by Arun Srivastava
After many years India is witnessing the emergence of a farmers’ movement albeit not in the classical form of the earlier farmers’ move-ments or peasant movements of the seventies. But at some level it heralds the message that (...)
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Politics of Globalisation defining the Mode of Farmers’ Agitation
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Indian Constitutional Courts and Secularism—II
9 December 2018by Irfan Engineer
The first part of this two-part article appeared in last week’s Mainstream (December 1, 2018). This is the second and concluding part.
In the previous issue of Mainstream (December 1, 2018) we briefly outlined the tension (...) -
Human Rights: Basic Issues / Not Sorrow but Atonement
9 December 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year commemorating the day, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark the occasion we are reproducing the (...) -
Renaming Places, Rewriting History
9 December 2018by Aishwarya Bhuta
“Abhito haur naam badalne hain,” (more names are yet to be changed) proclaimed Yogi Adityanath even before he was named the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. Hence, it should not come as a surprise that his Cabinet has approved the (...) -
Deconstructing the Politics of Renaming
9 December 2018, by Arup Kumar SenRenaming cities and places is nothing new in world history. The socio-political context of its happening is important. Catherine Epstein in her book, Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), drew our attention to what (...) -
Asia-Pacific and Indo-Pacific: Indian Dream versus the Indian Fairy-tale
9 December 2018by Shrabana Barua
With the rebalancing of the Asia strategy of the Trump Administration, Indo-Pacific as a term began to overlap with that of Asia-Pacific. Though broadly both these terms roughly point to the region east of the Indian (...) -
Arrest of “Urban Naxals” decried at Public meeting in the Capital
9 December 2018A public meeting was held at the Constitution Club on Saturday, December 1, 2018 to discuss the worrisome trend of anti-terror laws being used to stifle democratic dissent by harassing civil rights lawyers, poets, writers. The meeting was called (...) -
Rohingya Sympathisers’ Open Letter to Union Home Minister
9 December 2018Hon’ble Home Minister,
We understand from news reports that under instructions from your Ministry, the intelligence agencies, have prepared a State-wise list of several organisations and individuals, who are sympathetic to the Rohingya refugees (...) -
Do Women Really have a Reproductive Choice?
9 December 2018WOMEN’S WORLD
by Ramneet Kaur
When we refer to the concept of reproductive choice, it means women’s right, control and choice over their reproductive abilities. The right to decide whether they want to have a child or not, the control over their (...) -
Why Let Religion Destroy India?
9 December 2018, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
What’s happening to our country? A huge and diverse land of 135 million people, 29 States and 22 scheduled languages, yet we are caught in a single obsession—religion. All discussions, all decisions, all policies are shaped by (...)