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• Editorial Board - Mainstream, Weekly

  14 September 2020

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  [bleu]Table of Contents - Mainstream, Sept 12 | Lockdown Edition no.25[/bleu]

  11 September 2020

  Table of Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 39, New Delhi, September 12, 2020
  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 12 On Pranab Mukerjee | Sumanta Banerjee Swami Agnivesh: The man who tried to retrieve the colour Bhagwa | John Dayal Why the Right is Winning | Shiv Visvanathan On the Foundation of the Communist Party of India in 1925 | Anil Rajimwale Promoting Fraternity: Courts to the Rescue | Ram Puniyani De-iconisation of Pandit Ishwar Chandra (…)

• [bleu]Letter to The Readers - Mainstream, Sept 12 | Lockdown Edition no. 25[/bleu]

  11 September 2020

  On the 15th of August, the Prime Minister announced that his government was considering bringing a legislation to raise the age of marriage for women to 21 years. The rationale for attempting to raise the minimum legal age for marriage beyond 18 is that this will bring down maternal mortality; this explanation is questionable. Studies show that the focus should be on health and nutrition and to curtail the widespread practice of Child Marriage that prevails in over 70 plus districts spread (…)

• Recalling a brief acquaintanceship with Pranab Mukherjee | Sumanta Banerjee

  11 September 2020, by Sumanta Banerjee

  As I read the obituaries which are pouring in to pay tributes to Pranab Mukherjee, I find a missing link - the years during 1950-60 which were first spent by him as a post-graduate student in Calcutta, followed by a stint as a college lecturer, and then his entry into politics as an activist in West Bengal that was to lead to his eventual arrival in Delhi as an MP in 1969. Since I knew him during those years , I may (…)

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  Swami Agnivesh: The man who tried to retrieve the colour Bhagwa | John Dayal

  11 September 2020, by John Dayal

  Vepa Shyam Rao died ten days short of a precise 80 years in the Intensive Care Unit of a Delhi hospital, of the long-term impact of injuries sustained two years ago when the lone unarmed man was surrounded and beaten by armed assailants in Jharkhand. A lynch mob, you could call them.
  It was not difficult to spot him, even by people who did not read newspapers, did not see television. If anyone had seen a calendar painting of Swami Vivekananda, they would recognise Agnivesh, by colour, (…)

• Why the Right is Winning | Shiv Visvanathan

  11 September 2020, by Shiv Visvanathan

  The Left created a dream of the future while the Right allowed everyman to recreate his own past through an act of video violence

• Foundation of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in 1925: product of genuine national and working class movements | Anil Rajimwale

  11 September 2020, by Anil Rajimwale

  Foundation of CPI in 1925 was a historic event, welcomed by all the progressive sections of the national movement. It was a product of the dialectical combination of the national and class movements, deeply crystallized by the Russian revolution and international events. CPI in the twenties was truly rooted in the industrial working class and the emerging intelligentsia influenced by ideas of socialism and Marxism. Simultaneously a big section of the national movement was involved in it and (…)

• Promoting Fraternity: Courts to the Rescue | Ram Puniyani

  11 September 2020, by Ram Puniyani

  Prashant Bhushan, the upright legal luminary and social activist, has shown the mirror to the Judiciary in a remarkable way. But that’s not the whole story. Recently two interventions of the Courts do give a hope that the judiciary can also come forward to preserve the democratic values in the society.

• De-iconisation of Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar | Pabitra Kumar Sarkar

  11 September 2020

  [Sept 26, 1890, is 200th birth anniversary of Iswarchandra Vidyasagar]
  by Pabitra Kumar Sarkar
  On March 2001, a group of Talibani terrorists blasted the majestic Buddhist statue at Bamian valley in Afganistan by charging powerful dynamite. It was one of the tallest such statues in the world. The historic statue which was 1500 hundred years old, was a unique artifice. Bamian is a heritage site of the UNESCO.
  The statue was chiselled out on the hill surface. But this sort of sculptural (…)

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  In Memory of B N Yugandhar | L Mishra

  11 September 2020

  "B N Yugandhar whom I knew-a few sweet recollections on the occasion of his first death anniversary (13.09.20)."
  This is a humble tribute to the memory of late B N Yugandhar (IAS RR AP Cadre 1962) with whom I had spent some of my most productive and memorable years in civil service (notably 90s and beyond till he breathed his last on 13.09.19). I was Secretary, Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) in the rank and pay of an Addl. Secy. to Govt. of India from (…)