2017

• We Shall Overcome!
  24 December 2017, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  With this issue Mainstream completes fifty five years of its long, arduous, modest yet purposeful existence.
  Affirming that what we face today in this country “has no parallel”, it was written in these columns a year ago on December 20,  (...)
• Gujarat Results, Off the Cuff
  24 December 2017, by Badri Raina
  COMMENTARY
  However Mr Modi might flash the victory sign, in the heart of his heart he knows that he lost in Gujarat.
  The steady, strenuous, and well-thought-out campaign mounted by Rahul Gandhi was a bold and unrelenting buzz in the elephant’s  (...)
• Ray of Sunshine / Pakistan: Reporter’s Jottings
  24 December 2017, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  Against the backdrop of the recent anti-Pakistan tirade resorted to by the PM in the context of the Gujarat Assembly elections in order to corner the Opposition and gain electoral advantage, we are reproducing here two  (...)
• CPM Polit-Bureau should listen to Freedom Song
  24 December 2017
  by M.K. Bhadrakumar
  The worst thing that can happen to a political party is when it begins to look trivial. The miserable decline of the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh is a recent example. By and large India’s political parties have avoided  (...)
• Supreme Court reopens Gandhi’s Case
  24 December 2017, by Kuldip Nayar
  I think the Supreme Court’s order to appoint an amicus curiae in Mahatma Gandhi’s assassi-nation is important. More about how it happened and why—are the two points which need to be pursued. The plea filed by Dr Pankaj Phadnis, a trustee of  (...)
• Everyday Agnipariksha of UP Madrasaas to prove Patriotism: Hindutva Attack Must Be Faced Innovatively
  24 December 2017
  by Shamsul Islam
  On the eve of the 70th anniversary of India’s independence, the Government of UP led by a senior leader of the Hindu Mahasabha and RSS, Mahant Adityanath Yogi, came out with a stunning order for madrasaas (Islamic semi-naries).  (...)
• Middle East in Renewed Turmoil
  24 December 2017
  by Harish Chandola
  With the killing of a few Palestinians on the West Bank on December 8, the Middle East has again been thrown in a turmoil after the announcement by the US President, Donald Trump, on December 6, declaring Jerusalem as the  (...)
• India: Tales of ‘Progress’ and ‘Pain
  24 December 2017
  by Arup Kumar Sen
  Very recently, a communication from the Prime Minister’s Office reminded us that “demonetisation proves to be a game-changer”. While highlighting the “multi-dimensional benefits of demonetisation”, the aforementioned communication  (...)
• All Spun from a Human Yarn
  24 December 2017, by Badri Raina
  God is an idea abstracted from The best of human qualities; And the Market likewise exemplifies The worst of our propensities.
  Between the two is Religion Which brokers our best and worst By keeping both in good humour From baptism to the  (...)
• Agrarian Crisis that Killed Farmers in Odisha
  24 December 2017
  by Suranjita Ray
  This Kharif season, Brown Plant Hoppers (BPH) have been particularly pestilent towards destroying paddy crops in most of the districts of Western Odisha. Twentyfour of Odisha’s thirty districts are affected. Experiences of  (...)

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