Whether the participants in the Colombo summit give a new direction to the non-aligned movement or not, there can be no question about the need for it. For, anti-imperialist slogans themselves no longer serve the interests of most of the member-countries, much less of the third world as a whole. … Read More
It there was some hope of a significant change in the international economic order, it has been found to be misplaced. Things are, of course, not back to what they were before 1974 inasmuch as the US, western Europe and Japan have not recovered their old confidence in the possibilities … Read More
It is legitimate to assume that Mr. Brezhnev has made significant ideological concessions to “nationalist” communists at the recent conference of European communist parties in Berlin and that he has been guided by a host of considerations. For no simple or straightforward explanation of what has happened is really convincing. … Read More
The United States has entered the third century of its existence as an independent nation full of doubts regarding its own future. And yet no other country is as vigorous, innovative, productive and well placed to influence the course of events in coming years and decades. Indeed, it will not … Read More
It will perhaps be wrong to suggest that the participants in the five-day seminar organised by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Simla last week represented what might loosely be called the country’s intellectual community. The economists were, for instance, conspicuous by their absence. Considering the choice of the … Read More
It is somewhat arbitrary to divide a vigorous relationship like the one between India and the Soviet Union into distinct periods. For one thing, the dominating theme of one period flows into the next and, for another, each side inevitably regards different dates as turning points. Even so, the exercise … Read More
While there is everything to be said for preserving and protecting the country’s art treasures, it is open to question whether the Art and Antiquities Act will, as it stands, best serve this purpose. The Central government, particularly the Ministry of Education which has been responsible for pushing through and … Read More
It has become a commonplace by now that the radicals and the moderates in China are engaged in a bitter struggle for succession to Chairman Mao Tse-tung whose frail condition permits him to do little more than mumble a few words on controversial issues. And surprising though it may appear, … Read More
Since March 1959 when India’s friendship with China came under a cloud in the wake of the revolt in Lhasa and the flight of the Dalai Lama and thousands of Tibetans into this country, its relations with the outside world, specially its neighbours, have never been as balanced as they … Read More
It will be wrong to write off UNCTAD IV, because the conference at Nairobi has just entered the crucial phase of behind-the-scene discussions and also because in the long-drawn-out struggle poor countries have to wage against the rich in their search for a less unjust and more equitable economic order … Read More
