PRAGOTI

The article written by G Selva, the Joint Secretary of SFI and Editor of Students' Struggle looks into the protracted struggle towards achieving universal education in India.

One of the much asked questions to this "political analyst" is, "So, is new US president Barack Obama going to be good for India"? I suppose it is not a question worth answering for a leftist who would find that such a question is redundant or at best s/he should ask back, "Which India are you asking about"?

The costs of the Tel Aviv-New Delhi-Washington axis are too much to bear, at least for India. India cannot afford to mimic Israel’s failed neighborhood policy, nor can it follow the U. S. example that seeks to solve its problems by aerial bombardment. South Asia requires a regional solution to what is without doubt a regional problem, one with its roots in the Afghan jihad of the 1980s as much as the unresolved Kashmir question

Vijay Prashad writes about the deepening covert defense ties between India and Israel,under the guise of fighting terrorism and strengthening India's security system.The author points out that there is a need to seek a regional solution to the security concerns of India, instead of importing the military option projected by Israel as a counter-terrorist measure,which has failed in its own soil.

It is about time we re-examined the events of 1971 rather than erase them from our collective national memory.

Ammar Ali Jan of Labour Party Pakistan writes on the 'fall of Dhaka' in December 1971. This article was first carried in The News.