
Animal Spirits
Arab Spring — Implications for the United States
Arab Spring: Failure of "Manufactured Revolution"
Are there Limits to Bahujan Politics?
Arguing for 'Multidimensional Approaches' to the 12 Five Year Plan
As Egos Clashed in India, China Won: The Untold Story is Told Again
As Our Nation faces Grave Challenges, Leaders only Think of Themselves
Ascendance of Neo-Liberalism on Raisina Hill
Aseem Trivedi is Not Seditious
Asia - Pacific Poetry First Festival in Vietnam
Attack on Malala — Islamic or Un-Islamic?
Aung San Suu Kyi and Plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims
Aung San Suu Kyi's Discovery of Nehru
Avoid Unilinear Comprehension of Events
'George' Biswas: Power and Passion of Song
'Indian People Unitedly Back Jawaharlal Nehru and his Policies'
'Jal Satyagraha' and the Road Ahead
'Other' America Reasserts
'Pro-Life' also Means a Mother's Right to Life
'Reservations for Muslims is My Positive Contribution'
B.C. Roy: Architect of Modern Bengal
Babasaheb Ambedkar and the Neoliberal Economic Reforms
Babri Masjid Returns to the Fore
Backbone of Bihar Economy on Backfoot
Background to the Chinese Invasion
Background to the Recent Violence in Assam
Bangladesh: War Crimes Tribunal Judgment
Baptism of Fire
Battered Humanity in Troubled North-East
Battle against Separatism
Behind Pranab's Nomination as the UPA Candidate for Presidentship
Behind Second Round of Big-ticket Reforms
Beijing's South China Sea Pledge
Belittling CAG Diminishes Parliament's Effectiveness
Bengal Civic Polls: TMC Retains Hold Over Urban Voters
Best Options for the Country and Congress
Beware of the Invasion!
Beyond Bengal: The Genius of Rabindranath Tagore
Beyond Coalgate: End of Political Authority
Beyond Liberalisers' Comprehension
Bijbehara: A Challenge to Nation's Conscience
Bismillah through the Motions
Blackout in India, Team Anna's New Decision
Bloodbath at Sarkeguda
Bounty on Hafiz Saeed : What is the United States of America up to?
Bride Selling: A National Shame
Bringing Back What's Ours
Bringing Peace to Kashmir
Building a Dialogue on Status of Elementary Education
Calling the China-Russia Split isn't Heresy
Can Democracy Survive Capitalism?
Carrying Forward the Nehru Legacy
Caste, Sex and Crime: Aryavart in the Dark Age?
CBI on Advani, Hollande's Win, Hillary Visit
Challenges before Children Growing Up in Cities
Changing Roles of the Presidents of India
Chhattisgarh Massacre: State Terror, Human Rights and Naxalites
Chhattisgarh's Wandering Tribes: Problems of IDPs on the Chhattisgarh-AP border
Children of God?
China and India — A Comparative Study of Economic Growth
China Today and Tomorrow
China's Congress and India's Congress: Not All Princelings are the Same
China's Emerging Order
China's Energy Insecurity: Challenges in the Twentyfirst Century
Chinese Attack and CPI
Chinese Strategic Footprint in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir
Choice before South Block
Church and Education in Kerala
Cities Are Failing Children Warns UNICEF
Citizens' Statement against PM's Malicious Comment on Kudankulam Struggle Who is under the foreign hand?
CJI and Coverage of Court Cases
Clean JP versus Corrupt Dynasty
Clean up Wounds, Tell the Truth, Ensure Justice
Combining Land Reforms and Watershed Development
Coming Battles
Commendable Analysis of Present Crisis in World Capitalism
Communists and 'Quit India' Struggle
Concealing Battered Realities
Concerned Citizens' Call: Suspend Work at Kudankulam, Talk to Protesters
Conscience of a Progressive Polity
Conspiracy in Syria and India's Task
Constitution, Governor and State Governments
Content of the Leaflet thrown in the Central Assembly Hall by Bhagat Singh
Contradictory Aspects of Jihad's Geopolitical Realities in South Asia
Corporate India and Poverty in Bharat
Corporate Loot behind "Developmentalism"
Cost and Benefit of Russia's Entry into WTO
Counter-Terrorism: Politicians play Games instead of Calling in Professionals
Country at Crossroads: Whither India, Whither Bharat?
Courting Concerns — The Delhi High Court Judgment on Child Marriage
CPI-M's Twentieth Congress
CPM's Kozhikode Congress cuts the Last Thread Connecting it to Tantriki Sruti's Tradition
Criminal Heritage of Britain and Pre-trial Conviction under IPC
Critical History of Our Times
Dalai Lama on Secular Ethics, Opening China's Mind for its Own Future
Damaging Health Consequences of Our Unbalanced Dietary Vegetable Oils
Danger Signal of Degeneration
Dangerous Trend
Dangers at Kudankulam
Dawn Over Burma?
Death Penalty and Mohammad Afzal Guroo
December 10 (Human Rights Day) will be Observed as SC/ST Struggle Day
Decoding Decency and Violence: Role of Youth in Contemporary Odisha
Defence Preparedness: Learning from the Past
Deliberative Democracy is the Answer
Democracy, Development, Politics
Demolishing the Wall
Destroying the Edifice
Did Bharata Build Bharat Varsha in Vain? —Elections Raise a Legitimacy Question
Dimensions of Sri Lanka Crisis
Discovery of Indira
Dismantling the Social Safety Net in America
Disruption of Parliament: Threat to Democracy
Disruptions and Parliamentary Accountability
Dissecting the Bodo-Muslim Clashes and Attacks on North-East People
Dissolute Governments, Disillusioned People
Do We Need Nehru Today?
Do We Need Nehru Today?
Does the State resolve the Maoist 'threat'?
Don't Forget the Golden Age
Don't Invoke the Bogey of Foreign Hand to Hide Bad Governance
Don't Think We Are Morons
Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan: A Teacher Par Excellence
Dragging CAG in Political Crossfire Diminishes Government's Accountability to Parliament
Economic Ideas of Lohia: Some Aspects
Economic Survey 2011 - 2012 : India under the Shadow of Neoliberalism
Economy's Reflection in Tihar
Educational Issues are best left with Parliament and not with 'Intellectual' Experts
Educational Reforms in Finland and their Relevance to India
Egypt's Brothers and New Middle East
Egypt's Morsi resets ties with US
Eighteenth Party Congress: New Land Reforms in China?
Electoral Mandate, Fake Encounters and Rule of Law
Elinor Ostrom: Her Thoughts and Legacy
Emergency: What it meant
End of an Era in Journalism
Endangering Peace in Punjab
Energy Security
Enigma of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Environment: Need for Debate
Eric Hobsbawm: An Outstanding Marxist Theoretician
Evolution of Political Corruption
Exodus of the North-East People: Do our Cities Alienate them?
Exposing Prejudices, Breaking Myths
Face of the New World Order
Fact-finding Report on Massacre in Bastar
Factions and Big Money
Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Harmony of Thought and Feeling in His Poetry
Fat and Cooked: Sustainability for You and the Planet
FDI in Multi-Retail is Anti-Aam Aadmi
FDI in Multi-Retail is Anti-Aam Admi
FDI in Retail: A Low-down on the Falsehood over an Exclusionary Policy
Fifty Years of Fearless Journalism
Fifty Years Young!
For a New Frontier
For Real Decentralisation of Federal Polity
Fourth BRICS Summit: Delhi Declaration
Freedom Day at Amritsar
From Colonialism to Neo-colonialism
Frontal Attack on Democratic Values
Frustrate the Diabolic Game
Frustration of the Social Space
Fundamentalism and Secularism
Fundamentalism — the Oldest Folly
Gandhian Democracy: Ignored by the Constitutionalists of India
Give Top Priority to Avoiding Irreversible Loss
Gladson's Burden
Global Capital, Compliant Nation-States and Totalitarian Communities
Globalisation, Migration, Trafficking: Gender Perspective
Goa — The Liberators and the Lesson
Good-bye Feroze
Good-bye Feroze
Good-bye to all that
Gorkhaland Territorial Administration: An Overview
GP and Ethnic Question in Sri Lanka
GP's Selfless Dedication to Indian Democracy
Grim Warning from Bhopal
Guardians of Law turning into Law-breakers
Guilty at the Top
Gujarat - Dalits in Hindu Rashtra: Time for another Sadbhavna Fast, Modiji!
Gutsy Women who Stand Out
Half a Battle Won, the Wider Task Ahead
Hands Rise, Sparks Fly: Many Facets of One Billion Rising Campaign
Hate Campaign, Ecuador, Citizenship Issue
He Marched to Death
Heightening Anti-Graft Movement
Heralding Irreversibility of the 'Twentyfirst Century Socialism' Project
Higgs Boson: The Indian Legacy
High and Low
High Risks of Investing in Unstable Georgia
Hindutva versus Regionalism
History and Politics of Indian Presidents
Honouring Ambedkar
How About Abolishing Parliament? Loss is Nil. And Look at the Savings
How Feasible and Effective would Mohalla Samitis be in Urban Madhya Pradesh?
How Many Indians Are Poor?
How Real is the China Threat to India?
How Safe Is Kundankulam N-Power Plant?: An Open Letter to Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
How the Indira-Abdullah Accord was Signed in 1974
How to Solve the Gujarat and Kashmir Imbroglios: India as a Deliberative Democracy
How War on Terror triggers Renewed Terror
Human Rights in Sri Lanka — A Perennial Question Mark
I.K. Gujral: A Tribute from Bangladesh
Ideas, History as Human Agency
Identities are Returning with a Vengeance
If the Basics are in Place, the Rest will Follow
Ill Winds of Change?
Illuminating the Path to Nation-building: The Legacy of Mainstream and Nikhilda
Illusion versus Reality
Importance of being the General
In Gujarat What You See is not What You Get
In Order to Avoid 'Controversy'!
In Search of a People's Alternative
In Search of an Alternative Political Party
In the Age of Climate Change and WMDs: How do We Need to Change?
Inaccuracy of "Chest-beating" Politics of Tamil Nadu
India Dumps Iran, Squeezes Obama
India needs Islamic Banking for Inclusive Growth and Infrastructure Development
India without Nehru
India-China: Reflections on 1962
India-EU Economic Relations: FTA in the Offing
India-Pakistan, Chhattisgarh, 'God Particle'
India-Pakistan: Advocating Accommodation
India-Pakistan: Unlocking the Status Quo
India-Pakistan: We Could Have Gone Farther
India-Russia-China Pipeline: A Tribute to BRICS
India's Public Debt Explosion: Heading Towards Bankruptcy
Indian Economy: A Rocking Horse Galloping Forward
Indian Economy: A Rocking Horse Galloping Forward — II
Indian Economy: A Rocking Horse Galloping Forward — III
Indian Economy: A Rocking Horse Galloping Forward — IV
Indian Left Today
Indira Gandhi's Place In History
Indira Gandhi's Priorities
Indo - (Soviet) Russian Relations
Indo-Burma Relations: A Historical Overview
Indo-Pak Trade Ties
Indo-Pakistan Relations: New Perspective
Indo-Russian Cooperation in Industrial Modernisation
Inside Free Bangladesh: Pilgrimage to Tagore's Hermitage
Inside Pakistan
Interlinking of Rivers: Don't Ignore Expert Opinion
Interview With P.V. Rajagopal: "This is a Very Challenging Time for Non-Violent Struggles"
Inviting Multinationals: Need for Introspection by Senior Congress Leaders
Iran Hosts the 16th NAM Summit
Irrefutable Facts
Is Renaissance Possible in Islamic World Today?
Is the Congress a Carbon Copy of the BJP?
Is Tradition Reactionary?
Islamic Banking an Anathema to Pakistani Democracy
Islamic Banking in India at the Service of Pan-Islamists
Islamic Resurgence: A Politico-economic Phenomenon
Isolating Muslims from Mainstream Banking
J&K Interlocutors Uphold Status Quo
Jaipal Singh Munda
Jan Sansad and the Countdown to 2014
Jana Satyagraha takes Message of Land Reforms All Over the Country
JNNURM, Reforms and Lies
JNU Speaks the Language of Lenin: Analysing JNU Student Union Elections
Journalism in the Subcontinent in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Journalists Report the Police Version of Crime: Seema Azad
Journey beyond Marx
JP: Some Reflections
Judicial Activism, Right or Wrong
Judiciary as Reliance Gift Horse
Just a Reprieve
Karnataka Government's Unconstitutional Action
Karnataka: A Fresh Setback and New Political Opportunities
Karnataka: The BJP Juggernaut Stumbles Along
Kerala: Eazhanair Combination — A Boost For Hindu Fundamentalism
Kuwait: Best House in Bad Neighbourhood
Labour Strike, Kudankulam, Gujarat
Lakshmi Sahgal
Land for the Landless
Land of Parallel Walkers
Land Reforms and the Significance of Jan Satyagraha
Language of Love and Death: Fifty Years of Assam's Language Movement
Latin America: Another World is Possible
Left at the Crossroads
Legalising Gambling: Is Vietnam Prepared?
