Mainstream Weekly

• High Voter Turnout, WTO Talks in Perspective

  by SC
  EDITORIAL
  Polling for the five State Assembly elections being over yesterday, attention has now shifted to the counting of votes on Sunday (December 8). One should not give too much importance to exit polls even though these do provide an idea  (...)

• Tribute: Rajendra Yadav

  by Mrinal Pande
  In his lifetime Rajendra Yadav, one of the most complex of Hindi writers, editors and literary critics, appeared to outsiders a deceptively ageless two dimensional black and white figure from Hindi literature of the late 20th Century. The last I  (...)

• India-Japan: Waiting for the Defining Moment

  by Uttam Sen
  India, China and Japan have been treading lightly while doomsday scenarios abounded barely a week ago. Japan’s discovery of India (tenjiku, the divine land) via China following Buddhism’s passage to East Asia between the sixth and eighth  (...)

• Nepal Constituent Assembly Elections: A Review

  by Sangeeta Thapliyal
  Amidst high drama, the Constituent Assembly elections took place in Nepal on November 19, 2013. There were many who had apprehended the possibility of postponement of elections due to boycott by 33 political parties led by  (...)

• In the Name of Ram

  by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  The following piece, which appeared within a fortnight of the demolition of the Babri Masjid (December 6, 1992), is being reproduced on the twentyfirst anniversary of that infamous event.
  To build a temple to mark the  (...)

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