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Vol.44,No.29,Jan 29-Feb 4, 2012
Contents
Note: Trespassers in Their Own Land-Pradip Chatterjee writes
News Wrap - A G D
Children sans Childhood: Understanding Child Labour -T Vijayendra
Game Changer: Road to Hell? -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
Koodankulam: Bill of Rights and Liberties -Gus Hall

Vol.44, No.28, Jan 22 - 28, 2012
Contents
Note: Women in Bodo Society -Merina Islam writes
News Wrap - A G D
An Infamous Diktat: Of University and Ordinance -Salil Biswas
Three Women from Jangalmahal: Soft Landing, Tough Tasks -Biswajit Roy
Deception through Ages: Peace without Dignity -Diptendra Raychaudhuri
A P D R Resolution: Judicial Probe Into Kishenji’s Death -Ranjit Sur
Koodankulam: Selling Lies -P K Sundaram

Vol.44, No.27, Jan 15 - 21, 2012
Contents
Note: The Baul Tradition -Anit Mukerjea writes
News Wrap - A G D
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

Vol.44, No.26, Jan 8 - 14, 2012
Contents
Note: Vivekananda on Science and Religion -Sisir Kumar Majumdar writes
News Wrap - A G D
Crisis of Education: Why Academicians are Leaders -Debasish Paul
We are the 99 percent": OWS and US Labour
Cuba: Education and Revolution -Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada
Godse's Children: Unravelling the Truth -Ram Puniyani

Vol.44, No.25, Jan 1 - 7, 2012
Contents
Comment: Hot Potato
Note: More on FDI Retail -T K Ganguly writes
News Wrap - A G D
Shaping Globalisation: Bound Together -M R Rajagopalan
Jangalmahal: Behind the ‘Development’ Headlines -Partho Sarathi Ray
Power Game: Dalits at a Crossroads? -Ram Puniyani
Tricky Business: How to Become a Global Player -Kavaljit Singh

Vol.44, No.24, Dec 25-31, 2011
Contents
Comment: Beyond Dublin
Note: Whither Jangalmahal? -A B Singh writes
News Wrap- A G D
Emerging Civil War: Finish Capitalism' Movement -Badruddin Umar
Anti-POSCO Agitation: Back from Dhinkia
Italy's Credit Crisis: Calling for Change -Madhusudan Pal Vedantatirtha
Defending the Indefensible: Of FDI and Retail Reality -Shankar Gopalkrishnan
Tricky Business: Why Disinvestment? -Bharat Jhunjhunwala
IFFI 2010: Indian Panorama -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Vol.44, No.23, Dec 18 -24, 2011
Contents
Note: G20 Defers Decision on FTT -Kavaljit Singh writes
News Wrap - A G D
'Paribartan': Transgression Masquerading as "Transformation' -Sumanta Banerjee
Haqqani, Mosque, Military: Memogate versus Democratic Yearning - Sankar Ray
The Bolivarian Alternative: Building Twenty-First Century Socialism - Michael A Lebowitz
The Other Ramayana: 150th Anniversary of ‘Meghnadbadh Kabya’ - Sisir K Majumdar

Vol.44, No.22, Dec 11 -17, 2011
Contents
Comment: FDI in Retail
Note: Why Not Consumption Tax -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
News Wrap - A G D
Looking Back: Jangal Mahal Situation -Santosh Rana
Nuclear Energy Debate: Turning Dream into a Nightmare - Surendra Gadekar
Catalogue of Crises: Europe’s Lost Decade! - Farooque Chowdhury
Threatening Academic Life: ‘No’ to GM Food Crops - Chee Yoke Ling
Occupy Wall Street Movement: ‘This Changes Everything...’ - Sarah Van Gelder & Others

Vol.44, No.21, Dec 4 -10, 2011
Contents
Note: Save Democracy, Repeal AFSPA -W A Laskar writes
News Wrap - A G D
Spectr of World War III: Genocidal Cynicism - Fidel Castro Ruz
Review: Of Medicine and Dialectics - William Ging Wee Dere
Domino Effect: ‘Occupy Kolkata’ Movement -Sugato Mukhopadhyay
Threatening Academic Life: Who is Afraid of the Ramayana? -Vijay Singh
Shifting Power Balance: Living in the Shadow of China
Continuing Conflict: An Open Appeal

Vol.44, No.20, Nov 27-Dec 3, 2011
Contents
Note: Living in a Hell -Sanjeev Mahajan writes
News Wrap - AGD
Continuing Debate: Whither Anna Movement? - Biswajit Roy
Letter from America: Marx Said The Realm of Freedom... - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
EU's New Mandate: National Treatment To Foreign Investors -Burghard llge & Kavaljit Singh
South Sudan: GM Lobby Working Overtime -Bharat Dogra
Sino-Russian Partenship: Foes Turning Friends -Farooque Chowdhury
BPL Hypocrisy: 3 Vadapavs a Day - S Mohammed Irshad
Assam: Plight of Tribal Women - Merina Islam
Helen Keller Deaf School: An Open Letter To The WB Education Minister - Manoranjan Byaparee

Vol. 44, No.18, Nov 13 -19, 2011
Contents
Note: Too hot to Handle -G M writes
News Wrap - AGD
Panic in Heaven: ‘A Capitalist Spectre is Haunting Europe’ - Farooque Chowdhury
Health for All: Beyond the Alma-Ata Declaration - Siddhartha Gupta
A Vicious Circle: Of Europe's Debt Crisis and Civil Resistance - Peter Custers
War on Terror: Nine Eleven and the Manufacture of Consent - Jean-Claude Paye
Deceit Unlimited : The Emperor Has No Clothes - Vandana Shiva

Vol. 44, No.17, Nov 6 -12, 2011
Contents
Note: Asia and Global Crisis -M K writes
News Wrap - AGD
Continuing Debate: Whither Anna Movement? - Biswajit Roy
Value of River water: How to kill Teesta - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
A talk with Abhay Sahoo: Anti-posco Agitation - Musab Iqbal
South Sudan: Birth of a Nation - Caelainn Hogan
Film :Nouka Dubi - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
Untold story: Of Fukushima and Chernobyl - Peter Saunders

Vol. 44, No.16, Oct 30-Nov 5, 2011
Contents
Note: Policing and Human Rights -A Correspondent writes
News Wrap - AGD
Middle Class Dream: Is India Emerging as a Developed Nation?- M R Rajagopalan
Perrenial Crisis: Fake Concern Regarding Inflation - RUPE
Arab Spring Continues: Now Yemen on Boil
Destroyed by Development: Privatising Bangalore’s Lakes - Rohan D’Souza
Forbesgaunj Firing: Policemen Always Open Fire in ‘Self-Defence’ - Lateef Mohd Khan

Vol. 44, No. 15, Oct 23 -29, 2011
Contents
Note: Of Growth and Inequality - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
News Wrap - AGD
Religion & Politics: Vivekananda and the Rise of Assertive Hinduism - T Vijayendra
Lessons from Latin America: ‘Dancing with Dynamite’ - Federico Fuentes
Impact of Microcredit: Microcredit : Mainstream Questions Mainstream - Farooque Chowdhury
Roots of Fundamentalism: Terror Strikes Norway - Ram Puniyani
Divisive politics: Continuing Conflict- Shahidur Rashid Talukdar
Film: Dhoosar - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Autumn Number


