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Sumanta Banerjee’s piece, “Recalling Gandhi in Narendra Modi’s India”(Mainstream, March 25, 2016), underlines the fact that the dead old man has not, after all, outlived his utility. Even Left-of-the-Left intellectuals find what (...)
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Gandhi and the Rising Tide of Fascism
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Why Land Reforms Remain Important
10 April 2016COMMUNICATION
At a time when the government is increa-singly marginalising the most important develop-ment issue of land reforms, people’s movements and all pro-poor forces and scholars should come together to reassert the continuing importance (...) -
Overriding Task at Present Juncture
4 April 2016, by SCEDITORIAL
As the campaign for the elections to the State Assemblies of Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry hots up with the BJP making a desperate bid for power in Assam banking on the anti-incumbency factor since the incumbent (...) -
Getting One’s Priorities Right
4 April 2016by N.V.K. Murthy
The following was written by the author sometime ago but could not be used earlier due to space constraints. It is now being published as its contents have not been fully overtaken by the latest events.
The Government of India (...) -
Is Hindu Society Changing?
4 April 2016, by Kuldip NayarSomething extraordinary and adorable happened to the Hindus, who number 80 per cent in India. Breaking the 400-year-old tradition, widows at Vrindavan, about 110 kilometres from Delhi, celebrated the festival of Holi and danced while throwing (...) -
Would Bhagat Singh have raised the Slogan ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ ?
4 April 2016by Sandeep Pandey and Rahul Pandey
As we know, the great revolutionary Bhagat Singh was an atheist. He wrote a famous article ‘Why I am an Atheist?’ Even after he knew that he was going to be hanged by the British Government, his commitment to (...) -
Struggle at JNU Till Now and Prospects Ahead
4 April 2016by Vikas Bajpai
The Struggle
When we at JNU embarked on our struggle against the slanderous and repressive onslaught that has been unleashed on the Jawaharlal Nehru University, we did so with our backs to the wall. Three weeks later we have (...) -
Complaint against Zee News Channel
4 April 2016To,
Mr Prasanna Raghav, AVP Strategy & Execution, Zee Media Corporation Ltd. Essel Studio, FC-19, Sector 16-A, Noida - 201301, India.
Complaint against telecast by Zee News channel of programme titled “Afzal Premi Gang ka Mushaira” from (...) -
Union Budget 2016-17: Growth or Retrogression?
4 April 2016, by Kobad GhandyThe following is the latest article written by Kobad Ghandy, the noted Marxist-Masist thinker, now lodged in Tihar Jail 3. He sent it to Mainstream for publication. We are accordingly doing so for the benefit of our readers.
For all the hype of (...) -
Union Budget 2016-17: Will the Shortage of Funds Persist for Priority Schemes of Weaker Sections?
4 April 2016, by Bharat DograWhile reporting on the lack of proper implemen-tation of important government schemes and programmes for weaker sections, it is not always possible to find out whether this is due to administrative problems or corruption or overall shortage of (...)
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