What did Obama serve Manmohan Singh when he invited him for the great American dinner on 24th November?? AmericanChopsuey? Nobody knows why it is called American Chopsuey, but it is one of the most common recipes in the Chinese restaurants. It is basically a stir fry vegetables sautéed in sauce served over crispy noodles. And [...]
While we wholly disagree with the declaration of the Prime Minister that the CPI (Maoist) is the gravest threat to the security of the country, it is equally difficult for us to agree with the violent activities of the Maoist in the name of “revolution”. The call to boycott the recent assembly elections in areas [...]
Is science circumscribed by class interest? Does the dissemination of science suffer from the same ailment?? Many of our leading scientists and intellectuals would be aghast even for posing such obnoxious questions. Surely, science and knowledge cannot have any boundaries and least of all, class boundaries!Ofcourse, to those of us who are born in this [...]
While Jaswant Singh was rediscovering the virtues of Jinnah, the RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat was busy rediscovering the “Hindu”. During his mid-September visit to Ahmedabad, he put forward an inclusive definition of the “Hindu”. Though not very original, he said that the word “Hindu” would include all those who lived in India including members of [...]
Researching on Jinnah appears to have become a fatal obsession for the leaders of BJP. The spectre of Jinnah has claimed yet another victim, Shri Jaswant Singh, a senior leader of BJP. In 2005, Shri L.K.Advani had almost dug his own grave when he was spoke in glowing terms about Mohammad Ali Jinnah at his [...]
Thousands of liters of killer hooch, hundreds of illegal liquor dens, repeated tragedies killing hundreds, Gujarat is not yet ready to reconsider the liquor prohibition policy. Officially Gujarat is a dry state. And the official toll in the recent hooch tragedy has crossed 150 where hundreds are still struggling for life in city hospitals. It can’t be [...]
While launching “elaan”, the clarion call of the New Socialist Movement, one cannot but recall the opening lines of the “Manifesto of the Communist party” written by Marx-Engels way back in 1848: “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to [...]
Eighty years of Globalization The financial crisis of 2007–2009, began in July 2007 when a loss of confidence by investors in the value of securitized mortgages in the United States resulted in crisis of liquidity (free-flow of money/capital). The perceived credit risk in the general economy rose alarmingly in July 2007, reaching a peak [...]
Azadnagar &Gulamnagar (28 mins, 2007) Synopsis: In Bonded Labour system a worker casts her/his labour against an advance. Beyond extreme economic exploitation in the system, employer wields absolute physical and psychological control over the bonded labour sapping all humanity from the labourer. In 1976, Government of India came up with Bonded Labour System [...]
It took more than 40 years for the CPI (Maoists), the metamorphosis of CPI (ML), to prove that history does repeat but it does so as a farce. In 1967, the peasant uprising in Naxalbari had sent red jitters all over the country whereas in 2009, the red has faded out in a place [...]
