Nehruvian Framework: Battleground of Progress and Reaction
The Nehruvian framework today has become a terrain for the historic battle between the forces of progress and those of Rightwing reaction. It has always been. We have entered a phase where the...
View ArticleNehru and Socialism
by Mohd. Yousuf DarJawaharlal Nehru was born on November 14, 1889 at Allahabad. He was an upholder of some of the concrete political values. He believed in socialism, secularism, democracy and the...
View ArticleRemembering Nehru Today
FROM N.C.'S WRITINGSThe inherent strength of a nation lies in its ability to remain calm and act with coolness and courage when faced with a critical situation. That today India is able to do so when...
View ArticleBetrayal of Nehru Legacy
It is an irony of history that the name of Mahatma Gandhi should within a few years of his martyrdom serve as no more than a mascot for perpetrators and abettors of oppression and exploitation. His...
View ArticleThe Nehru Daur
I remember the first time I saw Nehru.It was soon after the police action that liberated Hyderabad from Nizam's rule. I must have been about 12 at the time. A friend of mine and I were walking towards...
View ArticleNehru and Minorities
(Jawaharlal Nehru's 125th birth anniversary was befittingly observed by a grateful nation on November 14. On this occasion we continue to publish/reproduce more articles on Nehru.)The following...
View ArticleIf Britain is responsible for India's Misery, why is Mass Misery Still...
IMPRESSIONSHere's something that should rivet Narendra Modi's attention. “Nearly every kind of manufacture or product known to the civilised world—nearly every kind of creation of man's brain and hand,...
View ArticleTechnology, Life, and Civilisation
by N.V.K. MurthySometimes I wonder at the changes that science and technology have made in my own life spanning nine decades. I was brought up in a British cantonment town in colonial India. My first...
View ArticleWho Wants Military for Internal Security?
Parliament and GovernmentThe government can function in the interest of people only when there is peace and order in society, persons in power use people-oriented politics, and the rule of law is...
View ArticleAFSPA Requires Another Look
Two boys have been killed in Kashmir. The incident itself is bizarre. A white-coloured car is mistaken for a similar one which used to scurry the terrorists back and forth. As many as 115 bullets are...
View ArticleClean Epitome, Loam Pattern
‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness.' These towering ideas of Mahatma Gandhi have been there since a long time. The recent act of ‘Clean India' in the form of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan' by Prime Minister...
View ArticleUS shows ‘Pure Evil' to Russia, is pays back
by M.K. BhadrakumarThe Islamic State [IS] missed its timing by a whisker in making the announcement that it beheaded an American aid worker. The announcement should have been made a day earlier just...
View ArticleDoes the India-US Bilateral Agreement on Food Security Matter?
After months of stalemate, India and the US have agreed to resolve their differences over food stockholdings which would open the way for future implementation of the Trade Facili-tation Agreement...
View ArticleThe Bali Battle: Lessons for the Future
by Rohini PandurangiWith the resolution of the impasse over the Bali deal, jubilation is the word to describe the mood of the Indian Government. It had been three months since the Bali trade deal...
View ArticleFocus of National Attention
EDITORIALSeveral incidents of the last few days have become the focus of national attention.The first was the Chhattisgarh tragedy. Laproscopic tubectomy carried out for sterilisation of 83 women at a...
View ArticleRing Out the New
Past a strenuous three score and tenThe truth had better be told:Ring out the new, ring in the old.Let the so-glittering now beSet aside for the unlettered then,Let once again nothing be bought,And...
View ArticleSincere Apologies for Wrong Impression
COMMUNICATIONThough I am a life member of Mainstream, I miss some issues due to the postal department's negligence and carelessness or receive back issues many weeks later. So I missed the September 27...
View ArticleOwning up Mistake of Resignation: A Reality Check by AAP
by Sanjay MishraThe following article was sent quit sometime back but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons. It is now being published for the benefit of our readers on the occasion of...
View ArticleSri Lanka: A Serious Challenge for Rajapaksa
For the first time since 2009, when Sri Lanka's prolonged and bloody civil war ended with the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the triumphant President Mahinda Rajapaksa has run...
View ArticleA Status Quo Country
Whenever I return to Bangladesh, I find that one institution or the other has gone under. The last time it was the parliament. This time it is the judiciary which, to quote a top lawyer, has been...
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