June 30, 2007

Mainstream, VOL XLV, No 28, New Delhi, June 30, 2007
Enough is Enough !

ASH NARAIN ROY
– Left and Right during New Cold War in Europe

BHARAT DOGRA
– WTO, Governments and People’s Movements

Remembering N.C. on his Ninth Death Anniversary

Reproduction of Articles on N.C. by
– S. VISWAM, P.C. JOSHI, LALIT UNIYAL

K. S. Subramanian reviews Nandita Haksar’s
– Framing Geelani, Hanging Afzal : Patriotism in the Time of Terror

SAGARI CHHABRA
– The Speaking Flower

FROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
– THE STORY OF A GADFLY

The Speaking Flower
2 July 2007, by Sagari Chhabra

A flower grew on tropical soil its petals waxen white, its centre crimson; the people knelt and smelt her intoxicating fragrance and then felt mysteriously—free.
Soon the flower was transplanted onto yonder shores, it blossomed, sprouted limbs, swaying in the wind, it breathed the breeze of liberty.
One day, the flower returned; striking her original soil her colours ignited; from her petals crimson rose enflamed: ‘even the searing heat cannot erase the blood on the street.’
White (…)
The Story of a Gadfly
2 July 2007, by Nikhil Chakravartty

[(This was one of the best exposés of N.C. as a reporter and it was carried in the India Press Agency feature news service N.C. had founded with another outstanding Communist journalist David Cohen (who thereafter left the Communist Party on the issue of Jewish persecution in the Soviet Union) in 1957. This report resulted in M.O. Mathai’s resignation from the post of the PM’s Special Assistant following a furore in Parliament in 1959. )]
(All about the PM’s P.A. and the Trust for his (…)