The Politics of ‘Pay Back’: The Nuke Deal and Nandigram
Following the Congress climbdown on the Nuke Deal, we had cautioned that the “pausing” of the Deal be taken with a pinch of salt, since it was likely that negotiations on the Deal would continue behind the scenes and the Deal would be taken forward at a more opportune political moment....Full text
The Battle for Naya Bihar Goes On
- Dipankar Bhattacharya
(This piece is a slightly abridged version of one written in response to a request by the Patna edition of Hindustan Times. – Ed/)
I am not among those who treat Bihar as an epitome of backwardness or barbarity. Bihar for me is certainly not a metaphor for stagnation. On the contrary, it is a crucible of ceaseless social and political churning and change. It is one of the most innovative and indelible signatures of radical popular mobilization in today’s India....Full text
Towards Gujarat Elections
Does it surprise you that Sonia Gandhi, the supremo of the ‘secular’ dispensation ruling in New Delhi, in her election-launching speech in Anand, did not even dare to mention Gujarat genocide, recently captured live on camera in the perpetrators’ own gory confessions? Perhaps not, given that her Government failed to take any action against the Modis and Bajrangis despite such clinching evidence...Full text |
