India's political parties
A study of democracy is incomplete without a study of one of its most fundamental components—political parties. In India, works on the country’s political parties so far have explored, among other things,
Political Parties
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Nandigram and CPI M 's insensitivity to rural sector
the massacre at Nandigram came as a shock to most. In retrospect, though, it needn't have. cpi(m)'s unrelenting drive to industrialise and urbanise West Bengal has had the makings of a disaster for
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Red said go
West Bengal s Left Front government is all set to displace farmers
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Left in peace L.I.P.
Forget ideological shibboleths. The market is the great equaliser. Even politically
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Testimonies from Nandigram
On March 14, 2006, about 3,000 police personnel forced their way into West Bengal's Nandigram block, injuring and killing many villagers. Villages in the block, in East Midnapur district, have been
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Democratising access to data
INDIA'S politicians and bureaucrats have often been compared to the five blind men and the elephant, with the difference that they have consciously chosen to be blind. For years, they have woven a
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Conspicuously missing
ANYBODY reading the national media would have thought that environmental issues had precious little to do with the current round of elections in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal
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Plunder the mines
<font class="UCASE">forest</font>, water and biodiversity management don't have powerful lobbies. Mining does. The trouble is mineral exploitation can easily destroy the natural resource base of the poor
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World's first green party takes root
THE ISLAND state of Tasmania, with its relative abundance of natural resources and wild countryside, is the home of the world's first Green party, the United Tasmania Group (UTG), which elbowed its
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Bhopal gas victims fade into the background
Most candidates for the Bhopal North constituency are ready to overlook the fate of victims of the world's worst industrial disaster.
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Tarapur: a stualy in apathy
In March 1995. the Tarapur atomic power station in Thane, Maharashtra, hit a headlines with an incident of radioactive waste leakage into a drainage system. Reports of the leakage having