| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Surya: The White House does Nowruz
Blog Post, March, 22 2013
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
In what has become an annual ritual the White House has issued a video greeting to the people of Iran on the occasion of Navruz. This posting argues that the time has come to dispense with this hypocritical practice.
Surya: Chattisgarh High Court turns down Dr. Binayak Sen's bail application
Blog Post, February, 16 2011
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
At every stage the reasonable and legitimate hopes and expectations of Binayak and Ilina Sen, family members, supporters and well wishers have been dashed to the ground by a vindictive state apparatus.
Surya: The Betrayal of Kashmir
Znet Article, September, 30 2010
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
Defenseless or armed only with the ammunition of the powerless, the stone-pelting Kashmiri youngsters took on the lethal weapons of India’s paramilitary forces.
Surya: After the Bhopal Verdict
Znet Article, June, 24 2010
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
The Bhopal verdict has brought about an all but overnight transformation of the political situation for the ruling Congress.
Surya: India-US Nuclear Deal Redux
Znet Article, March, 25 2010
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
The tortuous and interminable saga of the India-US civilian nuclear agreement has once again shifted to the forefront of the national political scene. As is well known to observers of the so-called India-US strategic partnership, a final determin...
Surya: Beyond Mumbai 11/26
Blog Post, April, 29 2009
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
As Taliban fighters gain ground in Pakistan and threaten Islamabad, India's civil society affirms its solidarity with the people of Pakistan.
Surya: Filling the sky with assassins
Blog Post, April, 13 2009
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
Ordinary Pakistanis are increasingly paying a deadly price as the US goes about escalating its military strikes in Pakistan and provoking a violent backlash from the Pakistani Taliban.
Surya: Nuclear Deal and the Subversion of Democracy
Znet Article, October, 21 2008
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
The India-US agreement for civilian nuclear cooperation is now a done deal. Over a period of less than three months the nuclear deal proponents, supporters and fanatics have scored an unbroken succession of victories—the trust vote in the Indian ...
Surya: Standing shoulder to shoulder with the US
Blog Post, September, 08 2008
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
Saving the day for the India-US civilian nuclear agreement at the second Plenary of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, September 4-5.
Surya: Let them eat nuclear energy
Blog Post, July, 27 2008
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
The gap between propaganda on the nuclear deal and realities on the ground in rural India
Surya: Black day for Indian Democracy
Blog Post, July, 22 2008
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
Some implications of the trust vote in Parliament July 21-22, 2008
Surya: India-US Civilian Nuclear Cooperation
Znet Article, March, 14 2008
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
Like the news equivalent of the proverbial bad penny, the India-US agreement for civilian nuclear cooperation has taken center stage in the national political discourse. Since mid-February there have been an avalanche of US statements on the impor...
Surya: Singur Revisited
Znet Article, January, 31 2008
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
Basking in the rave reviews and media adulation that accompanied the much awaited launch of the so-called people’s car, the chairman of the Tata Group Ratan Tata announced that the car is being dedicated to rural India. Presumably the unintended i...
Surya: Let the course correction begin
Znet Article, August, 07 2007
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
Ruling elites celebrate The announcement in the third week of July of a breakthrough in the last round of negotiations over the Indo-US agreement for civilian nuclear cooperation has dispelled the uncertainty that has attended the fate of the acc...
Surya: Indo-US Nuclear Agreement
Znet Article, May, 22 2007
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
Have negotiations on Indo-US civilian nuclear cooperation reached an impasse with both sides refusing to cede ground? Is the agreement that was announced with so much fanfare in July 2005 by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Bush now hea...
Surya: After the Nandigram Carnage
Znet Article, March, 25 2007
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
An ever-widening rift has opened up between the Left Parties and their adherents as a consequence of the West Bengal government's controversial land acquisition policies. On March 14, 2007, the ongoing Singur-Nandigram imbroglio took a tragic turn...
Surya: The Indo-U.S. Civilian Nuclear Agreement and the Indian Axis of Evil
Znet Article, August, 06 2006
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
For the first time since the break up of the former Soviet Union, a significant challenge is being mounted to American military and economic hegemony. Even as the U.S. seeks to maintain a stranglehold over proven and conjectured oil and natural g...
Surya: Saying Namaste to President Bush
Znet Article, February, 07 2006
Radha Surya
Surya's ZSpace page
On January 30, 2006, the results of an expansion and reshuffle of the Union Cabinet sent waves of shock through some sections of the Indian public. The Cabinet reshuffle in the nation's capital came in the wake of a week that had been rendered tu...
