EDITORIAL
Election fever has gripped the country.
Today was the third phase of polling for the 16th Lok Sabha. In this phase, moderate to brisk voting took place in 91 constituencies spread over 11 States (including Delhi) and three Union (...)
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Communal Polarisation Scales New Heights
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Honouring Ambedkar
12 April 2014, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
April 14 this year marks the 123rd 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 (...) -
Water and Dalit Women
12 April 2014women’s world
by Nirupam Hazra
For long, the discourse of women empower-ment and emancipation has generally regarded women as a homogenous, non-hierarchised group; irrespective of the obvious disparity in their social status, economic position, (...) -
Gujarat : A Model of ‘Development’?
12 April 2014, by Kamal Nayan KabraA notable feature of the 2014 elections seems to be, at least on the surface, that development, particularly the inter-State differences in levels of development (and the associated role of governance of the leadership), variously understood and (...) -
On Writing India’s China War: Some Recollections
12 April 2014by Neville Maxwell
Following the publication of Kuldip Nayar’s “Neville Maxwell and Brooks’ Report” in Mainstream (March 22, 2014), Maxwell wrote in an e-mail from Australia: “Sumit, I have read Kuldip Nayar’s article with interest and surprise and (...) -
From the Left Roots
12 April 2014, by S G VombatkerePreamble
The two major Left parties, the CPI and CPI-M, speak of a Third Front that is both non-INC and non-BJP, and have sought to join hands with the AIADMK in a pre-poll alliance (since withdrawn as a “mistake”). Any thinking person would find (...) -
One Group has Already Lost the Elections: How Leadership Fails the Communists
12 April 2014, by T J S Georgeimpressions
The winners of this election are anybody’s guess. But the losers are known: The Communists. That is a pity because space is lying wide open for an alternative to the conservative Congress of vested interests and the (...) -
Peoples’ Agenda 2014
12 April 2014The following is the Peoples’ Agenda 2014 prepared by a group of academics on behalf of the Indian Political Economy Association (IPEA). This document is a necessary intervention at a crucial time when people are going to make a choice in the (...) -
For a Broad United Secular Front to Resist Fascist Takeover of Indian State
12 April 2014, by Sumit ChakravarttyThe following is a message sent by the Mainstream editor to a seminar on Left unity organised by the Communist Party of Bharat in Kolkata on April 6, 2014.
I wholeheatedly welcome the initiative you have taken to approach all Left parties, (...) -
Face of the Danger
6 April 2014, by SCEDITORIAL
More than a month ago it was written in these columns in the March 1, 2014 issue of this journal on the occasion of the twelfth anniversary of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom.
For all secular democrats.... the main objective of the coming (...)
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