Whether the complaints and accusations against the Left Front have any objective basis or not, they have left their mark on the psyche of West Bengal's urban electorate. The non-fulfilment of popular...
A Calcutta Diary
In the kind of society we have built for ourselves, the younger members of the wealthy, fresh from the finishing schools set up for their edification, are not easily rattled. Why should therefore the...
There are still a few leftover codes of civilisation which capitalistfeudal systems cannot forsake. The LTTE may have won the war, but those trapped in the Elephant Pass include some of India's close...
The ongoing commotion, the medley of accusations and counteraccusations, does not deter the Indian bookmaker. He makes a pragmatic assessment of the ingredients of ground reality. What poses a...
This year's union budget intended import restrictions on sugar to be lifted forthwith. Something went wrong, the prime minister has actually ordered the reimposition of import duty on sugar. This is...
Several of the problems plaguing the Left Front in West Bengal are arising on account of the fade-out of ideology or philosophical belief. The Front is no longer the collage of passion and resistance...
The budget proposals have little to do with the processes of the Indian economy. So what, the criterion to apply is whether these please Washington, DC. True, the fiscal deficit could not be cut back...
Much more than the actual Clinton trip, it is the preliminaries to it which are proving to be far more important to the two quarrelsome countries in the subcontinent. India will hasten to cede ground...
The US treasury secretary, what ho, has just signed a deal with the Indian finance minister. The latter has underwritten full protection of American capital invested here. The augmentation of defence...
It was the late 1940s or the early 1950s. Bunches of young Indian graduate students were flocking to the Oxbridge universities. In this extraordinarily bright crowd, a slip of a girl, Dharma...
What do you expect when governments, in country after country, are being privatised wholesale? Only ngo’s are henceforth likely to matter. It is little use complaining that these are dangerous...
Many of the assumptions of those favouring privatisation of insurance belong to the realm of pure fiction. But since the authorities in New Delhi have already entered into commitments, philosophy...
