Noble Peace/Economics Nobels or Not?

Noble Nobels, or not , that is the question?
It sounds a little wonky, but I think this is really the question that a lot of people around the world have raised after the Nobel Prizes for this year were announced a few days back.
The Peace Prize has gone to US President Barack [...]

Why Fix The Climate? Change The World Environment Day Slogan Instead!

I waited till this morning’s newspapers before writing this post. I was looking for a media story on how and why the Indian government has forced a change in the slogan for this year’s World Environment Day.
The actual slogan worked out by the United Nations Environment Programme for the World Environment Day 2008 is CO2: [...]

I Have To Write – IV – Elections For Death?

Talking about Maoists one is forced to come back to the issue of Dr Binayak Sen. Maoist or not he has to be released simply because he saves human lives. And, the truth is there is not an iota of evidence against him about any so-called “anti-state” activity.
But his whole life is anti-state, there is [...]

I Have To Write – III

Trilogies are treacherous – this one is certainly one – I have no idea whether I can link this one with the other two that have gone before!
But I have to write! So, I write! Too much is going on!
Panchayat elections!
I am an unabashed running dog of the CPI(M). Despite all their inhumanities! Despite the [...]

I Have To Write – II

As far as writing is concerned I am going through some kind of depression  – I just can’t get down to writing – I mean writing  the rantings of a gagged journalist. I seem to be otherwise normal – spending a fairly active day – writing for money, translating, editing, playing with my children, quarreling [...]

Notes From The Book Fair’s Underground

The well-known villains of Bangla publishing – the monopoly seekers – Ananda Bazar Patrika Group – has now come out in the open with its ugly and disgusting ways. What something that book lovers, lovers of literature, language and culture have always known, has now become known to the world. The ABP Group has bared [...]

Stop being sensible, stop enduring injustice, go crazy to fight this crazy world!

Indiancitizen, a fellow blogger and a leading writer against the kind of blatant injustice that the Rizwanur murder case represents (see the blog rizwanur.com), has posted the following comment against one of my posts, Rizwanur & Nandigram: Minor Points That Can Bring About Major Change!
The comment is extremely significant because it brings to [...]

Confusion will not be my epitaph even as I crawl a cracked and broken path!

Dear Upal,
First, your views:
Dear Arjun,
Much as I enjoy reading your pieces, I cannot but help criticizing your rather Utopian views on a Post-capitalist economic/socal order.
You have muddled up between structure and superstructure. The State character is an example of a basic structure which supports the capitalist economic form. You have called this as the “superstructure”. [...]

Why has Amartya Sen stopped learning?

Its been a long sabbatical and I am back to irritate you dear readers by asking unpleasant questions and making”snide” remarks. But here goes:
In a recent two-part article in The Telegraph, Kolkata published on December 29, 2008 and December 30, 2008, Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen has argued, in my view rather weakly when [...]

Rizwanur Murder: Operation Cover-up Proceeding As Predicted

Operation cover-up in the Rizwanur murder case is proceeding as predicted. One will have to wait till December 16 to get the final verdict from the CBI: Rizwanur committed suicide because his own brother and Pappu betrayed him. An absolutely open and shut case. The victim killed himself because of his own family members.
Who says [...]