Western Reporting of the Beijing Women s Conference
Conference Jawid Laiq How sensitive is the American and British 'quality' press to global women's issues? It claims to be fair, balanced and free in its reports and comments on world news events. It...
View ArticleWestern Reporting of the Beijing Women s-Conference
Conference Jawid Laiq How sensitive is the American and British 'quality' press to global women's issues? It claims to be fair, balanced and free in its reports and comments on world news events. It...
View ArticleHigh Explosive Hysteria
How do American warriors end up killing and alienating so many of the people they have ostensibly come to save? Do the answers lie in the high-tech dependence and in the psycho-social profile of the US...
View ArticleIndia's Iraq Options
The US may remain our distant friend but Iraq, Iran and the Gulf region will always remain near neighbours tied to us by geography and history. Leaving aside any moral and ideological compunctions, in...
View ArticleCommunity and Caste in Uniform
in Uniform Khaki and the Ethnic Violence in India by Omar Khalidi; Three Essays Collective, Delhi, 2003; pp xiii +126, Rs 350 (hardcover), Rs 150 (paperback).read more
View ArticleNuclear Hullabaloo: Drowning Out the Woes of the Disadvantaged
The current commotion over the Indo-US nuclear deal is globalising and, thereby, distorting the domestic political needs and priorities of the vast majority of our people.read more
View ArticleNuclear Issue as Hollow as 'India Shining'
The scatological nuclear debate - with its irrelevance for most citizens struggling to feed themselves in inflationary times - has discredited all parliamentary parties. The demeaning feud could have...
View ArticleUnsavoury Ways
In their recent pieces in EPW on the early years of Economic Weekly (EW), Deena Khatkhate (3 January 2009) and Anand Chandavarkar (10 January 2009) have referred approvingly to the practice of...
View ArticleSangam: A Site for Election Predictions
The pilgrims from every corner of the country who take a dip at the holy confluence of the Ganga and the Yamuna express their political views which are distilled by the local boatmen into a reliable...
View ArticleImmigrants: Corroding the Sovereign State's Authority?
history of the non-Russian nationalities was viewed in the Soviet era, in view of the fact that this addresses the sensitive and contentious question of valorisation of Russian nationalism vis-read more
View ArticlePakistan: Identity and Islamic Ideology
Making Sense of Pakistan by Farzana Shaikhread more
View ArticleMedia and Obama
The overwhelming majority of our media reports and comments during Barack Obama’s visit openly and repeatedly showcased the complexes and shrill emotions of our dominant elites vis-à-vis America and...
View ArticlePuncturing Switzerland's Secret Banking System
The only effective way to bring back black money is to develop a worldwide people's campaign to boycott goods and services from Switzerland and other tax havens.read more
View ArticleAn Old Publisher's Lament
The Business of Words by André Schiffrin (New Delhi:Navayana), 2011; pp 296, Rs 295.read more
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