EDITORIAL
Last week African nationals staying in the Capital were subjected to wanton attack once again. According to reports, two Tanzanian women and two Nigerian men were hounded by a mob in the wake of rumours that they had kidnapped a local (...)
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Black and White
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Inclusive Development: Relevance of Socio-Political Factors
2 December 2018, by C.H. Hanumantha RaoRising inequalities in wealth and income lead to unequal access to power, status and influence. Democracies may be less prone to such state capture than dictatorships but even democracies have proved to be vulnerable to pressures from the (...) -
Statues and People: Saving River Kaveri
2 December 2018, by S G VombatkereThere is public opposition to the Government of Karnataka (GoK)’s proposal to construct a 125-ft high statue of Mother Kaveri in the immediate vicinity of the iconic Krishna-rajasagar (KRS) dam, along with some other constructions including a (...) -
Unchallenged Hegemony of BJP
2 December 2018by Vijay Kumar
Ever since the Gujarat Assembly elections held in December 2017, the Congress party under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi has been on the resurgence. The Congress missed the formation of the government in Gujarat, the home State of (...) -
Quest for the Lost Dignity
2 December 2018by Sardar Amjad Ali
The Indian National Congress, a party of distinction and heritage, fought the battle of liberation of India from the foreign yoke of 200 long years. With a heritage of Gandhi-Nehru-Indira’s association, the party, since 2014, (...) -
Voice of Dissent: When Art becomes Anti-National
2 December 2018by Ram Puniyani
Banning of books, opposing cricket teams and singers from Pakistan are not very new in India. We had seen the banning of the Satanic Verses, digging of the cricket pitch in Wankhede Stadium of Mumbai to oppose the Indo-Pak match, (...) -
Indian Constitutional Courts and Secularism — I
2 December 2018by Irfan Engineer
This is a two-part article. This is the first part. The second and concluding part will be carried in the following week’s issue of Mainstream dated December 8, 2018.
Traditions and customs are being used to redefine and redraw (...) -
On P.N. Haksar’s twentieth death anniversary
2 December 2018November 27 this year marks the twentieth death anniversary of P.N. Haksar, the eminent administrator and distinguished diplomat as well as one of the country’s foremost thinkers. He was the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Deputy (...) -
Retelling the Tale of Hashimpura Massacre
2 December 2018, by Arup Kumar SenThe story of Hashimpura massacre in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh (UP), committed more than three decades back, has come back to the public domain after the recent verdict of the Delhi High Court, which sentenced 16 Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) (...) -
Remembering October-November 1984
2 December 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Early next week, on October 31, the country would be observing the tenth death anniversary of Indira Gandhi who had been cruelly shot down on this very day by her own security guards right inside her residence.
By all (...)