Resignation and After
The following article is a follow-up of the letter that Prasenjit Bose, who was the head of the CPI-M's research wing at the central party headquarters, wrote to the CPI-M leadership when he resigned...
View ArticleBackbone of Bihar Economy on Backfoot
by GHANSHYAM KUMAR PANDEY Bihar is one of the Indian States where agriculture, with its fertile alluvial soil and favourable agro-climatic condition, has been moving on the path of progress since...
View ArticleMullaperiyar: Dispute on the Amendment made in a Lapsed Agreement
Mullaperiyar, a conflicting subject between Kerala and Tamil Nadu, is of much national importance. Because settlement of such disputes between two linguistic States, amicably and not forcibly, is...
View ArticleFat and Cooked: Sustainability for You and the Planet
BOOK REVIEW The Energy Glut: The Politics of Fatness in an Overheating World by Ian Roberts with Phil Edwards; Zed Books, London and New York; 2010. What does obesity have to do with climate change?...
View ArticleThe Maoist Problem
As the new Home Minister of India, the most daunting task before Sushil Kumar Shinde will be handling the Maoist menace. Although the West Bengal Government has recently registered some spectacular...
View ArticleChanging Roles of the Presidents of India
by RANBIR SINGH and KUSHAL PAL The first President of India, Dr Rajendra Prasad, did not accept that the head of the Indian state is a mere ceremonial one. He not only opposed the enactment of the...
View ArticlePresident for the People
by SATYA NARAYANA SAHU On the 60th anniversary of Parliament, Pranab Mukherjee assumes office as the 13th President of the Republic. The Indian term for President—who, as head of the state, occupies an...
View ArticleKarnataka Government's Unconstitutional Action
The Karnataka Government's order asking the temples of the State to perform rituals so that rain comes to save the farmers and cattle of the State is a blatant violation of the Constitution. Can a...
View ArticleKarnataka: The BJP Juggernaut Stumbles Along
Karnataka politics has not seen a dull moment in the past four years. Ever since the BJP formed its first government south of the Vindhyas, there have been those exhilaratingly ‘high‘ moments and the...
View ArticleThe Combustible North-East
India's North-East is the most combustible region. Some 250 ethnic groups are arrayed against one another and New Delhi to fight for their identity, some seeking even an outside-India status....
View ArticleNCERT's Political Science Textbooks
The author's article “NCERT's Political Science Textbooks Controversy: Cartoon-centred Pedagogy” appeared in Mainstream (July 28, 2012). The following article is a continuation of the previous one....
View ArticleQuit India Movement and INA versus Hindutva
This month we are celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Quit India Movement [QIM] and Indian National Army [INA] or Azad Hind Fauj which 1943 onward was commanded by Netaji Subash Chandra Bose. It is...
View ArticleCommunists and ‘Quit India' Struggle
FROM N.C.'S WRITINGS This was the week, fiftytwo years ago, that marked the parting of ways between the Communists and the Congress. It was the Communist opposition to the ‘Quit India' resolution at...
View ArticleLooking back on August 1942
On August 9 this year was observed the ‘Quit India' struggle's seventieth anniversary. On this occasion we reproduce here Aruna Asaf Ali's interview to Mainstream at the time of that struggle's...
View ArticlePositive Signal in Dismal Scenario
The London Olympics are drawing to a close. These Games have proved beyond doubt that Jamaica's Usain Bolt is the world's biggest sprinter since he won both the 100m and 200m races in two successive...
View ArticleOnce there was Hindutva Terror ... ?
“Bomb blasts have taken place near the Delhi High Court, in Bombay, Bangalore etc. Within a few hours of such bomb blasts many TV channels started showing news item that Indian Mujahidin or...
View ArticleLakshmi Sahgal
TRIBUTE Lakshmi Swaminathan Sahgal was born in Madras in 1914 to an unusual Brahmin lawyer, Subharana Swaminathan, and her mother, Ammukutty Menon. Her parents were influenced by the Congress and her...
View ArticleBattered Humanity in Troubled North-East
BOOK REVIEW The Judgement that Never Came by Nandita Haksar and Sebastian M. Hongray; Chicken Neck Publishers, New Delhi; Price: Rs 495. This book is an intensely human story of a group of innocent...
View ArticleQuestions of Freedom and People's Emancipation
[Kobad Ghandy from Tihar Jail now writes on the concept of freedom vis-à-vis present-day society as also in relation to a future just order, bringing out some causes for the failure of the erstwhile...
View ArticleWorld Economy: Darker Days Ahead!
Next year, that is, 2013, is going to witness a terrible economic tsunami which will bring the global economy to a complete halt. This prediction is not from any mad man but a well-respected economist,...
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