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• Dissent is the Fulcrum of a Democracy

  23 April
  by Saumitra Mohan
  Dissent and democracy are often considered synonymous in a liberal-democratic social order. It is through open debate and discussion that the huge range of diversity of opinion in a democracy is captured. It is by means of such  (...)

• Essential Contribution to the Existing Scanty Literature on ‘Azad Kashmir’

  23 April
  BOOK REVIEW
  by Bilal Ahmad Mir
  Between the Great Divide: A Journey into Pakistan-administered Kashmir by Anam Zakaria; Harper Collins India; 2018; pp. xxxviii + 282; Rs 599.
  Anam Zakaria’s book, Between the Great Divide: A Journey into the  (...)
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  Polling Process Starts, SC Ruling on Rafale}

  13 April, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  The first phase of polling in the seven-phase 17th Lok Sabha elections today across 20 States and Union Territories has witnessed sporadic violence with police firing in Nawada (Bihar) while certain areas of Andhra experienced  (...)

• Letter from Prof C.H. Hanumantha Rao

  13 April
  The following is a letter from Prof C.H. Hanumantha Rao as a response to a request from the Mainstream editor to throw some light on the economic content of Indira Gandhi’s Garibi Hatao slogan in 1971 as he was in the decision-making apparatus  (...)

• Beware of the Ides of March

  13 April
  COMMUNICATION
  The editorial comments on the Christchurch carnage [Mainstream, March 23, 2019] were indeed very apt and appreciable. The promptness and fortitude displayed by the New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, underscores her  (...)

• US’ Indian Ocean base to Remain

  13 April
  by Harish Chandela
  The major American naval and air base in the Indian Ocean at Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago is unlikely to shut down, in spite of the International Court of Justice cancelling its lease and the decision that the island  (...)

• Festival of Democracy

  13 April
  by Samit Kar
  India, the world’s largest democracy, would go to polls shortly. Never in the history of Indian democracy, the party or the coalition that had been able to usurp power at the Centre could gain the support of more than 50 per cent of  (...)

• Overt and Covert Racism and Communalism

  13 April
  by Irfan Engineer
  On March 15, 2019, 50 Muslims offering their Friday prayers died and 48 were injured when they were shot in the Masjid al Noor mosque in Christchurch and at the Linwood Avenue mosque in New Zealand. Brenton Tarrant, a 28-  (...)

• Narendra Modi, the }‘chowkidar’ of the Elite

  13 April
  by Mahi Pal Singh
  When he contested the parliamentary elections in 2014 for the first time, Narendra Modi claimed to be a ‘chaiwala’, referring to his humble beginning as a child, so that ordinary people would identify with him and vote for him.  (...)

• Honouring Ambedkar

  13 April, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  April 14, 2019 marks the 128th birth anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. On this occasion we are reproducing the following piece by N.C. to offer our sincere homage to the abiding memory of that towering  (...)

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