Pushpa Bhargava's Biggest Struggle in Last Years was Against GM Crops
COMMUNICATIONMany thanks to Mainstream (August 5) for prominently publishing the tribute to Pushpa Mittra Bhargava. However the tribute is not quite complete without a mention of the tireless struggle...
View ArticleGM Mustard: A Contrary View
by Govind BhattacharjeeMr. Bharat Dogra's article “Approval of GM Crops ignores Growing Scientific Evidence against Them” (Maintain June 3) presents one side of the argument and quotes facts only in...
View ArticleLetter to the Prime Minister from Sarvodaya and Gandhian Workers
ToShri Narendra Modi,Prime Minister of India,New Delhi 110001.Dear Hon'ble Prime Minister,Sub: GM Mustard — Request to reject commercial releaseWe, as members of the Sarvodaya movement and Gandhian...
View ArticleWith political help, lobbies put chemicals in our diet; BJP must honour its...
IMPRESSIONSBefore the power of commercial lobbies, even the BJP Government bows. The party's manifesto took a strong stand against GM foods; ignoring it, the government's Genetic Engineering Approval...
View ArticleHow Muslims became the ‘Other' in India
BOOK REVIEWby Ahmad ZaboorBeing the Other, the Muslims in India by Saeed Naqvi; Publication: Aleph; 2016; 239 pages; Rs 599.Beyond any description India is scripting a fast economic growth, that may be...
View ArticleIndia‘s Response to China's Doklam Game Plan
by Jajati K. PattnaikChina's Doklam game plan at the tri-junction of India-Bhutan-China has created a stalemate between the two Asian giants. Much to the chagrin of New Delhi, the People's Liberation...
View ArticleBirth of Malorossiya? : Delivery Pains For Ukraine
by R.G. GidadhubliUkraine has been a victim of crisis during the last few years—lost Crimea in 2014 by the alleged annexation by Russia, the ongoing conflict in the eastern part of the country...
View ArticleHundred Years of Russian Revolution: The Greatest Revolution
We are celebrating hundred years of the Russian Revolution, the greatest one that changed the course of history. There undoubtedly have been great revolutions in history but none like this one. The...
View ArticleTrump signs Russia Sanctions Bill, but spits at it
There is a long history of Russia being kicked around as a political football in the United States. The circumstances leading to the latest Russia Sanctions Bill passed by the US Congress has a...
View ArticleDemonetisation — Demon or a Bitter Pill?
by Atanu Sengupta and Sanjoy DeAn Instant PillIn the evening hours on a cold November 8, 2016, the de facto head of the Union Government promulgated a new message. A strict restriction was imposed on...
View ArticleThe Unconquerable Spirit of 1942
From N.C.'s WritingsAugust 9 this year marked the 75th anniversary of the ‘Quit India‘ movement also known as the August Revolution. On this occasion we reproduce the piece of N.C. published in...
View ArticleRSS produces ‘uttam santati'—fair, tall and intelligent ‘designer babies'
by Vahidha NizamThe health wing of the RSS, Arogya Bharati, has been holding programmes to create ‘fair, tall and intelligent' babies. Tailor-made ‘designer babies', the experts of Arogya Bharati...
View ArticleDoes going back to the Sangh and BJP spell the End of Road for Nitish?
by Arun SrivastavaNow there is no more ambiguity. What a coincidence the closely guarded secret was out on Wednesday in the public domain with Nitish announcing his decision to break the...
View ArticleTanking Critical Thinking
You might know that India's Jawaharlal Nehru University—consistently placed at the top of the list of India's best institutions of higher learning—has been much in the disapproving eye of the political...
View ArticleIn the Grip of Political Mafia
MUSINGSToday, there is not just dismay but sorrow spreading out, as this land is in the grip of a political mafia, holding sway on all possible fronts. Hopelessness all around, to such an extent that I...
View ArticleTogether, We Can
I vainly search for my favourite television anchors like Karan Thapar and, more recently, Barkha Dutt. I am told that they have been taken off. Who has done this is a matter of conjecture. Some say...
View ArticleAn Open Letter from Veterans of the Armed Forces
To the Prime Minister of India, Chief Ministers of the States, and Lieutenant-Governors of the Union Territories,We are a group of Veterans of the Indian Armed Forces who have spent our careers working...
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Pledge-taking on ‘Quit India' Anniversary
EDITORIALToday, August 9, 2017, happens to be the seventyfifth anniversary of the ‘Quit India' movement also known as the August Revolution that, alongwith the Azad Hind Fauj's daring exploits in...
View ArticleTribute: N.V.K. Murthy
TRIBUTEN.V.K. Murthy was born on August 16, 1925 in Hyderabad. He received a baccalaureate degree in English literature from Maharaja's College in Mysore. In August 1942, while a still a student at...
View ArticleGraphic Account of Afghan Turmoil in the 1980s and Questions posed Thereafter
BOOK REVIEWWhispers of War: An Afghan Freedom Fighter's Account of the Soviet Invasion by Masood Khalili; Sage Publications, New Delhi; 2017; 275 pages; Price: Rs 495 (paperback).Afghanistan's...
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