Vol. 44 No. 11-14, Sep 25 -Oct 22, 2011

 
Contents

90 YEARS LATER

Sandip Bandyopadhyay

Subrata Basu

Peter Custers
COLONEL ABU TAHER’S UPRISING

Manoranjan Mohanty
ADIVASI AWAKENING AND EMERGENCE OF NEW POLITICS

Ranjit Sau
ROAD MAP OF FEUDALISM, CAPITALISM AND COMMUNISM

Harsh Thakor
MAO THOUGHT AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENT

Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
PARTY AND COMMUNE

Ranganayakamma
‘‘DALIT INTELLECTUALS AND LEFTIST INTELLECTUALS’’

M N Majumder
IDEOLOGICAL MESS–A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE

Sankar Ray
BEYOND CRONY CAPITALISM

Sailendra Nath Ghosh
HOW “BOMBAY HIGH” WAS SAVED FROM FOREIGN TAKE-OVER

Bibekananda Ray
THE USA’S ‘INVISIBLE’ POVERTY

Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
ECHOES FROM INDIA’S NORTH-EAST

Abhijit Guha
THE IDEA NAMED ‘SOCIAL EXCLUSION’

Manas Joardar
MAKE LAW, BREAK LAW

Salil Biswas
OF TEACHING AND LEARNING

Pranjali Bandhu
UNDERSTANDING THE DOWRY EVIL

T Vijayendra
SANSKRIT AND THE INDIAN LANGUAGE FAMILIES

Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
GODARD’S ‘FILM SOCIALISME’

Anirban Biswas
OF SOCIALISM AND SOCIAL CAPITALISM

T G Jacob
‘TAMIL EELAM’ NOT A DEAD ISSUE

Subhendu Dasgupta
EMERGENCE OF A FOURTH SPACE

Sisir K Majumdar
RABINDRANATH’S THOUGHTS ON SCIENCE

Ismail Chaudhury
IN SEARCH OF VANGUARDS

Vol. 44, No. 10, Sep 18 -24, 2011
Contents
Note: Of Exports and Imports - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
Third World Fascism: Sri Lanka, Eelam Tamils and the Ethical Crime - Kartick R M
NATO's Lybia Mission: Cracking a Hard Nut - Farooque Chowdhury
Black Power: Jewels in a Gutter - Bibekananda Ray
Forgotten People: Lepchas Demand Justice - Nityananda Ghosh
Imposing American Model: Monsanto is a Monster- ASHA

Vol. 44, No. 9, Sep 11 -17, 2011
Contents
Note: Shehla Massod and Rio Tinto - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
News Wrap - AGD
The Anna Moment: ‘India Against Corruption’ - Satya Sagar
Excercise in Escapism?: Beyond the New Land Acquisition Bill - Yoginder Sikand
Myth & Reality: Violence, Non-Violence and Gandhi - M N Majumdar
Alternative Social Innovation: Design for Sustainability
Science & Humanity: Subverted by the Bomb - Evaggelos Vallianatos

Vol. 44, No. 8, Sep 4 -10, 2011
Contents
Note:A Leaking Boat - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
News Wrap - AGD
Marx & Marxism: ‘‘How to Change the World’’ -Stefen Collini
Chattisgarh: Looking Back at Shaheed Hospital -Punyabrata Gun
Health Worker Migration: The Escape Route -IRIN
POSCO: Continuing Conflict -Prashant Paikaray
Film: Ray’s Sikkim - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Vol. 44, No. 7, Aug 28 -Sep 3, 2011
Contents
Note: Climate Refugees - K P S writes
News Wrap - AGD
Book Review: Marx at the Margins - John Garvey
Economics of Inequality: White Collar Job Drama - Debasish Paul
Beyond the Border: Dalits in the ‘Land of the Pure’–Pakistan - Yoginder Sikand
Open Letter: Speak the Truth, Stop the Killing - Dilip Simeon

Vol. 44, No. 6, Aug 21 -27, 2011
Contents
Comment: UID Business
Note: Rare Earth - A Correspondent writes
News Wrap - AGD
Bodh Gaya Sans Buddhists: Hinduising Buddhism -Sanjay Kumar Chaudhary
In the Name of God: Plight of Minorities in Pakistan -Yoginder Sikand
Latin American Experience: How to Achieve Socialist Renewal
Review Article: Nowhere to Hide -Douglas Porpora

Vol. 44, No. 5, Aug 14 -20, 2011
Contents
Note:Carrot & Stick - A B writes
News Wrap - AGD
Indo-us nuclear deal: A Blatant Blackmail - Sisir K Majumdar
Manipur Capital Complex: Where is Lei–Ingkhol? - By A Correspondent
Narayanpatna: Ordeal of a Tribal Girl - Himanshu Kumar
International Chemistry Year: Centenary of Radioactivity - SKM
R & D: China Banks on Innovation - Gordon Orr
Destroyed by Development: Killing the River Baitarani - Kiran Sankar Sahu

Vol. 44, No. 4, Aug 7 -13, 2011
Contents
Note:Targeting KMSS -D A C writes
News Wrap- AGD
Global Land Rush: Looting African Land - Joan Baxter
Capitalism & Crisis: Mumbai, Shanghai, London, New York - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Belgium: Democracy without an Elected Government - Farooque Chowdhury
F M Husain: A Victim of Intolerance - Ram Puniyani
Orissa: Destroyed by ‘Development’ -Subrat Kumar Sahu
Fluoride Poisoning: Fluoride, Toothpase & the A-Bomb - Gar Smith
Drama: Ekhon Antigone:Whose Tragedy?- Salil Biswas

Vol. 44, No. 3, Jul 31-Aug 6, 2011
Contents
Note: Crippling PDS - Nirmalya Biswas writes
News Wrap - AGD
Planet in Peril: Global Land Grab -Alexandra Spieldoch
Point of View: "Of Self-respect and People’s Power’’ -Sisir K Majumdar
Bombarding the Headquarters: Rectification—CPM Style -Sankar Ray
Ambedkar & Buddhism: Towards a Meaningful Spirituality - Yoginder Sikand
Beyond Darkness: The ‘Salwa Judum’ Judgement -Lawrence Liang

Vol. 44, No. 2, Jul 24- 30, 2011
Contents
Note: Welfare Mafia Needs Surgery -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
News Wrap - AGD
Polemics: An Encounter with Charu Majumdar - Sankar Ray
International Solidarity Movement: War Against Indian People -Jan Myrdal
Vanishing Villages: Bagmati: the Sorrow of North Bihar - Dinesh Kumar Mishra
Release of Political Prisoners:Whose Committee Is It? - Ranjit Sur

