Articles by Mohit Sen


government has also relied heavily oil the 'conspiracy' provisions of the Indian Penal Code. Sections 104 and 107 of the Criminal Procedure Code have been used systematically to crush attempts to organise the peasantry and the tribal population.

Mohit Sen AS Andhra settles clown temporarily after its storm, some of the rumble from Gujarat reaches the South. Of course, the character of the movements in the two states was entirely different; above all, the nature of the contending sides. But there is a similarity as well as the difference; and that is the sameness of the Congress collapse. The Congress in the Gujarat Assembly had as enormous and comfortable a majority as it had in Andhra. But this proved to be of absolutely no avail. This is something that all of us have to ponder over.

November 24, 1973 IT is scandalous but characteristic that the unanimity in the Congress in Andhra over the six-point formula for the maintenance of the integrity of the state has not produced anything like a majority opinion on who should be the pilot for the implementation of this formula.

SOUTH Only a Base to Start from Mohit Sen IT seems so long ago, but it is not even a year since almost all the so-called observers of the Andhra scene had confidently forecast that the state would be split. And now the six-point formula finds overwhelming support, the basis of which is the maintenance of the integrity of the state, the removal of some anomalies, and the retention of safeguards for the backward districts most of which are located in the Telengana region. This marks a big change in the politics of the state.

SOUTH INSTABILITY is likely to be India's condition of life for some time in the future. It is not a condition of life with which one has to learn to live but one which has to be changed in a specific direction. There were some radical commentators who had looked forward to instability as the best milieu for revolutionary advance. They forgot that instability is of many kinds and the specific type of instability we are now passing through has dangers and challenges and is not particularly conducive for democratic, let alone revolutionary, advance. It is instability produced by a failure to redeem radical pledges and the consequent inability to contain factions which manoeuvre in the midst of majorities without a concrete programme. This is not a process calculated to increase radicalism but one likely to produce a kind of despondency and even aimless discontent. Of course, there is a way to make this radicalism more radical; that is by organising for the implementation of the radical programmes.