Lesson of Kudankulam Protests
Lessons from 1962: Is 50 Years Not Enough?
Lessons of Presidential Poll
Life and Times of a Journalist
Light and Dark | Measuring up to Crisis
Looking back on August 1942
Looking Back on History: Fifty Years after the Chinese Aggression
Maharashtra Crisis in National Politics
Mainstream's Journey from September 1, 1962 on
Mainstream: An Enlightening Half-Century
Mainstreaming Equity in a World of Growth
Maker of Our History
Malala - Jethmalani
Maldevelopment – Its Sustainable Alternative for India
Manmohan & Co.'s Subservience to US is What Makes FDI a Bad Word
Manmohanomics Responsible for Declining Economic Clout of India
Manmohanomics via KFC
Mao made the Blueprint for Chinese Aggression of 1962
Maoist Actions and State Operations
Maoist Depredation in Junglemahal
Maoists are also Indians
Marup System that Binds the Meiteis of Manipur Together
Marx and Engels on the Use of Parliamentary Institutions
Marxism and Aggression
Meaning of Agni
Media Scene Today
Media: Lessening the Scourge of Managed News - Need for a Press Commission
Meeting the Challenge
Men, Machines and Mahatma
Menace of Corruption in India — the Way Out
Mercy Petitions vis-a-vis Death Penalty
Merit, a Curse for Dalits? Elucidation of Discrimination
Message from the President
Message of the CPI Congress
Message of the State Assembly Polls
Metastasis of Maoist Networks in Urban India
Mid-Term Monetary Policy Review: The Way Ahead
Militarising Minds, Hindutvaising the Nation
Misappropriating a Legacy: Swami and his Contemporary Enthusiasts
Mishra or Yeddyurappa, it's the Same Game: Parties Live for Today, Ignore Tomorrow
Mistaken Stress on Doubling the Fund for Biological Diversity
Money-Power in Elections: A Plea For Public Funding
Moratorium on Bt Brinjal
Moscow Stirs itself on Syria
Movement that Continues
Much Ado about Rashtrapati
Muktadhara's Relevance
Mullaperiyar: Dispute on the Amendment made in a Lapsed Agreement
Multiculturalism Trumps Feminism: The Case of India
Murder of Lokpal Bill in Parliament
Mushahars of Mushahari
Muslim Demand for Political Empowerment
Myth, Reality and Moral Science
NAM Summit: Course Correction at Tehran
Nam's Relevance in the Emerging Multipolar World and India
National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) Idea: A Western Replica
National Emergency arising out of Chinese Aggression
National Sovereignty and the Military
NATO's Legitimacy Crisis
Nature of the Broad International Solidarity Movement with the Indian People
Naxalite Violence: Causes and Remedies
Nazi Attack on USSR and Victory over Fascism
NCERT's Political Science Textbooks Controversy: Cartoon-centred Pedagogy
NCERT's Political Science Textbooks
NCTC and RPF Act: Not Compatible with Federal Relations
Need for a National Legislation for Journalists' Protection
Need for Indo-Russian Partnership in BMD
Need of the Hour
Need to Remember Jaipal Singh
Nehru Observed
Nehru, the Parliamentarian
Nehru's Vision of Asia and Asian Identity: An Introspectional Foray
Netaji died in India, not in Aircrash ; He, not Gandhi, made Britain leave
New Beginning for Manmohan Singh
New Delhi's Craven Policy vis-a-vis Damascus
New Divisions on China Border
New Political Arithmetic in UP
New Questions in Naya Bihar: The Cry of Vernacular Academics
New Stature, New Tasks
New Tasks in Agriculture
NGOs and Kudankulam Protests
Nikhil Chakravartty
Nixon's Tattered Flag
No Crime but Punishment and No Punishment for Crime
No Guarantee of Food Security in Children's Incredible India
No More Sunshine
No Walmart, Please
North Korean Unha-3 Launch: How Effective are Sanctions in the Midst of the Game of Balancing?
Northeast Asia Island Conflict
Not Sorrow but Atonement
Not the Friends in Need
Nuclear Energy and Rutherford-Szilard Episode
Obama's Tough Term: Political and Economic Risks Stare at the US
Obama: New Twist to the 'Melting Pot'
Odisha Politics: Who is this Uncle Never Failing to Win Over the People through Vote Power?
Odisha: Panchayat Election Results and their Meaning for the Assembly Poll
Of Enduring Value
Of Gilani's Exit and the Culture of Pakistan's Political Instability
Official Neglect Despite Great Significance
Oldest Communist Party elects a New General Secretary
Ominous Moves in Kathmandu • Attrition on Border • Reappraisal in Congo | Peking's Shadow Over NEFA • President's Unique Initiative
On Death(s): Mapping the Public Culture of Death in India
On Mainstream's Golden Jubilee
On Malala and Our 'Malalas'
On Nelson Mandela's Birthday — July 18
On PWA and Fight against Communalism
On Secularism and Space for Religion in Politics in South and South-East Asia
On Taslima, Infant Mortality, Farmers' Suicides
On the Dark Realities facing Us
On the Margins of Survival
On the Soviet Stand on India - China Border Conflict
On the Topology of Corruption
On Violation of Soni Sori's Rights and giving President's Gallantry Award to SP charged with Custodial Sexual Torture
Once there was Hindutva Terror ... ?
Open Letter to Justice Katju
Open Letter to Pravda
Open Letter to the President, PM, Ministers
Our Common Future from Durban Climate Change Conference
Our Common Victory and Its Lessons
Pakistan: Gilani's Sacrifice and Loyalty
Palestine Under Occupation: Some Reflections
Palestinians' Plight, Rohingyas' Predicament, Mumbai Girls' Harassment
Panchsheel and After
Parliamentary Crisis and Judicial Silver-lining
Parliament's First Years were Glorious, Then the Warnings Came True
Paying the Price for being a Woman…
Pedal Power as the 21st Century Charkha
Pension for the Elderly: It's no Charity, but a Human Right
Pensions for All Elderly People: An Issue that Can Unite the Nation
People's Expectations from the Left
People's Movements say No to Cash Transfer, Yes to PDS
Pilgrimage to Ahmedabad
Pitiable Plight of Women
Pledge Redeemed
Points in Critique of Judgment in Azad - Hem Chandra Pandey Encounter Writ Petitions
Police and Communal Violence
Political Culture of Engaging with the State
Political Empowerment of Telangana
Political System is Hostage to Racketeers
Politics of Food and Hungry Indians
Politics of Psychoanalysis and Human Rights of the Stranger
Politics of Succession
Polluted Politics
Positive Signal in Dismal Scenario
Power Rests with the States
Pranab as Numero Uno
Prasenjit Bose's Letter of Resignation from CPM
Preserve Radhakrishnan's Gift to the Nation
President for the People
President Pranab as South Assam Burns
Presidential Election: An Opportunity Lost
Prof V.P. Dutt — Doyen of Chinese Studies
Proposal from the Bottom to Address Land-related Problems
Prospect from Simla
Prospects for UN Peacekeeping in Afghanistan
Protecting Tribal Land and Livelihood: Tribal Minister's New Initiative
Protector of National Sovereignty fighting Multinationals' Misdeeds
Publicise Nurses' Strike in Kerala
Pursuit of Julian Assange is an Assault on Freedom and a Mockery of Journalism
Putin and Russia's Yearning for Change
Questions of Freedom and People's Emancipation
Questions of Freedom and People's Emancipation — II
Questions of Freedom and People's Emancipation — III
Questions of Freedom and People's Emancipation — IV
Questions of Freedom and People's Emancipation — V
Questions of Freedom and People's Emancipation — V (b)
Quit India Movement and INA versus Hindutva
Rajkamal Choudhary
Rally behind Nehru
Rashtrapati Election — CPI Stand
Rational National Security: Mechanism for Defence Preparedness and National Security
Ravi Bakaya Is No More
Reading Mohit Sen's Autobiography in the Ideological Twilight of Indian Communism
Recent Developments in Air India versus Indian Railways
Red Salute to a Young Communist
Reflections on Marx, Lenin and Us
Reflections on Nehru and Sino-Indian War
Reflections On Our Time
Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of NAM and 20 Years since Yugoslavia's Demise
Refreshing Analysis of Coalition Governments in the Current Scenario
Regional Leaders in Demand
Relevance of Gandhiji's Message Today
Remembering Delhi Declaration on Non-violent and Non-nuclear World
Remembering Gujarat Carnage of 2002: Professor Hiren Mukerjee's letter to President K.R. Narayanan and the President's Anguish
Remembering Indira Gandhi Today
Remembering Karl Marx
Remembering October - November 1984
Remembering Professor B.K. Roy Burman
Remembering Theatre Critic Ramesh Chander 'Charlie' (1917-2012)
Remembering Victor Kiernan
Renewed Bofors Storm in Parliament
Reply to Grover Furr: Senseless Defence of Stalinist Repressions
Reply to Rajimwale's Book Review
Reservation in Promotions Needed to Ensure Representation in Governance Structure
Resignation and After
Restore Indo-Pak Friendship, Fight Global Hegemonism, Support Peoples' Resistance
Retreat from Left Politics in the Service of Bourgeoisie
Return to the Roots
Revisiting the Dialogue of Inclusive Education: The Indian Course
Rich and Varied Fare
Right Diagnosis but Need for a Clarification
Right to Freedom of Expression and Contemporary Left in India
Rio+20 and its Historical Context — A Challenge to the System
Rise of the Voiceless
River Link Scheme: Awaiting a Big Disaster
RSS Affiliation No Guarantee of Good Values
RTE Act, Minority Schools and Supreme Court Verdict
Russia Bridges Middle Eastern Divides
Russia Muscles Up: Challenges We Must Rise To Face
Russia Nudges Syria to Move On
Russia: Putin has Won the Presidential Election but Formidable Challenges Persist
Saadat Hasan Manto in his Birth Centenary
Saramago's Candid Comments
Satyagraha and Political Power
Scenario of Agricultural Production
SCO: Coping with Changing Times
Search for a New President
Secularism: Corner-stone of Our Political Faith
Seoul Nuclear Security Summit: The World Needs More
Shadow of the Al-Qaeda on Syria: Damascus Needs to be Understood Better
Shankar: An Appreciation of The Cartoon Wizard
Shaping China's India Policy
Shutting the School Doors on the Muslim Child
Signs of Panic
Silver Lining
Skeletons in Pranab Mukherjee's Cupboard
Sketching Tagore as a Social Activist and Social Reformer
Some Aspects of the Black Economy: Inputs for Policy Debates
Some Reminiscences
Some Thoughts on the Syed Kazmi Case
Spanish Language in India: Opportunity or Explosion?
Spirit of Federalism in India: The Need for NCTC
Srinagar Today, Remembering Jaleel Andrabi
State, Religious Ritualism and Politics in Karnataka
Statement by Retired IAAS Officers on the Ongoing 2G Controversy
Status of Tribal Women in India
Stop Human Rights Violations, Adopt Practical Steps to Meaningful Reconciliation
Story of a 'Chandal'
Subterfuge and Lies Spelling Doom for the Congress
Summons for the Global Community: Perceptions of Lohia on Caste and Gender
Suu Kyi's discovery of India
Swami Vivekananda: An Iconoclastic Saint
Swaraj under a Cloud?
