BOOK REVIEW
by Bilal Ahmad Mir
Between the Great Divide: A Journey into Pakistan-administered Kashmir by Anam Zakaria; Harper Collins India; 2018; pp. xxxviii + 282; Rs 599.
Anam Zakaria’s book, Between the Great Divide: A Journey into the (...)
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2019
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Essential Contribution to the Existing Scanty Literature on ‘Azad Kashmir’
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Polling Process Starts, SC Ruling on Rafale}
13 April 2019, by SCEDITORIAL
The first phase of polling in the seven-phase 17th Lok Sabha elections today across 20 States and Union Territories has witnessed sporadic violence with police firing in Nawada (Bihar) while certain areas of Andhra experienced (...) -
Letter from Prof C.H. Hanumantha Rao
13 April 2019The following is a letter from Prof C.H. Hanumantha Rao as a response to a request from the Mainstream editor to throw some light on the economic content of Indira Gandhi’s Garibi Hatao slogan in 1971 as he was in the decision-making apparatus (...) -
Beware of the Ides of March
13 April 2019COMMUNICATION
The editorial comments on the Christchurch carnage [Mainstream, March 23, 2019] were indeed very apt and appreciable. The promptness and fortitude displayed by the New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, underscores her (...) -
US’ Indian Ocean base to Remain
13 April 2019by Harish Chandela
The major American naval and air base in the Indian Ocean at Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago is unlikely to shut down, in spite of the International Court of Justice cancelling its lease and the decision that the island (...) -
Festival of Democracy
13 April 2019by Samit Kar
India, the world’s largest democracy, would go to polls shortly. Never in the history of Indian democracy, the party or the coalition that had been able to usurp power at the Centre could gain the support of more than 50 per cent of (...) -
Overt and Covert Racism and Communalism
13 April 2019by Irfan Engineer
On March 15, 2019, 50 Muslims offering their Friday prayers died and 48 were injured when they were shot in the Masjid al Noor mosque in Christchurch and at the Linwood Avenue mosque in New Zealand. Brenton Tarrant, a 28- (...) -
Narendra Modi, the }‘chowkidar’ of the Elite
13 April 2019by Mahi Pal Singh
When he contested the parliamentary elections in 2014 for the first time, Narendra Modi claimed to be a ‘chaiwala’, referring to his humble beginning as a child, so that ordinary people would identify with him and vote for him. (...) -
Honouring Ambedkar
13 April 2019, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
April 14, 2019 marks the 128th 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 (...) -
How Ambedkar makes us Richer
13 April 2019, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
“The Hindus wanted Vedas, and they sent for Vyasa, who was not a caste Hindu. The Hindus wanted an epic, and they sent for Valmiki, an untouchable. The Hindus wanted a Constitution, and they have sent for me.” That was B.R. Ambedkar at (...)
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