Vol. 44, No. 1, Jul 17- 23, 2011
Contents
Note: China, Vietnam, Oil -A Correspondent writes
News Wrap - AGD
Review Article: Socialism or Barbarism - John Lea
Protest March:Let the Rivers Flow
Polavaram Dam: For Whom Does the Godavari Flows - R Uma Maheshwari
Driving in Reverse: CPM in Blunder Land - Bibekananda Ray
Loktak Lake of Manipur: From Owners to ‘Occupiers’ - Thingnam Anjulika Samom
WFTU Statement: For a Better World
CCTS: Of Cash and Kind - Jean Dreze
IFFI 2010: Goa Film Festival - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Vol. 43, No. 52, Jul 10- 16, 2011
Contents
Note: Shashibhusan Dasgupta -A B writes
News Wrap - AGD
Minority Question: Anti-Communal Violence Bill - Y Sikand
Protest March: From Tarapur to Jaitapur - Gabriele Dietrich
Whither China?: Changing Chinese Society - George J Gilboy, Eric Heginbotham
Release of Prisoners: To Talk or Not to Talk to Mamata Banerjee -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

Vol. 43, No. 51, Jul 3- 9, 2011
Contents
Note:Required : New Left Thinking -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
News Wrap - AGD
There is an Alternative: Back into Socialism - Federico Fuentes
Grand Indian Opera: Corruption through Ages - Nirmalya Biswas
Theatre for Social Change: More on Badal Sircar - Subhendu Sarkar
Baghajatin Story: Killing a Hospital - S S
Review: Dilemmas in Agriculture - M R Rajagopalan
Independent Trade Union Initiative: Gorakhpur Workers Win - C F

Vol. 43, No. 50, Jun 26-Jul2, 2011
Contents
Note:Godmen are not Immortal -Asghar Ali Engineer writes
News Wrap - AGD
Old Question, New Twist: Land & Factory: Peasants and Proletariat - Ranjit Sau
Myth & Reality: Nuclear Power: Neither Cheap nor Safe - Sujay Basu
Gwangju Prize Speech: No Justice, No Peace- Binayak Sen
Book Review:Fluoride Poisoning and Medical Geology - Manas Joardar

Vol. 43, No. 49, Jun 19-25, 2011
Contents
Note: Behind The Bamboo Curtain -C P J writes
News Wrap - AGD
Manipur Crying for Justice: ‘Is Anybody There....?’ - Nirmalya Biswas
Beyond the Status Quo:Beyond Trade Unionism
HOLCIM Story: Contract Labour Fighting Back - Indira Chakravarthi & Shalini Gera
Raigad Victory: ‘No’ to SEZ - Vidya Bhushan Rawat
People on the move: Socialism is the Alternative- Samir Amin

Vol. 43, No. 48, Jun 12-18, 2011
Contents
Note:Blasphemy Law–How Much Religion? -Asghar Ali Engineer writes
News Wrap - AGD
Living in Hell: People without History - Yoginder Sikand
Winds of Change?: China Rethinks Nuclear Power - Lucia Green-Weiskel
Back from Narayanpatnan:A Report from Ground Zero
Participation in Labour Force: Empowering Women - Shahidur Rashid Talukdar
Sounds of Resistance: War and Big Finance- Kevin Zeese

Vol. 43, No. 47, Jun 5-11, 2011
Contents
Note:Beyond Kalmadi and Raja -Bharat Dogra writes
News Wrap - AGD
Recalling Rosa Luxemburg:Social Reform or Revolution -Graham Milner
Jangalmahal Revisited: Of Masses and Massline - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
Wrecking Tradition: Sircar and His Free Theatre
Film: Kutty Srank and Janala - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Vol. 43, No. 46, May 29-Jun4, 2011
Contents
Note: Another Gandhi? -Asghar Ali Engineer writes
News Wrap - AGD
Newtown Project: Money and Marxists - Sanjeeb Mukherjee
Testimony before US Congress: Beyond Fukushima - Dave Lochbaum
America Today:Fight for Jobs - Scott Marshall
Jharkhand: Will Anna Get Justice?- Gladson Dungdung
Serving People: I was an MP - Pritish Nandy

Vol. 43, No. 45, May 22-28, 2011
Contents
Note:Jaitapur Calling -NAPM writes
News Wrap - AGD
Looking Back: ‘‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’’ - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
"A Paradise Built in Hell": Earthquake and Japan - Kojin Karatani
Universities at the Crossroads: Vice-Chancellors are not Angels - Abhijit Guha

Vol. 43, No. 44, May 15-21, 2011
Contents
Note:From Tarapur to Jaitapur -B S writes
News Wrap - AGD
Europian Theatre: The Nuclear Debate Returns -Peter Custers
American Scenario: Nuclear Nightmare -Ralph Nader
FAO Report: It’s Chronic Hunger - Farooque Chowdhury
A New Vision: ‘The Socialist Alternative...’ - Konrad Read
Bastille of Words: The First Casualty of War - John Pilger

Vol. 43, No. 43, May 8-14, 2011
Contents
Note: The Katju-Mishra Judgement -H Dhawan and P Singh writes
News Wrap - AGD
Ominous Signs: Peak Prices or Production Peak?- Peter Custers
Growth sans Improvent: Hunger Haunts India - Nirmalya Biswas
Whither Muslim Middle Class?: Muslims Need an Ambedkar -An Interview

Vol. 43, No. 42, May 1-7, 2011
Contents
Note:Bengal goes to Polls -A B writes
News Wrap - AGD
India Today:"Towards Politics of Solidarity" - Panayiotis T Manolakos
India-EUFTA:Foreign Banks are Coming - Kavaljit Singh
American Gameplan:War in Lybia: Motives and Dynamics - Maidul Islam
Chattisgarh & Ninayak Sen:More on Sedition - Ilina Sen

Vol. 43, No. 41, April 24-30, 2011
Contents
Note:‘No’ To Bauxite Mining -NAPM writes
News Wrap - AGD
Polemics:Communism and Anti-Communism - Anirban Biswas
Armageddon: Fukushima–An International Catastophe - Peter Custers
Unfinished Agenda: Egypt in Movement - Samir Amin
150th Birth Anniversary: P C Roy and Modern Science - Sisir K Majumdar

Vol. 43, No. 40, April 17-23, 2011
Contents
Note: ‘No’ to Nuclear Power-NAPM writes
News Wrap - AGD
Atom for Peace?: Rethinking Atomic Energy - Jonathan Schell
Missile Defense: NATO beyond NATO Territory - Peper Custers
Separatism in North Bengal: Adding to Tribal Woes - Partha Sen
Kerala: ‘No’ to Coca-Cola - IRC
Film: Mumbai Film Festival - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Vol. 43, No. 39, April 10-16, 2011
Contents
News Wrap - AGD
Red Terror: Hypocrisy Unlimited -Sankar Ray
A Spocialist Future: Cuban Revolution: Where to Now? - Sisir K Majumdar
Chronicle of Blunders: Communists and the Muslim League - Sandip Bandyopadhyay
Nobel Winners' Appeal: An Unjust Conviction
'Megatons For Megawatts': What Happens To All That Uranium? - Tim Buchholz
Looking Back: RSS and Murder of Mahatma - Shamsul Islam

Vol. 43, No. 38, April 3-9, 2011
Contents
Note:Libya : Friends and Foes -Pratik Uppal writes
News Wrap - AGD
The Fharaohs of India:Redefining Democracy -Satya Sagar
Justice & Injustice:The Binayak Judgement - Subhas Chandra Ganguly
A Forgotten Anniversary :Debabrata Biswas -Soumitra K Lahiri
Status of Education:Schooling or Waste of Time? - Shahidur Rashid Talukdar