Syria: Waiting for Someone named Obama
Syria: What Needs To Be Done
Syria's Curse could as well be India's
Syrian Uprising and Muslim Apprehensions
Systemic Defects in Capitalism
Tackling the Israeli Car-bombing Case: Decode the Attack, Dump the Dilemma
Tagore for Today
Targeting Women, Theatre of the Absurd
Taxation and Disparities
Testing Time for Non-Alignment • After Menon's Exit
The 1962 War
The Army: Missing Muslim India
The Bangladesh Scene
The Boisterous UP Election Scene
The Chinese Aggression
The Combustible North-East
The Coming Famine In India
The Dark Side of India's 'Growth' Narrative
The Federal Dialogue
The Federal Issues in Indian Polity
The First Kannada Saraswati Samman Awardee on Jawaharlal Nehru
The Fishermen's 'Dilemma' between India and Italy
The Future of Democracy
The Good Earth
The Great Suicide
The Growing Divide between Economics and Politics in India
The If-ing of Nehru
The Imperial 'Pivot' to Asia-Pacific and the New Cold War
The Importance of Remembering
The Jingle of Coins
The Kinship of Impunity
The Maoist Problem
The Myth and Reality of Progress
The Nehru Legacy: A Self-critical Communist Evaluation
The Paradox of Leadership
The People are Not Always Right
The Proclamation of Emergency
The Question of Democracy
The Red Vignettes
The Reluctant Administrator
The Right to Privacy Does Not Mean the Right to Do Wrong in Private
The River of History
The Role of Sequestration in Reversing Anthropogenic Climate Change
The Shrine
The Siachen Imbroglio
The Song of the Juniors
The Syrian Intrigue
The Toilers
The Truth About DMK
The Undemocratic Politics of Disruptions
The Untold Story of US Retreat from Iraq
The Valley of Incongruities
The Vulnerable Side of Suu Kyi
The Wild Animals of Politics have Sensed that the Day of Reckoning is Here
The Writing on the Wall
Their Fathers' Sons are Rising, but Look Elsewhere for the Real India
There is an Untold Crisis Story in China, and it Concerns Other Countries too
There's Writing on the Wall for Dynasties; will the Desirable Meet the Possible?
They Just Held On
Thoughts at 25
Thousands on Dharna for a Universal Pension Scheme
Threat of Genetic Contamination
Three Events
Three letters in response to Ather Farouqi's 'Islamic Banking in India at the Service of Pan-Islamists'
Three Years of UPA-II: Insufferable Saga of Corruption and Economic Disaster
Time for Kashmir Solution
Time to Confront Most Urgent Survival Issues
Timely Invervention
Today's Trade Unionism
Tolstoy, Gandhi and the Peasant
Too Much Power At Centre
Towards Structuring History
Trauma of Former Terror Accused Set Free by Law Courts
Tribute to Eric Hobsbawm
Tribute to I K Gujral
Tribute to Paul Kurtz - Secular Humanist Philosopher
Tribute: A.K. Damodaran
Tribute: A.K. Hangal and Communist Party
Tribute: K.S. Duggal
Tribute: Mrinal Gore, Lakshmi Sehgal
Troubadour of Our Times
Trust Deficit: People's Strugggle at Kudankulam
Two Eminent Editors and a Young Reporter
Two Parts of PM's "Plural India"
UN Must Outlaw Nuclear Power Plants
Understanding Conflict in BTAD of Assam
Uneasy Twilight
Union Budget 2012 - 13 : A Spurious Budget
Union Budget 2012-13 : Missing a Vision
Union Budget 2012-13: Expectations of the Power Sector
Union Budget 2012-13: The Well-to-do Must Tighten their Belts
Union Ministers Embarrass UPA
Universal Human Rights Are Neither Universal Nor Rights
UPA in the Grip of a Fresh Crisis
UPA Wins in Parliament, but . . .
Uphold JPC's Credibility
Uphold Swami Vivekananda's True Legacy
Upsurge of the Underprivileged
Urdu needs Kiss of Life and not Myopic Policies
US Election and the Wheels of History
US Lets Down the Indian Quislings
US Presidential Election 2012
USSR: The Contemporary Scene
V.P. Singh and Bofors
Vital Contours of Moscow- Delhi Cooperation
Waiting for the Indian Spring
War, Peace and Hegemony at the Beginning of the Twentyfirst Century
Wariness and Hope in UP
Washington's Pakistan Meltdown
We Are Back to the Numbers Game Again: Sonia – Mamata + Mayawati = Democracy
We honour Gandhi only with Tokenism, but his Cult Status keeps Growing
Weakening Parliamentary Democracy
West Bengal: Division in the Pro-Paribartan Camp on Mamata's Politics
West Bengal: The Mukherji Commission Report on Sainbari Murders Revisited
West Bengal: The Singur Verdict and Village Voices
What does it Mean when the UK High Commissioner visits Modi?
What Happened and is Happening in Junglemahal?
What Invasion has Shown Up • Need for World Publicity
What is Happening in Kerala?
Where is the Vision?
Where Should Higher Education Reform Begin?
Where You Walk in Company...
Which Way, Dushanbe?
Whirligig Politics
Whither Congress?
Whither CPI-M?
Whither Indian Federalism? Leaders Versus Public Perception
Whither Indian Politics/Elections?
Whither Left?
Whither National Council for the Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL)?
Whither the Quest for an Alternative Political Party (APP)?
Who Am I?
Why a Hindutvavadi Should Not be the Prime Minister of India
Why 'Mango People' Support Activists
Why Congress Ignored Feroze Gandhi's Birth Centenary Last Month
Why Hanging Kasab Did Not Make Anyone Feel Any Safer
Why We Salute Mainstream in its Golden Jubilee
With a Feared but Clueless High Command, Congress is Dying. Look at the South
With Irresponsible MPs, Arrogant MLAs, We Stand as a Disgraced Nation
With Nehru All The Way
Words that Endure
World Economy: Darker Days Ahead!
World Food Day and We, the People, Resolve
Wrong at Every Step: The Licensing of HPV Vaccines
Yet Another Mega Scam
Youth, Image and Counter-reaction: Who Managed Better in UP?
CPA Fact-Finding Team's Report on Kunan-Poshpura
'Reforms' Bare Their Ugly Face: Scrap FYUP, Save Delhi University!
. . . Where the Darlings Lie Buried
A Bid to Dilute Kashmir's Status
A Book-keeper's Exercise
A Citizens' Agenda for Change
A Clarification
A Democratic Exercise, not Holy War
A Gentle Colossus!
A Gentleman in Politics
A Gorkhaland State: How Justified?
A Journey to Afzal's Village in Sopore
A Leninist Reading of Marx (and Engels): A Note
A Letter from Central Prison, Nagpur
A Long-term Loss
A Lost Opportunity
A Macroeconomic View of the National Food Security Bill
A Moving Cultural, Regional, Emotional Experience
A New Opening
A New Role for India in Myanmar
A New Specimen of Corporate Politics
A Philosophical Reflection on Spot-Fixing
A Rare Gem
A Recipe for Insurgency or Revolt?
A Rejoinder to Grover Furr: Points Not Met
A Reluctant Civil Servant!
A Secular Offensive?
A Symphony of the Absurd
A Tale of Two Curricular Reforms
A Tale of Two Legacies
A Third Front minus Mamata and CPI-M?
A Total Commitment
A True Man of the Masses
A Truly Courageous Woman, Hindutva Terror
Aadhaar for Birth, Marriage and Death
Aam Aadmi, Poverty Line, Modi's Image
Adding up Opinion amidst Shifting Sands
Advani, Modi, Vajpayee
Afghanistan: India on the Right Course
Afghanistan: Questions and Uncertainties
AFPSA: Misconceptions and Ground Realities
AFSPA: Who Rules India?
After Nehru; Lobbies Squabble
Afzal Guru Case: Pancholi and Haksar's Press Statement
Afzal's Hanging and its Aftermath
Age of the Nonaligned
Agenda that Failed: Left Politics in Post-colonial India
Allah Baksh: Unsung Hero of India's Freedom Struggle
Allround Decadence and Ray of Hope
American-style Integration in the Asia-Pacific
Amid Warped Priorities and False Gods, the Most Political of all Presidents
Amoral Politicians Create a Culture where Values Fall and Rapes Rise
An Apology
An Idiot for PM?: (Non-)Sense of History in NaMo
An Introduction to the Issue of Dams
Anatomy of Kishtwar
Another Demarcation on the Map
Aping the Adversary
Aping the Adversary
Archival Work of Contemporary History
Armed Response to Political Issues a Threat to Secular Democratic Forces in India
Army Still Dominates Pakistan
Army's Right to Rape and Kill Must Go if North-East is to be a Part of India
Arrest of a Leader: Abhay Sahu
Arushi-Hemraj Case: Ignoring Crucial Evidence Will Kill Faith In Justice
Assassination of an Activist: Who Killed Dr Narendra Dabholkar?
August Revolution and Present Scenario
Authoritative Focus on Concerns of the Poor and Marginalised
Ayodhya Conspiracy 1949: The Real Story
'Balancing Act' at the Cost of Aam Aadmi?
'Bangladeshis Reject Religion-based Violence': Interview of Veena Sikri, India's Former High Commissioner in Dhaka
'Consciousness from Outside' Debate: Certain Points
'Freedom and People's Emancipation': It's a Political and an Ethical Project
'Freedom and People's Emancipation': It's a Political and an Ethical Project
"Ghar Wapsi" and the Not-so-veiled Threat of the Sangh
Bangladesh has Lost its Way
Bangladesh's Politics is Again at Crossroads
Bangladesh: Amidst Ominous Forebodings
Bangladesh: Battle for a New Future
Bangladesh: Religious Fanaticism and the Secular State
Behind AAP's Bloodless Coup
Behind BNP-Jamaat's Onslaughts on the Shahbag Movement
Behind the CPI-M's Victory in Tripura
Benefits of Diesel Subsidy: A Story from Mumbai
Between Hope and Disappointment
Beware of Beijing
Beyond Reasonable Doubt?: The Conviction of Shahzad Ahmad
Beyond Ritualism
Beyond the Sordid Events at Home
Beyond Trivialities: One Right Step
Bhagat Singh as I knew Him
Biswas recommends Legal Protection for Women, not Caste-ending Democratic Revolution
BJP's Dangerous Politics / We Must All Resist BJP's Two - Nation Theory
Blood at the Border
Bodhgaya Bomb Blasts: Moving beyond the 'Usual Suspects'
Bodhgaya, Sleaze, Judicial Pronouncements
Bofors Deal, CBI, Coal Blocks Allotment
Bolsheviks and Death Penalty
Boston and Bengaluru, Growing BJP-JD(U) Rift
Brahmins + Muslims = Jitin Prasada's UP Social Network
Brahmo Samaj and Toiling People
BRICS: From Dialogue Forum to a Mechanism of Strategic Cooperation
Britain admits Torture in Kenya, but No One talks of it in India
British Legacy in Education: Is it "Cultural Pollution"?
Budget, Fiscal Deficit and Expectations
But Didn't We Know All Along that Italians were More Equal than Us?
But for the Judges who Defend Fairness, Our Country would be Diminished
Campus Space in the Age of Clicktivism: Exploring JNU Students Union Elections
Can The Real Syama Prasad Mookerjee Ever Stand Up?
Caring For Children — Preventing Child Rape
Caste and Social Transformation in Indian Democratic Society: A Transitional Phase
Casual Amateurishness
Challenge of Religious Fanaticism to Democracy in Bangladesh
Chanakya and Machiavelli Rolled into One
Chicago shows the Path
Chilling Scenes in Delhi: Disturbing Response of the Authorities
China: From 'Revolution' to Reform and Market
Chronicles of a Gamechanger
Civil Society Initiatives: The Case of BPAC in Karnataka
Clean-chits Abound, Ministers Crawl, and India Falls.... O! What a Fall!
Collapse of the Rupee and the Neoliberal Response
Colonial Master
Comments on "How India is Turning into China"
Communal Challenge to Free India: Some Reminiscences and Reflections
Communal Harmony and Freedom Movement in Mewat
Communalism Legitimised
Competition for Inefficiency: An Indian Perspective
Complexities Abound in Whirligig Politics
Comprehensive Perspective of Contemporary Federal Concerns
Concept of Federation and Centre-State Relations
Concept of Marital Rape in Islam
Congress Wrests Power in Karnataka
Congress' Game-plan in Andhra Pradesh
Constitutional Dilemma and Historical Injustice to Tribals
Convicted MPs Should Quit
Correcting Historical Injustice
Couldn't the PM Show Some Feelings in a Time of Strong Feelings?
CPI on the Hanging of Afzal Guru
Craziness about FDI
Cricket Scene, By-poll Outcome, NCTC
Crime against Women in Bengal: A Tale of Politics, Patriarchy and Misogyny
Crisis in Greece: Capitalism on Trial
Dada Chakravartty
Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Struggle
Dalit and Tribal Representatives in Chains: A Gift of Joint Electorate
Dalit Representation in Bollywood
Dalit-Muslim Relations in Pre-Partition Bengal: Paradigm Shift in Dalit Discourse
Dalits Still There Where They Were
Damaging a Basic Institution of Democracy
Danger Signal of Degeneration
Daunting Scene, Hopeful Signs
Day One in Calcutta
December 16 — A Day of Glory or Shame?
