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Vol. 41 : No. 47                                             June 7-13, 2009

                       The Sky is Falling  

                       Comment: Unemployment and Misery  

                       Note: Compulsory Voting -N Divakar writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Overseas Market and Home Market -Aseem Shrivastava  

                       Gujarat Model: An Ecological Catastrophe -S Faizi  

                       'Hindutva Means Emancipation' -Ram Puniyani  

                       Reviewing Rural Economy -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       The Relevance of 'Swadeshi' -Bharat Dogra  

                       Letter  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 46                                            May 31 -June 6, 2009

                       'The Enemy'  

                       Comment: Then and Now  

                       Note: How to Reform the Reformers -Kanaga Raja writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Binayak's Unjust Imprisonment -Aseem Shrivastava  

                       Darwin: Two Hundred Years -Sisir Majumdar  

                       Orissa: Tragedy Continues -Ram Puniyani  

                       Film: The Brand's Visit -Abhijit Ghosh Dastidar  

                       Bihar: Silent Agony of Retistan -Sankar Ray  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 45                                            May 24-30, 2009

                       Old Guards Attack  

                       Comment: Anglo-Mohameddan Law  

                       Note: J C Bose's Annus Mirabilis -Ashish Lahiri writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       India-EU Free Trade: Opening up Banking Sector? -Kavaljit Singh  

                       Infinite War to Infinite Crisis -Atilio Boron  

                       Afghanistan: Obama's Quick Exit Plan -Apratim Mukarji  

                       Review When Technology Fails -Carolyn Baker  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 44                                            May 17-23, 2009

                       Ending the Isolation  

                       Comment: Another Mandela?  

                       Note: Plight of Weavers -Bharat Dogra writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Brewing Woes: Tea Crisis in the Nilgiris -T G Jacob  

                       Back from 'Salwa Judum' Land -Subhranshu Choudhary  

                       Message to the Future -Peter Chamberlin  

                       Lalgarh Revolts  

                       Genocide 1984: Long Search for Culprits -Shamsul Islam  

                       FoE Report: 'No' to GM Products -Brett Cherry  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 43                                            May 10-16, 2009

                       Rainbow Coalition  

                       Comment: Swiss Bank Fiasco  

                       Note: Third Front -A Brake? -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       'Growth' and Black Money -T G Jacob  

                       'Politics and Ethics' -Fidel Castro Ruz  

                       Why is Binayak Sen in Prison? -Jhuma Sen  

                       Jal-Jamin-Jangal: Displaced Forever -Dayamani Barla  

                       Why 'Hate Speech'? -Ram Puniyani  

                       Letter  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 42                                            May 3-9, 2009

                       Queer Radicalism  

                       Comment: The Himalayan Blunder  

                       Note: Mine Ban Treaty -BD writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       The Great Depression -RUPE  

                       The Nayachar Nightmare -Subrata Sinha  

                       Weaving Woes -Bharat Dogra  

                       The Front Lines of Crisis -Stephen Lendman  

                       The 'Buy-American' Clause -Martin Khor  

                       Letters  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 41                                            April 26-May 2, 2009

                       Nothing But Time  

                       Comment: Closed Door  

                       Note: Of Water Shortage and Climate Change -MM writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       On The Idea of India -Ranjit Sau  

                       Cuba: 50 Years Since That Victorious January -Nidia Diaz  

                       Pakistan: Taliban Returns -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri  

                       France: Revolting Students -Michael Galvin  

                       Package, Expenditure, Income -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Liberalism and Extremism -Asghar Ali Engineer  

                       Letter  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 40                                            April 19-25, 2009

                       Islamabad's War?  

                       Comment: 'Knowing What's Real..'  

                       Note: Agenda for the Voter -BJ writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Identity Crisis: Religion in Asia -Chandra Muzaffar  

                       Pakistan: Towards Theocratic Fiefdoms? -Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy  

                       Letters  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 39                                            April 12-18, 2009

                       Water Woes  

                       Comment: Retail in Trouble  

                       Note: How to Break Recession -BJ writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       A Ballad of American Capitalism -Ranjit Sau  

                       The 'Dead' Story -Subhas Ghatade  

                       "Buy America" -Xinhua  

                       Forget About Medical Ethics -Prabir Chatterjee  

                       Morichjhanpi Revisited -Garga Chatterjee  

                       Slumdog Millionaire -Pamela Philipose  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 38                                            April 5-11, 2009

                       Ideas are Timid  

                       Comment: Assessing Damage, Urging Action  

                       Note: Old Wine in New Bottle -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Tribal Rebellion: From Muthanga to Mananthawady -J G Jacob  

                       Revolution has a Destiny  

                       Pakistan: Juliets are Speaking Up -Beena Sarwar-  

                       Bolivarianism Triumps -Stephen Lendman  

                       The Narmada Myths -Peter Bosshard  

                       Letter  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 37                                            March 29 -April 4, 2009

                       The Third Theatre  

                       Comment: Cuba Turns 50  

                       Note: India and Obama -B J writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       India the Dar al-Aman -Ranjit Sau  

                       Global Depression and Indian Left -S R  

                       It's Not Democracy -Michael Parenti  

                       Holocaust in Gaza -Rohini Hensman  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 36                                            March 22-28, 2009

                       The Minority Factor  

                       Comment: Groping in the Dark  

                       Note: How to Break the Grand Alliance -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Reservation: Viva 'Academic Untouchability?' -Subhas Ghatade  

                       From Ayurveda to Ayush to Western Medicine -Debabar Banerjee  

                       UN Forecast: The Outlook for 2009 -Kanaga Raja  

                       Exercise in Escapism?: Right to Education Bill -Ravi Kumar  

                       Climate Change and Inequalities -Bharat Dogra  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 35                                            March 15-21, 2009

                       How To Tame Tigers  

                       Comment: Talibanising Pakistan's Paradise  

                       Note: From Salkia to Rajasthan -Sankar Ray writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Of Round and Doha -John Madeley  

                       Nature as Accumulation Strategy - Neil Smith  

                       Bolivia: The Curses of Power -Stephen Lendman  

                       Bangladesh: Battling Climate Change  

                       Bouquets, Boots and Bush -Ram Puniyani  

                       Review: Divine Environmentalist -M R Rajagopalan  

                       China Today: Out in the Cold -Zhang Zhiping  

                       Letters  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 34                                            March 8-14, 2009

                       Counting Days and Heads  

                       Comment: The Eyeless in Gaza  

                       Note: The Peace Mission -Imtiaz Alam writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       An Ode to Lalgarh -Ranjit Sau  

                       Fact Sheet: Israel and World Terrorism -Shamsul Islam  

                       Karnataka: No "Accidental Terrorists" -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Environment in Jeopardy -Fidel Castro Ruz  

                       Letters  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 33                                            March 1-7, 2009

                       Back to 'Basics'  

                       Comment: No Security for Labour  

                       Note: World Bank 'Serves' -Bharti Patel writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Gujarat Today: Lies, Half-Truth And Illusions -Cederic Prakash  

                       Afghanistan: America's War for Empire -Larry Everest  

                       Ajay Ghosh: A Forgotten Communist -Sankar Ray  

                       Theatre: Aache Aache Sthan -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Emerging New Economy -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 32                                            February 22-28, 2009

                       'Liberating Mao...'  

