Xi Jinping Visit and Some Relevant Facts
COMMENTARYDuring the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to India, a series of agreements—aimed at enhan-cing Chinese cooperation with India—have been signed. However, while a detailed assessment of...
View ArticleElectorate's Rebuff to Communal Extremism
EDITORIALThe results of the just-concluded State Assembly by-elections have rattled the BJP. Of the 29 seats that went to polls, the BJP won 12, SP eight, Congress seven and others four. But what was...
View ArticleUP By-elections are a Lesson for BJP
by Vivek Kumar SrivastavaThe recent by-elections are a reminder to the BJP that all is not well with it. The honeymoon period being enjoyed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is finally over. The defeats...
View ArticleA Weak Prime Minister
“I did my duty” is the defence of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the charge that he was aware of corruption taking place in the mobile (2G spectrum) and sale of coal mines and did not do...
View ArticleHow Ukrainian President Poroshenko Won Over the West against Russia
by R.G. GidadhubliDuring the last one year, Ukraine has been passing through the worst period of its current history, torn as it is between the pro-Western civil society activists and pro-Russian East...
View ArticleUseful, if Controversial, Book on Bhagat Singh, his Life and Times
BOOK REVIEWUnderstanding Bhagat Singh by Chaman Lal; Aakar Books, Delhi; pages: xii+258; price: Rs 550.Bhagat Singh was a star among the stars in the galaxy of India's freedom fighters who immolated...
View ArticleShahid Bhagat Singh
September 28, 2014 marks the immortal revolutionary martyr Bhagat Singh's 107th birth anniversary. On this occasion we are publishing the following article on Bhagat Singh and a review of a book on him...
View ArticleLest We Forget: The Batla House Case, Six Years On
The following is the press release by the Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association.Ninettenth September marked the sixth anni-versary of the Batla House ‘encounter'. Six years ago, on this day, the...
View ArticlePromising Prospect
From N.C.'s WritingsThe Prime Minister's visit to China has falsified the wishful forecast of his critics and adversaries at home who had pronounced in advance that it was going to be a non-event. If...
View ArticleBJP Cannot Take Voters For Granted
by Harihar SwarupWhat message does the by-elections in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Assam and West Bengal send? One loud and clear message is that the Modi wave is losing its momentum. Coming on...
View ArticleNation-states and Frontiers: Old Tumours or New Tremors?
VIEW FROM PAKISTANThis article was sent to us by the author for publication some time ago but could not be published earlier. —EditorPakistan completes 67 years as a nation-state while its Armed...
View ArticleHow is the Cookie Crumbling?
I had concluded my last article (“Troubling Times for the Constitutional Republic,” Mainstream, Vol LII, No. 36, August 30, 2014) on a note of speculation about how Modiji's equation with the...
View ArticleChanging the Character of Political Discourse
by Arun SrivastavaNarendra Modi, an RSS pracharak, could not be expected to possess a broader view of the national and global perspective as Atal Behari Vajpayee had. Modi suffered from a sense of...
View ArticleChina Needs to see India as an Equal. Economic Ties are No Substitute to...
IMPRESSIONSIt's a remarkable coincidence that Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping are brothers cast in the same mould. Both are believers in centralised authority, who spent their initial months in office...
View ArticleIndia-China Relations: In Dire Need of Proper Management to Ward Off Differences
by Sheel Bhadra KumarRelationships in international politics, especially with neighbours, are highly complicated, sensitive and volatile. Nation-states have to handle and settle their bilateral issues...
View ArticleFor the people's sake: Synchronising Sino-Indian Relations
India and China represent one-third of humanity to make their mutual relationship both illustrative and compelling. The choices and contradictions before the Sino-Indian multitude can serve as an...
View ArticleReal News: Mangalyaan's Historic Feat
EDITORIALThe situation in Maharashtra prior to the impending State Assembly elections has taken a new turn with the break-up of both the alliances—that of the ruling Congress-NCP combine and the one of...
View ArticleThe Veto and Future Sketch
The recent proclamation by India at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meet in Australia— that it has the right to retain higher stock-holding of foodgrains—has led to arguments over the Bali...
View ArticleTrue Independence Day Celebrations
This article appeared in the DNA (Mumbai) just before the Independence Day this year. It is being reproduced, with due acknowledgement, for the benefit of our readers.As India's 67th Independence Day...
View ArticleBeneficial Outcome of Enhanced Participation in SCO
In more than a decade of its existence, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has proved itself as an effective inter-state association. The mechanisms established for collaboration allow the...
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