Vol.43, No.37, Mar 27-April 2, 2011
Contents
Note:False Pride at Stake -A B writes
After the Shock:Japan is Trembling -Pradip Datta
The Citizenship Issuet:Who Are the Matuas? -Sandip Bandyopadhyay
Business as Usual :Budget : Myopic Congress Ideology -Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Death of Manning:‘‘Aiding the Enemy’’ -Glenn Greenwald
Of Bt-Cotton and Widows - Vandana Shiva

Vol. 43, No. 36, Mar 20-26, 2011
Contents
News Wrap - AGD
Calcutta Notebook - Charubrata
Crime and punishment:Of Hindutva and Terrorism -Yoginder Sikand
Raj Returns :A Strange Democracy -M J Akbar
The 25-crore Story:Bhimsen Joshi–an Era is Gone-T Vijayendra
An Anniversary:The Day of Shame

Vol. 43, No. 35, Mar 14-20, 2011
Contents
Note:Issuing a Death Certificate-Ranjan Panda writes
News Wrap - AGD
UID:Implication of AADHAAR - Nirmalya Biswas
Limits of US Power:Egypt Erupts - Farooque Chowdhury
Irrelevant Left :Pakistan–Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow - Pervez Hoodbhoy
The 25-crore Story:How to Curb Naxalism? - Himanshu Kumar

Vol. 43, No. 34, Mar 7-13, 2011
Contents
Note:Of GOI and Swiss Bank -A B writes
News Wrap - AGD
Rights for All:Million Men March In Cairo - Ranjit Sau
Assam's Eviction Squad:Why Adivasis’ Soldier is Silent? - Gladson Dungdung
Wrong Prescription:‘Charity’ Won’t Work - Tarun Patanik
Supreme Court Hearing:‘No’ to Salwa Judum
Film: Kolkata Film Festival - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Vol. 43, No.33, Feb 27-Mar 6, 2011
Contents
Note:Unrest in Arab World -A Correspondent writes
News Wrap - AGD
Where to Begin? A Draft for Discussion:Whither Bengal? - Sanjeeb Mukherjee
Black Friday :Back From Netai - APDR Report
People's Power :Tunisian Revolution - Dyab Abou Jahjah
Egypt Today-I:America Realigns - Samir Amin
Egypt Today-II:A Post-Mubarak Scenario - Tariq Ali

Vol. 43, No. 32, Feb 20-26, 2011
Contents
Note:Centre-State Relations -A Correspondent writes
News Wrap - AGD
Campaign Beyond Horizon :"We Are All Binayak Sen"-Satya Sagar
Review Article :Aluminium Means Destruction - Sankar Ray
Bodo Stir :The November’10 Carnage -Aruni Kashyap
Manual Scavenging:Dignity Remains Elusive -Bezwada Wilson

Vol. 43, No. 31, Feb 13-19, 2011
Contents
News Wrap - AGD
At a Crossroads :Feudalism Political -Ranjit Sau
Reflections on Bihar :Many Battles But A Single War -Tapan Bandyopadhyay
Plains vs Hills :Ten Years of Uttarakhand -Bharat Jhunjhunwala
San Jose Mine Incident: Don’t Mourn, Organize
Sedition: Gandhian With A Stethoscope -Amit Sengupta

Vol. 43, No. 30, Feb 6-12, 2011
Contents
Note:Sen and Neo-Liberalism - A B writes
News Wrap - AGD
Merchants of Death :Taming the ‘‘Wild West’’ of Microfinance -Kavaljit Singh
Euro Crisis :The German Economic Model -Peter Custers
Dantewada Crying :Plight of Soni Sori -Himanshu Kumar
Economics of River: Decommissioning Dams - Raj Kumar Sen
Binayak Sen: A Travesty of Justice - Trevor Selvam
Film: Moner Manush - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Vol. 43, No. 29, Jan 30-Feb 5, 2011
Contents
Note:Lokvidya - A Correspondent writes
News Wrap - AGD
Many Paths, No Direction :The Kashmir Question -Ranjit Sau
Karkare Controversy :Villain in Life, Hero in Death! -Subhash Gatade
Remembering Kanna :K G Kannabiran -Ahosk Prasad &
Ramaa Vasudevan

Vol. 43, No. 28, Jan 23-29, 2011
Contents
Note:Inviting Foreign Universities - Tarun Patnaik writes
News Wrap - AGD
Energy Injustice :‘‘Hiding Behind the Poor’’ -Shankar Sharma
Bihar :Left in the Lurch - Charubrata Ray
Bangladesh :Death of Those Garments Workers - Farooque Chowdhury
Oil Politics: ‘ECLIPSE’–An African Tragedy - M R Rajagopalan
Looking For resurgence: How to Restructure Prasar Bharati - Bharat Jhunjhunwala

Vol. 43, No. 27, Jan 16-22, 2011
Contents
Note:End of Globalization? - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
News Wrap - AGD
Ambedkar on Humanism :‘Action, Reflection, Action’ -Desh Raj Sirswal
Crime & Punishment :The Binayak Sen Judgment -Ilina Sen
Sudha Bharadwaj
Kavita Srivastava
Recalling Docor Bethune:The Scalpel, The Sword - Anirban Biswas

Vol. 43, No. 26, Jan 9-15, 2011
Contents
Note:Growth sans Welfare - Bharat Dogra writes
News Wrap - AGD
Multi-polar World:Crumbling American Empire -Dipankar Dey
Peace with the Earth:Defending Mother Earth -Vandana Shiva
Raipur Trial:Continuing Custodial Death - Gladson Dungdung
Review: DP’s Legacy- Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
Armageddon : Shias in Sunni Countries - Sisir K Mazumdar
Tough Choice: Persuasion, Radia style - Sevanti Ninan

Vol. 43, No. 25, Jan 2-8, 2011
Contents
Note:East China Sea - A Correspondent writes
News Wrap - AGD
Kerala Diary:Left, Right, Left... -Perumal Koshy
American War Crimes-I:Collateral Murder
American War Crimes-II: WikiLeaks and the Evil Empire -Seumas Milne
Moving Offshore - Karl Grossman

Vol.43, No.24, Dec 26-Jan 1, 2011
Contents
Comment:In a Bind
News Wrap - AGD
Posco Nightmare:Destroying India’s Coastline - M G Devasahayam
The Media As Middle Man - Farzana Versey
American Decline ‘The Asian Age’ - Juan Cole
Thriving on Subsidies - Devinder Sharma

Vol. 43, No. 23, Dec 19-25, 2010
Contents
Note:Behind the Smoke Screen -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
News Wrap - AGD
Migrant Labour:Slaving Away In Kerala - A V Sakthidharan
Hawker Economy:Small Business, Big Role–II - Dipankar Dey & Subhendu Dasgupta

Vol. 43, No. 22, Dec 12-18, 2010
Contents
Note:Pakistan : After the Deluge -A Correspondent writes
News Wrap - AGD
Non-Marxist Socialism:New Face of Socialism - Sunil
Violence vs Non-violence: Theatrical ‘Contemporarisation’ of Tagore - Pachu Ray
Hawker Economy:Small Business, Big Role–I - Dipankar Dey & Subhendu Dasgupta