                       Comment: Police State  

                       Note: The Saffron March -Divakar N writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Growthless Capitalism -Ranjit Sau  

                       Sri Lanka-I: It is Genocide -S Kumaran & K Ratnayake  

                       Sri Lanka-II: Continuing Civil War -Ram Manikkalingam  

                       Lalgarh -People's Power -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri  

                       Letters  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 31                                            February 15-21, 2009

                       "Now The Dead Live"  

                       Comment: China Lantern  

                       Note: Of Geography and Demography -MQ writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Reading Ngugi -Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak  

                       America Under Obama -Peter Custers  

                       Socialism is No Longer a Dirty Word -Andre Schiffrin  

                       Caste and Indian Muslims -Ayub Khan  

                       Talking Braille -Supriya Kumar  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 30                                            February 8-14, 2009

                       Hard Times  

                       Comment: Deal and Depression  

                       Note: The Shoe Drama -Ramzy Baraoud writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Beyond the Imagination of Marx -Farooque Chowdhury  

                       Global Recession and China -Mike Head  

                       The Fiscal Package -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Palestine: Continuing Conflict -Thalif Deen  

                       Terror and Injustice -Xavier Dias  

                       Letter to Prime Minister  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 29                                            February 1-7, 2009

                       Why Left Fails  

                       Comment: Cold War Returns  

                       Note: Terror and Economy-Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap-AGD  

                       Fighting Fascism -Yoginder Sikand  

                       Afganistan-1: Who are the Taliban? -Anand Gopal  

                       Afganisthan-II: The Vietnam Syndrome? -By a Correspondent  

                       Inequality and Violence -SAR  

                       Letter  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 28                                            January 25-31, 2009

                       Better Late...  

                       Comment: Protectionism, Not Free Trade  

                       Note: Rescuing The Rich -MWH & PS writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Myth and Reality: The Black Hole Revisited -Subhendu Sarkar  

                       Pakistan: Fascism in Action -Amal Rana  

                       Mumbai Tragedy: Beyond the Shock -A M Jamsheed Bahsa  

                       Looking Back: Cuban Missile Crisis -Yeniz Silva Correa  

                       Commodifying Dustbin -Martin O'Brien  

                       The Alternative Path -Anirban Biswas  

                       Film: Welcome to Sajjanpur -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 27                                            January 18-24, 2009

                       'The People's Choice'  

                       Comment: 'Acts of Terror'  

                       Note: The Empire is Crumbling -Martin Khor writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Nationalism, Sub-Nationalism and Regional Chauvinism -T G Jacob  

                       Globalization -An Anti-Text -Anirban Biswas  

                       'State, Tribal, Naxals': Whose Democracy is This? -Sunil Kumar  

                       'Save the Planet...'  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 26                                           January 11-17, 2009

                       Addiction Politics  

                       Comment: Tolerating Terrorism  

                       Note: Karl Marx Returns -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Military Keynesianism -Peter Custers  

                       Venezuela: The Meaning of PSUV Victory -James Petras  

                       The Bursting of the Bubble -Deisy Francis Mexidor  

                       'The Idea of India'  

                       Climate Change and Food Crisis -Sven Harmeling  

                       Letter  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 25                                           January 4-10, 2009

                       Crisis of Troubled Age  

                       Comment: Health for All?  

                       Note: Of MCOCA and Malegaon -Mubasshir Mushtaq writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Sri Lanka: Conquering Tamil Tigers -Ravi Prasad  

                       Remembering Che -Hector Arturo  

                       Mumbai Under Sieze: The Never-Ending Conflict -Yoginder Sikand  

                       Saffron Terrorism: Dangerous Liaison -Pavan Nair  

                       Of Meltdown and Opportunity -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Letters  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 24                                           December 28, 2008 -January 3, 2009

                       At A Crossroads  

                       Comment: 'Nano' in Gujarat  

                       Note: World is Hungry -Michael Fleshman writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       The Economic Plague: Recession -Global and Indian -Anirban Biswas  

                       Mass Uprising in Tribal Bengal -Partho Sarathi Ray  

                       Saudi Arabia: Its Political Tactics -Robi Chakravorti  

                       World Peace: The Merchants of Death -Bill Quigley  

                       Letters  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 23                                                             December 21-27, 2008

                       Everything Is On Fire  

                       Comment: 'Bail Out' and 'Sell Out'  

                       Note: Affecting the Real 'Economy' -Martin Khor writes  

                       News Wrap :AGD  

                       'Chuar' Rebellion Revisited: Revolt in Jangal Mahal -Santosh Rana  

                       Terror in the Name of God -Yoginder Sikand  

                       Peace for War: Sabres Rattle Again -Beena Sarwar  

                       Religion and Fascism: Agnivesh on Hindutva  

                       Radio News: Present and Future -Bibekananda Ray  

                       Social Justice and Human Rights -Kanaga Raja  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 22                                                             December 14-20, 2008

                       Racing Against Time?  

                       Comment: Asian Century?  

                       Note: An Open Letter to Mr Tata -Sandip Bandyopadhyay  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       New Economic Limbo: Crisis and Solution -Anirban Biswas  

                       Letter from America: Financial Hurricane -Raymond Lotta  

                       Meltdown -Europian Response -Kavaljit Singh  

                       Climate Change: World Bank -The Culprit -Riaz K Tayob  

                       India, China and 'Great Depression' -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Asian and Arab Film Festival -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 21                                                             December 7-13, 2008

                       Crumbling Old Order  

                       Comment: 'Hul' Again?  

                       Note: Income Poverty & Undernutrition -David Mephan  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Global Economic Mayem -T G Jacob  

                       'One Straw Revolution' -M R Rajagpalan  

                       The Disappearance Syndrome -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Tata-Bengal Pact  

                       Biodiversity: Missing the 2010 Target -Ashish Kothari  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 20                                                             November 30 -December 6, 2008

                       Dangerous Distraction  

                       Comment: Right To (Dis)Information  

                       Note: American Crisis And India -BJ Writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Making Biological Time-Bombs  -Rashme Sehgal  

                       Where Will The Money Come From? -Devinder Sharma  

                       Jharkhand: The Circle of Violence  

                       Of Tribals and Salwa Judum -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Globalization and Identity Politics -Himanshu Roy  

                       Pakistan: Reverse Swing -Martin Khor  

                       TB and IMF -Robert Weissman  

                       Letters  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 19                                                             November 23-29, 2008

                       After the Euphoria  

                       Comment: Away with Mao  

                       Note: 'IKS is No More' -Shamsul Islam  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       A Response to Frigga Haug's Call.. -Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak  

                       They are 'Dreaded Terrorists' -Subhas Ghatade  

                       End of Globalization? -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Bt Brinjal: Poison in Stomach -Davinder Sharma  

                       Global Turmoil and Asian Economies -Martin Khor  

                       Letter  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 18                                                             November 16-22, 2008

                       An Exercise In Escapism  

                       Comment: State of Alarm  

                       Note: Rupee Declines -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Maoist Capitalism: Class Struggle in China -Christian Parenti  

