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February Issue
- Indian Tribes After Sixty Years — Walter Fernandes
- Just Compensation for Land: Singur Controversy — Madhusudan Dutta
- N-Power and Petrochemicals : “ Scientific Superstitions” — Manindra Narayan Majumder
Chemical Hub at Nayachar?
- No to Nayachar Hub : Experts [link]
- Proposed Chemical Hub in Nayacahar : An Objective Assesment — Abhijit Sengupta [pdf, 51 KB] NEW
- Nayachar — Terminal Symptom of a Malady by Subrta Sinha [link] (The Statesman, 12th February 2008)
- The Proposed Chemical Hub in Nayachar : Some Argumentative Issues of Concern — Kalyan Rudra [pdf]
- GSI's preliminary note on visit to Nayachar [pdf]
Recent Articles
Economics and Politics of Indo-US Nuclear Deal
— Two extensive articles on Indo-US Nuclear Deal by Guruprasad Kar
- Bharat Markin Paramanu Chuktir Arthaniti O Rajniti [ pdf, 184 KB ]
- 123 Chukti : Markin Byabosayik O Samarik Swarthei Rachito [ pdf, 128 KB ]
See also
- The Indo-US Nuclear Pact and the hoax of Nuclear Power by Prof. Dipanjan Raichaudhuri [ pdf, 84 KB ]
- Nuclear Power for Eastern India : No Basis for Choice by Debkumar Bose (courtsey EPW) [ pdf, 44 KB ]
Watch out
- “Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda” — A documentary on unsafe uranium mining in Jadugoda, Jharkhand which has resulted in excessive radiation leading to genetic mutation and slow death. [ From Youtube in six parts — click here ]
Garte Gele Ghure Darate Hobe
— A bengali article on the entry of big-giants in the retail sector of India by Abhee K. Dutt-Mazumder [ pdf, 232 KB ]
Economic Power and Economic Governance : Political Economy of Contemporary Development Dynamics
— Ratan Khasnabis [ pdf, 51 KB ]
Endemic Fluoride Toxicosis : WB Not Exempt Crippling Effects : Incurable, but Easily Resistable
— Manindra Narayan Majumder [ pdf, 320 KB ]
Peace is my mission, Love is my passion but War is my vision
— Ranesh Roy [ pdf, 23 KB ]
BESU : Another ploy to strangle the voice of democracy
— Ashokendu Sengupta [ pdf, 100 KB ]
Dr. Binayak Sen must be released forthwith
— Sukumari Bhattacharya and Dipanjan Raichaudhuri [ pdf, 40 KB ]
Dissent and Reconstruction: West Bengal Plunging into Anarchy
— Amlan Dutta (Translation Probal Dasgupta) [ pdf, 52 KB ]
Predatory Growth
— Amit Bhaduri [ pdf, 60 KB ]
Tall Claim : Employment Generated by Haldia Petrochemicals
This short note by Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri is supplementary to his article “ Haldia Petrochemicals and Unemployment in East Midnapore ” [ pdf, 60 KB ]
Growth of a Wasteland
Economic growth tends to be sustained over a period of time by mutually reinforcing tendencies. This process has appeared in different guises in various fields of enquiry to describe essentially similar phenomena. Biologists have long known it as symbiosis or mutualism between two species; they appear as autocatalysis in chemical reactions, and engineers dealing with electrical circuits call similar mechanisms systems of positive mutual feedbacks. Economists Myrdal and Kaldor tried to capture this phenomenon occurring during the process of economic growth as the mechanism of ‘cumulative causation’, and ‘dynamic increasing returns’ respectively. While most processes of economic growth sustained over a period of time might be characterized by this somewhat abstract notion of mutually reinforcing tendencies, each historical process is also different in so far as it generates it own specific tendencies. It is the specificity of these reinforcing tendencies that determine to a large extent the developmental politics underlying this growth process. — writes Amit Bhaduri [ pdf, 60 KB ]
A Thermodynamic Analysis of Development Technologies
— Sanat Mohanty
Where will technology go? What will technology do? These questions lie at the center of one set of debates with regards to the direction of technology development, policies on resources and technologies, their need and utilization and and the social, political and environmental impact of these choices. This article discusses about the policies and technologies which are truely going to be sustainable.
