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Forgotten Bhagat Singh
7 April 2013, by Kuldip NayarStrange, there was no meeting or seminar to remember Bhagat Singh who still lives in the memory of every Indian. I was yet in a primary school when the revolutionary Bhagat Singh was hanged 82 years ago, to be precise on March 23, 1931. Even (...) -
Bhagat Singh as I knew Him
7 April 2013, by Ajoy GhoshLegendary freedom fighter and martyr Bhagat Singh was executed, along with Sukhdev and Rajguru, on March 23, 1931 in Lahore Central Jail. On the occasion of the eightysecond anniversary of their martydom and in homage to Bhagat Singh’s abiding (...) -
Pension Parishad raises Hopes among the Elderly
7 April 2013, by Bharat DograThe efforts of the Pension Parishad during the last year have raised hopes among India’s elderly population in the unorganised sector that after long years of neglect they too can get some social security. So far in India a reasonable system of (...) -
Iraq Crisis and Gujral Government
7 April 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The following article, which appeared in this journal precisely fifteen years ago, happened to be the last contribution of N.C. in Mainstream. It is being reproduced after fifteen years in view of its abiding relevance in (...) -
Dr Lohia’s Life and Thought: Some Notes
7 April 2013, by Surendra MohanDr Rammanohar Lohia’s 103rd birth anniversary was marked on March 23 this year. Since his birthday coincided with the day of martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru, he never wanted his followers to observe or celebrate his birthday. (...) -
No Humans in Modi’s "Development"
7 April 2013, by Mukul DubeNarendra Modi of the RSS is an ambitious man who seems to want to become the Prime Minister of the country. His propaganda machine never speaks of the violence in 2002 in the State he ruled and rules, but it constantly plugs his hand in its (...) -
Bangladesh: Battle for a New Future
25 March 2013, by SCDevelopments within the country and in our neighbourhood have moved at a fast pace in recent days. The DMK’s decision to sever its ties with the UPA and walk out of the ruling coalition at the Centre slamming the Government of India’s apparently (...) -
Reconfiguring Bangladesh - India Relations: A Masochist’s Fantasy Or Tilting At Windmills?
25 March 2013by TARIQ A. KARIM
At the time when the offer of this assignment as High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India was made to me in mid-2009, I was in a think-tank in Bangladesh1 where my primary focus of attention was on how to improve relations with (...) -
From People’s Court To Shahbag Square
25 March 2013by SHAHRIAR KABIR
The mass upsurge of Shahbag has passed 30 days. Not only at Shahbag, the people’s rally has maintained continuity from Chittagong to Dinajpur and from Sylhet to Khulna, that is, in most of the districts, without any active (...) -
Behind BNP-Jamaat’s Onslaughts
on the Shahbag Movement
25 March 2013, by Manas GhoshThe euphoria that the Shahbag Square movement had generated all over Bangladesh over a month ago is clearly on the wane in the face of murderous onslaughts unleashed by the pro-Pakistani Islamists who have threatened to wage a civil war so as to (...)
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