                       Jammu, Temples, Dargahs -Yoginder Sikand  

                       Karnataka: Another Gujarat in the Making -N Divakar  

                       Orissa: 'Encounter' Stories -Biswapriya Kanungo  

                       Letters  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 17                                                             November 9-15, 2008

                       One War, Many Fronts  

                       Comment: Living with Floods  

                       Note: The Balancesheet -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Rights and Wrongs: "Crimes Against Humanity"  

                       American Military Bases: Where the Sun Never Sets -Tom Engelhardt  

                       Living Simply -Meenakshi Raman  

                       Victims of 'War on Terror' -Yoginder Sikand  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 16                                                             November 2-8, 2008

                       Land of Trouble  

                       Comment: Of Energy and Security  

                       Note: Mining Means Displacement  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Environment and Food Crisis -Farooqe Chowdhury  

                       Stock Exchange and Colonisation -R Mukherji  

                      Torture Techniques: Blame it on Communists -Li Onesto  

                       Film: The Last Lear -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Letters  

    

Vol. 41 : No. 15                                                             October 26 -November 1, 2008

                       Defining Deal  

                       Comment: Conversion and Re-conversion  

                       Note: Award for the Babus? -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Shifts in the World Economy -Raymond Lotta  

                       Maoists Against Saffron Fascists? -Sumanta Banerjee  

                       Prosecuting Minorities  

                       Amarnath: Manufacturing Crisis  

                       Letters  

 

Autumn Number

Vol. 41 : No. 11-14                                                             September 28 -October 25, 2008

                       Maoism in Crisis  

                       Show Business in Politics -Robi Chakravorti  

                       Misplaced Targets -Manas Joardar  

                       Industrialization Debate: Searching for Anthropological Roots -Abhijit Guha  

                       Remembering D D Kosambi -Ramkrishna Bhattacharya  

                       Indian Left -Trapped in Epistemological Conundrums -T G Jacob  

                       National and Ethnic Question in the Present Era -Pranjali Bandhu  

                       Communism and Democracy: A Revisionist Agenda -Sujit K Das  

                       The Language Labyrinth -Sandip Bandyopadhyay  

                       Violence in Contemporary India -Himangshu Roy  

                       Secular Democracy, Socialism and Maulana Bhashani -Peter Custers  

                       There is an Alternative -Anirban Biswas  

                       Towards A Fossil Fuel Free Society -T Vijayendra  

                       Making of the Development (of India): A Random Note -Subhendu Dasgupta  

                       Development By the People, For the People -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri  

                       IFFI 2007 -Non-Feature Films -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Independent Unions: Challenging Traditional Unions? -Ismail Chaudhury  

                       Micro Credit: A Great Fraud -Madhusudan Pal  

                       Economic Crisis & Market Turbulence - S A Shah  

 

Vol. 41 : No. 10                                                        September 21-27, 2008

                       TheWorld After Singur  

                       Comment: It's Food Colonialism  

                       Note: All that Glitters...  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Kashmir-I: Religion and Politics -Yoginder Sikand  

                       Kashmir-II: Hypocracy Doesn't Pay -Shabir Choudhury  

                       Kerala: Chengara -Another Nandigram? -M J Vijayan, Bijulal  

                       Orissa: Danger of Terror -Nikunj Bhutia  

                       Food Insecurity -the Roots -Kanaga Raja  

                       Film: Naalu Pennungal -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 41 : No. 9                                                        September 14-20, 2008

                       How Not to Face Reality  

                       Comment: In Search of a 'Line'  

                       Note: 'No' to Nano -Sabuj Mukherjee writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Of Peak Oil and Urban Initiatives -T Vijayendra  

                       Left's Nuclear Moment -P K Sundaram  

                       Film: Gardens in Autumn -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 41 : No. 8                                                        September 7-13, 2008

                       Ending Hibernation  

                       Comment: Opting for the Impossible?  

                       Note: Inflation and Investment -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       NAPM Report: There is an Alternative  

                       "DOHA" is Dead -Devinder Sharma  

                       Democracy Unites -Asghar Ali Engineer  

                       Trajectory of Srikrishna Report -Ram Puniyani  

                       One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -Kanaga Raja  

 

Vol. 41 : No. 7                                                        August 31-Sep 6, 2008

                       Beyond 'Amarnath'  

                       Comment: Atom Not for Peace  

                       Note: WTO -Next Round? -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Global Trade Talks Collapse -Bill an Auken  

                       Vegetarianism and Communalism -T Vijayendra  

                       Mobilising Muslims: The Aman Story -Yoginder Sikand  

                       Film: The Court -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Another Food Summit -Martin Khor  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 41 : No. 6                                                        August 24-30, 2008

                       Panic in the 'Red' Camp  

                       Comment: Security, India, Israel...  

                       Note: Of Basel and Waste -Hira Jhamtani & Lutfiyah Hanim writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Which Way Venezuela? -Michael Albert  

                       The World of Inequality -Joseph E Stiglitz  

                       How Not to Combat Terrorism -Asghar Ali Engineer  

                       Of Agriculture and Change -Martin Khor  

                       Film: Khela -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

 

Vol. 41 : No. 5                                                        August 17-23, 2008

                      

                       'In Defence of the Unfinished Agenda'  

                       Comment: Food for Movement  

                       Note: Buy One, Get One Free -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Blasts and the State Terror -I K Shukla  

                       Land: Conflicts and Reforms -Sunil  

                       War is Terrorism -Howard Zinn  

                       Film: End of the Word -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Democracy, Parochialism and Peace -Asghar Ali Engineer  

                       Orissa: State for Corporate World -Debranjan  

 

Vol. 41 : No. 4                                                        August 10-16, 2008

                       'Welcome to Democracy Now'  

                       Comment: Vanishing Public Health-Care  

                       Note: Sweet Words for the Poor -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Post 9-11 World: Perils and Alternatives  

                       The Rise of Christian Fundamentalism -Yoginder Sikand  

                       Back From the Graveyard  

                       Human Rights: MASUM Under Attack  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 41 : No. 3                                                        August 3-9, 2008

                       When the Spirit is Lacking  

                       Comment: Inflation Unlimited  

                       Note: Poor Psephology -Himangshu Roy writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       World War III: Target Iran -Yoginder Sikand  

                       Of Benaras and Starving Weavers -Bharat Dogra  

                       "Market Beyond Control" -Farooque Chowdhury  

                       Big Business is the Problem -Robert Weissman  

 

Vol. 41 : No. 2                                                        July 27-August 2, 2008

                       Putting a 'Good' Face  

                       Comment: Remembering "Bhopal"  

                       Note: Oil Trap -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       University Education in Knowledge Society -Himangshu Roy  

                       Hindu Terrorism: Kathmandu, Thane, Vashi... -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Theatre: Naraker Darja -Abhijit Ghosh Dastidar  

                       Discussing Democracy in Islamabad -Yoginder Sikand  

                       Oil: The Tipping Point -Martin Khor  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 41 : No. 1                                                        July 20-26, 2008

                       It's All About Corporation  

                       Comment: Inflation -Uphoria Deferred  

                       Note: An Olympic-Size Farce -Shibayan Raha writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Great Hunger 2008 -Farooque Chowdhury  

                       When Writing Is Crime -Subhas Ghatade  

                       A Vote Against Marxists -A B  

                       IFFI 2007: Indian Panorama -Abhijit Ghosh Dastidar  

                       Karnataka: BJP Victory in Perspective -P Menon & V Sridhar  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 52                                                       July 13-19, 2008

                       Voices From Rationalists  

                       Comment: No Basic Difference  

                       Note: FAO is Worried -BJ writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Bhopal: Endless Wait For Justice! -Subhas Ghatade  

                       The Obama Factor: Protectionism Returns -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       World Bank Report: How To Killl The Poor -Bharat Dogra  

                       Vulnerable Jobs For Women -Kanaga Raja  

                       Film: A Social Genocide -Abhijit Ghosh Dastidar  

                       Food Prices Soar -Martin Khor  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 51                                                       July 6-12, 2008

                       'The Rain Before It Falls'  

                       Comment: 'Peak Everything...'  

