Jyoti Basu criticises Sonia Gandhi! Will Prakash Karat lad behind? He takes on the Maoist rebels for the woes of West Bengal! Do these persons understand rural India? Rural realities? Zilla Parishads are a must to end the British days-type exploitation and oppression of the people by the government machinery. Change the names of the [...]

The painful thoughts of the British empire syndrome The Raj Syndrome by Suhash Chakravarty,Rupa,2007 pp 400. Revisiting 1857 Myth,Memory,History,Rolli Books,2007 Leonard Woolf A Life by Victoria Glendinning London,2006,pp 526 The thoughts here all raise highly emotional and highly controversial thoughts and throw up conflicting images as I look at India as a country and people [...]

What Mr.Sharad Pawar is doing? Where the PM’s expertise? Do these gentlemen and the hon’ble lady or ladies care for the poor and the rural people? Now, everyone in the government and outside knows that there is a food-prices-driven inflation and there is an element of helplessness and a lot of desparation. Rightly so. So [...]

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