LEMOA: Dark Cloud over Indian Sovereignty
by Abhimanyu KoharToday in the 21st century it is not easy to directly put a nation under slavery. But for the last 20 years, various Western agendas and treaties of powerful nations are indirectly...
View ArticleIndia and the South China Sea Dispute
by Supriya SharmaThe Hague's Arbitration Tribunal on July 12 clearly backed the Philippines on the issue of the South China Sea (SCS) dispute. It also declared large parts of the South China Sea as...
View ArticleEnvisioning Health Mobility in India
by Pradeep NairThis article attempts to envision the vivifi-cation of the health sector with the substructure of technological, digital and mobile revolution in the country. The healthcare sector is...
View ArticleHegemony of Ultra-Nationalism as a New World Order
by Arun SrivastavaThe word ‘nationalism' was the unwritten sanction for Hitler to kill six million Jews as the Germans cheerfully watched. In recent times the global fraternity is witnessing...
View ArticleOpen Letter to PM Narendra Modi
Yatin Oza, a former BJP MLA from Gujarat, who was a close confidant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi when the latter was the Chief Minister of the State, has in an open letter to him, dated November 9,...
View ArticleWhat to Expect from the New Pakistani Army Chief
The appointment of the new Army Chief in Pakistan invariably becomes an edifying spectacle for Indian observers. The ‘new normal'—namely, that a superannuating General calmly and with head held high...
View ArticleHow Fidel Shaped Cuba and Influenced Latin America
TRIBUTEby Nina Dey-GuptaFidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926 and passed away on November 25, 2016 after a prolonged illness of diverticulitis.Gandhi and Castro were both political leaders. While...
View ArticleJayalalithaa Is No More
EDITORIALAs we go to press, Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa Jayaram, 68, is no more. She passed away at Chennai's Appolo Hospitals on Monday night (December 5). She was admitted there on September 22 with...
View ArticleOn Rosa Luxemburg and Russian Revolution
by Paresh ChattopadhyayWe read with considerable interest the short piece ‘Rosa Luxemburg: Future belongs to Bolshevism'. (Mainstream, vol. LIV, No. 46) We may be permitted to make a couple of comments...
View ArticlePitcher and Stone
by Amiya Dev‘Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher' is a proverb we come across in DonQuixote, its source being Sancho Panza, that mine of popular...
View ArticleShyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission: Emerging Challenges
by Mahi PalSince independence, in spite of implementing various programmes for rural development and improving the quality of life of the people, issues of poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, sanitation...
View ArticleSecret History of Gujarat Happenings by Stingers and Whistle-blowers
BOOK REVIEWGujarat Files—Anatomy of a Cover Up by Rana Ayyub, With an Introduction by Justice B.N. Srikrishna; Self-published; 2016; pages: 204; Price: Rs 295.Gujarat—Behind the Curtain by R.B....
View ArticleIndian Communists and the International Left on Global Canvas
by Arun SrivastavaWhile the fascist ultra-nationalist forces have been striving hard to occupy the centre- stage of the global polity and evolve their own variant ideology, it is heartening to note...
View ArticleState of Affairs of Higher Education in India
In a country which neglects its school education can we expect a good quality higher education programme? All the governments, since the Kothari Commission's recommendation of the Common School System...
View ArticleUniversalism and Social Equality: Relevance of the Brahmo Samaj Today
by Malavika NagarkarThe following is the address by Malavika Nagarkar, the President of the Brahmo Conference, at the inaugural session of the 126th All India Brahmo Conference (New Delhi, November 12,...
View ArticleA memorable chapter neglected in history: Ambedkar's Odyssey to the...
“Turn in any direction you like, caste is the monster that crosses your path. You cannot have political reform; you cannot have economic reforms unless you kill the monster.”—Dr B.R. Ambedkar,...
View ArticleImperative Need to Protect and Promote Self-Reliance in S&T Today
The following is the speech by Prof Ashok Parthasarathi after accepting a volume of Festschrift (collection of writings in his honour) from the Vice-President, M. Hamid Ansari, at a function in New...
View ArticleOraon Plantation Labour Agitation in the Duars: Remembrance of a centenary
by Tapan Bandyopadhyay“Gajio Me Boo Rahegi Jab Tak Iman Ki/Tab To London Tak Chalegi Teg Hindustan Ki.”— Bahadur Shah Jafar, the last Mughal Emperor of India, refusing to ask for clemency and...
View ArticleHistorical Materialism and a Relook at the “Tribal Question” in India
by Murzban JalThe overthrow of mother right was the world-historic defeat of the female sex. The man seized the reigns of the house also; the woman was degraded, enthralled, the slave of the man's...
View ArticleGovernance, Resources and Livelihoods of Adivasis in India
The following is the author's valedictory address at the National Seminar on ‘Governance, Resouruces and Livelihoods of Advasis in India: Implementation of PESA and FRA', organised by the S.R. Sankaran...
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