Articles by Manoranjan Mohanty

A tribute to Randhir Singh, teacher of Political Science in Delhi University for almost three decades, who had a major role to play in transforming and making more relevant the discipline as taught in India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has managed to break the ice and give a positive push to the perceptions about India-China relations on the street. The challenge remains whether he can build on this to address the long festering border dispute and whether his government can engage China in the major bilateral and multilateral partnerships which are developing. The opportunities are immense but can the leadership of both countries rise above history?

For more than half a century, Balraj Puri was a journalist, political thinker, federalist, human rights activist, socialist democrat and much more. He spoke for Jammu and Kashmir and of Jammu and Kashmir to the rest of the world and was widely respected in the state. A tribute by a friend of many decades.

Govind Purushottam Deshpande (1938-2013), more popularly known as GPD, feared nobody, certainly not sacred cows. He was a socialist, a scholar in China Studies, Sanskrit and Marathi, a poet and a playwright, and taught history, politics, and foreign policy. GoPu, as he was known in the Marathi world, also wrote on the contesting ideas that constitute the modern Marathi intellectual universe. Four of his contemporaries write about the EPW columnist, classical music lover and witty conversationalist.

The question that is on everyone's mind is whether the new general secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping will follow the Hu Jintao line or return to the growth-centric path of Jiang Zemin. The author argues that the new leadership put in place by the 18th Party Congress clearly refl ects the effort to reconcile Jiang Zemin's emphasis on a high growth rate and Hu Jintao's stress on balanced development. But will the new leadership transform the essential features of the growth model to achieve the fi ve dimensions entailed in Hu Jintao's "scientifi c outlook on development"?