Essays English – Balagopal

EPW (1980 - 1989)

The Elections in Andhra Pradesh
(EPW; 23 December 1989)

Drought and TADA in Adilabad
(EPW; 25 November 1989)

What is ‘Socialist Freedom’?
(EPW; 05 August 1989)

‘Law and Order’ on Lease
(EPW; 17 June 1989)

Pitting the Tribals against the Non-Tribal Poor
(EPW; 27 May 1989)

Rise of Gangsterism in Politics
(EPW; 04 February 1989)

A Year of Encounters
(EPW; 14 January 1989)

We shall Have Our Own Mandelas: Birth of the ‘Political Prisoner’ in India
(EPW; 01 October 1988)

Agrarian Revolution, Not Wage Increases
(EPW; 10 September 1988)

Herald the Hunting Dogs that are Grey in Colour
(EPW; 09 July 1988)

The Forbidden Wood
(EPW; 28 May 1988)

Meerut 1987: Reflections on an Inquiry
(EPW; 16 April 1988)

To Judge, but How to Judge?
(EPW; 27 February 1988)

Chintapalli Again, One Eventful Day in a Lawless Life
(EPW; 30 January 1988)

An Ideology for the Provincial Propertied Class
(EPW; 12 December 1987)

Congress (I) vs Telugu Desam Party: At Last a Lawful Means for Overthrowing a Lawfully Constituted Government
(EPW; 10 October 1987)

An Ideology for the Provincial Propertied Class
(EPW; 05 September 1987)

Karamchedu: Second Anniversary
(EPW; 15 August 1987)

A Tale of Arson
(EPW; 18 July 1987)

Censorship by Force: A ‘Telugu’ Prescription for the ‘Yellow’ Virus
(EPW; 27 June 1987)

Defeat in Victory
(EPW; 04 April 1987)

Physiognomy of some Proscribed Poems
(EPW; 28 March 1987)

‘Missing’: Telugu Desam Style
(EPW; 28 February 1987)

Murder of a Veteran Democrat
(EPW; 13 December 1986)

Deaths in Police Custody: Whom and Why do the Police Kill?
(EPW; 22 November 1986)

Deaths in Police Custody: Some Anatomical Considerations
(EPW; 01 November 1986)

‘Encounter’ Killings: Aftermath of Supreme Court Judgment
(EPW; 04 October 1986)

Reservations: The Court Says No
(EPW; 20 September 1986)

Anti-Reservation, Yet Once More
(EPW; 06 September 1986)

Agrarian Struggles
(EPW; 09 August 1986)

Incarceration of SA Rauf: Right to Life Vs Security of State
(EPW; 19 July 1986)

Drought: Lies the Government tells
(EPW; 21 June 1986)

Rayalaseema: Waiting for a Rshyasrnga
(EPW; 31 May 1986)

‘Encounters’ and the Supreme Court
(EPW; 24 May 1986)

Waiting and Waging
(EPW; 30 November 1985)

Karamchedu Killings: The essence of NTR Phenomenon
(EPW; 03 August 1985)

Over to the Police: New Spate of Encounter Killings
(EPW; 13 July 1985)

Indravelli 1985
(EPW; 25 May 1985)

Indira Gandhi: An Attempt at a Political Appraisal
(EPW; 23 March 1985)

A False Resurrection: Rise and Fall Of Rama Rao
(EPW; 10 November 1984)

Agrarian Politics by Other Means
(EPW; 07 July 1984)

Tiberius Syndrome: Policing of Provincial Campuses
(EPW; 28 January 1984)

Telugu Encounters
(EPW; 24 September 1983)

A Colossus of the Past Generation
(EPW; 16 July 1983)

Telangana Movement Revisited
(EPW; 30 April 1983)

Murder of a Radical
(EPW; 05 March 1983)

Forever Disturbed: Peasant Struggle of Sircilla-Vemulawada
(EPW; 27 November 1982)

Cherabanda Raju
(EPW; 24 July 1982)

Peasant Struggle and Repression in Peddapally
(EPW; 15 May 1982)

I’II be Judge, I’II be Jury…
(EPW; 30 January 1982)

Police Repression in Warangal
(EPW; 26 September 1981)

Revival of ‘Encounters’ in Andhra
(EPW; 19 September 1981)

EPW (1990 - 1999)

The Man and the Times
(EPW; 26 June 1999)

Of Capital and Other Punishments
(EPW; 19 September 1998)

