Need of the Hour: Secular-Democratic Unity
EDITORIALMuch is being written these days about the functioning of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Capital and the way the Congress is being run across the nation.But that is no reason why the ruling...
View ArticleWorking of Indian Electoral Democracy
BOOK REVIEWby Aijaz Ashraf Wani and Mehrag Ud Din BhatWhy India Votes by Mukulika Banerjee; Routledge Publishers; 2014; pages: 326 (2nd edition); ISBN: 9781138019713; Price: Rs 595.Elections form the...
View ArticleMy Earliest Recollections / Day One in Calcutta / The Roots of the Emergency...
From N.C.'s WritingsMy Earliest RecollectionsAfter N.C.'s demise on June 27, 1998 three pieces were recovered from his notes as evidence that he had started writing his autobiography.We are carrying...
View ArticleEighteenth death anniversary of Nikhil Chakravartty
June 27 this year marks the eighteenth death anniversary of Mainstream‘s founder Nikhil Chakravartty, known to readers of this journal as N.C. On this occasion while remembering him we are reproducing...
View ArticleIdea of India: A New Agenda for Reclaiming Secular Democracy
The following is the speech delivered by the CPI-M General Secretary at the EMS Smrithi, Thrissur, (Kerala) on June 13, 2016.I am, indeed, very happy to be back at the EMS Smrithi. I am honoured to...
View ArticlePatel and Bose: The two had nothing in common
by Praveen DavarNo two leaders in the freedom struggle were closer to each other ideologically, and personally, than Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose. Nehru and Bose had much in common when it...
View ArticleTwo Years of Hindutva Rule
According to a report in The Hindu newspaper of June 12, 2016, Sanatan Sanstha spokesperson Abhay Vartak said that he is “sad to see that Hindu organisations [are] being targeted in spite of a Hindu...
View ArticleCommon Civil Code
There is a good deal of misunderstanding about the subject itself, which is aggravated by the language of Article 44 of the Constitution. Most people believe that we do not have common civil laws in...
View ArticleAssembly Elections 2016 — A Brief Comment
The trick of the times clearly is to bloat the least of the Bharatiya Janata Party's successes into an India-shaking phenomenon. Thus, does it matter that in Assam the Congress had been in government...
View ArticleLest We Forget - Fortyone years ago on June 26, 1975, the Emergency was...
Lest We ForgetFortyone years ago on June 26, 1975, the Emergency was proclaimed throughout the country as the ruling leadership bared its fangs nakedly displaying its dictatorial proclivities. We...
View ArticleJo Fox
A mother oftwo small children at 41after a life of passiondoing good for the unfortunate, the refugee,and a memberof Parliament to boot,shot dead on a British streettalking to constituents.And you tell...
View ArticleReceding Shadow of Emergency
Some harshest mistakes have been mollified by straight repentance by the perpetrators. The post-War Germany apologised for the atrocities committed by Hitler and even paid the reparations. Not that the...
View ArticleISRO's ‘Monumental' Feat
EDITORIALThe last few days have seen several major developments on the domestic front.The government went out of its way to widen the doors to ensure more Foreign Direct Investment last Monday (June...
View ArticleMeaning of Yoga
by S.N. SahuThis article could not be used before June 21, the International Yoga Day. But it is being published now as its contents retain their validity.Twentyfirst June has been declared as the...
View ArticleInternational Yoga Day
International Yoga DayIs the time when you hadBetter take your rebelliousMind away from the priceOf tomatoes and sundry otherWoes that afflict thePreponderant millions.Where policy fails it is YogaThat...
View ArticleCan we Think of South Asia without Borders?
In dealing with neighbours, much of the energy of the leaders of South Asia is spent on responding to ceasefire violations on the borders. Each of these countries has become enemies of the other. There...
View ArticleA Tale of Elusive Justice
Following the verdict in the Gulbarg Housing Society massacre, a television channel flashed as breaking news almost the whole day the Special Court's observation imputing blame on the riot victim,...
View ArticleTravesty of Justice
With all due respect to the Gujarat High Court, I beg to differ with its judgment that the firing by Ehsan Jafri provoked the mob to kill him. I knew him and he was a staunch Congressman. The Gulbarg...
View ArticleShankar Guha Niyogi: 25 Years of Martyrdom
Shankar Guha Niyogi, the legendary leader of workers in Chhattisgarh, was brutally murdered by the hired goons of industrialists in 1991. He started his political journey in the official Communist...
View ArticleTwo Long Years and Nothing to Show
by Mridula MukherjeeThe Modi Government loves mythology. And not only as a substitute for history. But as a substitute for reality. And this for good reason. The reality that has unfolded in the last...
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