Civilisation obviously has many facets. Even as the two self-appointed leaders of Christian West are embarked on their killing spree, the law of dialectics too has set at work. Dissent and protests...
A Calcutta Diary
The democratic pretensions of the polity lie in ruins. Nobody minds the Constitution any more. Why be unhappy though? The holy task of demolition of the Constitution started quite some time ago...
History marches on. Consider the colourless budget the union finance minister presented on the last day of last month. Even he could not but admit the sorry reality of the economy having come to a...
The Calcutta Book Fair is now a formidable institution and has completed a quarter of a century's existence. It draws participants from across the country and sometimes from overseas as well. Even so...
The people in Buenos Aires and other towns and cities in the Argentine Republic have rolled into the streets with their pots and pans and sticks and umbrellas and faced police batons and tear gas...
The temptation to create a Pakistan and, by implication, a Muslim phobia was indeed very great. The stability of the government at the centre is crucially dependent upon the outcome of the assembly...
The Republic of Argentina has proved the point. It is not necessarily TINA. There can be an alternative, there is an alternative. Suppose, way back in 1991, the Indian ruling class, instead of...
The architects of national decisions that matters have actually played themselves into an impossible corner. They must eat the cake and have it too; they must cultivate democratic pretensions and yet...
Substitution of sales taxation by value added tax, it is being claimed, will reduce distortions in the economy caused by multiple rates of taxation of inputs and help the establishment of an...
The time for celebrations was also the time for remembrance, or should have been the time for remembrance. On the day the Calcutta Film Festival was inaugurated, Karuna Banerjee passed away. In their...
The two amendments proposed to the Representation of the Peoples Act requiring open voting by members of state assemblies while electing members of the Rajya Sabha and dispensing with the residential...
Having surrendered to pax Americana, dear prime minister, you have few options left. The Indian economy is in the direst possible mess. The only way you can salvage the situation is to appeal to...
In the fiftieth year since the commencement of the republican Constitution, India is safely re-established as an impeccable feudal realm. The Gwalior funeral merely confirmed the reality of Indian...
In this hysteria time, not one thought has been spared for the handful of people constituting the suicide squads who took over the planes and deployed them as missiles for destroying the Pentagon and...
An honourable judge of the Supreme Court has recently observed that the Constitution is more important than a popular mandate. That is all very well, but is the Constitution more important than the...