Declaration of the Left Parties' National Convention
Demand for High-Level Judicial Probe into Bomb Blast in Odisha's POSCO Area
Democracy in Virtual Media
Democracy Lessons from the Maldives
Demystefying the Phenomenon of Terror
Deterioration of Indo-Pak Ties: Who is More to Blame?
Dimensions of Sri Lanka Crisis
Direct Cash Transfer: Who Does It Benefit?
Disquieting Developments
Distance Education Under Threat
Do Champions of Communal Fascism deserve any Tribute?
Do We Need Nehru Today?
Does GDP add to Human Welfare?
Does the Girl-child Count? Census and Other Stories
Don't belittle the Army, Mr Rambo-NaMbo
Doyen of Indian Feminist Movement
Dr Lohia's Life and Thought: Some Notes
Dr Sanjay Kumar Biswas (1945-2013)
Drones, their Impact and the Pakistani Dilemma
DU's Four Year Undergraduate Programme — The Politics of Exclusive Education
Durga's Suspension, TMC's Feat, Telangana
Economic Mess Caused by Pranab and Chidambaram
Economic Survey 2012-13
Ecuador: Rafael Correa's Victory and Unchallenged Triumph of Latin American Left
Editors Guild on Tejpal Episode
Edward Snowden's Case and UN's Shame
Edward Snowden's Wake-up Call
Effective Act against Communal and Targeted Violence Need of the Hour Dr John Dayal's Statement at National Integration Council
Egypt: Pharaoh al-Sisi Sits Tight
Electoral Nightmares of an NGO
Eliminating Salwa Judum Leader Mahendra Karma
Emergency (1975-77) Mainstream's Rewarding Struggle
Emergency of 1975 and the Judiciary
Emergency Then and Situation Now
Ending Gender-based Violence: Need for a Civilisational Response
Erasing Enemies: America's New Way of War
Excellent Commentary on Assam-Centre Relationship in a Crucial Period
Exposing Vested Interests Behind National AIDS Control Programme
Face of Multi-dimensional Crisis
Factors of Maoist Movement among the Tribes of Central India
Factual Accuracy and Logic of Argument
Farmers' Crisis in India and Urgency of Remedial Action
Fifty Years Ago: Indian Women's Demonstration in Pretoria on Human Rights Day 1963
Fifty Years of Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream"
First Terrorist of Independent India
Five Star Movement and Aam Admi Party: Can the Two Occupy Political Space for Long?
Five-point Formula for a Riot-free India
Fixing India's Bilateral Investment Treaty Framework
Fond Memories of an Eminent Editor
Food Security with Economic Growth
For Climate Change Mitigation: Imperative of Mass Action Programmes of Bamboo Plantation and Algae Culture
For Closer Interaction between Litterateurs of Assam and Bengal
Foreign Policy and the Federal Imprint
Forest-dependant People, their Livelihood Challenges and Forest Rights Act: A Review
Forgotten Bhagat Singh
Fourth Estate, Event Management and the Societal Interlude
Freedom Day at Amritsar
Freedom of Religion
From Past Elections and Past Mistakes Political Parties Learn Nothing
From People's Court To Shahbag Square
From the Western Ghats to the Andamans, We're Playing a Greedy, Losing Game
From Urdu to Hindustani: Has the Former Sung the Latter's Dying Dirge?
Gandhi for Today
Gandhi's Model of Civilisation and its Present Relevance
Gandhi, Patel versus Modi
Gandhi's Relevance Increasing In Our Violent World
Good-bye Feroze
Good-bye to all that
GP's Selfless Dedication to Indian Democracy
Great Britain under the Spreading Fangs of Caste
Greetings to Mainstream
Growing Importance of Independent Journals
Guilty at the Top
Happy Birthday, Uncle Nikhil!
Have Indian Troops Abandoned Indian Territory?
Heart-wrenching Account of a Household
Hefazat-e-Jamaat, Nothing Else!
Heightened Tensions in POSCO Project Area
High Voter Turnout, WTO Talks in Perspective
His Economic Philosophy
His Undying Conviction in the Human Spirit and Global Good
Historian Barun De Passes Away
Honouring Ambedkar
Hope Flickers in Dismal Setting
Hotting up with China?
How Best to Exploit Arctic Resources in National Interest
How India is Turning into China
How Long Will Bahadur Shah Zafar's Exile Continue?
How Modi Views Untouchability?: Dissecting the 'Toilets First, Temples Later' Debate
How Spread of Bt Cotton Contaminates the Food Chain
How to Extinguish Bodo-Muslim Conflict and other Ethnic Conflicts in Assam
How to Reform Parliamentary Democracy in India?
However High You Be, the Law is Above You
Hugo Chavez — A Tumultuous Life comes to a Painful End
Hugo Chavez, A Consistent Life
Human Rights Activists and Death Penalty
I owe my Journalism to Nikhilda
IAS Must Assert Itself
Idea of India in Peril
Ilaiah's Tilak is Communal to the Core
Impact of Lenin on Bhagat Singh's Life
Importance and Misfortune of Delhi University
Importance of Listening to Afzal's Story
In Defence of Afzal Guru
In Memoriam
In Memory of Govind Purushottam Deshpande (1938–2013)
In Response to Dr Gilbert Sebastian
In Search of Pakistaniat
In the Name of Ram
In the Service of the Prime Minister
In the Wake of Uttarakhand's Tragedy
Increasing Support for Pension Parishad's Demands
Independence of the CBI, Police and Administration
India - China Relations — A Closer Look
India and Pakistan Must Exchange Prisoners
India and Pakistan: Between Hawks and Peaceniks is there a Middle Path?
India and the BRICS Bank Way
India Facing Economic Emergency
India Wilted under Pressure at the WTO Ministerial in Bali
India without Nehru
India's (non-)Response in Ladakh
India's Left and the 2014 Poll
India's Open Secrets—Effects on Sovereignty and Democracy
India, Pakistan Should Discuss Joint Action against Al-Qaeda, Taliban
India-Bangladesh Energy Cooperation: Historic Newer Trends
India-China Relations: Conflicting Claims and Strategic Interests
India-France Relations: Tremendous Scope Ahead
India-Japan: Waiting for the Defining Moment
India-Russia bhai bhai was working well. Is our US-leaning PM risking it?
India-US Standoff over Diplomat's Humiliation
India's Statehood Cauldron: From Simmer to Boil
Indian Economy and the Crisis of a Borrowed Development Strategy
Indo-Bangladesh Economic Relations
Indo-Pak Relations: Going Back to the Future
Indo-Pakistan Relations: New Perspective
Indo-Russian Strategic Partnership Reaches New Heights
Inquilab Zindabad!
Insanity Enthroned
IPS among the Rightwing
Iraq Crisis and Gujral Government
Iraq Crisis and Gujral Government
Is a National Unity Government Possible?
Is Ambedkar a Modern-day Messiah?
Is Bangladesh a Target for a New Cold War?
Is Democracy Bad For Women?
Is India the Most Dangerous Place for Dalit Women?
Is Malaysia turning into a Theocratic State?
Is Russia's Crackdown on NGOs Justifiable?
Is there a Hindu Left?
Is this a Party with a Difference?
Islamist Terrorism — A Tragic Oxymoron
Italian Behaviour, Return of Terror in J & K
Italian Marines' Case: Is India a Soft Nation?
Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri: A Rebel from CPI-M
Japan Under Abe: New Challenges
Jawaharlal Nehru and Kashmir
Jawaharlal Nehru — Builder of Modern Science and Promoter of Scientific Temper
Jawaharlal Nehru on India - Pakistan Relations
Jolt for NDA, 'Himalayan Tsunami'
Journalism's Finest Hour
Journalists' Journalist
JP: Some Reflections
Judicial Activism, Right or Wrong
Justice for Maruti Workers
Justice J.S. Verma: A Mind Without Fear
Justice Katju Merits Compliments, Nothing Has Changed In Gujarat
Justice Needed for Most Deprived among the OBCs
Justice Verma and his Legacy
Kalpana Dutt
Karnataka lies Wounded by Corruption, Communalism; Voters are Helpless
Karzai Visit: India's Dilemma
Keeping Out Dons
Kerala Model: Gone with the Wind?
Kerry becomes first War Casualty
Kerry couldn't set Moscow River on Fire
Khurshid's Challenge to Antony is Intriguing
Kicking in the Womb of Uncertainty
Killing Afzal — Hanging My Head In Shame!
Killing of Mahendra Karma: An Act of Popular Justice
Knowledge blended with Wisdom
Kolkata Observers N.C.'s Birth Centenary
Kudankulam gets the Green Light, but...
Law-breaking Law-makers are becoming a Serious Threat to our Democracy
Left and the Tribal Question
Legislation Ensuring Basic Right to Food
Lenin and New International Economic Order
Leninism and Class Consciousness
Lesson from the Last of the Trimurthis: Only the Selfless reach Greatness
Lessons from People's Verdict
Let's Go Back to the People
Letter from Germany: Merkel Short of Absolute Majority, Reaches Out to Leftist Rivals
Letter from Germany: Social Democrats Face a Tough Task in the Federal Elections
Letter to the Sahitya Akademi President
Li Keqiang's Visit
LoC Violation in Kashmir: Onus on Pakistan
Long-run Foreign Investors: Are they Easy Nuts to Crack?
Look beyond Hyderabad for the Growth of Telangana
Losing Freedom to the Corporate Hawks
Madanjeet Singh Is No More
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi — The Great Communicator
Mandela (July 18, 1918-November 6, 2013)
Mandela on Gandhi and Nehru
Manmade Disaster Plays Havoc
Manmohan Singh's Golden Silence
Manmohan, Chidambaram Responsible for 2G Scam: Gurudas Dasgupta
Manmohan's Progress
Maoist Attack in Bastar: Our Democracy is a Sham
Mars Mission, Modi's Manoeuvres
Marx's Discovery of the Most Revolutionary Class
Meaning of Mujib | Communal Amity in Post-Liberation Bangladesh
Media Scene Today
Media: News as Business Enterprise
Media's Anti-Mamata Campaign
Memoirs of Chandal Jeevan: An Underdog's Story
Men and Mountains
Message from a Lady of Exceptional Courage
Mid-Day Meal: Scope of Improvement
Military Strike on Syria could be Obama's Waterloo
Miscalculations of the Coronation
Missing Greens the European Way: Ideology - based Politics
Mistrust, thy Name is Politics
Modi's 'Vanzara' Moment: Encounter Killings as State Policy?
Modi's Catch-22: Caught between Programme and Proclivity
Mohan Dharia: Selfless Political Life of a Value-based Personality
Moscow Reserved on Rare Japanese Visitor
Mounting Concern
Mr Sen
Muslim Right: Baring Its True Fangs!
Muslim Terrorism Against The Endless Crusades
Muslim Women and Minority Rights in India
Muzaffarnagar: Bloody Path of Political Agenda — Footprints of Evil Designs
My Earliest Recollections
My Own Interactions with Nikhilda
My Second Innings: "Battling" for Urdu with the Chief Minister of Delhi
N.C.'s Abiding Relevance
N.C.'s Bio-Sketch
N.C.—the Idealist and Model Journalist
NAPM and People's Budget Initiative's Stand on Union Budget
Narendra Modi on Sardar Patel: Putting Goebbels to Shame
Narendra Modi Should Not be Invited to Release Shahid Bhagat Singh's Diary
Narmada Jal Satyagraha Merits Wide Support
Nation Bruised even as Hopes are Rekindled
Natural Disasters: Lessons from Uttarakhand
Nature and Process of History in Indian Democracy
Naxalism versus Corruption
Need for ASV in Hospitals
Need for Eco-Literacy
Negotiating Marginality: The Bangla-speakers of Assam
Nehru for Today
Nehru versus Patel
Nelson Mandela: His Life, his Thoughts
Nepal Constituent Assembly Elections: A Review
Netaji on India after Independence
New Indian Political Dialogue
New Push to Hindutva
New Stature, New Tasks
Nikhil — A Legend
Nikhilda and his Concerns
Nikhilda, my Dopplegänger
Nikhilda: Some Nostalgic Reflections
Nine Years of UPA Dispensation
No Humans in Modi's "Development"
No Time to Turn In
No to Bhagat Singh's Second Hanging
No War! Hands off Syria!
Non-Alignment, Human Rights, New: International Order, Regional Cooperation
Normalise the Abnormalcy in Jammu and Kashmir: A Way-out Framework
North Korea's Nuclear Ambition: Issues and Challenges
Now China Is Taking On Japan Too; Is The Army's Influence Growing?
