From Bihar to Assam: Understanding and Predicting BJP's Election Strategies...
by Aejaz Ahmad and M. Rafiq WaniIntroductionThe story of religious invocation and incantation in politics is as old as modernity itself. While modernity was supposed to release what is now called...
View ArticleIndia: Roller-Coastering Democracy
by L.K. SharmaThose who have seen the Indian Prime Minister's irresistible rise in politics and heard his inflammatory rhetoric over the years, were astounded by his speech in Parliament. Short of...
View ArticleSangh Proposes, Modi Disposes
by Arun SrivastavaIt was soothing to the ears that the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, praising Jawaharlal Nehru, was reaching out to the Congress leaders, adopting a conciliatory attitude towards the...
View ArticleAll Well for Now — And How
When I spoke of the historical inevitability of the Constitution of India some months ago (see “Republic Resilient”), in contradistinction to inevitability of another kind that we have been taught to...
View ArticleHindutva {Juggernaut on Roll: Beef-eaters to be out of Indian Nationhood
The Hindutva propounder, V.D. Savarkar, in his book, Hindutva (1923), and the prominent ideologue of the RSS, M.S. Golwalkar, in his book, We or Our Nationhood Defined (1939), kept Indian Muslims and...
View ArticleBuilding the Idea of India
The following is based on a lecture delivered by the author, a renowned historian, to the students of the Aligarh Muslim University at the AMU's Kennedy Hall on September 7, 2015. The author has...
View ArticleTime to Rally / Insanity Enthroned / Wanted: Statesmanship of Highest Order /...
From N.C.'s WritingsTime to RallyThere is nothing unusual for a nation with complex problems to face to go through difficult times, and a great nations like ours with myriads of problems to clear can...
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Primary Task Today
EDITORIALAs the year comes to an end with Mainstream entering its fiftyfourth year, one is reminded of what was written in these very columns a year ago.Surveying the political scenario of the nation...
View ArticleProf Randhir Singh, Teacher with a Difference
TRIBUTEby Ranbir SinghThe passing away of Prof Randhir Singh of the University of Delhi on January 31, 2016 has resulted in an irreparable lost to the discipline of Political Science. He was, indeed, a...
View ArticleThings that should Never Happen in a country are Happening in India. Duty...
IMPRESSIONSYaksha asked: “What is ignorance?” Yudhi-shthira replied: “Not knowing one's duty.” That was a perfect answer in the days of Sanatana Dharma when good was good, bad was bad and all were...
View ArticleStop Harassment of Delhi University Professors
We, the undersigned, condemn the ongoing harassment of senior professors of Delhi University Dr Ali Javed, Prof Nirmalangshu Mukharji and Dr Vijay Singh in the name of questioning over a seminar which...
View ArticleFace of State Tyranny
MUSINGSState tyranny has reached campuses. This government is using every single ploy to crush any voice of dissent, to spread around an air of confusion, and to unleash terror. What happened at the...
View ArticleTribute: Kewal Varma
by Sankarshan ThakurKewal Varma, the veteran journalist who led The Telegraph's team of reporters in New Delhi through the tumultuous 1980s and 1990s, passed away on January 25. He was 84.Kewalsaab was...
View ArticleToward India-US Military Alliance?
by Dwijen BoseThe BJP leaders from Prime Minister down-wards are unsparing in their criticism of the Congress. But paradoxically the NDA Govern-ment is following almost all the major policies of the...
View ArticleManagerial Corporate State and the Myth of Fascist Tolerance
by Murzban JalAccumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time, accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degra-dation, at the opposite pole. Karl...
View ArticleThe Space that Killed Rohith Vemula
by Probal DasguptaDoes Rohith Vemula's suicide note make charges that can serve as the basis for judicial action against individuals who drove him to his death? This question has been under intense...
View ArticleThree Poems
Women of ShingnapurLed by Trupti Desai, you marched On Shani Shingnapur as did the women Of Paris on Versaille—to level Yet another edifice of demeaning Prejudice. Knowing that it is not The mute,...
View ArticleAcid Test for Mulayam / Where's the Kashmir Policy?
From N.C.'s WritingsAcid Test for MulayamVaranasi and Kanpur are the danger signals which Mulayam Singh Yadav can hardly afford to underplay. The significant impact that was made on the Indian...
View ArticleGrave Threat to Rule of Law and Constitutional Democracy
by Vijay KumarThe slapping of the charge of sedition under Section 124(A) of the IPC on Kanhaiya, the President of the JNU Students' Union, has extremely grave implications for democracy, rule of law...
View ArticleHindutva Nationalism Versus JNU
by Vikas SharmaIt is the season of spring characterised by the consistently blowing wind. You may say that the nation is blowing in the wind of nationalism and anti-nationalism. A recent action against...
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