Swaraj Should Visit Jallianwala Bagh
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's reported statement on July 21 in Parliament regarding the Israeli aggression on Gaza is not only illogical but also morally bankrupt and cowardly.It was one...
View ArticleOutrageous Act, Criminal Connivance
EDITORIALWhat happened at New Delhi's New Maha-rashtra Sadan on July 22 was indeed shocking, shameful and outrageous even by the standards of boorishness associated with the Shiv Sena, one of the...
View ArticleEnsure Justice for 148 Jailed Maruti Workers
COMMUNICATIONAbout 148 workers of Maruti Suzuki India have been languishing in jail following the unfortunate incidents at Manesar plant in Haryana in July 2012. Since then several media reports and...
View ArticleLike Apartheid South Africa, Israel Must Be Boycotted
The following is an interview of A.K. Ramakrishnan, a Professor at the Centre for West Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been one of those Indian scholars of international...
View ArticleStop Harassment of Kobad Ghandy, Give Political Prisoner Status to Anup Roy
The following is a statement issued on behalf of the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners by its President, S.A.R. Geelani; Secretary-General, Amit Bhattacharyya; Vice-Presidents, Sukhendu...
View ArticleIndia Still Develops Cold Feet when the Matter concerns Britain
Munkurai was on his way to a northern district town of Tripura, bordering on Bangla-desh, to attend a press programme more than one-and-a-half decade back.While on his journey through the highway as...
View ArticleVote-fraud
This article is essentially a commoner's view —one who lacks specialist knowledge of Political Science, understands what works for him, and what doesn't. The relationship between a politician and a...
View ArticleCondemn both Minority and Majority Appeasements
IMPRESSIONSMinority appeasement, a game that helps no minority. But it can cut up the country into communal bits. A. K. Antony is a politician who never ruffles a feather. His style is to speak through...
View ArticleCan a Leopard Change its Spots?
by Mouli DeyAlthough the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may appear to be ‘accomodative' in rhetoric, in reality and action it still remains communal. It had failed to shed off its orthodox Hindu...
View ArticleJourney Of A Dalit Party: Why is the BSP Not Able to Extend beyond UP?
by Sri Ram PandeyaThe BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) could not win any seat in the just concluded Lok Sabha elections. However, the BSP seems to have retained a lot of its vote-base in UP (Uttar Pradesh) as...
View Article‘Patriots' of Our Times!
India is a land of surprises, say many.And how can Bihar, which they say has been witness to a glorious past, be an exception. Of course nobody could have imagined that ‘surprise of surprises' or...
View ArticleICHR — Programme of Action
Know that henceforth ICHR shall be known as Indian Council of Historical Reconstruction (not Research). “Research” being a species of subversive activity which “secularists” have engaged in for some...
View ArticleIraq Crisis and Gujral Government
From N.C.'s WritingsThe following article, which appeared in this journal sixteen years ago, happened to be the last contribution of N.C. in Mainstream. It is being reproduced now due to its relevance...
View ArticleColonial Hangover, {Hindutva,} Police Reforms
Imagine renowned poet Rabindranath Tagore seeking admission to the Calcutta Club, a preserve of the British, and getting rejected. Faiz Ahmad Faiz, the legendary Urdu poet, receiving a similar...
View ArticleInterdependence Among Brics Nations
by Asif NazarThe world is as vulnerable to liquidity shocks as it was earlier. There is no foreseeable escape at present. But a grouping of nations based upon strength and conviction is the need of...
View ArticleBRICS — End of Western Dominance of the Global Financial and Economic Order
by Shyam SaranThe sixth BRICS Summit, which has just ended in Brazil, marks the transition of a grouping based hitherto on shared concerns to one based on shared interests.Since the inception of BRICS...
View ArticleBouquets and Brickbats for BRICS
There is both jubilation and restraint in the air that after the financial crises in the global, particularly Western, financial system, a practical manifestation of alternative, arguably...
View ArticleDevils' Dance on the Malaysian Plane Tragedy
It is interesting to watch that after a week of full-blown Russia-bashing following the Malaysian Boeing crash in Donbas sky that took 298 innocent lives, there is an intriguing lull in the...
View ArticleIndia's Stout Resistance to the TFA
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKWhile UP continues to be rocked by communal riots, the latest one being at Saharanpur after Moradabad, not to speak of Muzaffarnagar (where incessant communal bloodletting culminated...
View ArticleOur Country and Our Times: Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela
by Saumya DeojainThe following is an account of the programme held at Indore on Sandarbh's annual day where Venezuelan Ambassador Ms Milena spoke about the Bolivarian Revolution at length.It was June...
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