Now it is Syria
Obama Copying Bush
Obama Dips Toe in Syrian Rubicon
Obama Needs a Leap of Faith on Iran
Obama's 'Zero Option' on AfPak is Viable
Obama's Monica Moment
Obamacare and the Politics of Libertarian Right
Observing N.C.'s Birth Centenary in New Delhi
Of Education and Democracy in India: Linkages with Proposed Four Year Undergraudate Programme in Delhi University
Of Wolves and Men
Olive Oil and the Supermom—Feminism and the Conspicuous Consumption Challenge
Ominous Portent of Lurking Fascism
Ominous Portents in Troubled Times
On Communal Eruption in Western UP
On CPI's Draft Party Programme
On Education Policy
On IPL Spot-fixing, Bloody Maoist Operation
On Modi's Social Engineering
On Nikhil Chakravartty's 15th Death Anniversary
On Prabhat Patnaik's Rejoinder
On Prof G.D. Aggarwal's Indefinite Fast
On Sarabjit's Death, Chinese Intransigence
On SC's Plainspeak, Fresh Revelations
On Shahid Bhagat Singh
On the 100th Birth Anniversary of Parmeshwar Narain Haksar
On the Question of Bharat Ratna
On the Severe Enviromental Disaster at Badrinath Shrine in Uttarakhand
On the Surface They Win and They Lose, but in Real Terms, They All Lose
Only Option for the Left to Survive in Today's Environment
Open Letter to PM and Tamil Nadu CM
Oppose IMF Way, Defend Economic Sovereignty
Opulent Kerala and Evil-eyed Planning Commission
Our Experiments with Truth: Political Parties Band Together to Keep Themselves Out of RTI
Outcome at Durban
Paid News: An Advertisement of the Globalised Indian Parliament
Pak Poll Outcome: Beyond Jingoist Rhetoric
Pak Scene Turning Increasingly Murkier
Pakistan is Too Serious a Problem to be left to our TV Anchors
Pakistan Throws Down Gauntlet at the US
Pakistan's Travails
Pakistan: Democracy Triumphs: Nawaz Sharif on Trial
Pakistan: Nawaz May Use Carrot and Stick Policy
Pakistan: Relief after Kayani's Retirement
Pakistan: Reporter's Jottings
Pakistan: Wide-angle View
Panchayat Polls: The Verdict of Rural Bengal
Patriarchy and the Rise in Sexual Assaults in India: An Explanation
Pension Parishad raises Hopes among the Elderly
Pension Reforms
Pentagon's Loss
People's Agenda on Administrative Reforms
PM's Productive Talks in Moscow and Beijing
Poineering Work on Comparative Constitutionalism in South Asia
Political Bias of the Media in Bengal: A Sociological Perspective
Political Economy of Fundamentalism in Bangladesh
Political Profligacy
Political Reading of "Well Done Abba" a Tale of Our Times
Political Role of Women in the Chinese National Movement (1921-1949)
Politics a la Manto
Politics even in the Tragedy of Death
Power is Only a Corollary
Present Status of Power Sector in India
Primacy of Fiscal Deficit in Indian Budget
Privacy Law and Genetic Engineering under Article 21 and Maternal Foetal Conflicts
Professor Malyarov As I Knew Him
Proposal for a Self-contained New Wakf Act for Normal Situation
Prospects of Next Polls
Protests and Prospects
Putin's Visit to India — Advantage Russia
Quest for Telengana: A Charismatic Socio-Political Movement
Question of Consciousness and Democracy — Debate Continued
Questions of Freedom and People's Emancipation — VI
Quiet Changeover in Karnataka?
R. Krishnamurti: The UNCTAD Man
Rabindranath Tagore: A Tribute from Bangladesh
Rajimwale Duped by Anticommunist Falsehoods
Rajiv's Heirloom
Rape and Punishment: Conservatives Exposed
Rapid Spread of Liquor Vends Increases Violence against Women
Ravenshaw University, Odisha: Exploring the Essence of CSR
Re-reading Modi's Gujarat
Real Meaning of Shahbag
Reclaiming the Values for which Bangladesh was Born
Reconfiguring Bangladesh - India Relations: A Masochist's Fantasy Or Tilting At Windmills?
Reflections on GATT Debate | Economic Reforms: Need for Reappraisal
Reflections On Our Time
Regional Parties in Indian Democracy: Centre and Peripheries
Remembering Chinmohan Sehanavis on his Birth Centenary
Remembering K.S. Krishnaswamy: Essential Mysorean and Sensitive Economist
Remembering Nikhilda on his Birth Centenary
Remembering October-November 1984
Remembering P.N. Haksar on his Birth Centenary
Remembering the victims of June 4, 1989 massacre in China
Reminiscent of an Era that went Wrong
Reply to Anil Rajimwale's "Rejoinder"
Report of a Survey on National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and Panchayats
Representation or Resistance?
Rethinking World Order
Returning the Kohinoor to Where It Belonged
Revisiting Jawaharlal Nehru's Idea of History
Right to Forest Land: Who Benefits?
Rights and Survival of the Girl Child and the Role of Panchayats
Rise of Religious Fundamentalism in Bangladesh
Rising Incidents of Rape in India: Problem and Solutions
Role of Money in State Assembly Polls
RSS and Politics: Conspiracy is the Mantra
RSS, Madani, Laxmanpur Bathe
Russia: Has Putin Won the Battle Against Oligarchs?
Russia: What is there in the name 'Stalingrad'?
Russian Proposal enjoys Global Support to the Chagrin of Warmongers
Sailen Ghosh's Contribution to Evolving an Alternative Paradigm is Invaluable
Sarabjit's Death: HRCP urges Justice, Steps to Contain Damage
SC Rulings and Citizens' Fundamental Rights
SC Verdict, BJP's Lokayukta, Mamata-speak
Sea Change in National Polity
Search for Gen-next Leadership On - Whom will Pak ISI Bet in Kashmir?
Secular Outlook
Semiotics of Pornographic Violence
Serial Rape within Marriage: Why India's Feminists Skirt the Issues
Sethusamudram: A Project Crippled By Myth
Sexual Assaults and Feminist Sensibilities
Sexuality and Conspiracy: National and International Spheres
Shahbag Movement: Contesting Religious Fundamentalism and Charting a New Beginning?
Shahbag Square — Why We, Pakistanis, Don't Know and Don't Care
Shahbag Square Will Haunt Us
Shinde Spoils Rahul's Launch
Should India Ease Entry Rules For Foreign Banks?
Signs of Disquiet
Silent Revolution In Bihar And Women's Empowerment
Silver Lining
Sitting in Awe of the West
Snooping in Gujarat, Tejpal Issue and Media
So Distant from India and So Close to Gandhi: A Note on a Gandhian President of a South American Republic
Social Justice for Inclusion
Socio - Political Views of Vivekananda
Some Contextual Reflections on Hind Swaraj
Spectacle As Reality
Sri Lanka: Behind Rajapaksa's Defiance
Sri Lankan War Crimes: Need for an International Inquiry
Statue of Unity: How the Varna Media is Loving It!
Support Telangana State Demand
Supreme Court Judgment on Kudankulam Plant Needs Full-bench Review
Supreme Task at Critical Juncture
Swami Vivekananda — A Masiha of the Masses
Swami Vivekananda: A Life Divine
Syria and US National Legislation: Whither Obama?
Syrian Crisis: Way Out of the Blind Alley
Tagore for Today
Talking to the Taliban
Tamil Nadu and the Sri Lankan Conflict: Evolving Centre-State Understanding on the Ethnic Issue
Tamils in Sri Lanka: Losing Relevance
Tax Residency Certificate eclipses Agriculture in Post-Budget 2013-14 Reactions
Terrible Impact of Cold-blooded Massacres
Thambi Naidoo and Kasturba Gandhi's Role behind the South African Satyagraha's Success
Thanks to Modi, Sardar Patel Lives Again and 'True Secularism' is Discovered
Thatcher feared Islam
The Amazing Brazenness of Mahinda Rajapaksa
The 'Uncle Judge Syndrome' shadow over Laxmanpur Bathe
The Blurred Lines
The Debate Around Freedom of Expression: Need for Deliberative Democracy in India
The Devaluation of Women's Work
The Economic Chakravyuh — Who Will Bell the Cat?
The Economics of Pope Francis
The Elections and After
The Essence of History: Four Crucial Relationships
The Experiment
The Follies of Empire: America in Iraq and Afghanistan
The General who Won Classic Victories with Barefoot Soldiers and Bicycles
The Gift
The Great Land Rush: Fake Consensus at All-party Meet
The Ideological Battle in Bangladesh
The Importance of Being Ishrat
The Institution Called Nikhil
The Iran Deal: Enlightening the Global Picture
The Mahatma Who Suffered
The Mainstream Story
The Making of an Indian
The Meaning of Politics
The Metamorphosis of Muzaffarnagar
The Mind and Heart of Lotika Sarkar, Legal Radical, Friend, Feminist
The Modi Myth
The Partition Story
The Politics of Exoneration
The Politics of Power and Control
The Problem of Kashmir
The Right to Food Programme — Some Questions
The Road Not Taken By Tripura's Left
The Roots of the Emergency
The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace [Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal] Bill, 2012
The Significance of 'May Day' and India's Response
The Sino-Indian Story: Towards a Unity of Opposites
The South China Sea — Dynamics of A Multinational Conflict
The Statesman as Historian
The Story of a Gadfly
The Struggle Against POSCO Needs Wider Support
The Survival of Humanity is at Stake
The Valley of Incongruities
The Valley of Incongruities
Their Highnesses, Royal or Not, are Ready to Serve the Country Again. Make Way
Theorising Corruption in a Hurry
There are Times when War is Better than Our Free and Fair Elections
There is a Conspiracy of the Guilty; Dramatics Will Not Erase It
They Do Not Extremists Are Extremists: Understand the Language of Reason and Peace
Think Big and Act Boldly
This was a Man
Thoughts on a Centenarian
Threat to Constitutional Structure
Threat to River Ganga and the Life of its Saviour
Time to Breach the Wall
To Talk about Austerity...!
Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Food Security
Towards Global Isolation: A Word of Caution
Towards New Horizons
Towards Self-governance
Tragedy of being Manmohan Singh
Tribal Minister's Letter to Governors
Tribute to Narendra Sharma
Tribute to Sailendra Nath Ghosh
Tribute: Asghar Ali Engineer
Tribute: Balraj Mehta
Tribute: D. R. Goyal
Tribute: Dipankar Chakraborty
Tribute: Hugo Chavez and New Socialism
Tribute: O. P. Sabherwal
Tribute: Prem Singh
Tribute: Rajendra Yadav
Tribute: Satyapal Dang
Tribute: Subrata Sinha - Passionate Defender of Environment
Tribute: Vina Mazumdar
Tributes to Lotika Sarkar by Amita Dhanda and V.R. Krishna Iyer
Tridib Chowdhuri and his Growing Relevance
Tripura Votes for CPI-M Again
Trojan Horse in Mahabodhi Temple! Is Babri brewing at Buddhists' Monastery?
Twists and Turns
Two Poems
UK's Visa-Bond Idea can be Countered if Delhi is Not a Boneless Wonder
Ukraine in Dilemma—East or West? Revenge of History?
Unfortunate Efforts by Communal Forces to Misuse the Name of Swami Vivekananda
UNICEF India Statement on Child Deaths in Bihar due to Mid-Day Meal Consumption
Union Budget 2013 - 2014: Look at the Components of Fiscal Deficit, Mr Chidambaram
Union Budget 2013-14: Caught between Various Contradictions
Union Budget 2013-14: Farmers' Expectation of Result Orientation
UPA-II Government Cornered, Exposed — Yet Again
Uphill to Peace
Uphold JPC's Credibility
US 'rebalancing' in the Hindu Kush
US General Wants to Learn from India
US Loses Lone Base in Central Asia
US Obduracy in Syrian Crisis
US Trampling on Interests of Strategic: Partners to Satisfy its Own Aspirations
US' Strategic 'Pivot' To Asia-Pacific — Some Implications
Uttarakhand Disaster: Development at What Cost?
Vanzara, Asaram, Concert in Kashmir
Veteran Socialist Thinker Mastram Kapur Is No More
Vicious Cycle of Insecurity in Afghanistan
Victory in Delhi
Vigilance and Corruption—Where Is Governance Headed?
Vinod Raina
Violating the Vulnerable— Manifestations and Attitudes
Violence in American Society
Viva Chavez
Vo Nguyen Giap: 'General of Peace'
VVIP Trips to Uttarakhand and Kashmir
Wanted: Public Intervention
War without End
Was a New State Justified?
