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Roy: A Letter To 'The Economist'
Znet Article, September, 10 2009
Arundhati Roy
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Dear Sir, This is with regard to the review of my book Listening to Grasshoppers that appeared in The Economist. If this letter is long, ironically it is because the factual errors in the review are so many. In an attempt to highlight my "flawed r...
Hoodbhoy: India's Nuclear Fizzle - What Should Pakistan Do?
Commentary, September, 04 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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As is well known, a thermonuclear (or hydrogen) bomb is far more complex than the relatively simple fission weapon first tested by India in 1974 and by Pakistan in 1998. Advanced weapons needs fine-tuning to achieve their full destructiveness - Fr...
Raina: Yet He Could Not Equivocate to Heaven
Znet Article, August, 31 2009
Badri Raina
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His great contribution to politics: pulling his party, the BJP, from two to some one hundred and eighty seats in parliament - all on the back of a hate-filled, anti-Muslim pogrom.
Raina: The Democracy Flu
Znet Article, August, 25 2009
Badri Raina
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Ah, how often in human history have bastions of one kind or another sought to thwart the march of the rational, always without success.
Shiva: Climate Change, Drought and India's Looming Food and Water Crisis
Commentary, August, 15 2009
Vandana2 Shiva
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Intensification of drought, floods and cyclones is one of the predictable impacts of climate change and climate instability. The failure of monsoon in India and the consequent drought, has impacted two thirds of India, especially the bread basket ...
Ali: Separated at Birth
Znet Article, August, 12 2009
Mahir Ali
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THE probable decapitation of a leading faction of the Pakistani Taliban could be considered an auspicious augury in the run-up to the nation's Independence Day on Friday, although the delay obtaining confirmation of Baitullah Mehsud's demise also ...
Shapiro: A Just Peace in Kashmir?
Znet Article, August, 07 2009
Richard Shapiro
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What are the various roles that diverse constituencies must play to facilitate political processes that undo militarization and subjugation in Indian administered Kashmir?
Chatterji: Militarization with Impunity
Znet Article, August, 07 2009
Angana Chatterji
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The events in Shopian of May-July 2009 are contextualized within a continuum of past violences and violations by the Indian military and paramilitary, and reciprocal relations between heightened militarization and social and gendered violence in I...
Raina: Judge Not the Judge, or Thou Shalt Be Judged.
Znet Article, August, 07 2009
Badri Raina
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Now I say “god, let me be born a judge in a higher court in India.â€
Mian: Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink
Znet Article, August, 06 2009
Zia Mian
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The contradictions and confusions in U.S. policy in South Asia were on full display during Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's recent visit to India. U.S. support for India, which centers on making money, selling weapons, and turning a blind eye t...
Shapiro: A Just Peace in Kashmir?
Znet Article, August, 06 2009
Richard Shapiro
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What are the various roles that diverse constituencies must play to facilitate political processes that undo militarization and subjugation in Indian administered Kashmir?
Chatterji: Violent Gods
Znet Article, July, 30 2009
Angana Chatterji
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A Book Interview on Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India's Present; Narratives from Orissa
Raina: Commemorating T.K.Ramachandran
Znet Article, July, 30 2009
Badri Raina
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Teekay, who was professor of English at Calicut university in Kerala, was more importantly one of the relentless critics of stultifying orthodoxy, including, most of all, with respect to India's Left parties and politics. Besides being erudite in...
Mishra: On India’s Union Budget
Znet Article, July, 27 2009
Girish Mishra
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Undoubtedly, the Union budget 2009-10, presented by finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, to Lok Sabha on July 6, has disappointed certain sections here and abroad that had been expecting India to go in for the Washington Consensus-based economic re...
Sainath: More migrations, new destinations
Znet Article, July, 12 2009
P. Sainath
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"This is the busiest 'labour-travel' railway station in Orissa," says R.C. Behera, smiling. He is Station Manager at Berhampur, Ganjam, from where about 7,000 passengers travel out each day on average. Around 5,500 of those are 'unreserved' travel...
Mishra: Indian Economy 2008-09
Znet Article, July, 08 2009
Girish Mishra
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A recently published study “India 2039 - an affluent society in one generation†emphasizes that India's wealth gap is sure to threaten its growth.
Raina: Bhartiya Janata Party: Searching a New Subterfuge?
Znet Article, June, 29 2009
Badri Raina
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On a TV talk-show the other day, one of the chief spokespersons of the RSS/BJP, Sheshadrachari, when pressed by the smart anchor to define “Hindutva,†conceded that the only definition available to this day was the one that had come from Sava...
Raina: Lalgarh: Poor Relations that the Left left out?
Znet Article, June, 23 2009
Badri Raina
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For some two decades now one fancy area of academic study in the Humanities has been that which is called “Postcolonial Studies.â€
Sainath: The age of the aam crorepati
Znet Article, June, 20 2009
P. Sainath
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If you are worth Rs. 50 million or more, you are 75 times more likely to win an election to the Lok Sabha than if you are worth under Rs. 1 million.
Sainath: Price of rice, price of power
Znet Article, June, 11 2009
P. Sainath
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Most governments that stressed welfarist measures — particularly cheap rice and employment — gained in last month’s elections.
