Russia Confronts US' Containment Strategy
The annual address to the Federal Assembly by the Russian President is an occasion to dilate on the state policies, but this year's speech by Vladimir Putin on December 4 at the Kremlin's St George...
View ArticleEnd of an Epoch
When Prof Julius Stone, one of the most distinguished legal scholars of last century, passed away, his disciple, himself a great contemporary jurist, Prof Upendra Baxi, in a moving tribute, wrote:...
View ArticleAn Activist Judge with Aristotle's Mental Range, Fearless Krishna Iyer was a...
IMPRESSIONSIf style maketh the man, opinion maketh the judge. A wise opinion memorably expressed goes directly into the conscience of society and the annals of time. Such was the opinion: “Law without...
View ArticleIndian Constitution — Some Creative Mutations Mooted / "Conflagration...
We offer our sincere homage to his abiding memory by reproducing two of his pieces that appeared in Mainstream—an article and an open letter—in 2007. We are also carrying two tributes from persons who...
View ArticleTribute to V.R. Krishna Iyer
In the death of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, who entered his 100th year last month, the country as a whole has become poorer, not just the world of Indian jurisprudence.In one of the most incisive...
View ArticlePutin's Visit and India-Russia Summit
This was the fifteenth annual summit between India and Russia but since this happened to be the first summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a swiftly...
View ArticleBJP's Real Face and Real Agenda Unmasked
EDITORIALReplying to a debate on ‘ghar wapsi' (homecoming) or reconversion of Muslims to Hinduism—initiated in the Lok Sabha by Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia—Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu yesterday,...
View ArticleIndian Police
COMMUNICATIONAll countrymen rightly condemn and resent the highly deplorable, thoroughly inefficient and corrupt Indian Police and its functioning.It has earned notoriety for adopting the immensely...
View ArticleFDI increase in Insurance is Anti-National
The Modi Government has decided to introduce a Bill to allow increase of FDI from 26 per cent to 49 per cent in insurance. Outwardly the Congress and the other constituents of the erstwhile UPA...
View ArticleTragedy And Conciliation
There was genuine pain in India over the mindless killing of schoolchildren at Peshawar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked all Indian schoolchildren to maintain a two-minute silence in memory of the...
View ArticleRepublic at Crossroads: Who is at the Wheel?
I cannot recall if political India has ever before had a more momentously contentious ending to a calendar year.I say “political India” advisedly, because much that seems to be now culturally fraught...
View ArticleTo Question Or Not To Question: That Is The Question
The following is a slightly expanded version of the text of the Third Nikhil Chakravartty Memorial Lecture, organised by the Book Review Literary Trust, in New Delhi on October 26, 2014. Prof Romila...
View ArticleFace of the New World Order / Human Rights: Basic Issues / Prime Minister's...
From N.C.'s WritingsFace of the New World OrderTurmoil in heaven—the heaven which is presided over by the supreme superpower of the day, possessing History's largest number of deadly nuclear bombs and...
View ArticleThe Subversion of the Constitution
The Bharatiya Janata Party, though a minority party in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, being the party having the larger number of legislators in the Assembly than any other party, was called...
View ArticleOn Haryana CM's Observations
COMMUNICATIONHaryana Chief Minister M.L. Khattar has stated [;India Today;“Khaps have better sense of social justice than courts: Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar”; IndiaToday.in, New Delhi, December 6,...
View ArticleGandhi or Godse
The moral compass has no tones of greyIt is white or blackIt is light or darknessIt is good or evilIt is Gandhi or Godse.Suhas Borker[Suhas Borker is an independent documentary filmmaker and Convener,...
View ArticleGrim Scenario, Ominous Setting
EDITORIALAs Mainstream steps into its fiftythird year with this Annual Number, the overall domestic situation has never been as grim as it is today.Seven months ago the outcome of the 16th Lok Sabha...
View ArticleMother Teresa
I am no Christian, dear departedMother of millions whose persuasionsMattered as little to you as seasonsOf the year, or the political weatherOf the day, and who worried littleThat you had a religion...
View ArticleModi's "Make in India"
Before ascending the throne of Delhi, to lure the young voters, Modi had propagated the virtues of FDI (foreign direct investment). He claimed that once he comes to power, there would be a long queue...
View ArticleSaffronisation of Education: Questioning The Legitimacy Of An Education That...
by Vikash Sharma and Ananya PathakThe debate on the secularisation of education has been one that has being going on for a long time, the need to free education from the clutches of religious dogma or...
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