We can do with Structured New States, but not Ad-hoc Partitions of India
We Disagree, Minister Tharoor
We Seldom Enforce Laws, That's Why: Rape Victims Are Still Victimised
West Bengal's Creditable Record
West Bengal: Amended Jail Law marks Mamata's Final Betrayal on Political Prisoners
West Bengal: Deadly Investment that Ruined the Poor
West Bengal: People's Fatwa to Mamata
West Bengal: Understanding Trinamul Congress
What does the War Crimes Trial portend for the Future of Bangladesh?
What Invasion has Shown Up • Need for World Publicity
What is Good for the High Command? What is Good for the Country?
What We Defend in Kashmir
When Budgets are Made by Politicians, they become Missed Opportunities
When Hopes are Dashed by Foul Politics, Chaos looks like a Good Option
When the Politician Fails
When the State abets Communalism, Independence itself is in Danger
When the State abets Communalism, Independence itself is in Danger
When the Voter is Treated as a Fool, Beware the Ire of the 99 per cent
When Will They Ever Learn? Bringing American War Crimes in Vietnam to Light
Where Are We Heading?
Whistleblower for a Public Cause: Edward Snowden
Whither Bangladesh?
Who Can Take On Narendra Modi?
Who Gains when a Poor Kills another Poor?: Reminiscing the Past and Reflecting the Present
Who Killed My Daughter Ishrat Jehan?
Who Sows the Wind? And who Reaps the Whirlwind?
Who Will Be India's Next PM?
Why CPI changed its Stand on Telangana's Statehood
Why Do We Need Parliament?
Why do we Need the Prevention of Communal Violence Bill?
Why Harass and Penalise the Buyers?
Why Indians Won't Trust Henry Kissinger
Why Iran is Crucial for Both India and Pakistan
Why is the Tribal taking to Killing?
Why Minorities are under Attack in Bangladesh
Why Naxalism?
Why Political Parties should come under the RTI Act
Why Syrian Question Matters
Why We are not Hindus: A Reply to the Indian Fascists
Will Deng's Gimmick Pass?
Will the Criminals and their Patrons heed Judicial Ruling? It's a War
Will the Land Acquisition Bill lead to More Violent Conflicts?
Win or Lose for the Kejriwal Juggernaut? Either Way, it Could Make a Difference
Women in Resistance Struggles in Odisha
Women Self-Help Groups from Home Courtyard to State Secretariat
Women's Resurgence: The Gandhi - Nehru Alchemy
Women's Victory: Justice Verma Committee Report and the Road Ahead
Workers' Consciousness Revisited
World Rethinks Opinion on Putin's Russia
BJP's Real Face and Real Agenda Unmasked
Condemn both Minority and Majority Appeasements
The Strength of Indian Democracy
Tony Benn's Death marks End of an Era
"Franchising" and "Profit" in Distance Education
'Clean India' Tokenism
'Halt Modi!' — Sane Voice in Darkness
'It Is Majoritarianism That Needs To Be Contested'
'Tactical Unity of the Orthodox': Who is Smiling Over The Judgement on Article 377?
16th Parliament Elections: A Clear Mandate
1933 of 2014! Breaking New Grounds! Confronting Communal Fascism !!
2014 Assembly Elections in Haryana: A Paradigm Shift in State Politics
2014 — Prospects for India in the New Year
2014 General Elections marked a Watershed in India's Post-independence Political History
52 per cent Seats with 31 per cent Vote-share
A Book-keeper's Exercise
A Brief History of Workers' / TU Movement, Red Flag and May Day
A Budget for Hindu Rashtra or Secular India?
A Clash of Two Worldviews: West - Russia Conflict on Ukraine
A force like INA needed
A Landslide Victory for BJP
A Liberal State is a Secular State
A Look at Choice of Words in our Media
A Model in Search of Substance
A Narrative in Progress
A Nightmare Materialises in India: Hindutva - Capitalism Takes Power
A One-horse Race?
A Pretender to the Throne
A Puppet on a String
A Question for Intellectuals
A Rejoinder to Maxwell's Article
A Saint Editor
A Status Quo Country
A Straw in the Wind
A Tale of Two Promises
A Terror-tainted Prime Minister?
A Weak Prime Minister
A Wide Gap yawns between the BJP and Congress
AAP High Command Allows No Dissent
AAP in Perspective: Birth of the 'New Alternative'
AAP Must Clear Policy Confusion: Running a Government is a Sober and Serious Business
Academics Must Question More: Romila
Accolades Abroad, Darkness at Home
Acid Test for Mulayam
Action More Important than Disclosure of Names
Addressing National Imperatives
Afghanistan Faces Uncertain Future
Afghanistan: Obama Wants Minimal US Military Presence
AFSPA Requires Another Look
After Indira Gandhi
Aftermath of Parliamentary Elections 2014: Fears and Uncertainties may Revive Call for Separate Electorate
Alan Woods' State and Revolution Rewriting History
American Oligarchs
Amit Shah's Innocence Proven?
Amrita Sher-Gil
An Activist Judge with Aristotle's Mental Range, Fearless Krishna Iyer was a Game-changer
An Assessment of Girls Education under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan
An Indian General Election Like No Other
An Ode to Anuradha - On her Sixth Death Anniversary
An Open Letter to Medha Patkar
An Open Letter to Prakash Karat
An Open letter to Sonia Gandhi
An Open Letter to the Left Forces
Analysing Anarchy: Aroma of AAP in Indian Politics
Analysing Economic Survey 2013-14
Another Chapter in Iraq
April Day of Birth and Death
Arab Spring and Democracy: Reinventing the Debate
Arbitrary Budget Cuts in Social Sectors
Arbitrary Removal of Governors by the Modi Government
Armed Rebellion in Ukraine and its Implications
Arresting the Administrative Rot
As Things Stand
Assam's Cultural Guru Jyoti Prasad Agarwala: A Symbol of Patriotism and National Integration
Assembly Poll Outcome: The Grim Reality
'No Foreign Christian Missionary is Working in India': Interview with civil rights activist Dr John Dayal
'Patriots' of Our Times!
'You Murderer, Get Out From My Place!'
"A Blow to Progressive Forces Everywhere"
Badaun Outrage: Preliminary Report of a Fact-finding Team
Bapu Asaram Episode — Need for Wider and Transparent Investigation
Bapu Wrong Yet Again
Bare Facts
Baritone Voice is Silent—Values Remain
Behind Modi-led BJP's Spectacular Performance
Beneficial Outcome of Enhanced Participation in SCO
Best Homage to Shahid Bhagat Singh is to Build Unity of Left Forces
Betrayal of Nehru Legacy
Beware of the Coming Dangers of New Trade Agreements TTP and TTIP
Beyond Populism
Bhagat Singh : A Tribute
Bharti in NHRC net: Some Facts Beyond
Bhopal Tragedy: Thirty Years After
Bhupesh : Some Reminiscences
Bhuvanesh Chaturvedi: Standard-bearer of Congress' Core Values
BJP Brooms and Communal Riots
BJP Cannot Take Voters For Granted
BJP's Dangerous Politics / We Must All Resist BJP's Two-Nation Theory
BJP's Electoral Setbacks and Headaches
BJP's Volte Face on Black Money
BJP's yatra Failed to Realise its Objectives
BJP: The People's Choice, but . . .
Black Diwali for Rural Daily Wage Earners
Black Economy in India, its Global Dimensions and Impact on Policies: Some Critical Issues
Blacklisting NGOs: Fixing Party Agenda as the National Agenda
Blindman's Buff
Bombing of Gaza, Bengal Famine, Zohra Segal
Border is More Complicated after Xi's Visit
Bouquets and Brickbats for BRICS
BRICS — End of Western Dominance of the Global Financial and Economic Order
Broken Promises on Sachar Report, 'Rape' as Everyday Affair
Brutal Jihadi Terrorism, now a Fashion among Youth; US Blunders; Wahabism; Pakistan
Budget and Vulnerable Sections of Society
Budget Justice for Dalits and Adivasis
Bullet Train, Smart Cities and Development Priorities
Bus they Missed
Can a Leopard Change its Spots?
Can Our Country have "Achhe Din" under Modi's Government?
Caste reflects the genius of India: Gandhi. Beware of Gandhi: Ambedkar. Who wins?
Central Asia Changes
Centre-Bihar State Relations and Laloo Prasad Yadav
Changing the Character of Political Discourse
Chasing the Holy Grail of Peace in South Asia
Chhattisgarh Incident Exposes Activists on Police Reforms Front
China Needs to see India as an Equal. Economic Ties are No Substitute to Solving Border Problems
Civil Society
Clean Epitome, Loam Pattern
Climate Change: Uncomfortable Realities
Climate, Culture, Cosmopolitanism: The Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, Shillong
Climate-incompatible Elections in India
Coalition Politics and Impending Poll
Colonial Hangover, Hindutva, Police Reforms
Coming Full Circle in Iraq
Communal Challenge to Free India
Communal Disturbances in Sitamarhi, 1992
Communal Harmony
Communal Harmony And Deep Concern For The Poor: Basic Heritage of the Freedom Struggle
Communal Polarisation Scales New Heights
Communalism will be the Poll Plank
Conferring Rights on Citizens: Laws and their Implementation
Congress and Pandava Legacy but Pandavas had no private High Command
Congress Still Cannot look beyond the Dynasty, nor BJP beyond Sectarian Politics
Consumption and Protection: Understanding BJP's Victory
Contemporaneity of the 1930s: Some Aspects of the Lives of Low-Caste Farm Labour in India
Contours of China Crisis
Converging Brand into Charisma: The Making and Rise of Narendra Modi
Core Values can Hold the Centre Together
Corporate-friendly Bureaucracy
Corporatisation of the Media
Corporatising War and Conflict: The Military-Industrial Complex in USA and India
Corrupt China and Lessons for India
Cows, Candles and the Akhand Rashtra: Being Dinanath Batra
Crucial Questions for Left Forces
Culture of Political Vendetta overtakes Cultural Vibrancy of West Bengal
Danger Signal from Bombay
Dangers to Democracy in the Democratic System Itself
De-escalate Border Tensions
Debate on Workers' Consciousness: Further Contribution
Defeat of Neo-liberalism will be the True Tribute to Sunil
Defeat Talibanisation
Defence and Self-Reliance
Defending Freedom in Perilous Times
Delhi fails to win Japan's 'Nuclear Trust'
Democracy the Corporate World Dislikes
Democratic Norms and Formation of New Government
Democratic Rights in India
Demolition of Pluralism
Development in the Land of Status Quoist Politics
Development Path of India — Some Major Policy Issues
Devils' Dance on the Malaysian Plane Tragedy
Dhirendra Brahmachari to Rampal: Murky Babadom, Murkier Politics
Dimensions of Progressive Politics: The Indian Context
Direct Assault on Democracy
Dismantling Meta-Narratives: Women, Development and Globalisation
Dissecting the Rout of the Congress
Disturbing Trends in Governance — Timely Warning by Citizens' Report
Divisive Politics and Attack on Secular Polity
Does it Matter?
Does the India-US Bilateral Agreement on Food Security Matter?
Don't Deny Nehru's Great Contributions
Don't Dilute or Restrict MGNREGA
Don't Shoot the Messenger
Early Days of Planning : P.C. Mahalanobis
EC Unfolds Poll Process
Economic Views of Arvind Kejriwal
Editorial: Hindi-Amreeki Bhai Bhai
Editors Guild Condemns Attack on Rajdeep Sardesai
Education — The Indian Experience
Education Perspective
Election 2014: RSS Swallows the Great Indian Media!
Election Scene : Advantage Modi, but...
Elections and Wider Social Change
Elections Give BJP Historic Victory, But Some Disturbing Trends Can't Be Ignored
Elections: Trends and Projections
Electorate's Rebuff to Communal Extremism
Elites as the Economic Problem
Emergence of Mini Actors and Decline of the Left in Kerala
Emergence of Regional Identities
Emergence of Telangana as the 29th State
Emergence of Telengana as the 29th State
Empire Talks Back
End of an Epoch
End of Misrule by Coterie: West Bengal in Political Cross-road?
Ensure Justice for 148 Jailed Maruti Workers
Envisioning a New South Asia
Europe, US Criticise Israel
Evolution of Political Corruption
Face of the Danger
Face of the New World Order / Human Rights: Basic Issues / Prime Minister's Predicament
Facing Manifold Mounting Problems
Failed Economics and Logjam of Secularism
Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Only a few days, dear one, a few days more
Far Beyond the Media Hype
FDCA's Appeal to Restore Peace and Harmony in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli
FDI in Defence: Missing the Reality
FDI in Defence: Some Questions
FDI increase in Insurance is Anti-National
Feminist-Socialist Transformation facing Neo-Liberal Capitalism
Fifteenth India-Russia Economic Summit: Advantage Russia
First Hundred Days of Modi Government
Focus of National Attention
Footfalls of Fascism?
