Politics of Globalisation defining the Mode of Farmers' Agitation
by Arun SrivastavaAfter many years India is witnessing the emergence of a farmers' movement albeit not in the classical form of the earlier farmers' move-ments or peasant movements of the seventies....
View ArticleElections Diminish Democracy!
by L.K. SharmaLarge hoardings in Jaipur, the capital of one of the five poll-bound States in India, call upon the voters to celebrate the democracy “festival”—tyohar, the Hindi word for a religious...
View ArticleGap between Growth and Unemployment Widening
by A.V.V.S.K. Rao and M. Ramulu“Employment and well placed labour produce in a country general prosperity, content and cheerfulness”.—Daniel WeberIntroductionIndia is facing severe crises of employment...
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India in Peril
EDITORIALToday is December 6, 2018. On this day twentysix years ago “to build a temple to mark the birthplace of Ram, a mosque was destroyed by deceit”, as the founder of this publication wrote on...
View ArticleBabri Masjid: What should Muslims do?
by Irfan EngineerA section of Hindu supremacist organisations are once again mobilising to demand the construction of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple (RJT) in Ayodhya on the spot where the Babri Masjid once...
View ArticleIndian Communists and the Challenges for their Revival
by Arun SrivastavaIndian Marxist-Leninists must counter the emerging threat of fascism. India has witnessed a massive political shift in the last four years with the BJP decisively replacing the...
View ArticleChallenges of Dichotomous Growth in India
by Arun KumarThe election results from the three North and Central Indian States suggest that farmers, youth and small businessmen are unhappy. Some of them have been openly agitating. Why is this...
View ArticleWhither Politically tinkered Hinduism?
by L.K. SharmaHow Indian politics fares under the spell of Hinduism is covered extensively by the media. It is time scholars studying religions such as Karen Armstrong wrote on the impact of politics...
View ArticleWintry Tale
Wee-hours of a cold, harsh morning -a shroud of fog still hangson the landscape;icy breeze blows through leaves,over beds of grass;signs of life are yet to stir.A bleak, melancholic lookgrips the...
View ArticleA Hint of Spring
The spell is broken.The bewitching wand turnsTo wood.Paralysed slumberOf years lifts an eyelidAnd sees into the dark subterfuge.There is a hint of spring in December.A breach in the overcastReveals a...
View ArticleAn Initial Victory and the Struggle Ahead
Will the BJP learn any lesson from its resounding defeat in the Hindi heartland which has been its bastion since its inception? The cow-vigilantism of its self-appointed gau-rakshaks who proclaimed...
View ArticleMahatma Gandhi — The Great Communicator
The following is the text of the Gandhi Peace Foundation Lecture 1995 delivered by Nikhil Chakravartty in New Delhi on January 30, 1995. It first appeared in Mainstream (October 3, 1998) after N.C.'s...
View ArticleThe Valley of Incongruities / Do We Need Nehru Today? / Good-bye Feroze /...
From N.C.'s WritingsThe Valley of IncongruitiesWhatever may be the substance of the much-advertised point of difference between Peking and Washington over the question of détente, it may be safely...
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Resisting Majoritarian Onslaught
EDITORIALAs Mainstream enters the fiftyseventh year of its modest existence with this Annual Number, the nation is getting prepared for an intense electoral battle when the country faces its...
View ArticleBulandshahr: Unravelling the Anatomy of a Riot
by Ram PuniyaniThe scene of violence in the name of emotive issues has been continuously throwing new patterns of instigating and orchestrating violence. In recent times we saw major violence following...
View ArticleAgrarian Crisis and its Resolution
by S.P. Shukla, Jaya Mehta, Vineet TiwariThis article was written quite some time ago before the ‘Delhi Chalo' movement of farmers in December 2018. In the introduction of the article the authors...
View ArticleThe Subversion of Systems is More Fatal than Scams
There is a rather thoughtless middle-class view that a scam is not a scam until there is a money trail that leads to some personal account or pocket.Take two instances from recent American political...
View ArticleUnion Budget 2019: Unethical Political Stance
by Anup K. SinhaBudgets in India have recently become a mega event where the ruling government makes many announcements which are sensu stricto not related to the Budget at all. However, this year's...
View ArticleChest-thumping and War-mongering must give way to Trust, Peace and Friendship
I went to participate in a candle-light homage-paying event at Dr B.R. Ambedkar's statue organised by about 200 Dalit students on the Hazratganj main crossing in Lucknow on February 16, 2019 evening,...
View ArticleFor How Long would Kashmiris Suffer?
by Aijaz Ahmad TurreyOn Thursday, February 14, 2019, a CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) convoy, moving from Jammu to Srinagar, was for the first time attacked by a suicide bomber with an...
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