Mainstream Weekly

• Modi on the Backfoot

  23 February, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  The Delhi Assembly election results last week continue to impact on both the party and the Union Government. Had the BJP leadership  not been shamed by the all-pervasive rout of the RSS’ principal political outfit in those elections  (...)

• Trying to cage a Tigress: Roused Civil Society defends Teesta Setalvad against Gujarat Attempt to Humiliate Her

  23 February, by John Dayal
  Around noon on Thursday, February 19, Supreme Court Justices Dipak Misra and Adarsh Kumar Goel extended the stay on the arrest of human rights activist and editor Teesta Setalvad and her husband, Javed Anand, in a case of alleged embezzlement of  (...)

• Govind Pansare succumbs to Cowardly Attack

  23 February
  On February 16, motorcycle-borne assailants pumped four bullets on veteran Communist leader Govind Pansare (82) and his wife, Uma (72), when they were returning home from their morning walk in Kolhapur (Maharashta).
  An upright, outspoken and  (...)

• In Defence of Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand

  23 February
  We are shocked to learn of the rejection of the Anticipatory bail applications of Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand by the Gujarat High Court. Media stories suggest that the bail applications have been turned down because Setalavad and Anand were  (...)

• What a Victory!

  23 February, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  The AAP is here. Wah, what a victory! What a win! What a splendid show of strength! The AAP has managed to crush the BJP and with that trampled upon the Right-wing’s politics of spreading hate, of communal divides, of killings and  (...)

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