Karnataka's Verdict, Loud and Clear
The following article was written before the latest developments in Karnataka.Tactically the Congress has won the day even though the party has been rejected outright by the people of Karnataka which...
View ArticleVictory of Post-Poll Alliance in Karnataka: Victory for the Constitutional...
by S.N. SahuLong years back, while replying to a debate in the Constituent Assembly, Dr B.R. Ambedkar had very thoughtfully said that Indian democracy would produce many impossibles. What happened in...
View ArticlePutin - Modi Summit at Sochi: New Informality in India-Russia Relations
by Ajay PatnaikThe following article has been written against the backdrop of the summit meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Sochi on May 21, 2018.Key...
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Opposition Unity, Oil Price Hike, Tuticorin Tragedy
EDITORIALThe swearing-in of the JD(S)-Congress Government in Karnataka yesterday has legitimately thrown up the idea of an all-inclusive anti-BJP coalition before the 2019 Lok Sabha poll and it is...
View ArticlePrivacy Policy Notice Addressed to Online Readers of Mainstream Weekly in...
Dear Online Readers of Mainstream Weekly,We write to publicly notify you in view of the new European data privacy laws (GDPR) regulations that have come into force on the 25th of May 2018 (Directive...
View ArticleIs it Politically Relevant today to ask whether Nehru visited Bhagat Singh in...
by Ram PuniyaniIn the recently held Karnataka elections, Narendra Modi made statements which are not true, and which are made to raise the emotive pitch against his opponents. In a blatant lie, in a...
View ArticleChallenge to India's Pluralism
However justified Delhi's Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Cuoto may be in calling fellow Catholic Christians to pray for a change of government at the Centre, he is guilty of committing a grave mistake...
View ArticleLessons from Karnataka
by Binoy ViswamDevelopments in Karnataka conveyed an important message to the nation. It marked the beginning of the end of the authoritarian rule of the BJP in the country. All secular, democratic and...
View ArticleAfter Karnataka
The decline of the National Democratic Alliance is by now a dated story. The few partners of the Bharatiya Janata Party—who are still formally in the Alliance—may be understood to be in the throes of a...
View ArticleTuticorin: the Vedanta Doctrine
First we give you bagfulsTo make government,Then you commit not to meddleWith our profit-piling hunt.But when people demonstrateAgainst our killer-loot,You promptly send the troopersTo take aim and...
View ArticleThe Edict of Life
I was a foetus: the future crownof womanhood, growingin the warmth of your womb,cradled in a web of dreams:for you the caring motherhood,for me an ever receding skyline.Suddenly something happened;you...
View ArticleCulture of Protest
In an amazing display of goodwill bus drivers of the Ryobi group in Okayama, Japan have staged a protest not by striking work but by continuing to drive, without charging fares from passengers. The...
View ArticleAgainst Neo-Liberal Violence
COMMUNICATIONViolence against people has become an organic part of the neo-liberal paradigm of governance in contemporary India. The recent state violence against anti-Vedanta protesters in Tamil Nadu...
View ArticleVibhed replaces Vikas: Four Years of Modi Government
Four years ago, Narendra Damodardas Modi stormed into the national political arena with the slogan of Vikas.. Sabka saath sabka vikas was the catchy slogan that the people, especially the youth,...
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Bypoll Mandate for Opposition Unity
EDITORIALIt can be safely concluded that the result of the bypolls for several State Assemblies and Parliament (held on May 28) that have come out or are yet to be finally declared today have been a...
View ArticleBeyond Academic Sophistication: Contesting Reflections on Idea of India on a...
BOOK REVIEWby Aejaz Ahmad WaniLeft, Right and Centre: The Idea of India, edited by Nidhi Razdan; India, Penguin; Viking, Penguin Random House; year: 2017; pages: 269, Price: 599.There has been much...
View ArticlePak moves Separatist Pawn on the Indo-Pak Chessboard
by M.M. KhajooriaThe separatist trio—Geelani, Mirwaiz and Yasin Malik—have sprung bit of a surprise by announcing their willingness to negotiate with the Central Government. This significantly but not...
View ArticleMaharastra Government's Terror Trail to Protect Hindutva Terrorists
The following is a statement issued by Dr Anand Teltumbde, General Secretary, Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Maharashtra, on June 6, 2018.The Pune Police at 6.00 am today, June 6,...
View ArticleOn FDI by Highly Industrialised Countries in Developing States: Some...
By the 1950s when the developing countries started what the great Swedish economist, Professor Gunnar Myrdal, called the “Great Ascent from Grinding Poverty to a Prosperous Life”, Western economists in...
View ArticleBangladesh Bhavan in Visva-Bharati
by Samit KarThe recent Convocation in Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan was held on May 25 in the presence of Narendra Modi and Sheikh Hasina Wajed. The latter was present on the occasion of the inauguration...
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