There is no greater indictment of the top Congress leadership than the fact that a single person without the backing of a private army was able to impose the emergency in utter violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the Constitution. Such a thing could never have been … Read More
While at least a couple of reflective articles have appeared in the Pakistan press tracing the disaster of 1971 back to the war with India in 1965, the latest being by Mr AR Siddiqi, editor of Defence Journal, in the December 1976 issue of the magazine, there has to the … Read More
During the current discussion of the role of the CPI, there has so far been no reference to the activities of other self-proclaimed radical parties in the country. This is perhaps largely the result of the fact that the CPI has managed to wield considerable influence in recent years, … Read More
The UN Asian Development Institute has done well to publish this collection of papers which were read at the symposium it organised in Bangkok last November in collaboration with UNESCO. It gives the readers an opportunity to find out fairly quickly what leading Asian social scientists are thinking and saying … Read More
Prof. Rostislav Ulyanovsky has followed his article on the economic plight of developing countries in the August (No. 34) issue of New Times, Moscow, by another on “aspects of the political scene” in the third world in the September (No. 38) issue of the magazine. Like the previous piece, which … Read More
Since India, unlike China, has by and large not thought of national revival in terms of insulating itself from the rest of the world community, there is no reason why it should seek to base its economic growth on the concept of self-reliance in the sense of doing away with … Read More
The August issue of New Times, Moscow, carries an interesting article entitled “The Developing Countries: Economic Front” by Prof. Rostislav Ulanovsky. Whatever its purpose, it is significant if for no other reason than that the Soviet Press seldom carries so pitiless an exposure of the weaknesses of developing countries. The … Read More
The politically conscious intelligentsia in the country is divided on the question of the proposed amendments to the Constitution, which in a sense represent the fulfilment of the aspirations of most of its members. For, excepting the Gandhians, who favour decentralisation of political power and industry and regional parties, politically … Read More
There could be no greater tribute to the non-aligned world than the efforts made by Rumania, Portugal and the Philippines to get associated, however tenuously, with the recent Colombo summit. This demonstrated how a number of even aligned countries have come to look up to it for a measure of … Read More
The rather desultory discussions on the proposed constitutional changes so far have not produced and are not likely to produce anything like a consensus. Indeed, apart from the CPI and the ADMK, other opposition parties have even questioned the right of the present Parliament to undertake the exercise on the … Read More