Naxalite Terrorists and Benign Policemen
(EPW; 06 September 1997)

Kashmir: Self-determination, Communalism and Democratic Rights
(EPW; 02 November 1996)

Politics as Property
(EPW; 07 October 1995)

Andhra Elections: What Happened and What Did Not Happen
(EPW; 21 January 1995)

Democracy and the Fight against Communalism
(EPW; 07 January 1995)

In Defence of India: Supreme Court and Terrorism
(EPW; 06 August 1994)

Seshan in Kurnool
(EPW; 23 July 1994)

A Year of Drought?
(EPW; 18 September 1993)

Why Did December 6, 1992 Happen?
(EPW; 24 April 1993)

Slaying of a Spirituous Demon
(EPW; 14 November 1992)

Economic Liberalism and Decline of Democracy: Case of Andhra Pradesh
(EPW; 12 September 1992)

Excerpts from the Memoirs of Death
(EPW; 21 March 1992)

Meham in Nandyal
(EPW; 16 November 1991)

Post-Chundur and Other Chundurs
(EPW; 19 October 1991)

Perception and Presentation: A Telugu Film on Naxalites
(EPW; 20 July 1991)

Two ‘Missing’ Women of Karimnagar
(EPW; 02 February 1991)

This Anti-Mandal Mania
(EPW; 06 October 1990)

The End of Spring?
(EPW; 25 August 1990)

Chenna Reddy’s Spring
(EPW; 24 March 1990)

EPW (2000 - 2009)

Ideology and Adjudication: The Supreme Court and OBC Reservations
(EPW; 24 October 2009)

The NHRC on Salwa Judum: A Most Friendly Inquiry
(EPW; 20 December 2008)

Land Unrest in Andhra Pradesh-III: Illegal Acquisition in Tribal Areas
(EPW; 06 October 2007)

Land Unrest in Andhra Pradesh-II: Impact of Grants to Industries
(EPW; 29 September 2007)

Land Unrest in Andhra Pradesh-I: Ceiling Surpluses and Public Lands
(EPW; 22 September 2007)

Maoist Movement in Andhra Pradesh
(EPW; 22 July 2006)

Physiognomy of Violence
(EPW; 03 June 2006)

Justice for Dalits among Dalits: All the Ghosts Resurface
(EPW; 16 July 2005)

Naxalites in Andhra Pradesh: Have We Heard the Last of the Peace Talks?
(EPW; 26 March 2005)

Beyond Media Images
(EPW; 12 June 2004)

What Will They Do to Kashmir Now?
(EPW; 21 June 2003)

People’s War and the Government – Did the Police Have the Last Laugh?
(EPW; 08 February 2003)

Reflections on ‘Gujarat Pradesh’ of ‘Hindu Rashtra’
(EPW; 01 June 2002)

The Valley, the Hills and the Summit
(EPW; 04 August 2001)

A Tough Law for Other People’s Crime: AP Control of Organised Crime Act, 2001
(EPW; 21 April 2001)

Law Commission’s View of Terrorism
(EPW; 17 June 2000)

A Tangled Web – Subdivision of SC Reservations in AP
(EPW; 25 March 2000)

EPW Letters

Killer Gangs in AP
(EPW Letters; 25 February 2006)

Karthik Pannalal
(EPW Letters; 21 June 1997)

Destruction of Charar-e-Sharief
(EPW Letters; 20 May 1995)

Civil Rights: Broadening Concerns
(EPW Letters; 15 January 1994)

War against Naxalism
(EPW Letters; 13 June 1992)

A Portend
(EPW Letters; 28 December 1991)

Where are the Revolutionaries of Yesteryear…?
(EPW Letters; 04 February 1984)

Cherabanda Raju
(EPW Letters; 31 July 1982)

Fient in the East, Attack in the West
(EPW Letters; 05 July 1982)

Dalit Literature
(EPW Letters; 06 February 1982)

Kulaks and the Left
(EPW Letters; 19 December 1981)

China: Survival and Ideological Purity
(EPW Letters; 20 December 1980)

Moradabad riots
(EPW Letters; 20 September 1980)

Indian Express

Hopes and Illusions
(Indian Express)

Misuse of the law: Why only Sec. 498-A ?
(Indian Express)

Krishna Yadav and Casteism
(Indian Express)

Cause, Effect and Excuses: The Narayanpet killing and its aftermath
(Indian Express)

Police & Democracy: The Worsening Scene
(Indian Express; 14 July 2006)

