Mainstream Weekly

• Maoist Actions and State Operations

  by SC
  Several moves by the state, judiciary and ruling party to muzzle the press have come into focus on the national plane of late. In the global arena, especially in the West, May Day this year has been observed by the working people venting their  (…)

• Where You Walk in Company...

  (Rabindranath Tagore’s 151st birth anniversary falls on Sunday (May 8, 2012) marking the conclusion of the celebrations that began with the 150th anniversary of his birth last year. We remember him and offer our sincere homage to his abiding  (…)

• Muktadhara’s Relevance

  by Amiya Dev
  A Tagore play that has a lot of relevance today is Muktadhara (‘The Waterfall’ in his own translation, both dated 1922). It is set in the open—in fact its original title was Path or ‘Way’—on the road to Lord Bhairava’s temple in a hilly country, with  (…)

• Sketching Tagore as a Social Activist and Social Reformer

  by Arup Maharatna
  In celebrating the 150th birth anniversary year of the giant poet and writer Rabindranath Tagore, it would be no small a tribute if we recall, recognise, and evaluate him more adequately and comprehensively than ever before as an activist who  (…)

• The Toilers

  As I look around this dear old earth I see the vast wave of common mass traversing by diverse ways the endless track from life to death, urged on by common human needs from times immemorial.
  It is they that row and they that sit at the helm.  (…)

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