                       Note: RSS And Social Harmony? I K Shukla writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Development & Deprivation: India And Bharat -K S Jacob  

                       Rising Empire: The New Axis-Power -J S  

                       The Other Ayodhya: Mutts of Crime -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Politics and Islam -Yoginder Sikand  

                       Curse of Dams: Taming Nature is Counterproductive -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Hungry Bundelkhand: Surviving on Grass -Bharat Dogra  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 50                                                       June 29-July 5, 2008

                       How to Tame the Situation  

                       Comment: From Palestine To Maynamar  

                       Note: Left To Die -PC writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Gujjar of Rajasthan: Battle For The Tribal Identity -Javaid Rahi  

                       Beyond Panchayat Poles: After the Euphoria -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri  

                       Whither Nepal? :Of April Revolution and Political Impasse -Harsh Dobhal  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 49                                                       June 22-28, 2008

                       'Emergency' Again  

                       Comment: It's Simple Economics  

                       Note: Unorganised Still -Bharat Dogra writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Flouride Toxicosis: Nassipur -Where Ghosts Rule -M N Majumder  

                       Carbon Trading -A Neo-Colonial Mechanism -Kevin Smith  

                       Of Prize and Prison -P Zachariah  

                       Letter From America: The Great Depression -David Usborne  

                       Sensex: Business As Usual -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Food Crisis: Hungry World -Lalkar  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 48                                                       June 15-21, 2008

                       It's the Bloody Politics  

                       Comment: Continuing Civil War  

                       Note: Wooing the Poor -BJ writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Tibet: Past and Present -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri  

                       Who is Afraid of Global Warming -T Vijayendra  

                       Food Crisis: Free Trade Means Hunger -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       More on Dr Sen: The Chargesheet -Anjali Puri  

                       Doha Talks: Round and Round -Martin Khor  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 47                                                       June 8-14, 2008

                       Politics of Conversion  

                       Comment: Verdict on Land  

                       Note: One Year in Prison  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Agrarian Catastrophe -RUPE  

                       Financial Meltdown and Western Hypocracy -Martin Khor  

                       Threat to Food Security -Bharat Dogra  

                       World Water Crisis -Thalif Deen  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 46                                                       June 1-7, 2008

                       Summer Ordeal  

                       Comment: No Free Trade  

                       Note: The Vicious Circle -B J writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Tibet Redefined: A Mandate Against Mandarins -Pranjali Bandhu  

                       Whither Nepali Maoists? -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Orissa: Posco Wins, People Lose -Sanat Mohanty & Sandip Dasverma  

                       Turning Yellow -Daphne Wysham & Shakuntala Makhijani  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 45                                                       May 25-31, 2008

                       Food for Thought  

                       Comment: Dr Sen and Rights Award  

                       Note: Caste Feuds -Bharat Dogra writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Civil Liberties: Dirty Tricks -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Swayamsevak's Story -Ram Puniyani  

                       Havana Diary -Fidel Castro  

                       Financial Tsunami? -Martin Khor  

                       Of Misconception and Panic -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 44                                                       May 18-24, 2008

                       All in the Business  

                       Comment: Lured into Bondage  

                       Note: The Olympic Torch -Andy McSmith writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Of Society and Technology -Sanat Mohanty  

                       Sethi and his 'Jaipur Foot' -M R Rajagopalan  

                       'Celebrating Molesters?' -Anjali Sinha & Subhas Ghatade  

                       Film: IFFI 2007 -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       The Modi Model -Bharat Dogra  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 43                                                       May 11-17, 2008

                       Following the Rituals  

                       Comment: Political Prisoners  

                       Note: Urban Growth -Bharat Dogra writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       The Tibet Question-I: Revolution Revisited -Jamiang Norbu  

                       The Tibet Question-II: China Sees Red -Dimple  

                       Kerala: The Rise of Saffronshirts -Sumanta Banerjee  

                       Review: Hootum in Translation -Subhendu Sarkar  

                       Of Religion and Conversion -asgar Ali Engineer  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 42                                                       May 4-10, 2008

                       A Kingdom to Win  

                       Comment: Solitary Confinement  

                       Note: Bird Flu -Bharat Dogra writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Whither Dravidian Movement? -T G Jacob  

                       Foods of Deception -Stephen Lendman  

                       Terrorism: The Blame Game -Syed Qasim Rasul Ilyas  

                       Of Labour and Laws -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Apartheid Or Annapolis -Susan Abulhawa  

                       Film: Kolkata Film Festival -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 41                                                       April 27-May 3, 2008

                       A Long Way from the Reality  

                       Comment: The Myth of 'AID'  

                       Note: Of Reward and Corruption -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Quo Vadis Bengal -Bibekanda Ray  

                       Back from Barak -Waliullah Ahmed Laskar  

                       Terrorism's Tenkasi Moment -Subhas Ghatade  

                       The Path to Climate Change -Joseph Mendelson  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 40                                                       April 20-26, 2008

                       Challenging Empire  

                       Comment: Fascism with Regional Face  

                       Note: Declining Dollar -PCR writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Beyond Budget: Betting on Populism -Nirmalya Biswas  

                       Global Warming: The Sunderbans -First to Disappear -Dan MacDougall  

                       Andhra Pradesh: Yet Another Encounter -S Mohan Ram  

                       Film: Hochheta Ki -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Review: Searching for Roots -Sandip Bandyopadhyay  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 39                                                       April 13-19, 2008

                       'The Evil Empire'  

                       Comment: 'No' To N-Power  

                       Note: 'Prisoner of Conscience' -Rajendra K Sail writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Science And Marxism -S N Nagarajan  

                       Tibet: Turmoil in Tibet -Tshering Chonzom  

                       China: Brutal Olympic Echo -Dave Zirin  

                       Rejoinder: 'The Telengana Question' -Mallikarjuna Sharma  

                       Demographic Dividend: The Glass-Cutters of Azamgarh -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 38                                                       April 6-12, 2008

                       A Moment of Truth  

                       Comment: Crippling Education  

                       Note: Mission to Lhasa -Tenzin Tsudue  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       The Batle for Water -Maude Barlow  