Iraq: A moral for the world’s future
(Indian Express; 09 April 2003)

River water row: A way out
(Indian Express; 22 October 2002)

Fatal fear of interrogation
(Indian Express; 23 September 2002)

Opposition to globalisation
(Indian Express; 09 August 2002)

POTA an instrument of political suppression
(Indian Express; 23 July 2002)

This racket requires a more honest probe
(Indian Express; 04 July 2002)

Lone is dead, but the Game goes on
(Indian Express; 05 June 2002)

An evil that is by no means necessary
(Indian Express; 01 May 2002)

Message and meaning of RSS resolution
(Indian Express; 05 April 2002)

How not to look at the ‘Talks’
(Indian Express; 22 February 2002)

One of those 20
(Indian Express; 19 January 2002)

Inviting contempt
(Indian Express; 21 December 2001)

Requiem for one of a rare breed
(Indian Express; 06 December 2001)

A global coalition to reshape Afghanistan
(Indian Express; 25 October 2001)

September 11 and After
(Indian Express; 25 September 2001)

What makes the Hurriyat Conference untouchable?
(Indian Express; 04 September 2001)

A Judicial innovation
(Indian Express; 06 August 2001)

Will peace prevail in Kashmir
(Indian Express; 19 July 2001)

Role for Kashmiris in Indo-Pak talks
(Indian Express; 30 June 2001)

Pulichintala: The test case
(Indian Express; 16 June 2001)

Ms Jayalalitha and the Constitution of India
(Indian Express; 21 May 2001)

Kashmir Policy in Wonderland
(Indian Express; 01 May 2001)

A Tale of a dark land
(Indian Express; 10 April 2001)

Who will take on this blue eyed boy?
(Indian Express; 22 March 2001)

The judiciary and the powers that be
(Indian Express; 19 February 2001)

Is peace possible without trusting the people of Kashmir ?
(Indian Express; 26 January 2001)

Women’s Reservation: Does any male politician want it ?
(Indian Express; 01 January 2001)

Very much in character
(Indian Express; 12 December 2000)

Mr Wolfensohn and his falsehoods
(Indian Express; 24 November 2000)

The Courts: On Trial Again
(Indian Express; 07 November 2000)

Video Conferencing: A Criminal Injustice
(Indian Express; 26 October 2000)

In Safe Hands
(Indian Express; 12 October 2000)

A Killing Habit
(Indian Express; 27 September 2000)

Standing upto the State – Interview
(Indian Express; 16 September 1989)

Other Magazines English

Is there a strategy of successful struggle?: Beyond violence and non-violence

Civil liberties movement and revolutionary violence

Recent popular struggles in Andhra Pradesh: Some questions for Communist theory and practice

A Perspective for the Rights Movement

The Communist Movement in Andhra Pradesh

Balagopal in conversation with V. Geetha & Rajadurai

Answers to Sukumaran’s questionnaire

Human Rights Movement in Andhra Pradesh: A Theoretical Reflection

Naxalism: The vacuity of official rethinking

The Civil Liberties Movement – A Philosophical Retrospect

APCLC Complaint to NHRC on Encounter Killings in AP

Civil Liberties Movement and the State in India

Death behind bars: Is there no remedy for this crime?

Death Penalty: For an abolitionist campaign

Death penalty: Why not India join the Global mainstream ?

Development in tribal areas and PESA

Drought: We need a statutory code of rights

Human rights and Indian democracy

Naxalism just cannot be crushed by force

Of Privileges, Contempt & Democracy

P.A. Inamdar vs Maharashtra: In a fit of forgetfulness?

Polavaram: Why the Project should be opposed

Project Jalayagnam

The Ban on the Maoists: Whom will it hurt?

The dialogue between the Maoists and the Government of A.P: Is its revival possible?

Uncritical Inventory

Tribal unrest in West Godavari: Fact, Fiction and First Information Reports

The Socio-Economic conditions of rural poor in Andhra Pradesh

The role of Courts vis-à-vis ‘violence and human rights’

The police: An institution for extra-judicial killing?

