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Discussion-Meet at Book Fair
Please come to the Press Corner at the Calcutta Book Fair ground on Saturday, 28 January 2012 at 3 pm to listen to a discussion on contemporary politics with Jan Myrdal. Mahasweta Devi, Sumanta Banerjee & Gautam Navlakha will participate in the deliberations. Frontier is co-hosting the event with Nagarik Mancha, Anustup, Aneek & Bartika. Do not forget to spread the good word around.

Frontier in Print

Vol.44, No.27, Jan 15 - 21, 2012

Contents

Five Years Later

Comment: They Call it Paradise

Note: The Baul Tradition

-Anit Mukerjea writes

News Wrap

- A G D

Calcutta Notebook

-A B

University Ordinance: Rule Makers, Rule Breakers

-Abhijit Guha

UN Panel Report: War Crimes in Sri lanka

-Ron Ridenour

Havana Diary: Permanent War

-Fidel Castro Ruz

Letters

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Autumn Number 2011

Autumn Number 2010

Appeal to those who think Frontier should continue...


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Samar Sen in the company of Rabindranath Thakur and others at Santiniketan

Online Articles
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28 Jan 2012	Capital's Globe-wide Risks -Farooque Chowdhury

27 Jan 2012	My friend, my friend, a few words to thee -Rukmini Sen

25 Jan 2012	What is to be done? -Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak

23 Jan 2012	An Open Latter to Dr A.P.J. Kalam -Sailendra Nath Ghosh

23 Jan 2012	Tripura Diary -Shoummo

22 Jan 2012	Reinterpretation of Economic History by Rabindranath -Debasis Paul

22 Jan 2012	Weavers - Think Beyond A Package -Bharat Dogra

21 Jan 2012	Tax incentives for job creation -Bharat Jhunjhunwala

19 Jan 2012	One who combined Marxist temper with rarely independent mind -Sankar Ray

15 Jan 2012	A New Socio-Economics Science -Ranjit Sau

14 Jan 2012	Appoint independent persons to the Judicial Commission -Bharat Jhunjhunwala

9 Jan 2012	The Future of the Left -Ramchandra Guha

2 Jan 2012	An infamous Diktat (Revised) -Salil Biswas

31 Dec 2011	Narahari Kaviraj : The Intrepid Marxist -Tapan Bandyopadhyay

31 Dec 2011	Managing inequality-Bharat Jhunjhunwala

23 Dec 2011	New Ordinance for the universities of West Bengal -Walking on the Rope -Abhijit Guha

21 Dec 2011	An Interview with the Editor of The New Socialist Reader -T Vijayendra

20 Dec 2011	Lesson from Mullaperiyar -Dams are not permanent -Bharat Jhunjhunwala

20 Dec 2011	2011, a year replete with revolts, uprisings and occupation -Farooque Chowdhury

18 Dec 2011	The hooch victims of Sangrampur: the victims of class bias too -Biswajit Roy

16 Dec 2011	Canada's Exit From the Kyoto Protocol -Peter Custers

15 Dec 2011	The case for protectionism -B Jhunjhunwala

14 Dec 2011	AMRI carnage and Amra: the hypocrisy of Bengal’s politicians and media -Biswajit Roy

2 Dec 2011	'Poribarton' -Transgression masquerading as 'Transformation' -Sumanta Banerjee

30 Nov 2011	New Biotech Law Can Endanger Indian Agriculture -Bharat Dogra

Reports

26 Jan 2012	Foundation stone laying function of an unit of Belur Shramajibi Hospital

22 Jan 2012	Report of the meeting of Little Magazine Somonnoy Mancha

20 Jan 2012	Making fair a Corporate and big business affair is unfair -Manthan Samayiki

20 Jan 2012	Human Rights Report 2011 -MASUM

19 Jan 2012	Forest dwellers demand Community Rights in WB

28 Dec 2011	NAPM Condemns Arrest and Harassment of Anti Dam Protesters in Assam-Press Release

26 Dec 2011	APDR Convention demanded Judicial probe into Kisenji's death- -Ranjit Sur

25 Dec 2011	Traditional Fishers of Sundarban Trespassers in their own Land - -Pradip Chatterjee

21 Dec 2011	Marginal voices -a forgotten community in Junglemahal --Biswajit Roy

5 Dec 2011	Saibal Mitra: a Tribute -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

Send your Opinion on

Will Peace Return to Jangalmahal?

Send Mail

Responses so far

Maoists and the Indian State: Is peace possible
Kunal Chattopadhyay

If you want Peace, you must go to War
Rana Bose

Stand by the people’s struggle
Premangsu Dasgupta

Democracy must return to Junglemahal
Mahasveta Devi

On Failed ‘Peace Initiative’ in Jangalmahal
Dipankar Bhattacharya

Killing of Kishenjee and Peace talks
Vara Vara Rao

Much Ado about Nothing
Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

People's War as Strategy and Peace Talk as Tactics
Gautam Navlakha

Things Fall Apart -An Interlocutor’s Account
Asokendu Sengupta

Peace without dignity means nothing
Diptendra Raychaudhuri

Jangal Mahal Situation
Santosh Rana

Three women from Junglemahal: Will Mamata listen to them?
Biswajit Roy

Whither Jangalmahal?
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Events

People's convention by Jharkhand Samanway Manch at Lodhasuli on 29 January 2012

The "Pagri Sambhal" Conference on 27th January to Strip Bare the Deceitful Game of Elections

ZAMEEN HAQ SATYAGRAHA

‘Capitalism: A Ghost Story’ - Lecture by Arundhati Roy on Jan 20, 2012 at St Xavier’s College, Dhobi Talao, Mumbai at 6 pm

Links to News & views

An Interesting Debate

Ram Guha's Article -'The Fall' in 'The CARAVAN' and the subsequent responses in various magazines

Prakash Karat reflects on Ram Guha's Article -'The Fall' in 'The CARAVAN'

Ram Guha's reply to Prakash Karat's reflections in 'The CARAVAN'

Sandip Bandopadhyay brings the debate to Frontier

Calcutta Notebook's mischievous intervention

Ram Guha responds to Sandip Bandopadhyay

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Satanic versus Moronic: How Salman Rushdie lost the UP Election

Only Lip-Sympathy For The Malnourished

42 per cent of Indian children are underweight

People's resistance to displacement in Jharkhand

In the aftermath of AMRI tragedy

A Tribute to Narahari Kaviraj (1917-2011)

Human Rights Review – Jammu and Kashmir in 2011

Peace-talk Process in Junglemahal

Failed Peace Process between Mamata and Maoists: A Post-mortem

Lessons from Occupy movement

The everyday implications of Armed Forces Special Power Act

The Times in Bengal by Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

Photo-News Links

Protest News through Photograp

The 50 Most Powerful Photographs of 2011

protests on streets-- from Greece to Pakistan

Egyptian women marching against autocracy

Ouccy Wall Street photos

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