Vol. 43, No. 21, Dec 5-11, 2010
Contents
Note: Benefits Of Electricity - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
News Wrap - AGD
Areva N Power Plant: Alfa, Beta, Gama... - Sebastian Rodrigues
Venezuelan Alternative:‘No’ to Market Totalitarianism
Rethinking Export Oriented Growth: America, China and Global Imbalance - Kanaga Raja
Inside the Monster:The Reality of America - Azad Mahmud
Other Facts About Nokia - Geeta Charusivam

Vol.43, No.20, Nov28 -Dec4 , 2010
Contents
Panchayats and Human Rights
Comment:The Battle for Land
Note:Cheap Goods, No Buyers - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
News Wrap - AGD
Gagging Free Speech -Barun Das Gupta
The Power Question: Peoples' Movements, Peoples' Power and the Left - Sanjeeb Mukherjee
Jharkhand: Operation NGO Hunt- Gladson Dungdung
Challenge to Neoliberism: Mass Protests in France - Peter Custers
West Bengal:Revisiting Singur - Nisha Biswas
Dam Refugees:Submerging People
Letter

 


Vol. 43, No. 19, Nov 21 -27, 2010
Contents

Big Name, Small Role

Comment: Protectionism on the Rise

Note: Fixing BPL Trademark - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
News Wrap - AGD
Reading the Global Turn - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Beyond Froman's E-Mail: Of Traitors and Patriots - S R

Wikileaks : Exposing War Crimes- By A Correspondent

Child Malnutrition: Structural Violence Against Children - Nirmalya Biswas

Letter


Vol. 43, No. 18, Nov 14 -20, 2010
Contents

Bolstering US Economy

Comment: Now Pepper Bullet

Note: The Millennium Dilemma - R B writes
News Wrap - AGD
Salwa Judum - Himanshu Roy
The God That Is Failing-II - Bibekananda Ray

Beyond the Liability Bill

Letters

 


Vol. 43 No. 17, Nov 7 -13, 2010

Contents

The Lesser Evil

Comment: Rotten to the Core

Note: The Currency Report - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
News Wrap - AGD
The God That Is Failing-I - Bibekananda Ray
Assam: Of Hypocrisy and Peace - Hiren Gohain

Legal Recognition of Domestic Work - Roopa Madhav

Scrapping Bhagirathi Dam - Devinder Sharma

Chernobyl—The Untold Truth - Peter Saunders

Film: Peepli Live - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

 


Vol.43 No.16, Oct 31-Nov 6, 2010
Contents

The Judgement

Comment: ‘No’ to Outsourcing

Note: Killing the Quacks - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
News Wrap - AGD
A $10-Billion Question - Kavaljit Singh

Little Democracies - Asha Menon

‘World Bank in India’ - Michael Carter

No Schools, All Barracks - Partho Sarathi Ray

Dantewada Bus - Priyanka Borpujari

 


Autumn Number


Vol. 43 No. 12-15, Oct 3 -30, 2010

 
Contents

 

POLITICS OF POLARISATION

RED STAR OVER INDIA -Jan Myrdal

LENIN READS MARX ON SOCIALISM -Paresh Chattopadhyay

IDENTITIES : SOME QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION - Ranganayakamma

THE CRISIS OF IDENTITY - Santosh Rana
CRITIQUE OF THE FIRST CPI(ML) - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

MAOIST POLEMICS–THE MASS LINE - Harsh Thakor

GANDHISM? OR OTHER ALTERNATIVES? - Sumanta Banerjee

GANDHIJI ON TAGORE - Nittopriyo Ghose

TAGORE'S NON-THEOLOGICAL, OPEN-ENDED VIEW OF REALITY - Ashish Lahiri

THE CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE OF J. C. KUMARAPPA'S LIFE & WORKS -T G Jacob

REFORMING HIGHER EDUCATION - Manas Joardar

ON SELF-RESPECT AND DEVELOPMENT OF TELANGANA - I Mallikarjuna Sharma

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF TELENGANA - T Vijayendra

GLIMPSES OF ADIVASI SITUATION IN GUDALUR, THE NILGIRIS -Pranjali Bandhu

SLAVERY, CULTURE AND MARXISM - Sujit K Das

SEX : WHO ARE THEY? - Robi Chakravarti

LOOKING BACK–THE GUA MINES CONSPIRACY CASE - Sankar Ray

OF NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND CONFLICTS - Subrata Sinha

‘RECONSTRUCTION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY - Anirban Biswas

'BENGAL FAMINE’ AND A FORGOTTEN AUTHOR - Abhijit Guha

A WRITER’S DILEMMA -Sandip Bandyopadhyay

FIFTY YEARS OF ‘LOKAYATA’ - Ramkrishna Bhattacharya

THE JAPANESE WIFE AND UDAAN - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

LAYING WASTE TO PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT - Subhendu Dasgupta

NO WAY TO UNITE THEORY & PRACTICE -  Ismail Chaudhury 

 


Vol.43 No. 11, Sep 26 -Oct 2, 2010

 

Contents

Wandering in the Wilderness

Comment: Trail of Destruction

Note: Revaluation of Yuan - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
News Wrap - AGD
Workers Resisting Worldwide - Farooque Chowdhury

IFFI: Indian Panorama - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Sigmar Polke: ‘A Queer Journey....’ - Ritwika Misra

PCPA Vs CPI(M) :Jangalmahal Revisited - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

Letter

 


Vol. 43 No. 10, Sep 19 -25, 2010

 

Contents

Talking Turkey

Comment: Looting Iron Ores

Note: Food for Thought - IANS writes
News Wrap - AGD
Jharkhand: Yet Another Fake Encounter - Gladson Dungdung
West Bengal: Drifting Towards Anarchy - A B

Health for all: A Medical Tour of Cuba - Nasim H Naqvi

IFFI : Goa Film Festival - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Report: Killing the Peace Process

Redefining the Poverty Line - Arun Kumar

Letter


Vol. 43 No. 9, Sep 12 -18, 2010

 

Contents

More of the Same

Comment: Political Mainstream

Note:Where Journalism is a crime - Sankar Ray writes
WHITHER KASHMIR?: Competing Nationalisms & Religion - Yoginder Sikand
NAXAL-PHOBIA RETURNS: Police Terror in Punjab - Harsh Thakor

ALL WAR AND NO PEACE: Behind the Silencing of Azad - Gautam Navlakha

‘HOLOCAUST’ REVISITED: Kolkata Film Festival - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

SINO-US TRADE WAR: Playing the Blame Game - Wang Yong

 


Vol. 43 No.8, Sep 5 -11, 2010

 

Contents

‘No’ to Vedanta

Commen: ‘Religious Terrorism’ is a Misnomer

Note:Raut’s Suicide - S R writes
News Wrap - AGD
Myth & Reality: Towards the Anthropology of a University - Abhijit Guha
‘‘DEPOLITICISATION’’ OF CPM: Rectifying Mistakes? - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

‘WATER FOR DEATH’’: Arsenic in Drinking Water - Manas Joardar

MIGRANT WORKERS: Toiling for the Commonwealth - Ankit Sharma & Paresh Chandra

Letter

 


Vol. 43 No.7, Aug 29 -Sep 4, 2010

 

Contents

Illusions of Change?