                       Holes in Budget -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Pakistan: Balochistan's Prisoner of Conscience -Sanaulla Baloch  

                       Ploughed into Despair -Raj Patel  

                       Ignoramuses of the Hindutva Brigade- Subhas Ghatade  

                       America's Blinders -Howard Zinn  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 37                                                       March 30-April 5, 2008

                       Polls and Palliatives  

                       Comment: Yet Another Marxist Hypocricy  

                       Note: World Bank, IMF, Recesion -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       'Save Girl Child' -Gujarat Style -Rajesh Ramakrishnan  

                       Women in Zapatista Movement -Hilary Klein  

                       Reflections by Fidel Castro  

                       Predatory Growth: India China -Amit Bhaduri  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 36                                                       March 23-29, 2008

                       The Rise of Obscurantism  

                       Comment: Talks of Employment  

                       Note: Of Power and Folly -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       The Peasant Question Revisited -R Mukherji  

                       Goa: How the SEZ Battle Was Won -Rifat Mumtaz & Madumanti Sardar  

                       Socialism is No Historic Blunder -V R Krishna Iyer  

                       The Dollar Empire -Fidel Castro Ruz  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 35                                                       March 16-22, 2008

                       Rhetoric and Reality  

                       Comment: More on Budget 2008-09  

                       Note: The Railway Budget 08-09 -AB writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Whither 'Chavez Socialism'? -Raymond Lotta  

                       Creating 'Terrorists' -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Remembering Niyogi -Bapu P Ramesh  

                       'Modi --the Warlord' -I K Shukla  

                       Restoring Films -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 34                                                       March 9-15, 2008

                       The Castro Effect  

                       Comment: Who is the Left?  

                       Note: Nothing for Common Man -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Death Toll in Nandigram -Sandip Bandyopadhyay  

                       Growth of Wasteland -Amit Bhaduri  

                       Pakistan's Plight -Tariq Ali  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 33                                                       March 2-8, 2008

                       The Telengana Question  

                       Comment: Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Bgram...  

                       Note: The Decline of America -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Politics of Poverty -SR  

                       World is Changing -Fidel Castro Ruz  

                       Report: Caste and Religion  

                       Nandigram -A Bird's Eye View -Sumit Sinha  

                       Film: Still Life -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 32                                                       February 24-March 1, 2008

                       Third Front or Third Rail?  

                       Comment: Lies About Nukes  

                       Note: Centralisation and Pauperisation -R Mukherji writes  

                       News Wrap-AGD  

                       Noregian Medicine For Vedanta -Kavaljit Singh  

                       'Where is Nandigram Going?' -Bibekananda ray  

                       American Crisis and India -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Nano - A Nightmare -Praful Bidwai  

                       Climate Change: A "Synthesis Report" -Martin Khor  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 31                                                       February 17-23, 2008

                       'Politics of Difference'  

                       Comment: Gaza -the Hell  

                       Note: Congress and Communalism -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Bhagat Singh And His Ideology -S S Mahil  

                       Review: Beyond the Veil -Laila Lalami  

                       Theatre: Gaganendra -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 30                                                       February 10-16, 2008

                       Group of Six  

                       Comment: Trapping Peasants  

                       Note: And Now "Nano" -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Agriculture And Small Farm Dynamics -R Mukherji  

                       Karnatak: Death of Two Farmers -N. Divakar  

                       Film: 'RAAMI' -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Arsenals Folly -Jonathan Schell  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 29                                                       February 3-9, 2008

                       Getting Away With Illusion  

                       Comment: 'Second Green Revolution'  

                       Note: Is Bio-Fuel Anti-People? -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Work For Everyone and Amartya Sen -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri  

                       How to Rob the Poor and Pay the Rich -M R Rajagopalan  

                       Live From Ayodhya -Nigar Ataulla  

                       Jail for a Poster -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Gujarat: Of Development and Religion -Ashgar Ali Engineer  

                       Film: Asian And Arab Cinema -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       People's Architect  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 28                                                       Januray 27-February 2, 2008

                       Playing with Signboards  

                       Comment: The Rupee Backlash  

                       Note: Remembering 'Development' Victims -Bhagaban Majhi writes  

                       News Wrap- AGD  

                       Of Industrialisation and Development -AB  

                       A Tale of Two Reports -Ram Puniyani  

                       Climate Change: What is Progress? -GeorgeMonbiot  

                       Film: The Caiman -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       The Socialism Without Bureaucracy -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 27                                                       Januray 20-26, 2008

                       Curbing Maoism  

                       Comment: Importing Insecurity  

                       Note: Taslima, Bigot and Vote -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Tibet: Myth and Reality -Dimple and Jogin  

                       Gujarat: Erosion of Democratic Norms -Ram Puniyani  

                       Education Disaster and Social Disorder -M. N. Majumder  

                       Revisiting Singapore -Bibekananda Ray  

                       Building a Revolutionary Party - Lalkar  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 26                                                       Januray 13-19, 2008

                       Congress, BJP and Communalism  

                       Comment: An Assassination  

                       Note: Reclassifying Expenditures -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Patnaik and his Detractors -Dilip Simeon  

                       Patnaik is an Honourable Man -Aditya Nigam  

                       Film: Marie Antaoinette -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Of Amartya Sen and Growth Fetish -Aseem Srivastava & Bilash Rai  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 25                                                       Januray 6-12, 2008

                       Pakistan For Military  

                       Comment: Bali and After  

                       Note: The Meaning of IPCC's Nobel Prize -BJ writes  

                       'Mao: The Unknown Story' -Raymond Lotta  

                       Of Bush and Economic Nightmare -Joseph E Stiglitz  

                       Gujarat: Modi The Mandrake -I K Shukla  

                       Bihar: Beyond the Narrow Visions -Dipankar Bhattacharya  

                       Theatre: Chokh Gyalo -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Down Memory Line -S M Rao  

                       McKinsey, Bureaucracy and Efficiency -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 24                                                       December 30, 2007- Januray 5, 2008

                       Fighting The Power  

                       Comment: Foisted on Pakistan  

                       Note: Devil and Deep Sea -B J writes  

                       New Ideas And Rich Content -Anirban Biswas  

                       Jobs for Asians -Kanga Raja  

                       Nandigram-I: 'Crime & Punishment' -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri  

                       Nandigram-II: 'Enough is Enough'  

                       Theatre: Nana Ranger Din -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Modi, WEF And Davos -Hari Sharma  

                       Of Tribals and Forests -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Gujrat: Plight of POTA Victims -By a Correspondent  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 23                                                       December 23-29, 2007

                       Rights And Wrongs  

                       Comment: Nandigram And Dantewada  

                       Note: Money Talks -Divakar N writes  

                       Nandigram: Contempt For Democracy -Satya Sagar  

                       Report: Of Hell And Salwa Judum  

                       'India After Gandhi' -Bashrat Peer  

                       Back From Gujrat -Yoginder Sikand  

                       Of UN And Indigenous Peoples -Martin Khor  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 22                                                       December 16-22, 2007

                       Peace Without Justice?  

