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Dissolute Governments, Disillusioned People
21 November 2012, by S G VombatkereAnna Hazare and General (Retd) V.K. Singh have called for Parliament to be dissolved immediately. They point out that the (Union) government is “looting” the people and “bending to the corporates”, and people have lost faith in it. There is also (...) -
A Dark Moment of Our History
21 November 2012, by Vidya Bhushan RawatOctober 31, 1984 witnessed one of the most gruesome incidents of our time. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated at her residence by her own security personnel. The country plunged into darkness as a highly communalised anti-Sikh (...) -
Remembering October - November 1984
21 November 2012, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Early next week, on October 31, the country would be observing the tenth death anniversary of Indira Gandhi who had been cruelly shot down on this very day by her own security guards right inside her residence.
By all (...) -
CJI and Coverage of Court Cases
21 November 2012, by Kuldip NayarThe following was written quite sometime ago but could not be published earlier for unavoidable reasons.
The news was that the Supreme Court hadn’t framed any blanket guidelines for the media coverage of court cases. Most people felt relieved. (...) -
Journalists Report the Police Version
of Crime: Seema Azad
21 November 2012INTERVIEW
Do journalists question enough?—asks Seema Azad, the Dastak editor who was charged under the UAPA, in this interview with Shobha S.V.
Thirtyseven-year old Seema Azad’s calm demeanour belies the trauma that she’s had to undergo. Azad, (...) -
Questions of Freedom and People’s Emancipation — IV
21 November 2012, by Kobad GhandyKobad Ghandy from Tihar Jail is writing on the concept of freedom vis-s-vis present-day society as also in relation to a future just order, bringing out some causes for the failure of the erstwhile socialist states. It will comprise a series of (...) -
The Red Vignettes
21 November 2012Remembering October Revolution on its 95th Anniversary
[(Seventh November this year marks the 95th anniversary of the historic October Revolution. Although the politico-economic situation in Russia has undergone a sea-change since 1991, the (...) -
Reply to Grover Furr: Senseless Defence of Stalinist Repressions
21 November 2012, by Anil RajimwaleCOMMUNICATION
I must first thank Mainstream for starting some kind of debate on the Stalin question.
I read through Grover Furr’s reply (Mainstream, October 27, 2012) to my review of his book (that appeared in this journal’s August 4, 2012 issue). (...) -
What does it Mean when the UK High Commissioner visits Modi?
21 November 2012, by Badri RainaRightwing Hindutva social forces may well have collaborated with the colonising Britishers during the high noon of India’s Congress-led freedom movement, their standard polemic after Independence has been that what ought to have remained an (...) -
Ahmedabad-based Jesuit’s Letter to British Envoy
21 November 2012, by Humra QuraishiYou must be watching on your small screens the great political circus taking place in New Delhi. One thief letting off the other. Or simply grabbing him by the collar and throwing him, here and there and all over. But not really in those hell (...)
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