Commen: No Water to Drink

Note: Of Foreign Aid and Its Negetive Impact - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
News Wrap - AGD

Subalterns Speak Out - K S Subramanian

Revolution in South Asia

‘Chidambaram Seems Cold to Peace'

Letters

 


Vol. 43 No. 6, August 22 -28, 2010

 

Contents

Breaking the Siege

Commen: PM’s Priorities

Note: Half Muslims and non-Muslims - Farzana Versey writes
News Wrap - AGD
A False Proposition - Gautam Navlakha

West Bengal: Pollution and State Terror - Kumar Rana

North East: Managing News - Hiren Gohain

Education and Employability - Barun Mitra

 


Vol. 43 No. 5, August 15 -21, 2010

 

Contents

‘Endless Kashmir War’

Commen: Lifting the Veil

Note: Maoist Panic in Gujarat - Prasad Chacko writes
News Wrap - AGD
Forests, OGH and Political Economy - Shankar Gopalakrishnan
Food Security Act: Growing Hunger in India - Nirmalya Biswas

Azad—the ‘Gandhian with the Gun’ - Saroj Giri

 


Vol. 43 No. 4, August 8 -14, 2010

 

Contents

Voices of Conscience

Commen: Of Corruption and Food Insucurity

Note: ‘‘Life is Cheap in India’’ - Arjun Makhijani writes
News Wrap - AGD
Army: A Prescription for Civil War - Interview: EN Rammohan
Mao beyond Maoism - Tapan Bandyopadhyay

Saltpan: The Last Defence - Freny Manecksha

26 Years Later : ‘Black Comedy' - Amit Sengupta

THE MAMATA PHENOMENON: The Spectre of Change -Asru Kumar Sikdar

Letter

 

Vol. 43 No. 3, August 1 -7, 2010

 

Contents

Reason to Worry

Commen: Of Labour and NRGEA

Note: Targeting Women- Partho Sarathi Ray writes
News Wrap - AGD
Democracry Sans Democracy: Who is Afraid of Civil Society? - Vidya Bhushan Rawat
RED SHIRTS: Thailand : Two Elites and a Proletariat - Satya Sagar

Havana Diary: Imperialism and Lies - Fidel Castro Ruz

WEST BENGAL: Land Reforms: Myth & Reality - Koel Das

Letter

 


Vol. 43 No. 2, Jul 25 -31, 2010

 

Contents

Living On Borrowed Time

Commen: From Manchester to Zhongshan

Note: Resisting POSCO - Abhay Sahu writes
News Wrap - AGD
Havana Diary: The Empire and the War - Fidel Castro Ruz

Kerala: Deepening Communal Divide - Perumal Koshy

 


Vol. 43 No. 1, Jul 18-24, 2010

 

Contents

Wading Deeper in Kashmiri Blood

Commen: RTI Martyrs

Note: God’s Own Country - O C writes
News Wrap - AGD

Torture Bill -An Act of Torture - Arun Ferreira

 


Vol. 42 No. 52, Jul 11-17, 2010
 

Contents

Seeking Paths to Salvation

Comment: India, China, Japan

Note:Barefoot Doctors - O C writes
Truth Detecting Barbarism: Third Degree Torture - Arun Ferreira
Internal Colonialism: Of Growth and Sustainable Development - Dipankar Dey

Bhopal Tragedy: It’s a Street Crime! - Kabir Arora

Statement: Decayed Justice

Hari P Sharma [1934-2010] 'Celebrating Life in Struggle...' -SM

 


Vol. 42 No. 51, Jul 4-10, 2010
 
Contents

One Year Later

Comment: Living with Religious Terrorism

Note:Who is Responsible? - Asghar Ali Engineer writes
Continuing Conflict: Permanent Spring - Dilip Simeon
Kafkasque Terror: They are not Maoists - Amit Sengupta

 


Vol.42 No.50, Jun 27-Jul 3, 2010

 

Contents

‘Beyond Petroleum’

Comment: ‘The Business of Hunger’

Note: AI Report 2010 - Nirmalya Biswas writes
They Are Indians Too - Himanshu Kumar
Report: ‘Beyond the Peak’ - By a Correspondent

Greek Tragedy Living Beyond Means - Shiv Sethi

Targeting Human Rights Groups - Raman Kirpal

Letter

 


Vol. 42 No. 49, Jun 20-26, 2010
Contents

Democracy As Reason

Comment: The Bhopal Judgement

Note: Certificate of Good Standing- Shah Alam Khan writes
News -AGD
Untruth Serum - P Chandra Sekharan
Report on Posco Villages - Partho Sarathi Ray

Film: Real Reel - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

A Tribute: Anjan Ghosh - AB

Letter

 

Vol. 42 No. 48, Jun 13-19, 2010

 

Contents

An Acronym Still

Comment: Identity Business

Note: Murder, Lies, Cover-up- Larry Everest writes
Denizens of the Other India - D Bandyopadhyay

Unending Aila Woes - Somnath Mukherji

Back from Gurgaon - GWN

 


Vol. 42 No. 47, Jun 6-12, 2010

 

Contents

Protecting Journalists

Comment :Strategy of Tax Exemptio

Note: From Greece to China - N L writes

ULFA vs Government: The Peace Process - Hiren Gohain

Maoist Action in Dantewada -Sumanta Banerjee

Book: Carvaka Philosophy -A New Look - Subhendu Sarkar

Letters


Vol.42 No.46, May 30-Jun 5, 2010

 

Contents

Copenhagen, Cochabamba, Cancun

Comment: Chile Shows the Way

Note: Who Rules India? - Devinder Sharma writes
Profiting from Poor - Kavaljit Singh

How to Combat Climate Change - Subrata Sinha

Book Review: ‘Atoms for Terror’ -Sankar Roy

Letter

 


Vol. 42 No. 45, May 23-29, 2010

 

Contents

Adopting Antagonistic Posture

Comment: PL480 Returns?

Note: Of Economy and Naxalism - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
Climate Crisis and an Isle Lost - Farooque Chowdhury

Letters


Vol. 42 No. 44, May 16-22, 2010

 

Contents

A ‘Strategic’ Anniversary

Comment: No Water

Note: April Opera - Madhusudan Pal writes

Review: ‘Regaining Paradise’ - M R Rajagopalan

Continuing Bondage: India on Auction - Pushpa M Bhargava

 


Vol. 42 No. 43, May 9-15, 2010
Contents

 

No Radical Rupture

Comment:Motor Menace

Note: Denying Right to Rights Activist - A Correspondent writes

Recalling 'Guha Neogi' -Violence & Non-Violence - Tapan Bandyopadhyay

Rabindranath, Fascism and Four 20th Century Poets - Sisir K Majumdar

 


Vol. 42 No. 42, May 2-8, 2010
Contents

 

Kalinganagar Calling

Comment: 'Operation Mineral Hunt'

Note: Grave Danger Ahead - Sukla Sen writes
Attacking Liberal Ideas - Irfan Engineer

Soil is the Soul - Sisir K Majumdar

Kanu Sanyal–the Voice of Indian Revolution - Subrata Basu

Bonded Still


Vol. 42 No. 41, Apr 25 - May1, 2010
Contents

 

History Is Not Moving

Comment:Permanent Settlement

Note:Beheading Islam in Peshwar - Shah Alam Khan writes
State vs People - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