                       Comment: Humanity Is At Risk  

                       Note: Bleeding Nandigram -Sandip Bandyopadhyay writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       SEZ: Profit At Any Cost -C. R. Bijoy  

                       How To Cut Emission -Martin Khor  

                       The Chomsky Letter -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri  

                       Damage Control? -Anil Sadgopal adds  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 21                                                       December 9-15, 2007

                       Yet Another Regime Change?  

                       Comment: Confronting the 'Red' Fascists  

                       Note: War with Iran? -Simor Walters  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Money And Market -Suchibrata Sen  

                       Of Dalits And Liberation Theology  

                       Pakistan: Back to the Past? -Mirza Beg  

                       The Tarrif War -Martin Khor  

                       Derailing A Deal -Noam Chomsky  

                       Ingmer Bergman -Bibekananda Ray  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 20                                                       December 2-8, 2007

                       Yet Another War?  

                       Comment: The Forgotten Casualties  

                       Note: Problems of Plenty? -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Western Marxism & the Legacy of the New Left Movement -Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak  

                       Lies, Death & Aggression -Fidel Castro Ruz  

                       Wanted: Coffins And Firewood -T G Jacob  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 19                                                       November 25-December 1, 2007

                       How To Make A Difference  

                       Comment: Ram And Hanuman  

                       Note: 'Iron Heels' -I K Shukla  

                       How the Argumentative India Failed -Abhijit Guha  

                       The State, Capitalism And (Re)Building Communities -T Vijayendra  

                       Film: Cinema Chronicles Events -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Hazards of GMOs -Bharat Dogra  

                       Hungry Bundelkhand -B D  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 18                                                       November 18-24, 2007

                       Dialogue with the Deaf  

                       Comment: Student Power  

                       Note: Curbing Freedom of Speech -Arvind Kejriwal  

                       Chemical Hub: Timetable for Catstrophe-II -M N Majumder  

                       In Search of A Land Policy -Bharat Dogra  

                       615 RTI Applications -VG  

                       Attack on Taslima Nasreen-Firoz Bakht Ahmed  

                       Contaminated without Consent  

                       The Need of the Hour -Sisir K Majumdar  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 17                                                       November 11-17, 2007

                       How to Define Indentity  

                       Comment: Terror And Terrorists  

                       Note: Redefining Minorities -Yoginder Sikand  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Chemical Hub: Timetable for Catastrophe-I -M N Majumder  

                       Venezuela: Socialism from Below -Stephen Lendman  

                       Of Rights and Wrongs -Bela Bhatia  

                       Mr Singh's Chinese Prescription  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 16                                                       November 4-10, 2007

                       Surfeit of Welfarism  

                       Comment: Sison Behind Bars  

                       Note: Child Soldiers -Ernest Harch writes  

                       Revisiting Bombay Riots -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Who Framed American Constitution -Stephen Lendman  

                       Dyeing Indian Saffron -I K Shukla  

                       Plight of Coastal Fisherfolk -Bharat Dogra  

                       An Imperialist Asia? -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Stigmatising Social Protests -S G  

                       Film: Persona Non Grata -Abhijit Ghosh Dastidar  

                       Statement: Indo-US Nuclear Pact  

                       Letter  

Autumn Number 2007

Vol. 40 : No. 12-15                                               October 7 -November 3, 2007

                       Revolution and Counter Revolution  

                       Middle East Monarchy -Robi Chakravorti  

                       On a New Defence of Lenin -Paresh Chattopadhyay  

                       Of Socialist Revolution: Marx's Revision -Sujit Kumar Das  

                       Marxism and Indian Tradition -S N Nagarajan  

                       'Class Struggle in Russia': How did Collectivization of Agriculture begins in Soviet Union? -Ranganayakamma  

                       Splinters of Muslim Empires -Ranjit Sau  

                       Kerala: Bankruptcy of Social Democracy -T G Jacob  

                       Bengal: Social Democracy in Action -Sandip Bandyopadhyay  

                       Industrialisation and Development -Manas Joardar  

                       All This Phony Marxism -Himangshu Roy  

                       Globalization and Land Battles -Abhijit Guha  

                       Micro Credit: A Few Hidden Facts -Farooque Chowdhury  

                       Revisiting Gramsci and Rosa -Peter Custers  

                       Wanted a Film Movement -Subhendu Dasgupta  

                       Film: "Wenders And Inarritu: Intriguing Viewing" -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Tibet Redefined -Madhusudan Pal  

                       "My Vision of India: 2047 AD" -Mahasweta Devi  

                       Of Labour and Aristocracy -Ismail Chaudhury  

                       CIA: The Killing Machine -Fidel Castro Ruz  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 11                                                       September 30-October 6, 2007

                       An Indian Theocracy?  

                       Comment: Perpetual Agony  

                       Note: Subprime Crisis  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Fact Sheet: Dismantling National Tannery  

                       Andhra: The Tsundur Moment -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Of HPCL And Employment -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri  

                       A Written Record -Fidel Castro Ruz  

                       The Coal Pushers -Philip Carter  

                       Where FDI Is Not Panacea -CAR  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 10                                                       September 23-29, 2007

                       Over To Nayachar  

                       Comment: Cause and Effect  

                       Note: Kashipur Struggle Continues -Debaranjan Sarangi  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       The Importance of Being Amartya Sen -Aseem Shrivastava  

                       Amartya Sen on Singur -M. N. Majumder  

                       Letter from Havana: Commercializing Sports -Fidel Castro Ruz  

                       How to Gain from American Crisis -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 9                                                       September 16-22, 2007

                       Route Map of Imperial Army  

                       Comment: Back to Basics  

                       Note: Mid-Day Meals and Drop-Outs -Madhu & Bharat Dogra  

                       Mayawati, Manmohan and Farmers -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Point of View: "Freedom Struggle Has to Go On..."  

                       Treason and Terrorism -I K Shukla  

                       Letter from Havana: The Brain Drain -Fidel Castro Ruz  

                       Nanded Blast -MG  

                       Krala: Selling Ayyappan -A V Sakthidharan  

                       Hizbulla: Parts of God  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 8                                                       September 9-15, 2007

                       Hungry Millions  

                       Comments: Living with Indian Bomb  

                       Note: Hazards of GM Foods -Bharat Dogra  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Marx, Christ and Radicals -Jason Miller  

                       Kashmir: Hurriyat Speaks Out  

                       Climate Change: Displacing One Billion People -ESN  

                       Ideology and Literature -Uttam Kumar Guru  

                       A Madrasa with a Difference -YS  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 7                                                       September 1-8, 2007

                       Enough is Enough  

                       Comment: Nandigram to Khammam  

                       Note: Lighting a Clay Oven -Madhusudan Pal  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       The Invisible Government -John Pilger  

                       More on Nandigram  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 6                                                       August 26-September 1, 2007

                       The Veil Controversy  

                       Comment: The Cuban Model  

                       Note: Of Jobs and Exports -Bharat Jhunjunwala  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       FDI's in Indian Retail Trade -Dipankar De  

                       West Bengal: Political Vendetta on Academics -Manas Joardar  

                       Nandigram: People's Tribunal Report  

                       Beyond Kyoto -Martin Khor  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 5                                                       August 19-25, 2007

