Police registered a case against the authorities of Calicut University for showing "disrespect" to the national flag, which was hoisted "upside down" on the Independence Day.
Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan claimed that Indo-US nuclear deal was the design of certain ''neo-imperialistic forces, holding sway in the country's decision-making process''.
If caste and language complicate the notion of Indian identity, ethnicity makes it worse. Most of the time, an Indian's name immediately reveals where he is from or what her mother-tongue is: when we introduce ourselves, we are advertising our origins.
Shashi Tharoor, Indian identity is forged in diversity. Every one of us is in a minority, The Guardian, August 15, 2007.
The Kerala Panchayat Raj Act envisages the need to prepare a citizen’s charter and it annual revision. Many panchayats do not attempt to frame a charter and even where it has been prepared, the services do not measure up to the standards mentioned in it.
N.J. Nair, Study finds flaws in Panchayati Raj, The Hindu, August 16, 2007.
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The CPM’s hardening stance was evident from a stern politburo release that asserted “the Prime Minister’s statement in Parliament does not shed any new light on the India-US Nuclear Agreement that calls for a reassessment on our part” and offered a point-by-point rebuttal of Singh’s claims.
Manini Chatterjee, Bush fuel in Left fire, The Telegraph, August 15, 2007.
Following the split in the Communist Party of India (CPI) in 1964, effective communist movements have been confined to West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura. And the CPM has been in the vanguard when it comes to carrying out the peoples’ movement in these red bastions.
Tamal Sengupta, Left is only growing in Right company, Economic Times, August 15, 2007.
One strand in the knot of corruption is the legacy of the License Raj, which ended in the early 1990s. The system created bureaucracies that were all but self-perpetuating.
Will Growth Slow Corruption In India? Forbes, August 15, 2007.
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