2022

BOOK REVIEW
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Hitler and India:
The untold Story of his Hatred for the Country and Its People
by Vaibhav Purandare
HarperCollins Publishers
207 pages
Price: Rs 399
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Adolf Hitler is considered by some as a friend of India because he hosted, even if briefly, Subhas Chandra Bose. This is perhaps one reason why his autobiography Mein Kampf sells well in this country. The reality is nauseatingly different, as journalist-author Vairbhav Purandare unveils in this path (…)

by Raj Kumar Thakur *
Depiction of forest dwellers in Indian movies is often based on stereotypes whereby they are cast as ‘primitive’ living outside history. The movie Kantara’s take on forest dwellers is fresh in the sense that it has captured the nuances of everyday life of the tribal world who draw their lifeline from the forest. From cocks and pigs to firewood and leaves, from feast and liquor to friendship and passion, the movie has captured the everydayness of the forest dwellers in (…)

* Nehruvian foreign policy & its relevance today | P S Jayaramu
* Nehru Warned of Majoritarianism dressed as Nationalism | S N Sahu
* On the Release of Rajiv Gandhi’s Killers | Papri Sri Raman
* Russian Invasion of Ukraine & Divisions Within The Left | Achin Vanaik

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 19, 2022
Over the past decades the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry in India has acquired a name for itself as the pharmacy of the world that supply’s an estimated sixty percent of the world’s vaccines and about twenty percent of all of generic medicines. This standing of the industry had been partly tarnished in the past when a major scandal broke around a particular Indian Parma company called Ranbaxy over its manipulation of clinical (…)

by Rohit Kumar and Rakesh Kumar *
India being a country full of caste-religious and ethnic-cultural diversities made it susceptible to many conflicts based on these deep rooted differences. Though Indian constitution provided to mitigate these differences through many of its provisions but these still remained major hurdles in achieving the liberal-democratic goals of egalitarianism. The similar diversities have also made its way in the politics and economy of the country after (…)

Beyond the tragic blows and the brooding over violence, Beyond the labour over errors and repenting over deeds, Beyond the evenings without dialogues and the nights full of suspicion, Beyond the days in which the happy ones revel in their narrow happiness — Is it possible that to give blows to one another is the only reality? —Aldo Capitini, Colloquio Corale (Choral Dialogue), 1956. Translated into English by Maddalena Rayner.
THIRTY YEARS IS a very very long time in the life of a (…)

by P.S. Jayaramu
November 15, 2022
Only a few days ago, the national observed Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s birth anniversary. At a time when there are animated discussions going on within the political class about the contribution ( or the lack of it) to Indian foreign policy and external relations, it is useful to take as detached a view as far as possible about the issue.
Irrespective of the positions taken by the political leaders in contemporary India, it is pertinent to recognise (…)

On the occasion of birth anniversary of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru the nation while paying rich tributes to him gratefully recalls his many splendoured roles as a towering freedom fighter, architect of modern India, brilliant writer and above all a statesman of planetary significance. His legacy anchored in science,scientific temper, secularism and inclusive nationalism. He creatively adopted modern technology by blending it with our rich civilisational and cultural (…)

by Gull Mohammad Wani and Ouffee Naik *
India’s neutral position on Russian invasion of Ukraine is still a subject- matter of debate among policy circles. The different political parties in India have also stated their position on this policy stance. The opposition parties supported PM Modi but some congress leaders promptly pointed out that Jawaharlal Nehru’s policy of Non-Alignment (NAM) has stood the test of the time. It was during the meeting of Shanghai Cooperation (…)

by Arun Srivastava
The Supreme Court’s February 13, 2019, the keeper of the Constitutional conscience and justice had directed state governments to evict nearly one million Adivasis and other forest communities. This order not only impended their autonomy, liberty and dignity it also trampled Adivasis of their rights to life and health. It is undoubtedly the worst nature of infringement of the right to life of an already vulnerable community, which is disparaged by the civilized people as (…)