For a Broad United Secular Front to Resist Fascist Takeover of Indian State
For the people's sake: Synchronising Sino-Indian Relations
Foreign Currency Derivatives — A Sophisticated Loot?
Freedom from Corruption through Self-Governance or Coercive Governance: An Exploration through Political Philosophy
Freedom of Speech versus Hate Speech
From Azad to Irani: Road Traversed by Human Resource Development Ministry
From the Left Roots
From the Pen of a Newsman with Photographic Memory
Fun Times in India
Fundamental Discoveries in Marxist Philosophy and Philosophy in General
Fundamentalism — A Threat To Our National Survival
G-20: Reviving the Call for a Global Financial Transaction Tax
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Magic Realism, Castro and Socialism
Gandhi amidst Swachh Bharat Abhiyan?
Gandhi for Today
Gandhi or Godse
Gandhi's Champaran Struggle
Gandhi, Ayyankali and Arundhati Roy
General Elections 2014 and the Changing Political Equation in Bengal
Getting Ready for Lok Sabha Poll
Gilbert Etienne
Glorifying Motherhood: The Power of Identity
Government Goes Ahead With GM Crop Trials: Warnings By Top Scientists and Sangh Parivar Objections Ignored
Grim Scenario, Ominous Setting
Gujarat : A Model of 'Development'?
Habitation and a Name for India in the BRICS
Haider: Mainstreaming the Marginal Narrative
Handloom: An Endangered Industry
Harder Options for Pakistan
Has Government a Kashmir Policy?
Hate, Desperation Vitiated Our Campaigning: We Need to Worry about Our Tomorrows
Hindutva, the Asiatic Mode of Production and Indian Revolution
His Master's Voices: They Are Loud
Historic Significance of October Revolution
Honouring Ambedkar
How and Why Russia is Using Energy Weapon on Ukraine
How is the Cookie Crumbling?
How Ukrainian President Poroshenko Won Over the West against Russia
ICHR — Programme of Action
Icons of the National Movement
Ideological-political Renewal and Revamp needed for Left Revival
If AAP Fails, Another will Take its Place because Old Parties have Betrayed India
If Britain is responsible for India's Misery, why is Mass Misery Still Continuing?
Illusion and Reality
Imaging the Hindu Rashtra
Imperatives of Secular-Democratic Unity
Implementation of Millennium Development Goals by UNDP
Importance of being an Extremist
Importance of being Nawaz Sharif
In Defence of the Chatterati
In India—and in No Other Country—Rape is Justified by Home Ministers, MPs, Casteists. It's our Shame
In lieu of An editorial
In Pakistan and at Home
In the Grip of Fear and Uncertainty
In-laws and Outlaws: Travails of Bihar CM Jitanram Manjhi
In-Laws and Outlaws: Travails of Bihar CM Jitanram Manjhi
Incisive Analysis of India's 'Skewed' Rise in Contemporary Times
India - China: Economic Development and the Boundary Problem: Xi's Visit
India and Sri Lanka: Emerging Parallels
India at EI Dorado's Doorstep?: May 16 will show the way
India feels Short-changed
India Inc's Massive Bid for Power
India Still Develops Cold Feet when the Matter concerns Britain
India's Failed Development — Create a New Model Rooted in Cultural Ethos
India's Foreign Trade Deficit, Rupee Slide and the Fraud of Modern Economics
India's Stout Resistance to the TFA
India, Japan at the Global Crossroads
India-China Relations: In Dire Need of Proper Management to Ward Off Differences
India-China: Reflections on 1962
India-France Cooperation: Towards Enhanced Bilateral Partnership
India: Growing Importance of Fruits and Vegetables
Indian Constitution — Some Creative Mutations Mooted / "Conflagration Nandigram": Letter to West Bengal Governor
Indian Democracy: Debt to Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian Maids and Indian Spies Move to US and Vanish — to Live Happily Ever After
Indian Police
Indian Political Scene
Indian Politics and Left Parties: Bringing Dange Line Back
Inevitability of Gandhian Village Reconstruction in Rural India
INLD Victory in Hisar: A Game-changer in Haryana Politics
Instead of Dismantling We Need a Better Planning Commission
Intellectuals' Appeal to Defend Secular Democracy
Interdependence Among Brics Nations
Interrogating the Anti-graft Platform
Invasion of Educational Universe by 'Economics': A Civilisational Casualty?
Iraq Crisis and Gujral Government
Iraq is not just a Sunni-Shia Clash; it's Fundamentalist Wahabism's Challenge to the World
Iraqi Communist Party's Call
Irom Sharmila, Released by Law, is Rearrested by Police
Is Manmohan Singh as Innocent as Sanjay Baru Makes Out?
Is Russia legally responsible in downing the Malaysian airliner?
Is Winning Elections all that matters in Democracy? What about Values and the Rules of Conduct?
ISIL Challenges Modi Government
Israeli Killings in Gaza and Our Human Instincts
It's Politics, Mr President
Jagat Singh Mehta
JAMMU AND KASHMIR POLL 2014: Wonders Will Never Cease
Jan Dhan Yojana: Ambitious but Ambiguous Plan
Jawaharlal Nehru as a Kashmiri
Jawaharlal Nehru: The Architect of Modern India
Journey Of A Dalit Party: Why is the BSP Not Able to Extend beyond UP?
Jumble of Indian Politics
Kabir Kala Manch, Bangalore Police and Free Speech
Kalpana Dutt
Kashmir: Long Haul / Ayodhya and Hindu-Muslim Unity
Kashmir: Modi's Fantasies and Article 370
Keyhole Diplomacy Doesn't Suit India
Khushwant Singh passes away at 99
Know Your NaMo: Dalits in Search of 'Gujarat Model
Know Your NaMo: Like 'Father', like 'Son' ?
Last Opportunity for Indian Communists
Lead, kindly Light....
Leaders beyond Stereotype
Learning from the Chinese Experience
Left and Liberals Failed to Address Modi's Constituencies
Left Forces should Awake now before it is Too Late
Left Parties: Pragmatic or Dogmatic?
Left Unity: Lohia's Approach
Lenin: Theoretician of United Front
Lest We Forget
Lest We Forget
Lest We Forget: The Batla House Case, Six Years On
Let us March in Step with the Life Outside
Letter from Kolkata: Is Mamata fit to be the Chief Minister?
Letter from Kolkata: Saradha and Mamata Banerjee
Letter to Nehru, Fifty Years After
Light and Dark
Like Apartheid South Africa, Israel Must Be Boycotted
Lingering Shadow of Feudal Oppression
Linguism: Nehru, Patel, Rajaji were Ignored, Feroze Gandhi's Words have Gone Waste
Lohia Line on Destruction of the Caste System
Lok Sabha Polls 2014: Kerala Bucks Modi Wave
Look Before the Devil Leaps on You: A Lesson for Uncle Sam
Looking beyond the Summit
Loss of an Ideological Battle
Love Jihad and targeting of Religious Minorities
Mandate and After
Many Faces of the Syrian 'Peace Process'
Maoist Strike in Election Season
Marginalised Groups and Inclusive Growth
Marital Rape in India: A Radical Feminist Perspective
Master Raconteur
Meaning of Agni
Meaning of Modern Civilisation
Media Tactics renders Election Commission's Code of Conduct Futile
Media: News Medium and the Stereotypes
Meenakashipuram Conversion and National Upheaval
Meerut: The Danger Signal
Memories of 1984
Memories of a Many-splendoured Man
Memory and Modi
Message from the President
Messiah of the Middle Class or Demogogue?
Minority Group's Second-Class Positioning
Mirror... Mirror on the Wall!: Who Were Those 'Bad Elements', Mr Bhagwat?
Missing the Woods for the Trees: Gandhiji and Arundhati Roy's Polemic
Modi Admires Obama's Hunt for Bin Laden
Modi Back to his Agenda
Modi Caste Wars
Modi Government deviates from Historical Stand on Palestine
Modi in the Frame of the RSS' Vision of a Hindu India
Modi Lacks Knowledge of Kashmir
Modi Wins Massive Anti-Congress Mandate
Modi's 50 Days in Office
Modi's Colossal Ignorance of History
Modi's Contrarian Foreign Policy Goals
Modi's Japan Visit and Reactions in the Chinese Media
Modi's Pronouncements and Ground Reality
Modi's Visit to Nepal: An Assessment
Modi, Nehru and the Palestine Issue
Modi-wave and Dalit-Card's Impact in Hindi Belt!
Mohan Kumaramangalam — Cameos: An Old Comrade
Money-Muscle Power in Student Union Elections and National Politics
Moneyfestos of the Plutocracy
Moral Panic in India
More than a Streak of Authoritarianism
More Thefts of Photos and Text
Mother India beckons us All
Mukul Sinha
Muslim Voters and BJP's Secularist Attempt
Muslims and the Indian Election 2014
Nabarun Bhattacharya [1948-2014]
NaMo versus AK
Narendra Modi and Governance
Nation-states and Frontiers: Old Tumours or New Tremors?
Natwar's Betrayal
Need for Altering Discourse in Contemporary Times
Need for Vigilance
Need to Review and Reverse the Decision on Planning Commission
Need to Support Doon Old Boys' Campaign for Release / Better Treatment of Kobad Ghandy
Nehru and his Views on Secularism
Nehru and Minorities
Nehru and Planning in India
Nehru and Socialism
Nehru and the Peasantry
Nehru for Today
Nehru for Today
Nehru's Legacy in the Present Juncture: Assessing Economic Successes and Failures
Nehru's Striking Relevance for Our Times
Nehru's Vision Must Guide us in these Troubled Times
Nehru's Vision, its Development and Dismantling
Nehruvian Framework: Battleground of Progress and Reaction
Neither Love Nor Jihad: The Politics of Hate-Mongering
Neo-converts to Moditva and Flabbergasted Left-Liberals
Neo-liberalism and Kejriwal
Nepal: A Neighbourhood Story
Netaji on India's Struggle for Freedom
Neville Maxwell and Brooks' Report
New President Elected — Ukraine has Won Half the Battle
New Sojourn
Nigeria's Missing Daughters
Nigeria: Justice for the Nightly Raiders
Nikhil Chakravartty's 101st birth anniversary
Nikhilda's Eternal Silence
No Manna will Fall from Heaven
No Need for Certificate of Patriotism from PM Modi
No Paradigm Shift in Sixteenth Lok Sabha Elections
No Record of Surrogate Mother and Child at Regional and National Levels
Non-binding Gestures
Not Sorrow but Atonement
Notes on the Leader
NREGS: Need for Reinvigoration
Nuclear Collusion
Obama Launches His War, Finally
Obama piles Pressure on Russia
Odds after the Maharashtra, Haryana elections: Turning Towards Inclusive Well-being
Of Tea and Dynasty
Ominous Portents
Ominous Signals
On C. Rajeswara Rao's birth centenary
On Dual Citizenship
On Goan Migration
On Haryana CM's Observations
On SC Judge's Views
On Special Status
On the Brink of Collapse: Nuclear Agreement with Iran
On the Current Contradictions of Global Capitalism
On Thirtieth Anniversary of 'Operation Bluestar': Some Thoughts on the Aftermath of the Operation
On Torture and Confinement of G.N. Saibaba
On Writing India's China War: Some Recollections
One Group has Already Lost the Elections: How Leadership Fails the Communists
Onset of an Anniversary
Other Countries do something about Racism; Our Indifference Grievously Harms India
Our Country and Our Times: Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela
Our Leaders Ignore the Rules of Democracy and Play by Religion, Caste and Roguery
Outrage over a Death in the Capital
Outrageous Act, Criminal Connivance
Owning up Mistake of Resignation: A Reality Check by AAP
Pakistan: Civil Society versus the State
Panchayats and Disaster Management: Future Perspective
Pandits hit Politics in Kashmir
Parliamentary Elections and Gorkhaland: Message from Darjeeling
Parties Ignore Human Rights
Parting Of "Friend Of The Court" Gopal Subramanium: IB and CBI kowtowing to Prime Minister Modi
Parvathi Krishnan Is No More
People who Shame the Country become Heroes at Home. What's this Democracy Worth?
People Will Hold Them Accountable
Peoples' Agenda 2014
Plain-speaking with Obama may Help
Planning in a Modern Economy: Is its Role Over in India?
