IMPRESSIONS
Suddenly last week our country reverberated with voices of wisdom. Arun Jaitley’s was the clearest when he spoke of “extremely disturbing trends” of intolerance and vandalism. That was precisely what victims of intolerance, social (...)
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The Intolerance Debate and the Game of Pretence. Why is a 5000-year Heritage under Threat?
10 November 2015, by T J S George -
National Education Day: Forgotten Birthday of a Great Indian
10 November 2015by Sukumaran C. V.
The following article is on Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, one of the greatest secular democrats of the country, on the occasion of his birthday (observed as the National Education Day) on November 11.
If religion expresses a (...) -
Russia in Quest of an Assertive Role in Syria
10 November 2015by Sheel Bhadra Kumar
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has opened a new chapter in the complicated region of West Asia. The strategic chessboard of West Asia has been set in for a strategic move. Russia, with its advanced warplanes, (...) -
Fascism and Indian Philosophy
10 November 2015by MurzBan Jal
The Indian Brahman proves the holiness of the Vedas by reserving to himself alone the right to read them. —Karl Marx, The Leading Article in No. 179 of the Kölinische Zeitung
Does the Hindu social order, recognize social equality? (...) -
Ensure Adequate Funds for Nutrition and Health
10 November 2015, by Bharat DograCOMMUNICATION
The recent statements made by the Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Ms Maneka Gandhi, on October 19 should serve as a wake-up call for the Government of India as well as for all those concerned about proper (...) -
Cowed Down, But not Quite
10 November 2015, by Badri RainaPerched on the horns of Nandi, Bharat strikes back, Too quarrelsome to be cowed down. And too hypocritical to boot: Looking askance from a garbage dump, A thoughtful cow moos her rebuke: “Having no fodder for me, you will Let me munch of (...) -
Russian Revolution: General and Particular Lessons for World Communist Movement
10 November 2015, by Anil RajimwaleNovember 7 this year marks the 98th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia that heralded the birth of the now dismantled USSR. On this occasion we are carrying the following article.
We are approaching nearly hundred years of the (...) -
Lights of Moscow
10 November 2015, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The following piece was written by N.C. fifty two years ago, published as it was in Mainstream (November 9, 1963).
As the IIyushin 14 touched down on the hard crust of the Siberian snow, the pretty Chinese comrade next to me (...) -
Report from Moscow
10 November 2015, by Sumit ChakravarttyThe author, then Mainstream’s Special Correspondent and now Editor, was in Moscow from November 6 to 23, 1991 to get an idea of the objective situation in the Soviet Union just before its dismemberment. The following is the first instalment of (...) -
Dangerous Rise of the Rightwing Forces
4 November 2015POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
The political landscape of the country is changing at a fast and furious pace. ‘Intolerance’, ‘illiberal’, ‘communal bigotry’, ‘fringe elements’—all these have become hackneyed words and phrases. What we are witnessing today right (...)
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