Articles by Robi Chakravorti

The recent forced resignation of Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi from the M K Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in New York brings to mind the Zionist lobby's bitter criticism of Mahatma Gandhi from a Jewish fundamentalist perspective in the 1980s.

Television, since the 1960s, has helped deliver the immediacy of an event to its viewers. In recent years, its pervasive influence has helped reduce politics to a series of visual images that can be adroitly ?fixed? to influence and persuade the voter. The US provides the best illustration of this phenomenon.

Nato in the Balkans – Voices of Opposition by Ramsey Clark, Sean Gervasi and Others; International Action Center, New York, 1998.

Tribes: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy by Joel Kotkin; Random House, New York, 1993.
IN terms of the modern political-economic rhetoric of globalism frequently and indiscriminately used in writings on politics, economics, culture, ideology and history the book under review is interesting. It deals with the history and operation of some immigrant groups in the US and other countries, and makes sweeping generalisations about their activities leading to "the road to cosmopolis", a phrase used in the epilogue part of the book.

US Style Robi Chakravorti IN early part of March, there was a spectacular 18-day general strike in two General Motors (GM) brake-making factories in the US. The repercussions of the strike led to the closing down of about three-fourth of GM plants in the country idling about 83,000 GM workers. The issue causing the conflict between the largest automobile plant in the country and United Automobile Workers Union (U A W), the largest and historically activist labour union, was 'outsourcing' a new term that has crept into the current rhetoric dealing with economic and social issues.