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Danger Signal of Degeneration
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyI write these lines after a fortnight has passed since that shocking incident took place in a suburb of the city of Calcutta. Three women and their driver returning from duty assigned by the government’s Health Department were detained by a gang (...) -
Aping the Adversary
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyIt is surprising how intelligent people in politics sometimes take up positions which should logically belong to their adversaries.
The Muslim League in 1940 picked up the so-called ‘two-nation theory’ which a bunch of extremist intellectuals had (...) -
Allround Decadence and Ray of Hope
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyWhile there is no doubt a lot on which to attack those in authority for their dereliction in running an orderly system of governance, one has to ask at the same time why there has been such an appalling deterioration in social conscience in most (...) -
Iraq Crisis and Gujral Government
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThe following article, which appeared in this journal more than fifteen years ago, happened to be the last contribution of N.C. in Mainstream. It was published less than three months before he breathed his last.
Outgoing Prime Minister Inder (...) -
PM’s Productive Talks in Moscow and Beijing
26 October 2013, by SCEDITORIAL
As the campaign for the State Assembly elections picks up, the prices of essential foodstuffs, notably onions, are registering massive increase in the Capital causing immense hardship to the middle classes, not to speak of those in the (...) -
Indo-Russian Strategic Partnership Reaches New Heights
26 October 2013, by Arun MohantyThere is every reason to believe that the just-concluded high-level meeting between India and Russia is one of the most successful and productive summits in recent years. This is the first time in many years that the annual summit is not dogged (...) -
Mohan Dharia: Selfless Political Life of a Value-based Personality
26 October 2013TRIBUTE
by Vivek Kumar Srivastava
Mohan Dharia represented a rare breed of politicians who were not only selfless but expanded their field of activity from politics to social and allied subjects. He not only held important positions in the (...) -
Prospects of Next Polls
26 October 2013, by Kuldip NayarPollsters are busy counting straws in the wind to guess which party will form the next government at the Centre. Newspapers and television channels lap up the surveys made because they make a good copy. Astrologers have also jumped into the fray (...) -
What Invasion has Shown Up • Need for World Publicity
26 October 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
October 20 this year marks the fyftyfirst anniversary of the Chinese aggression on India. On this occasion we are carrying N.C.’s ‘New Delhi Skyline’ published in Mainstream seven days after the invasion.
A fresh appraisal of (...) -
JP: Some Reflections
26 October 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyOn the occasion of Jayaprakash Narayan’s 111th birth anniversary we are carrying the following piece written by N.C. under the pseudonym ‘Analyst’
by Analyst
Jayaprakash Narayan has carried with him fulsome tributes from all political circles-his (...)
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