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The whole experience of the last 20 years is that over-reliance on economic growth for social progress is a recipe for disappointment. Even Bangladesh and Nepal (starting way behind, and with much slower economic growth) have made far more progress than India during this period, in terms of a wide range of social indicators. Greater attention to social support and economic redistribution is long overdue. Poverty lines, for their part, are best sent back to their statistical kennel.

The CNDP welcomes the Tamil Nadu cabinet’s resolution urging the Prime Minister to halt work at the Koodankulam Nuclear plant ‘until the apprehensions of people are allayed’. This comes after a heroic peaceful mass struggle, in which more than 100 people sat on a hunger-strike for 12 days and tens of thousands supported them.

David Barsamian the widely known Amercian progressive radio journalist was deported by the Indian authorities upon his arrival in Delhi at the Indira Gandhi International airport on the early hours of 23 September 2011.

Did India snatch defeat from the jaws of victory during its Prime Minister’s first visit to Bangladesh in 12 long years? Did Manmohan Singh squander a historic chance to make a decisive break with the mutual suspicion and avoidable tension that mark India-Bangladesh relations?