Planning in India
PM in New York and Washington
Poetics of Subalternity: Remembering Namdeo Laxman Dhasal (1949-2014)
Police Encounter Guidelines: Reaffirmation of Rule Of Law
Political Bankruptcy of the Left
Political Crystal Ball-gazing or Whither 16th Parliament?
Political Overreach by Election Commission / Reserve Bank Governor
Politics of Kashmir
Polluted Politics
Poroshenko Declares Ceasefire: Ray of Hope to End Ukrainian Crisis
Positive News from Kathmandu, Kashmir
Positive Signs amid Persisting Negative Features
Pot Calling Kettle Black
Preeti Banerjee: The Melodious Voice that first sang 'Sare Jahanse Achchha'
Preserve Radhakrishnan's Gift to the Nation
President's Message
Princess Fragrant: Will it Bridge the Gap?
Promise and Pitfalls of BRICS' $ 100 billion CRA
Promising Prospect
Putin's Visit and India-Russia Summit
Questions About New Government's Policies
Rajya Sabha seats, or Bharat Ratna, or Governorships: All Politics and Populism
Ramifications of Domestic Violence
Rape and the Politics of Hate
Rapes, Gang-rapes, Prostitution
Real News: Mangalyaan's Historic Feat
Reclaiming Nehru's Legacy
Reflections on Republic Day, 2014
Reflections on the Constitution
Reformation of Labour or Reforming the Labour Laws?
Regional Disparities, Smaller States and Statehood for Telangana
Relevance of Article 370 in the Indian Constitution
Relevance of Gandhiji's Message Today
Remembering Advocate Mukul Sinha
Remembering Bhupesh Gupta
Remembering Bhupesh Gupta on his Birth Centenary
Remembering Nehru
Remembering Nehru Today
Remembering Sunil (1960-2014), Socialist Leader and Writer
Remembering Tiananmen
Remembering Tiananmen Massacre, June 4, 1989
Remembering Yojana Bhawan
Reports of Large-scale Deaths of Students in Bapu Asaram's Schools
Republic Resilient
Republic at Crossroads: Who is at the Wheel?
Requiem for Nido
Revisiting and Contextualising Nehruvian Economic Philosophy
Revisiting Development and Social Justice Agenda
Ring Out the New
Road to Dhaka ; Bright or Ugly?
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
RSS raring for Seemalanghan (Crossing Barrier)
RSS-BJP, Sardar Patel and Mahatma Gandhi
Rubbing Salt into the Muslims' Wounds
Rule by the Majority
Rural Reconstruction and Education — Tagore's Views
Russia At Crossroads
Russia Confronts US' Containment Strategy
Russia Signs Military Pact with Pakistan
Russian Spring in Crimea
Russian Spring in Ukraine
S 301: Keeping Alive Gunboat Diplomacy
Sack him Immediately
Sacked by Rajiv, A.P. Venkateshwaran remained a Legend: Remembering a no-nonsense tradition of wit
Safe Nuclear Power — Fact And Myth
Salutations to a Dear Comrade
Santida: The Less Travelled Road
Sardar Sarovar Evictees Wait for Justice
Scrapping of Planning Commission isn't about Economics so much as BJP's Anti-Nehruvianism
Secular Forces at Crossroads
Secularism in the Valley
Self-inflicted Wounds Seldom Heal
Seven Key Economic Challenges before the New Government
Seventyfive Years of Planning in India (1938-2013)
Sex Selective Abortion: A Syncretic Feminist Approach
Shahid Bhagat Singh
Should Only Minorities Be Worried Over Narendra Modi?
Sincere Apologies for Wrong Impression
Six Questions for Narendra Modi
Slow and Steady Destruction of Togetherness
Social Activist's Plea to the PM
Socialism — What, Why, How?
Socialism in the Indian Ocean
Som Benegal Is No More
Some Thoughts on Foreign Policy of the New Government
Somnath Bharti as an Embarrassment for the Aam Aadmi Party
South Asia on Cusp of Strategic Realignment?
Speed and Quality mark the Growth of SE Asia's Infrastructure. Why are we where we are?
Spirit of August Fifteenth
Sri Lanka: A Serious Challenge for Rajapaksa
State Terrorism
Statehood for Telangana: The Current Stalemate
Stocktaking before the Fifteenth Indo-Russian Summit
Stop Election Violence, Join Wider Left Unity: Open Letter to India's Maoists
Stop Harassment of Kobad Ghandy, Give Political Prisoner Status to Anup Roy
Stop Pentavalent Vaccine Before It Is Too Late
STR and Mode of Information, Crisis in Modern Thought, Nature of Working Class
Stray Thoughts of a Human Rights Lawyer on Human Rights Day
Such a Shame!
Sufi Message of Universal Love as Reflected in Urdu Poetry
Suggestions to the Victor of General Elections - 2014
Supplying Heat to the Pressure-cooker of Life
Suspicion against Sikhs
Sustainable Energy for Sustainable Human Development : An Overview
Swami Vivekananda — A Warrior Saint
Swaraj Should Visit Jallianwala Bagh
Switching over to Hindi?
Tagore and Sikhism
Tapan Raychaudhuri (1926-2014)
Teacher's Day
Team Modi Takes Charge
Technology, Life, and Civilisation
Test of Democratic Values
The Anarchic Drift
The Avalanche and After
The Bali Battle: Lessons for the Future
The BJP's RSS Dilemma
The Burden of Inequity
The Confidentiality Clause And Fighting Black Money At Home
The Controversial Bard: U.R. Ananthamurthy
The Curse of Caste
The Difficulty of being a Hindu
The Editor's Notebook in Mainstream, June 28, 1975
The Fiscal Game 2014 - 15
The Game in Afghanistan
The Godfather {par excellence}
The Idea of India
The Idea of India again
The Idea of Partition Recedes in Shadows
The Jayalalithaa Case: A Landmark in Reform
The Left Debacle In Lok Sabha 2014: A Critical Overview
The Legacy for Tomorrow
The Long-term Goal of PADS
The Message from Kiev
The Modi Whirlwind
The Nehru Daur
The Next Five Years Or More
The Path of Revolution
The Political Economy of Change
The Politics of Alliance of States
The Real Reasons for Mahatma Gandhi's Greatness
The Shashi Tharoor Case Reminds Us Again that Politics Seriously Diminishes People
The Simulacra and Vortex of Virtual Reality: Varied Myths
The Sociology of Human Rape
The Squabble over Tickets carries a Tale: Our Politicians will go on Plundering
The Subaltern Can Speak
The Subversion of the Constitution
The Unconquerable Spirit of 1942
The Unique State of Tamil Nadu
The Uses of the Past
The Veto and Future Sketch
This is Not Just about Cheering for the 'Wrong' Cricket Team
Thoughts on Elections
Threat to Syria Averted
To be 'Modern' and 'Hindu': Mobilising Ayurveda for the Nation
To Hoodwink and Much More
To Question Or Not To Question: That Is The Question
To Sir, With Love
Too many as Primus Inter Pares
Towards a Brave New World?
Towards a New Education Policy
Towards Lok Sabha Elections 2014: Politics, Parties in West Bengal
Trading Cattle to Bangladesh
Tragedy And Conciliation
Tragedy in Donbas Sky and Ukraine Crisis
Tribal Identity and Callous Bureaucracy: Violation of Centre's Notification of 2003
Tribal Women and Customary Law: A Focus on the Santal Tribe
Tribute to Pete Seger
Tribute to Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | Panchsheel and After
Tribute to Saifuddin Choudhury
Tribute to Sunil
Tribute to V.R. Krishna Iyer
Tribute: Balraj Puri
Tribute: Janaky Thevar
Tribute: P.C. Joshi
Tribute: Remembering Bipan Chandra
Trilokpuri Riots: Police have Targeted Muslims | INTERVIEW WITH SHABNAM HASHMI
Troubled Times for the Constitutional Republic
True Independence Day Celebrations
Turning-point in Ukraine Crisis
Twelve Years after Gujarat 2002
Twenty Years After
Two Contributions by P.N. Haksar: Relevance of Gandhi-Nehru Nexus ; Fundamentalism and Secularism
Ukraine Crisis Continues
Ukraine Crisis: Humanitarian Catastrophe in Novorussia
Ukraine in Turmoil
Ukraine Poll gives Fractured Verdict
Ukraine: Threat to Europe's Energy Security
Umbrage against Activists
Unclear Nuclear Issues
Understanding Ram Pal Phenomenon
Union Budget 2014-15: A Quick Overview and Some Questions
Uniqueness of the 16th Lok Sabha Election
Unmasking the Modi Regime in US
Unscrambling the Electoral Discourse
UP By-elections are a Lesson for BJP
US shows 'Pure Evil' to Russia, is pays back
Useful, if Controversial, Book on Bhagat Singh, his Life and Times
Value of Toleration in these Intolerant Times
Varanasi Muslims see Hope in Kejriwal's Announcement
Vidya Munsi Is No More
Violence In Mewat-Tauru, A Flashpoint
Vote on Account: Neither Economically nor Politically What was Needed
Voters Realise Dangers of Communal Politics
Was Pakistan testing Modi? ISI's Foolishness subverts Collective Progress awaiting South Asia
Washington-Tehran Negotiations: Edging Out America's Business Rivals from Iran
Water and Dalit Women
We will Not Allow our Respective Faiths to be Used as Instruments of Violence
Welcome Decision, Disconcerting Incidents
Welcome Telangana!
West Asia through the Lens of US media
West Bengal after the Saradha Scam: Is it the Darkest Hour in Bengali Life?
West Bengal Scenario: Will Mamata Learn from her Mistakes?
West Bengal: Khagragarh Blast — A New Challenge for Security and Harmony
What about 2014?
What Events in Iraq Show
What Modi has Achieved in the US
What Textbooks do in Gujarat
What the Water Said
Whatever happened to Netaji?
When Iraq was Iraq
When People Aren't Equal, How Can They Be Free?
Where Are The Emile Zolas of Our Times?: On Minority Rights and State Violence
Which side are you, Mr Rajnath Singh?: An open letter to the Union Home Minister
Whither Congress?
Whither India?
Who is an Indian?
Who Wants Military for Internal Security?
Why Article 370 Should Not Be Abrogated
Why Banaras is Uncomfortable with Modi
Why Haste for Policies that can Wait? Like Hindi. Who is pushing Agendas that divide the People?
Why I Was Drawn To Him
Why Is Left Unity So Vital Today?
Why Japan Matters for India
Why We Can Never be Hindus or the Struggle against Fascism in India
Why Women Should Not Vote for Modi
Wield the Broom to Clean the Minds of the People
Will Modi, Gandhi, Kejriwal Look Up the Map and Note that Crimea is Not Too Far?
Will the Muslims become a Vote-bank for AAP?
Will the Voice of Sanity and Reason Wake Up to Take the Call against Human Bondage?
Will Ukrainian Crisis and Economic Sanctions on Russia Lead to Moscow's Political Isolation?
Women, Right to Food and Role of Panchayats
Would Kashmir's 'overwhelming desire for change' bring about a Change for the Better?
Xi Jinping Visit and Some Relevant Facts
Youth and the Struggles for Equality and Justice
Yugoslavia — What Happened To It? Can It Re-emerge? : Interview with Branislav Gosovic
News items
Corrigenda, Mainstream, 20 September 2014
Corrigendum 13 September 2014
Corrigenda 15 February 2014
Corrigendum - 25 January 2014
Corrigendum 30 November 2013
Corrigenda - 9 November 2013
Corrigendum - 26 October 2013
Events to mark Nikhil Chakravartty's birth centenary: New Delhi, November 2 and 4-5, 2013
Corrigendum - 19 October 2013
Corrigendum - 13 April 2013
Discussion on Indian Media Scenario: Potential and Reality (New Delhi, 29 Feb 2013)
P.C. Joshi Archives on Contemporary History
Corrigendum, 5 May 2012
Corrigendum - March 24, 2012
Corrigendum, 17 March 2012
Readers, Please Note . . . next issue will be the Republic Day Special (Jan. 2012)
Marking the completion of fortynine years, Annual 2011 coming
Corrigendum, 3 December 2011
Corrigendum, 3 December 2011
Corrigendum, 9 July 2011
Corrigendum - 2 July 2011
Corrigendum - 26 March 2011
Corrigenda - 29 January 2011
A Clarification - 29 January 2011
Corrigenda 27 November 2010
Corrigenda - 11 September 2010
An Apology
Readers, Please Note
Corrigenda - 30 January 2010
Notice to Readers - 26 December 2009
Corrigenda (10 October 2009)
Corrigendum (25 April 2009)
No issue of Mainstream on August 23, 2008
Mainstream now available on microfilm
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