Marshal Speaks Out

The Truth in Batala

Letter

 


Vol.42 No.40, Apr 18-24, 2010
Contents

 

Continuing Conflict

Comment: India Made Foreign Degrees

Note: Reforming Muslim Personal Law - Yoginder Sikand writes
Karnataka: Closing Schools - Anil Sadgopal

Letters

 


Vol.42 No.39, Apr 11-17, 2010
Contents

 

Confusing the Maoist Cause

Comment: Economics of the Unconscious

Note: Managing Drought - Siba Sankar Mohanty writes
Of Net and Neutrality - Bharat Jhunjhunwala

A Laudable Endeavour -Jolly Das

Defending the Indefensible - By A Correspondent

War on Rights -30 Years Later - Jyoti Punwani

 


Vol.42 No.38, Apr 4-10, 2010
Contents

A ‘Rights’ Issue

Comment: Hungry India

Note: Employment Puzzle - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
Spring Thunder Anew - Bernard D'Mello
Rape Of The Hills - Prabhat Sharan

‘‘To Rebel is Justified’’ (Kanu Sanyal) - Madhusudan Pal

Letters


Vol.42 No.37, Mar 28-Apr 3, 2010
Contents

The Killing Fields

Comment: Howard Zinn

Note:Centralizing Higher Education - Manas Joardar writes
Report: ‘Sickness’ is Good Business -Nagarik Mancha and NESPOM
‘‘The Face You Were Afraid to See" - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

Letters

 


Vol.42 No.36, Mar 21-27, 2010

Contents

Toward Fairness

Comment: Closer to Execution?

Note:From The Himalayas to the Bay -A Correspondent writes
We Are All Tribals -Ranjit Sau
Bhagat Singh On Dalits - Ashok Yadav

A Journey Into the Dark - Arati Chokshi

 


Vol.42 No.35, Mar 14-20, 2010
Contents

 

Road to Peace

Comment:Guns over Basic Needs

Note:More on the Judgement -A Correspondent writes

REVIEW-2: Negation & Affirmation - Anirban Biswas

Of State Terror and Civil Society - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

No Selection, No Election - K G Kannabiran

Letters


Vol.42 No.34, Mar 7-13, 2010
Contents

 

Budget 2010-11

Comment:Change Won’t Come Easy

Note:Life is ‘Dot’ -C W writes
'Atom for War' -Suvrat Raju
Blue Covenant - M R Rajagopalan
Living with Injustice - Zakia Soman

A Vicious Attack on People - Sailendra Nath Ghosh

 


Vol. 42 No. 33, Feb 28- Mar 6, 2010
Contents

 

‘War or Peace?’

Comment: Beyond Bt Brinjal

Note: People’s Tribunal on Sri Lanka -A Correspondent writes
The Lesson Of Haiti - Fidel Castro

Chattisgarh: ‘NO’ to Peace Initiative


Vol. 42 No. 32, Feb 21-27, 2010
Contents

 

The Melting Goes On

Comment: Coupling or Decoupling?

Note: Of Climate and Children -L B writes

Beyond Maoist? -Saroj Giri

It’s a Slaughter House - Sajid Kamaal

Theatre: Baghdad Burning - Anjan Ghosh

 


Vol. 42 No. 31, Feb 14-20, 2010

Contents

Debt, Vulture and Fund

Comment: Wolf at the Door

Note: The ‘Clean Coal’ Myth -S B writes

Peak Oil, Peak Food -Aetius Romulous

Amartya Sen’s ‘Justice’ - Samuel Moyn

Film: New Delhi Film Festival -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Letters


Vol. 42 No. 30, Feb 7-13, 2010

Contents

A Convenient Solution

Comment: Philosophy of Poverty

Note: Farm Debt -Devinder Sharma writes
Is Democracy Melting? -Arundhati Roy

Goodbye Copenhagen -Farooque Chowdhury

The Decline of Dollar - Robert Fisk

 


Vol. 42 No. 29, Jan 31-Feb 6, 2010
Contents

 

Secret War

Comment: It’s Martial Law

Note: Democracy Sans Democrats -A Correspondent writes
Alwar Shows the Way -Abhijit Guha

‘Samar Sen’ -M R Rajagopalan

‘Born’ Criminals - Goldy M George

Letter

 


Vol. 42 No. 28, Jan 24-30, 2010
Contents

 

Everything But Leftism

Comment: Food Inflation!

Note: Wooing America Won’t Work -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes

Copenhagen : A Failed Summit -Fidel Castro Ruz

‘Operation Green Hunt’ - Mukundan

Destabilising Venezuela- W T Whitney

Of Civil Society and Chidambaram’s War - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

Letter


Vol. 42 No. 27, Jan 17-23, 2010
Contents

 

Capping Nuclear Liability

Comment:The Blockade Remains

Note:Brussells Tribunal -Francoius Houtait writes
Revisiting Telengana (1946-1951) -T G Jacob & P Bandhu

Domestic Violence and Law -Rukmini Sen

Bhopal : The Forgotten Victims - Nina Lakhani

Weathering American Storm - Mark Weisbrot

India’s Look East Policy Reconsidered - Ramkrishna Bhattacharya

 


Vol. 42 No. 26, Jan 10-16, 2010
Contents

 

Not Dead Yet

Comment:Cuba Shinning

Note: Looting Mountains -A Correspondent writes

Of Traditional Knowledge -And Practice -Subrata Sinha

‘NO’ to Reforms -Martin Khor

Middle Class and NEP - A B

Film: Videsh - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Extremism and Its Causes - Asghar Ali Engineer

 


Vol. 42 No. 25, Jan 3-9, 2010
Contents

 

Talking with Telengana

Comment :Rights of the Child

Note: Easy Money Policy -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
Rediscovering Marx -Michael A Lebowitz

RANEN SEN: Indian Communist History Revisited -Sankar Ray

Dettol, Basmati and Terrorism - Jawed Naqvi

Marx, Darwin Connection in London - Sisir Kr Majumdar

FILM: Samantar - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Letters

 


Vol. 42 No. 24, Dec 27, 2009 -Jan 2, 2010
Contents

 

Road to Disaster

Comment: Campaign for Showdown

Note: Inequality vs Poverty -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
’Figures for Fun’ -Madhusudan Pal Vedanta Tirtha
Hiren Basu -Nityapriya Ghosh

Vol. 42 No. 23, Dec 20-26, 2009
Contents
Note: The Land Question -Bharat Dogra writes
India’s Long War -Arundhati Roy
8 Years Later -Larry Everest

Film: Dwando -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

 


Vol. 42 No. 22, Dec 13-19, 2009
Contents
Comment:Bt Brinjal
Note: Danger of Disintegration -Lalkar writes
Dialectics of Science -Partho Sarathi Roy
Continuing War - Beena Sarwar

 


Vol. 42 No. 21, Dec 6-12, 2009
Contents
Note: The Challenge of "Cheap" Electricity -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
China at Sixty -Pranab Bardhan

Book In Brief - Che

Letters

 


Vol. 42 No. 20, Nov 29-Dec 5, 2009
Contents
Note: UNDP REPORT 2009 -I Satya Sundaram writes
Mission to Myanmar -Song Qingrun