The Jeevan Reddy Committee Report on AFSPA: The evil is left intact

Terrorism of the Police Kind

Restructuring, social deprivation and conflicts

Prevention of Terrorism Act: Futile as well as unfair

Precious and less precious lives: Precious and less precious freedom

Police-backed criminals killed Puroshattam

Destruction and its disguises
(Foreword to ‘Special Economic Zones in Andhra Pradesh: Policy Claims and People’s Experiences’, book written by S. Seethalakshmi; August 2009)

Towards a Political Engagement with the Maoists
(Talk at the Citizens Initiative for Peace meet held in Delhi on 4 Aug 2009)

Upholding human rights in the time of terrorism
(Speech in a meet organised by the PUCL near Bangalore on 25th July 2009)

The Maoist movement in Andhra Pradesh – A Retrospect
(Himal Southasian; December 2007)

Caste and Law
(Speech at CIEFL, Hyderabad in a seminar on Democracy and Caste in India; 12 August 2006)

Muslim Reservations – criteria – gathering of information
(16 December 2005)

Globalisation and the Courts
(Forum Against Globalisation; February 2005)

Tribal Land Alienation: The Law and The Courts
(Foreword to P Trinadha Rao’s Book ‘Land Rights of Adivasis in Andhra Pradesh’; December 2004)

Interview of Balagopal by film maker Deepa Dhanraj
(2002 & 2004)

A tribute and some more
(Communalism Combat; August-September 2003)

The Naxalite movement of Andhra Pradesh: Will it find a way out of the Crisis?
(Dialogue Quarterly; October-December 2002)

Verses of an injured non-minority
(Sahithya Akademi Comprehensive Anthologies of Indian Literature; February 2002)

The Constitution and Social Movements
(Indian Journal of Human Rights; January-December 2001)

Why not a separate UN charter against casteism?
( Deccan Chronicle; 16 October 2001)

POTA: Clash of law and human rights; its unfair, harmful to the masses
(Deccan Chronicle; 20 August 2000)

HRF letter to All Civil and Democratic Rights organisations
(05 February 2000)

Suggestions to Justice Punnaiah Commission
(26 January 2000)

Constitution must ensure equality (Nihar Online.Com; January 2000)

Rajiv Gandhi Murder Case: A Plea For Clemency
(1999)

Law Of Confessions and Rajiv Gandhi Case
(Notes given to K. Manoharan in the Rajiv Gandhi murder case; June 1999)

Rejoinder to review of ‘Towards a Non-Brahmin Millennium’
(Seminar; February 1999)

Political violence and Human Rights: The case of the Naxalite movement in A.P
(Voices for Change: A Journal on Communication for Development; 1998)

Chilakaluripeta Bus Burning Case: Mercy Plea To President
(1997)

Do They Deserve To Be Hanged ?
(Written for a dharna seeking commutation of death sentence in the Chilakaluripeta bus burning case; 06 October 1997)

The Human Rights Movement: Its context and its concerns
(Special Issue of Indian Journal of Human Rights; January-June 1997)

On Death Row: NHRC Urged To Intervene
(15 April 1997)

On Marxism
(Interview in Calcutta to People’s Resistance magazine; March 1997)

Capital Punishment Should Go
(Deccan Chronicle; 17 January 1997)

Caste and Civil Rights Movement
(Speech at a meeting organised by People’s Democratic Front (PDF) in Bangalore; 9 May 1996)

APCLC Complaint to NHRC on Deaths in Police Custody
(01 August 1995)

About Perspectives
(January 1995)

About Tribals: A Little More of the same
(Seminar, Issue No:25; 1993)

The AP Police can kidnap, kill, rape or maim anybody, anywhere, any time
(The Sunday Observer Interview; 10 September 1989)

The policing of India
(The Lawyers Collective; April- May 1989)

Rich Peasant, Poor Peasant
(Seminar; December 1988)

Our Democratic future
(Lokayan Bulletin; 1987)

Neerukonda: Economic basis of the recent outrage and the criminal apathy of the police
(APCLC Report; 18.07.1987)

MISSING: Mystery Killings by the Police
(APCLC Report; 21.06.1987)

Champion of the Oppressed
(Interview by John P. Singh, Gentleman magazine; February 1987)

Drought in Rayalaseema
(The OtherSide, February 1986)

Two Telugu Films
(Frontier; 23 August 1980)

Mathematics

Some Limit Theorems for the General Semi-Markov Storage Model (Journal of Applied Probability; September 1979)

On Queues in Discrete Regenerative Environments, with Application to the Second of Two Queues in Series (Advances in Applied Probability; December 1979)

Dryness of Discrete Dams: Comments on a Paper by Tin and Phatarfod
(Journal of Applied Probability, December 1978)

A Generalised Random Walk in Theory of Queues and Dams
(Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics; Vol. 39, No. 3; July 1977)