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• Facing the Challenge

  21 December 2019, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  With this Annual Number Mainstream enters the fiftyeighth year of its modest existence having completed fiftyseven eventful years. At this juncture alongside the country as a whole it too is experiencing a massive attack on the values  (...)

• Today’s Imperative

  21 December 2019, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  The time has come when we can no longer afford to indulge in mutual recrimination. The time has come for us to hang our heads in shame.
  What has happened at Moradabad is a blot on our patriotism. No amount of quibbling,  (...)

• Amit Shah’s Defence of CAB-2019 Shames even Goebbels

  21 December 2019
  by Shamsul Islam
  The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 (CAD) that promises to open the door for Indian nationality to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians and Parsis who got into India (on or before December 31, 2014) from Afghanistan,  (...)

• . . . On the Prowl . . .

  21 December 2019
  “I don’t want to die”—
  your agonising last words.
  You fought for justice,
  then fought for life,
  but no victory was in sight.
  A hapless daughter,
  you lost your battle.
  No deterrence,
  no fear of retribution—
  the unbridled lechers
  without any remorse  (...)

• Citizenship Amendment Bill: A Warning Bell for the Republic

  21 December 2019, by Badri Raina
  This article was written before the passage of the CAB in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
  Just to recall, the Assam Accord of 1985 stipulated that all those individuals, irrespective of religious denomination, who entered Assam prior to March 24,  (...)

• The most apt quote when CAB was passed

  21 December 2019
  by Aurobindo Ghose
  Martin Neimoller’s confessional poem of how he, a Protestant pastor, did not care or ignored the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany , and how they arrested or persecuted the Communists, the Socialists, the trade unionists,  (...)

• Unnao: Documenting Rape and Violence against Women

  21 December 2019
  by Arup Sen
  The Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh (UP) has earned notoriety for two spectacular cases of rape and violence against women in recent times. It should be mentioned in this connection that rape has become an organic part of everyday  (...)

• Iran: Fuel Price Rise Spells Trouble

  21 December 2019
  by Harish Chandola
  Fuel price rise in Iran, that has created a turmoil in the country since it was announced November 15, has led to the death of over 100 people and dislocation of its day-to-day life. It is unlikely to end soon.
  On November 15  (...)

• A Temple to Rise from Rubble

  21 December 2019
  by L.K. Sharma
  A 25th century historian finds in the archives two books by foreign travellers who visited a place in Ayodhya. One describes a mosque there but the other has the photo of an exquisite temple exactly at the same spot. The confused  (...)

• Four Months of Suffocation: A Glimpse of Sufferings and Survival from Kashmir

  21 December 2019
  by Aijaz Ahmad Turrey
  On August 5, 2019 the Indian Government unilaterally issued a constitutional order of revoking Kashmir’s special status, Article 370, and bifurcation of the State into two Union Territories namely, Jammu and Kashmir, and  (...)

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