REVIEW: Sufism-Culture and Politics - Asghar Ali Engineer

War Crimes in Gaza - Kanaga Raja

Letter


Vol. 42 No. 19, Nov 22-28, 2009
Contents
Note: Gaddafi–Yesterday and Today -Gurdarshan Singh writes
Are Media Mad? -Madhusudan Pal Vedantatirtha

Of Great Depression & Protectionism - Kanaga Raja

America in Iran - By A Correspondent

 


Vol. 42 No. 18, Nov 15-21, 2009
 
Contents
Mission Likely
Comment:Rotten to the Core
Note: Terrorising Labour -Satyam writes
News Wrap -AGD
The Financial Crisis & Imperialism
Grand 'Unorganised` Opera -J John
RSS and Minorities -Ram Puniyani
'No` to Low-Cost Drugs -Martin Khor

Stolen Lives-Killed by Police - Shabnam Hashmi

 

Vol. 42 No. 17, Nov 8-14, 2009
Contents
Note: Trapped by Poverty -CYH writes
The Decline of American Empire -Farooque Chowdhury
A Revolution in the Making -Fidel Castro Ruz

Film: Shob Charitro Kalponik - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar


Vol. 42 No. 16, Nov 1 -7, 2009
 
Contents
Battle for Space
Comment:The Rise of Gold
Note: Nuclear Shadow -J S writes writes
News Wrap -AGD
My Answers to Prager Fruehling -Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Jinnah Was Not Secular -Ram Puniyani
Brutalising Prisoners -Subhash Gatade
Two Summits -Fidel Castro Ruz
A Step Forward...But - Rukmini Sen
Letters

Vol. 42 No. 15, Oct 25-31, 2009
Contents
Note: Anglo-American Designs -Niloufer Bhagwat writes
Partition Revisited -K Gajendra Singh
Film: Barah Anna -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Vol. 42 No. 14, Oct 18-24, 2009
Contents
Comment: RSS Matters
Note: Abrupt Climate Change -A Correspondents writes
Vanishing Wonders -Farooque Chowdhury
Zero Waste -Robin Murray

Autumn Number
Vol.42 No.10-13, Sep 20-Oct 17, 09
 
Contents
Conversations in Japan - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Remembering the Tiananmen - Paresh Chattopadhyay
Right to Education Bill - Manas Joardar
Bhowani Sen and Somnath Lahiri - Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
Engels on 'Authority' - Ranganayakamma
Beyond Petroleum - T Vijayendra
New Films by Menzel and Tarr - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
Labour's Right to Run the State - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
Ageless Jogen Chowdhury - Debabrata Chakrabarti
Goodbye to Taching - Farooque Chowdhury
Relevance of Sanskrit - Madhusudan Pal Vedanta Tirtha
Lost Alternatives - Ismail Chaudhury
The November Uprising - Santosh Rana

Vol. 42 No. 9, Sep 13-19, 2009
 
Contents
Note: Of Humans and Frogs -Xavier Dias writes
Nehru, Jinnah and Partition -Asghar Ali Engineer
Whither Pakistan? -Bharat Jhunjhunwala

Vol. 42 No. 8, Sep 6-12, 2009
 
Contents
Comment: Right to Food
Note: India vs Pakistan -Farrukh Saleem writes
Film: Gulabi Talkies and Antardhawani -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
An Open Letter to Obama - Mairead Maquire

Vol. 42 No.7, Aug 30-Sep 5, 2009
 
Contents
Note: World Government Needed -Bharat Dogra writes
Common School System -Ramesh Patnaik
Film: Katyn -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Vol. 42 No. 6, Aug 23-29, 2009
 
Contents
Note: The Burqa Controversy -Asghar Ali Engineer writes
Turmoil In China's Underbelly -T G Jacob & P Bandhu
The Torture Memos -Alan Goodman
Film: Two -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
Raigad Peasant Revolt -Aseem Srivastava

Vol. 42 No. 5, Aug 16-22, 2009
 
Contents
Note: 'No' to Uranium Mining -Saraswati Kavula writes
Communal Frenzy Again -Subhas Ghatade
Poison on the Platter -Pradeep Baisakh
Rape as a Weapon -Eileen Pittaway
Drought in Bihar -Dinesh Kumar Mishra
39th IFFI: Indian Panorama -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Vol. 42 No. 4, Aug 9-15, 2009
 
Contents
Note: Quality of Fiscal Deficit -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes
News Wrap --AGD

Vol. 42 No 3, Aug 2-8, 2009
 
Contents
Note: War on Drugs -Anand Grover writes
-Vidya Bhushan Rawat
Maoism vs Mao Thought -Harsh Thakor
Biofuel-The New Menace --By a Correspondent

Vol. 42 No 2, July 26-Aug 1, 2009
 
Contents
Hindutva Terror in Nepal -Subhas Ghatade
Lalgarh: Mao vs Marx -Pothik Ghosh

Vol. 42 No 1, July 19-25, 2009
 
Contents
Environment, Growth and Death -Bharat Jhunjhunwala

Vol. 41 No 52, July 12-18, 2009
 
Contents
Note: NREGA is Unsustainable -Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Social Business Without Profit -Farooque Chowdhury
Monster Called Monsanto -Sheila Samples
Obama's Dilema -Fidel Castro Ruz
Goa Film Festival -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Vol. 41 No 51, July 5-11, 2009
 
Contents
'Operation Lalgarh'
Comment: NATO Expands
Note: Vote for Moderation
News Wrap -AGD
Interest Free Loan: An Experiment -Arshad Ajmal
Demand, Don't Succumb -Michael Albert
Colonizing Culture -Dahr Jamail
Disaster Beyond Management -Sandip Bandyopadyay

Vol. 41 No 50, June 28 -July 4, 2009
 
Contents
'Looking Back
And Now Swine Flue!
Reform and Authoritarianism
News Wrap -AGD
Left-Out Lefts Ranjit Sau
The End of the Chinese Miracle? -Gordon G Chang
Aila Shock for the Left -Sankar Ray
The Chain Reaction Martin Khor
Film: Firaaq -Abhijit Gosh-Dastidar
Letter

Vol. 41 No 49, June 21-27, 2009
 
Contents
Where India Doesn't Matter
Comment: Living Hells
Note: Banning Cluster Bombs
News Wrap-AGD
The Nano Story -Dipankar Dey
IMF: Back in Business -C Y Heong
Rich World's Bank -Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Film: Kolkata Film Festival -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
Whither Bolivairian Revolution -Gregory Wilpert

Vol. 41 No 48, June 14-20, 2009
 
Contents
Exercise in Escapism
Opportunities and Adversities
Note: Small Arms, Immense Harm -BD writes
News -AGD
Nor'wester for the Left Bibekananda Ray
Obama and American Left -Sam Webb
Reimagining Socialism -C D Arria
Silent Looms of Gazipur -Bharat Dogra
'Blind Optimism' -Marina Litvinsky
G-20 Summit: Figures for Fun -Martin Khor
Letter

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

 
Vol. 41 No 46, May 31-June 6, 2009
 
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Vol. 41 No 45, May 24-30, 2009
 
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Vol. 41 No 44, May 17-23, 2009
 
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Vol. 41 No 43, May 10-16, 2009
 
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Vol. 41 No 42, May 3-9, 2009
 
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