Articles by S R Sen

President and Prime Minister S R Sen Democracy in government has of necessity to have some check and balance provisions, some of which our Constitution had originally provided but which were later subverted by the 42nd and 52nd amendments. This article draws attention to certain important issues on which there is an urgent need to make a formal reference to the Supreme Court.

Oligopoly in Oligarchy S R Sen What the world is really heading for is 'oligopoly in oligarchy', quite different from 'market economy in democracy' that the liberals wanted and 'command economy in a proletarian dictatorship' that the Marxists fought for.

The Price of Security S R Sen Unless something drastic is done to arrest the growth in defence, police and other non-development expenditures, India is likely to miss the second technological revolution and world trade boom that seems to be in the offing in the Nineties, just as she had failed to take advantage of the enormous technological changes and world trade expansion of the Sixties.

Heartland and Borderland S R Sen If the contagion of the political upheavals caused by centripetal forces now convulsing the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia should spread to India, the results would be far worse since the divergence between the heartland and borderland and communal and caste tensions are so much more acute in India.

Bangladesh: Retrospect and Prospect S R Sen A time has come, after more than four decades of painful trial and error, for Bangladesh (and some other countries of this region) to consider very seriously whether to go on trying inflexibly and again and again only the two familiar but counter-productive alternatives, viz, the presidential system (without separation of powers) and the parliamentary system (without the basic codes of conduct) or to evolve a third alternative.