India
Indian Elections:
Tamil Nadu parties posture over plight of Sri Lankan Tamils
By Arun Kumar, May 2, 2009
With an eye to the national elections, the leaders of the dominant parties in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the DMK and AIADMK, are seeking to outdo one another in posturing as defenders of th...
Voting begins in India’s multi-phase election
By Keith Jones, April 17, 2009
Three ramshackle, multiparty alliances are vying for office in India’s month long, five-phase election, which began Thursday with voters in 124 Lok Sabha constituencies casting their ballots.
Indian elections:
BJP combines rank communal appeals with populist posturing
By Deepal Jayasekara, April 16, 2009
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is plumping for votes in India’s national elections by combining rank communal appeals and bellicose “anti-terrorist” rhetoric with a smattering of populist prom...
Indian elections:
Congress Party drops two candidates implicated in 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom
By Keith Jones, April 11, 2009
In the face of a public outcry, the Congress Party, the dominant partner in India’s coalition government, has dropped as candidates for the coming national election two veteran congressmen who helpe...
Indian Elections:
Stalinists woo Congress Party and BJP allies
By Kranti Kumara, April 1, 2009
The Stalinist Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its Left Front allies are frantically wooing pro-big business, state- and caste-based parties in a bid to stitch together a “Third Front” gover...
Indian economy hammered by world economic crisis
By Kranti Kumara and Deepal Jayasekera, March 12, 2009
The world economic crisis continues to roil the Indian economy, damaging both its immediate and longer term prospects and exacting a mounting toll of job losses in a country where there is no social s...
India: Supreme Court judge advocates “animal rights” for alleged terrorists
By Kranti Kumara and Keith Jones, February 20, 2009
The third most senior judge on India’s Supreme Court has bluntly said alleged terrorists should be denied “human rights. “What is required are animal rights,” declared Supreme Court Justice Ar...
India: Intense maneuvering in run-up to spring elections
By Deepal Jayasekera, February 18, 2009
All of India’s major political parties and coalitions are approaching the national elections, which are to be held in April and May, with great apprehension.
India: Statewide protest in Tamil Nadu against the war in Sri Lanka
By Ganesh Dev and Ram Kumar, February 5, 2009
Protests, shop closures and strikes against the war in Sri Lanka took place across the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu yesterday despite the efforts of the state government to prevent the statewid...
Large demonstration in India against Sri Lankan war
By Arun Kumara, February 2, 2009
Around 20,000 people took part in an eight-hour funeral march in Chennai for K. Muthukumar—a young Tamil who set himself alight in front of the city’s government office complex in protest against ...
India: Gigantic corporate fraud at Satyam Computers deals body-blow to Indian elite’s global ambitions
By Deepal Jayasekara and Kranti Kumara, January 27, 2009
India’s fourth-largest information technology company, Satyam Computers, is on the verge of collapse following its chairman’s admission that for “several years” he fraudulently misstated the c...
Indian government savagely suppresses oil and truck-driver strikes
By Ajay Prakash and Arun Kumar, January 15, 2009
India’s government has quashed strikes of oil workers and truckers by jailing strike leaders, instructing state governments to invoke draconian antistrike laws, and threatening to deploy the army.