                       Realities are Bitter  

                       Comment: When Religious Divide Fails  

                       Note: Misleading on Employment -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Is the Pendulum Swinging Back? -Kavaljit Singh  

                       The Professor as Apologist -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri  

                       Why Investment Matters -Anirban Biswas  

                       Film: "Solidarity, Solidarity" -Abhijit Ghosh Dastidar  

                       Gajoldoba: Yet Another Eviction  

                       Statement: India-US Nuclear Agreement  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 4                                                       August 11-18, 2007

                       Surging Torwards Catastrophe  

                       Comment: More of the Same  

                       Note: Of Revolution and Capitalism -AIC writes  

                       The Other India: Back from Bastar -Ramachandra Guha  

                       Of Deprivation and Democracy -Suguna Pathy  

                       World Tyranny -Fidel Castro Ruz  

                       Looking Back: Presidency Consolidation -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri  

                       Saffron Terror  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 3                                                       August 5-11, 2007

                       Assaulting Realities  

                       Comment: Medicine Sans Patent  

                       Note: Splitting Prasar Bharati -BJ  

                       How to Fight TNCs -Kavaljit Singh  

                       A Tour of Naxalbari -M R Rajagopalan  

                       Havana Diary -Fidel Castro Ruz  

                       Film: Provoked -Abhijit Ghosh Dostidar  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 2                                                       July 29-August 4, 2007

                       Endless Imbroglio  

                       Comment: Threatening world Peace  

                       Note: 'Autonomy is Counter-productive' -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Operation Nandigram: Truth, Untruth & Propaganda -Bibekananda Ray  

                       Indian Muslims and the Media -Nigar Ataulla  

                       Tagore and Spain -Jose Paz  

                       Police and Naxalites -Anirban Biswas  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 40 : No. 1                                                       July 22-28, 2007

                       CBI and CPM  

                       Comment: The Brahmin Factor  

                       Note: Roy and His Admirers  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Chavez and His Oil Strategy -raymond Lotta  

                       Mission to TIRANA -Fidel Castro Ruz  

                       Where are Emil Zolas? -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Mecca Blast: What Really Happened?  

                       Letter  

                       Appeal  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 52                                                       July 15-21, 2007

                       Globalization and Civil War  

                       Comment: RBI -The Culprit  

                       Note: Discriminatory Mineral Policy -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       News Wrap  

                       Review: 'Abandoned: Development & Displacement -M. N. Majumder  

                       Bangladesh: Political Parties & Human Rights Violations -Abbas Faiz  

                       Letter  

                       Appeal  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 51                                                       July 8-14, 2007

                       Losing Touch  

                       Comment: A Small Price  

                       Note: Police and People  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Andhra Pradesh: 'Negotiating Peace'  

                       Review: Target Iran -Yoginder Sikand  

                       Inversion of Reality -Madhusudan Pal  

                       How to Loot Iraqi Oil -Najad Abdi  

                       Castro on Bush  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 50                                                       July 1-7, 2007

                       Continuing Conflict  

                       Comment: Beyond Blast  

                       Note: Nandigram -Search For Truth -AB Writes  

                       News Wrap -AGD  

                       Negative Entropy -T. Vijayendra  

                       People's Movement in Bngladesh -Sultana Kamal  

                       Havana Diary -Fidel Castro Ruj  

                       RTI -New Opportunities? -Bharat Dogra  

                       Unsafe Campus, Safe Harassers? -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 49                                                       June24-30, 2007

                       'Quiet Noise'  

                       Comment: Changing Hearts  

                       Note: Challenging US Hegemony -Bharat Dogra  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Corporate Accountability: Is Self Regulation the Answer? -Kavaljit Singh  

                       Arsenic Filters: "Water For People" -M N Majumder  

                       'Emergency Recalled' -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Sustainable Life Style? -M R Rajagopalan  

                       CIA Chief Reveals -Martin Khor  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 48                                                       June17-23, 2007

                       The Migrant Question  

                       Comment: Deceits And Lies  

                       Note: Bharat Nirman and Inflation -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       FDI: Who Benefits? Who Loses -Kavaljit Singh  

                       Towards An Energy Revolution -Fidel Castro Ruz  

                       Collapse -M R Rajagopalan  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 47                                                       June10-16, 2007

                       Non-Governmental Politics  

                       Comment: Salwa Judum and Tatas  

                       Note: Armed Revisionists -Vijay Singh  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Caste Question: Genetic Non-Science -Ranjit Sau  

                       Fake Killings: People as Trophies -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Coal Mining: Back to Business -Bharat Dogra  

                       How to Create Jobs -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Film: "Yatra" -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastider  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 46                                                       June3-9, 2007

                       Mayawati's Gambit  

                       Comment: Oil And Recolonisation  

                       Note: No 'Human Face' -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       'Their Violence, Our Spontaneity' -Subhendu Dasgupta  

                       Bangladesh: The Economics of Fundamentalism -Abul Barkat  

                       The Most Global Issue -Joseph Stiglitz  

                       Mandal II -Feroz Mithilborwala  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 45                                                       May 27-June2, 2007

                       This Way Forward!  

                       Comment: State Terrorism  

                       Note: On Consumerism And Violence -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Missing the Wood for the Trees -Abhijit Guha  

                       Of Industrialization And Alternative -A B  

                       Film: Padakshep -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastider  

                       Review: Creating a New World -Mukul Guha  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 44                                                       May 20-26, 2007

                       Iranian Factor  

                       Comment: Stirring Up A Hornet's Nest  

                       Note: Disaster as Development -I K Shukla  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       The Metamorphosis of Micro-Credit Debtor - Farooq Chowdhury  

                       Goa: Communal Tinderbox? -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Letter fron Hungary: Rightist Surge -Janos Jemnitz  

                       'China Reconstructs'-Dale Jianjun Wen  

                       Film: The Namesake -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastider  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 43                                                       May 13-19, 2007

                       It's All About Inaction  

                       Comment: New SEZ Policy  

                       Note: Postal Reforms -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Budget And the Poor -Bharat Dogra  

                       America Funding Al-Qaeda -Praveen Swami  

                       Why Muslims Hate the US -M D Nalapat  

                       From Socialism to Barbarism -Akhila Raman  

                       Liberation of a Monster -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Dial Marx For Murder -Chunnu Prasad  

                       Bhopal: Hanger Strikers Arrested -Sansad  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 42                                                       May 6-12, 2007

                       The Other Side  

                       Comment: 'They are Narodniks'  

                       Note: Demise of CMP -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Deep Divide Over Nuclear Power -J Rama Rao  

                       Two Policy Drafts And A Report -Bharat Dogra  

                       Film: Water -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       Why I'm Banned in US -Tariq Ramadan  

                       Trade Unions Voice Concern -Kanaga Raja  

                       The Imperious Company  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 41                                                       April-29-May 5, 2007

                       Searching For An Enemy  

                       Comment: Perform or Perish  

                       Note: 'Is God Dead?' -R W  

                       Left Fascism -Saumen Guha  

                       Studies in the Development of Capitalism -Anirban Biswas  

                       The Chinese Path -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 40                                                       April-22-28, 2007

                       The End of Science  

                       Comment: All This Leftism  

                       Note: Suffering in Silence -B D  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Zapatistas: "Rebellion from the Roots-II" -Stephen Lendman  

