Articles by Robi Chakravorti

The low voter registration and low voter turn-out in US elections reflect deep disenchantment with the political process of large sections of the population. However, this disenchantment is not activated so as to lead to the development of effective countervailing power against the power elite.

property was another bone of contention. A balance had to be struck between giving meaningful access to property to the 'have- nots' (who have in most instances been deprived of their right to property as a result of apartheid) without however, simply stripping the 'haves' of legitimate entitlement to property. The relevant clause provides to every person the right to acquire and hold rights in property.

AISA made a beginning in this direction by sending representatives of its JNU unit to the 'chhatra mahakumbh' at Allahabad, the month-long Rozgar Yatra in UP and the ASIA extension yatra in Himachal Pradesh. This raised AISA's stock among the students of JNU and contrary to the media hype it emerged as the strongest opponent of the Hindutva brigade on the campus.

Karl Marx's journalistic writings were characterised by philosophical-analytical insights based chiefly on research using as news pegs general issues affecting societies.

Another observation made by the magistrate to discredit Laiq's claim that Qyamuddin did not himself appear in the witness box only on account of the authority and power wielded by the complainant is that the complainant was "not at all in power" in 1989. The fact is that Jagmohan's power grew throughout the 1980s and that towards the end of the decade it ceased to be dependent upon the identity of the party in power at the centre. The turbulence manifested around Turkman Gate in 1976 was later extended to the valley of Kashmir. Circumstances indicate that Jagmohan's reintroduction into the valley was at the behest of the Bharatiya Janata Party, having been presented as a fait accompli, as we now learn, even to George Fernandes, the cabinet minister then concerned with Jammu and Kashmir affairs.