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		<title>The Indian radical grapples with globalisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 18:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a major transformation in India over the last two decades – economic, political, social and cultural. Some of this has been a result of the liberalisation of the economy, a significant part of which has been the opening up to global capital. The Left in India, across organisations and ideologies, has viewed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=410&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret of Modi’s Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 09:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The violence which wracked the western Indian state of Gujarat ten years ago has almost become a metaphor for a particular aspect of India’s contemporary reality. The metaphor is described differently, depending on whether one is a supporter of Gujarat’s chief minister Narendra Modi or an opponent. One part of that metaphor is surely the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=386&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the UPA Government Fall?</title>
		<link>http://leftwrite.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/will-the-upa-government-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[15th General Elections India]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The regular exposes of the UPA government&#8217;s varied incompetence and venality and the growing cacophony over corruption seem to suggest a crisis of government and the possibility of mid-term polls. This post examines the current political conditions and argues that despite all its acts of omission and commission, the UPA appears likely to finish its term in office.  The leader of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=373&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Culture (Book Review)</title>
		<link>http://leftwrite.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/the-politics-of-culture-book-revie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Books: G P Deshpande, The World of Ideas in Modern Marathi: Phule, Vinoba, Savarkar, Tulika, New Delhi, 2009, pp. 120. Rs. 240. G P Deshpande, Talking the Political Culturally and Other Essays, Thema, Kolkata, 2009, pp. 127, Rs. 150. Both the books under review are collections of articles written and published by the author over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=376&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Corruption Carnival</title>
		<link>http://leftwrite.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/the-corruption-carnival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Anna Hazare fronted anti-corruption movement has been successful in pushing the locus of Indian politics to the right. Will it also succeed in defeating the Congress led United Progressive Alliance in the next general elections and putting the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh backed Bharatiya Janata Party into power? That remains an open question. What we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=361&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 in review</title>
		<link>http://leftwrite.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/2010-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here&#8217;s a high level summary of its overall blog health The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2010. If each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=353&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Freedom of the Press</title>
		<link>http://leftwrite.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/on-freedom-of-the-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question of the freedom of the press or, more generally, the freedom of thought and expression, has come increasingly into public debate in India. This perhaps is a global trend from what it appears to me, but in India hardly a month passes without some important issue taking centre stage in public debates around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=344&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commemorating Congo at 50</title>
		<link>http://leftwrite.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/commemorating-congo-at-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 30 June, 1960 Congo achieved independence from Belgian rule. It was an exceptionally harsh 80 years of colonialism which saw tens of millions of its people killed in the pursuit of European wealth and civilisation.  But, today, we live in a different era; a new millennium. Who remembers the Congo of its valiant freedom struggle; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=325&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Not to Understand Muslim fundamentalism</title>
		<link>http://leftwrite.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/how-not-to-understand-muslim-fundamentalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mahmood Mamdani recently gave a talk at the University of Johannesburg, touching on the topics of free speech and bigotry in our contemporary world. He took the example of Mohammed cartoons to make this point. It is a well argued and seemingly persuasive thesis which you can read here at Kafila. I found that I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=314&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Have all the Protests Gone?</title>
		<link>http://leftwrite.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/where-have-all-the-protests-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do we understand the inexplicable lack of popular anger over high food inflation in India? Food prices in India have risen at an unprecedented rate in the last few months. For the data available when this was being written, food inflation rate was 17.87%. This is actually a fall from the high of 19.95% just two months [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=300&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy and the Communist Party</title>
		<link>http://leftwrite.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/290-democracy-and-the-communist-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper, rather preliminary note towards a full paper, attempts to look at the troubled history of democracy (both as a concept as well as a practice) and parties claiming affiliation to Marxism-Leninism. It tries to understand the historical paradox of parties and movements influenced by Marxism being among the more important contributors to democratising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=290&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Brief History of Trade Unions in the erstwhile Hyderabad State</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2000 when I first shifted to Hyderabad, the Confederation of Indian Trade Unions held its conference here. I met many trade unionists from all over the country and a few from other countries too. At one of these meetings I was asked about the history of the trade union movement in Hyderabad and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=283&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fractured Social Sciences</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Can the contradiction between underdevelopment and democracy be transcended] This is the draft I wrote for the editorial for the Economic and Political Weekly, VOL 44 No. 23 June 12, 2009. There may be many differences between this draft and the EPW editorial. ~~  ~~  ~~ As has been widely remarked, this is the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=278&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Third Front: A Post-Mortem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[What was the left doing with the natural allies of the Congress and the BJP?] This is the draft I wrote for the editorial of the Economic and Political Weekly VOL 44 No. 22, June 05, 2009. The draft and the final edit may have many differences. ~~  ~~  ~~ Among the big casualties of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=272&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Logical Defeat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aniket Alam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Can the Left learn the proper lessons from its electoral rout?] This is the draft I wrote, a finalised version of which was published as the editorial of the Economic and Political Weekly in the Vol XLIV No 21 issue dated May 29, 2009. ~~  ~~  ~~ There is a certain irony in the defeat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftwrite.wordpress.com&#038;blog=763919&#038;post=266&#038;subd=leftwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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