                       Singur to Nandigram: 'The Truth Divides' -Tanika Sarkar  

                       Report: Medical Mission to Nandigram  

                       The Bible of Hindu Fascism -I K Shukla  

                       Bio-Diesel -It's Big Business  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 39                                                       April-15-21, 2007

                       Plowshares Into Swords  

                       Comment: Conspiracy to Loot  

                       Note: Leftwing Extremism -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Zapatista:Rebellion from the Roots"-1 -Stephen Lendman  

                       Refugees in Rajasthan -P V S  

                       Nandigram Diary-1 -Gautam Ghosh  

                       Nandigram Diary-1 -Surasri Chaudhuri  

                       West Bengal: State Terror -Siddhartha Guha Ray  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 38                                                       April-8-14, 2007

                       Nandigram, Haripur, Jadugoda  

                       Comment: Destroying Doha Declaration  

                       Note: Nandigram & Beyond -Anirban Biswas writes  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       The Other India -S R  

                       Human Rights Watch : Nandigram Nightmare  

                       Land Reforms Today -Bharat Dogra  

                       For a Better Future  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 37                                                       April-1-7, 2007

                       White Terror  

                       Comment: Forex and Price Rise  

                       Note: Abusing Children -Bharat Dogra  

                       Nepalese and Indian Maoists -S C  

                       Meeting  Afzal Guru : The Other Side of the River  

                       Nandigram : Back From Killing Fields  

                       Playing with Fire -Uri Avnery  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 36                                                       March-25-31, 2007

                       Violence Over Land  

                       Comment: A Costly Government  

                       Note: No Relief for the Common Man -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Naxalites And NAPM -T. Vijayendra  

                       Who Can Stop Bush? -Paul Craig Roberts  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 35                                                       March-18-24, 2007

                       The Next War  

                       Comment: What A Fall !  

                       Note: The Percolation Theory -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Noam Chomsky On American Hegemonism  

                       LaVA: Art, Economy, Pedagogy -K T Rammohan  

                       Beyond US-North Korea Deal -John Chan & Peter Symonds  

                       Film: Maati Maay -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 34                                                       March-11-17, 2007

                       Budget 2007-08  

                       Comment: Jute Strike  

                       Note: Turning Railways Around -Bharat Junjhunwala  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Nuclear Power: A Treacherous Choice -Santanu Chakraverti  

                       Cauveri On Fire -Divakar N  

                       A Killer's Paradise -C A R  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 33                                                       March-4-10, 2007

                       Ring Of Reaction  

                       Comment: 'Peasant in Marxism'  

                       Note: Land Grant University -B J  

                       Kashmir Today-I: "The Disappeared" -Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal  

                       Kashmir Today-II: Dalits of Doda  

                       Book Review: Central Asia Sans Soviet Union -Madhusudan Pal  

                       37th IFFI: Indian Panorama -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       The Woes Of Haripur  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 32                                                       February 25-March-3, 2007

                       40 Years Later  

                       Comment: Republic Sans Republicans  

                       Note: Growth, Inequalities & Governance -I Satya Sundaram  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       The Media And The Left -Bibekananda Ray  

                       Kalinga Nagar -One Year Later -Saswat Pattanayak  

                       Ujamaa -Or African Socialism -Manning Marable  

                       Dismantling FCI -RUPE  

                       Stealing Cuban Assets  

                       TB -The Killer -Kanaga Raja  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 31                                                       February 18-24, 2007

                       For The People  

                       Comment: Climate Catastrophe  

                       Note: Back From Bundelkhand -Bharat Dogra  

                       Returning To The Past? -Yoginder Sikand  

                       The Old But As Yet Green Debate -Anirban Biswas  

                       37th International Film Festival -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar  

                       The Meaning Of Hizballah -Nir Rosen  

                       The Erosion Of Academic Freedom -Manning Marable  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 30                                                       February 11-17, 2007

                       Bringing Back The Past  

                       Comment: 85 Years Later  

                       Note: Why Dalits Remain Backward? -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Two Contradictions Of India Today -Ranjit Sau  

                       Right Livelihood Awards for 2006  

                       Dalits Face Social Boycott  

                       Five Years Of Guanatanamo -Subhas Ghatade  

                       Hungry World -Hira Jhamtani  

                       God On Their Side!  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 29                                                       February 4-10, 2007

                       Red Alert  

                       Comment: Targeting Uttar Pradesh?  

                       Note: Growth and Unemployment -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Total History -Ranjit Sau  

                       Left On Trial  

                       Shadow of Suharto? -AB  

                       Letters  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 28                                                       Januray  28-February 3, 2007

                       SEZ Bondage  

                       Comment: Labour Issue!  

                       Note: Corruption & Growth -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       India's 'Disarmed' Maoists -Sumanta Banerjee  

                       "The Evil Empire" -Hugo Chavez  

                       Revisiting Karachi Pact -Shabir Choudhry  

                       Every Man A Laboratory -Prashant Jha  

                       DU -A Gift From Bush -Paulin Paulinson  

                       Tipu's Diary -Sayed Ejaz Hussain  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 27                                                       Januray  21-27, 2007

                       Beating Realism  

                       Comment: Financing Counter-Revolution  

                       Note: Singur, Nandigram, Haripur... -Madhusudan Pal  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       Is the Nuclear Option Indispensible? -Pradip Dutta, Santanu Chacreverti  

                       "Zapatistas Are Different" -Peter Rosset  

                       The Circle of Poison : Silent Holocaust -M N Majumdar  

                       More On Singur -A B  

                       Attrocities On Dalits -Subhas Ghatade  

 

 

Vol. 39 : No. 26                                                       Januray  14-20, 2007

                       Time To Think  

                       Comment: What About Bush  

                       Note: Monopolizing Technology -Bharat Jhunjhunwala  

                       Good Policy, Bad Politicians And Ugly Law -Abhijit Guha  

                       Where The Left Turns Right -Vijayan M J  

                       12th Kolkata Film Festival -Abhijit Ghosh Dastidar  

                       Haripur Calling -Amitava Bhattacharya  

                       Caste And Quotas -Yoginder Sikand  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 25                                                       Januray  7-13, 2007

                       Awesome Powers  

                       Comment: Club Of Assasins  

                       Note: Why Not Constructive Worker -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes  

                       News Wrap -A G D  

                       The Dam Of Contention -T G Jacob  

                       Singur : Facts And Untruths  

                       Dalits, Panchayat Raj and Power Equations -Goldy M Goerge  

                       Minorities In Pakistan -Amit Chakraborty  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 24                                                       December 31 2006 -Januray  6 2007

                      What Is At Stake  

                       Comment: Of Globalisation And Compensation  

                       Note: "Development With Dignity" -A B writes  

                       Whither The Middle East? -Ranjit Sau  

                       Nobel-Man's Un-Nobel Corporate Nexus -Omar Tarek Chowdhury  

                       Bengal : Now And Then -Bibekananda Ray  

                       Eyeless in OPT -John Dugard  

                       Letter  

 

Vol. 39 : No. 23                                                  December 24-30 ,  2006

                       The Next Step?