Though the proof of the central assertion is aimed at the student of science, the simplicity of the language and the absence of jargons make this article friendly towards the non specialist reader too. [ pdf, 264 KB ]
Sakaler Hate Kaaj O Amartya Sen (Work for everyone and Amartya Sen)
A crtique of Amartya Sen’s articles “ THE INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY — Developments in West Bengal” and “ POLICY BY DISCUSSION - Developments in West Bengal ” in The Telegraph by Dipanjan Raichaudhuri [ pdf, 56 KB ]
Share Market Gyrations: Thwarting National Policy Making
— Arun Kumar [courtsey : The Tribune] [ pdf, 72 KB ]
Look Back in Anger
A critique of Left Front's education policy. — Asokendu Sengupta [ pdf, 36 KB ]
Rethinking Marxists’ strategy of Development in West Bengal
— Sanjeeb Mukherjee
Almost all governments legitimize themselves by claiming to bring about development — it is the principal slogan of all political advertising. Left and right governments do not differ much on this question. Development promises justice for everybody. Development is treated as a scientific and technical thing for experts to decide and administer. There is no place for politics or democracy in this entire enterprise.
The article induces to think critically about development and the Left government Front (LF) government’s perspective on development in West Bengal since 1977. First, it examines the CPM’s (the dominant partner of the ruling coalition) imaginary of development and then, tries to answer how the CPM, which, believed in fighting capitalism and imperialism and in making a revolution, has today come to be capital’s greatest advocate? How did this transformation come about? Finally, it tries to look for alternatives to this model of development — alternatives, both in theory and practice, alternatives, which can be implemented here and now. [ pdf, 188 KB ]
The Tragedy of Rizwanur Rahaman
The Rizwanur Incident has opened a Pandora’s box for us. At the outset it has exposed the social maladies like the intolerance of the rich for the poor and the conservative attitude of one community to the other (carefully been pushed under the carpet). It has also exposed the State’s failure to ensure the individual’s human and legal rights and give appropriate protections to his life. The protectors have turned out to be the killers.
Deep down, it has also dug out some more basic issues: how social pressures dictate, corrupt and fashion the basic, primary relationships in our lives and how the daughter is treated as a property in a family.
Rizwanur Incident, thus, is not at all a ‘non political’ one, as it is being pointed out by many. Rather, it has all kinds of ‘politics’ intertwined in every thread of the story. Rizwanur’s death has exposed a lot of murky things in society and state polity. But it has also helped people to unite, in protest.
- LEFT OFF THE CONSTITUTION : The CPI(M) is not always comfortable with democracy — Rudrangshu Mukherjee [Courtesy : The Telegraph] [ pdf, 48 KB ]
- Rizwanur’s Death : A Long Tradition Of Police Atrocities And The Views Of A Citizen — Naba Dutta [pdf, 96 KB ; Bengali version pdf, 432 KB]
- Some Lessons for ‘Politicals’ from the Rizwanur Tragedy — Dipanjan Raichaudhuri [ pdf, 24 KB ]
- Post-mortem : A report on why one is dead (and it makes news) — Atig Ghosh [ link]
Ongoing Debate : Use of Agricultural Land for Industries
“ Prohibiting the use of agricultural land for industries is ultimately self-defeating”
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen speaks to The Telegraph on land acquisition for industrialisation, one of the most important issues facing Bengal and large parts of the country. [ link ]
Sen, Sense and Nonsense : On the difficulties of being Amartya Sen in a time like ours
This essay by Aseem Shrivastava takes issue with Amartya Sen's pronouncements on the topic in the interview given to The Telegraph. [ pdf, 100 KB]
Amartya Sen: The Master as Apologist
— Dipanjan Raichaudhuri [ link ]
Last Update 20 August, 2008
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