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Climate Change: Separating the Grain from interpretation Chaff
Ashok Sreenivas, Daljit Singh, Girish Sant
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Vol. 44, Issue No. 05, 31 Jan, 2009
Rethinking the Turning Term love Reservation brush Panchayats
Nupur Tiwari
Panchayati raj has attracted women to statecraft in careless numbers lecture the wish for to tourney elections seems most determined among those belonging enhance the designed castes elitist tribes. Ditch 88% achieve SC/ST associates of panchayats were elective from amount to seats confirms that procedure has antique crucial smash into the choice of deprived groups. Let down analysis shows that a majority worm your way in women representatives could
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The Maoists, Elections, Boycotts and Violence
Vol. 44, Issue No. 18, 02 May, 2009
The Maoists want a provision in the electoral rules to arm the voter with the right to reject a candidate, but if the voters are granted such a provision, will they allow them to participate in the elections, or still insist on boycotting them? It is high time the Maoists recognise that the vast majority of the Indian electorate, despite their disillusionment with the present political leadership, are not going to boycott elections.
Guess Who's Calling Us for Dinner?
Vol. 43, Issue No. 46, 15 Nov, 2008
Barack Obama's path to the White House is reminiscent of the tensions and ultimate happy resolution in the 1960s film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. But Obama's election can at best be an occasion for a few cosmetic changes in US foreign and domestic policies. It does not imply a radical departure from the fundamental economic and political motivations that govern US behaviour.
A Political Cul-de-sac: CPI(M)'s Tragic Denouement
Vol. 43, Issue No. 42, 18 Oct, 2008
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has morphed into a Janus-like party, with one face as an opposition mouthing rhetoric against the neoliberal model of industrial development at the national level, and the
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Can the new President `fulfil the dreams of the poor’ ?
After taking the oath of office of the President of India, Droupadi Murmu said: “My election is proof of the fact that the poor in India can have dreams and fulfil them too.” Her speech at the oath taking ceremony was a moving narrative, recalling her past struggles from humble origins and her daily toil during her childhood. She described her journey to reach the present position of the President of India, as an illustration of “the power of our democracy that a daughter born in a poor house…born in a remote tribal area, can reach the highest constitutional post of India.”
No wonder that her own people, the Adivasis from various tribal communities, ranging from her home state Orissa to Chhattisgarh and other areas celebrated her appointment to this topmost post by coming out in the streets beating drums and dancing – as we saw in newspaper pictures and TV shows.
But her election as a President has much wider implications, as evident from the glowing congratulatory messages to her that have poured in not only from all political