When Cricket Determines Our Nationalism
by Sandeep PandeyThe defeat of India by West Indies in the T-20 World Cup triggered a controversy at the National Institute of Technology at Srinagar between Kashmiri and non-Kashmiri students. Some...
View ArticleA Visit to Srinagar
Kashmir is normal in the sense that there are no stone-throwing incidents. Militancy, too, is on its last leg. Yet, the Valley is seething with discontent. You can feel it once you land there. It is...
View ArticleComplexities Mount with State Poll Outcome
EDITORIALAs we go to press today, the results of the Assembly elections in four States (Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal) and the Union Territory of Puducherry have just come. These given an...
View ArticleCongress' Seat-share More than that of BJP's
COMMUNICATIONIn all five States taken together the Congress got more seats than the BJP but this was ignored by the media.Although the media in India was recently saturated with the results of the...
View ArticleAmazing Story From Fine Print on State Elections
The Bharatiya Janata Party has always excelled in its mastery of the art of hyperbole. Remember ‘Shining India'? The hype that the party leadership is giving to the BJP's perfor-mance in the recent...
View ArticleElections in Five States: Exploding Myths and Grasping Realities
by Suneet ChopraObjective realities, often based on hard truths and their subjective papering over, are a part of our present state of hyperbole in the media. And the elections in five States of the...
View ArticleIdea of India in Peril
I was on my way to Peshawar from Rawalpindi to meet Wali Khan, son of Frontier Gandhi, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan. At Abottabad, where I stopped for a cup of tea, the radio was broadcasting a BBC report...
View ArticleChanging Names, Nehru's Significance
MUSINGSFrenzied are Sanghis about changing names of roads. In fact, this frenzied lot are now targetting Akbar Road; chanting it ought to be renamed after Maharana Pratap Singh. Why? ‘Too many Delhi...
View ArticleIndia without Nehru
From N.C.'s WritingsThe following piece, which appeared in the ‘New Delhi Skyline' of Mainstream, was written two days after Jawaharlal Nehru's demise on May 27, 1964. It was published on May 30, 1964....
View ArticleNehru and his Economic Policy
by V.M. MohanrajThe early 20th century saw India, China and Russia as mediaeval or semi-feudal societies under oppressive rulers. The imperialists in India and China could only have been more...
View ArticleRemembering Nehru in Critical Times
The fiftysecond death anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, the architect of modern India, will be observed this month at a time when the present dispensation is bent on rubbing out his name from the annals...
View ArticleRemembering Jawaharlal Today
The following article, by the first editor of Mainstream, appeared six years after Jawaharlal Nehru's death in this journal's May 23, 1970 issue. Born on September 29, 1921 in Ooty, C.N.C., as he was...
View ArticleNehru for Today
May 27 this year marked Jawaharlal Nehru's fiftysecond death anniversary. On this occasion we are reproducing the following excerpts from the speeches and writings of Nehru that are of exceptional...
View ArticleA Judgement Affirming Constitutional Values
The judgement from the Allahabad High Court on April 23, 2016, quashing my termination order from the Indian Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi has come as a big relief for...
View ArticleNationalism and Patriotism
by Sadhan MukherjeeIf you shout “Bharat Mata ki Jai”, you are a patriot. If you don't for some reason, you are not only not a patriot but anti-national as well. That is the latest funda of varied...
View ArticleBiggest Foreign Policy Failure: Ties with Nepal
TWO YEARS OF MODI RULEby Vivek Kumar SrivastavaIn several ways it is conveyed that the Modi Government has performed extraordinarily well on the foreign policy front but the dark pimples are never...
View ArticleTwo Years of Modi Rule: Unfolding Hindutva Agenda
by Ram PuniyaniIntroductionModi came to power with a bang in 2014. Riding on the support of the corporate world, the RSS combine, media blitz and sky-rocketing promises, he managed to get 31 per cent...
View ArticleDividing the Nation, RSS-Style
EDITORIALThe BJP-led NDA Government has completed two years today. As it observes its second anniversary, one is reminded of what happened in 1979. That was the time when the first anti-Congress...
View ArticleAn Appeal to Jat Leaders for Restraint
COMMUNICATIONThere have been several recent newspaper reports which indicate that there are strong possibilities of the revival of the agitation by several members of the Jat community. As at the time...
View ArticleWhither Indian Theatre: an interview with alkazi
Veteran theatre personality Ebrahim Alkazi is now ninety. In this year, a number of programmes have been launched in different parts of the country to highlight the life-time achievements of this...
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