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Free Trade lessons from WTO failure
The recent failure of the World Trade Organizations Doha Round of negotiations in Geneva on the issue of subsidies in the developed countries and tariff protections in the developing countries is the lesson for free-trader who has propagated the virtues of free trade to the developing countries to open up their economies to the unrestricted imports from the developed world. The debate is not about to go away but will intensify, thus, eventually forcing the developed countries to use increasingly...
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Drama of Unreality - Indo-US N-deal
The recent drama regarding the Indo-US nuclear treaty has demonstrated the unrealistic approaches of all parties concerned both the Congress and the so-called Left parties. The unrealistic expectation of The Congress party is that by signing the treaty India can somehow avoid the danger posed by the increasing price of crude oil and a possible energy shortage in future. Another unrealistic expectation is that USA wants to set up India as a bulwark against China and in future it would protect Ind...
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Demand for Gorkhaland: Implications
Veteran Naxalite leader and the CPI-ML general secretary, Mr Kanu Sanyal has expressed support towards the ongoing agitation in the Darjeeling hills demanding a separate Gorkhaland state. The Maoist leader said, his party had favoured the Gorkhaland demand earlier and supports it now as well. The Nepalis in Darjeeling have got every right to self-rule and the demand for Gorkhaland is very genuine.But how genuine is that demand? The fact remains that the Nepalese are not the original inhabitants ...
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East vs West: A false Western idea
The problem with the Western intellectual is that they know very little beyond their own countries but they are arrogant enough to make comments about the whole world.Guy Sorman is one of those Western intellectual who has taken as his profession to denigrate the East or the Eastern civilizations. Guy Sorman is a regular columnist for Le Figaro in France. He wrote recently his new book The Empire of Lies. As a critic of the East he has considered, forgetting India altogether, only the Chinese an...
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Inflation in India
Inflation in India is still rising. Between March 2006 and March 2007, year-on-year wholesale price index inflation excluding food and energy rose from 2 per cent to 7.9 per cent.Leading indicators of inflation point one-way: continued price pressures. Excess capacity has shrunk to a 14year low (according to the NCAER). In addition, there are signs of overheating in real estate and labour markets, with surveys showing the salaries of skilled workers rising by around 15 per cent annually. The Pu...
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Chinese Tibet Occupation & Indian Respo..
The Chinese Olympic is going to be almost a replica of Hitlers Olympic in 1936 to demonstrate the raw power of an imperialist and fascist state, where all the heads of state, barring possibly the French president, will arrive to pay their tribute to a brutal country that has subjugated not only Tibet but also East Turkistan, Mongolia, Manchuria. Their cousin Kuomintang Chinese also have colonized Taiwan since 1949. Although China is still occupying a vast part of India in Jammu & Kashmir and sup...
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Globalization, Farmers Rights & SEZ
The dispute of the farmers, against the oppressive governments in Singur, Nandigram, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh in India, is not a war between industry and agriculture or between progress and conservatism but between basic human rights and a government determined to create a pure capitalistic heaven by taking over poor peoples only possession of a little land and a home without paying proper compensation. The dispute is not restricted to West Bengal. The introduction of Special Eco...
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What if USA recognizes J&K as a country?
If suddenly USA and its NATO allies recognize Kashmir as an independent country because almost 99 percent of its population are Muslims, there is nothing India can do. In Kosovo, a province of Serbia, where about 90 percent of the population are Muslims, is now recognized as an independent country to be protected by NATO. However, India government is ignoring the issue.In 1999, United States and NATO have bombed Yugoslavia into submission and taken over Kosovo, a part of Serbia, which was a prov...
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Facts: Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan, Jihad & India
Benazir Bhutto has helped Mujahideens to occupy Afghanistan and destroy cities after cities, killing millions and ultimately turn it into a province of Pakistan. Ben Laden was trained in Afghanistan by the Pakistani army. Ben Laden was entertained by both Mrs.Thatcher and President Reagan as the Freedom Fighter of Afghanistans. Then she has sent thousands of killers to Kashmir to mass murder the Hindus and drive all non-Muslims out of Kashmir since 1988-89. She has also created Taliban, when the...
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Empire of China
Chinas recent demand that Arunachal Pradesh of India is a part of China has provoked a very wrong kind of reaction from the government of India and the Indian media in general. Once again India has failed to turn the table against China. India should have said, China has no border with India at all, but Tibet has. By not recognizing the fact that China is occupying Tibet illegally India has once again in practice accepted the Chinese occupation of Tibet, Manchuria and Eastern Turkistan or Pakist...
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Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Missing the Point
Indian media as usual is missing the main point of the debate and concentrating on the spoiler of the great-game CPI(M) without understanding where India’s interest should lie.CPI(M) is not issue in this matter because even if that party would not exist, it is essential to understand the issue rather than going along with the wishes of the US government, who may or may not be interested in India’s gains or losses....
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British left India for Bose, Not Gandhi
Yogi Ramdev’s courageous statement that we must not forget the role of the revolutionaries in the freedom movement of India has called for a reexamination of the role of Mahatma Gandhi and his Satyagraha. Satyagraha’ literally means insistence on truth. According to Gandhi, the doctrine of Satyagraha “came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but ones own self. Satyagraha and its off-shoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names...
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Amartya Sen and Globalization
Amartya Sen’s observation on the recent land-grab movements in India to create Special Economic Zones should be analyzed in a proper light. Sen made the comment that for economic development industrialization must proceed irrespective of whether it may destroy fertile land because industrializations in the developed countries previously have destroyed a lot of fertile lands and that was the price of progress. Sen has ignored a basic point.The dispute of the farmers against the oppressive governm...
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Indo-US Nuclear Treaty: Its Implications
The character of the representative democracy is that people can only elect the members of the state or national parliaments but once elected the representatives can ignore the public opinion, unless there is a system of regular referendums on every important issue. In the European countries, including Britain, referendums are part and parcel of democracy, but not in India or in the U.S. As a result, both in India and U.S the government or the ruling party or the coalition of parties can behave ...
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Return of the Cold War
A new cold-war is slowly but steadily emerging between USA and Russia, which may have significant implications for India in near future and can alter all strategic plans of India regarding its positions in the world and its economic policy. Media in India has so far ignored the issue as usual because India always wakes up too late to understand he significance of changes in major international events. ...
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