What’s the earliest memory I have about myself? I have tried to look back to catch a glimpse of what could possibly be the earliest scene I can remember about my life.
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November 3, 2007
Mainstream Vol. XLV No 46, New Delhi, November 3, 2007
MUKUL DUBE
On Tehelka’s Gujarat Sting
CHATURANAN MISHRA
Complications of the Present Political Situation
M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
Pakistan : Benazir Bhutto’s Magic Works
AMITAVA MUKHERJEE
The Rizwanur Affair and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Remembering N.C. on his Birth Anniversary
JAVED JABBAR, MOHIT SEN, P.B. SAWANT,
SUBRATA BANERJEE, P. M. WARRIER
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My Earliest Recollections
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Two Messages
3 November 2007, by P.B. Sawant, Subrata Banerjee[(These were sent after N.C.’s demise and published in the Mainstream issues dated August 29, 1998 and August 1, 1998 respectively. —Editor )]
The condolence resolution passed by the Press Council of India on the 4th of this month (August) must (...) -
Bravo, Jessoda!
3 November 2007, by P. M. WarrierIn their little den on Park Lane in Calcutta half a dozen young Malayalees, mostly clerks and typists, listened intently as a tiny bespectacled man in his early 30s read aloud a graphic account of how the city greeted India’s independence only a (...) -
Remembering Two South Asian Stalwarts
3 November 2007, by Javed JabbarWith the passing away of Nikhil Chakravartty and Mahbub ul Haq less than three weeks apart, on 27 June and 16 July, South Asia has lost two outstanding individuals who belonged to different countries yet shared a deep commitment to the region. (...) -
Nikhil
3 November 2007, by Mohit SenIt was the mid-forties that I first came across Nikhil. Bundle, my eldest brother, belonged to the outer fringe of the Indian Communist students group formed in England in the late 1930s. Indrajit Gupta, Mohan Kumaramangalam, Parvati Krishnan, (...) -
Morphing India’s Afghanistan Policy
3 November 2007, by Swapna KonaWhy does India need a renewed policy towards Afghanistan? October 2007 marks six years since Afghanistan has been occupied by outside forces. Hitherto, there’s been a rising cynicism with the Indian policy, or the lack of it, towards Afghanistan. (...) -
Durga Puja As Protest
3 November 2007, by Dipanjan Rai ChaudhuriThe four days of Durga Puja signify carnival time in West Bengal. On the main Saptami Puja day—Thursday, October 18—a few of us witnessed a tiny act of defiance by the small traders of Nonachandanpukur Bazaar, in Barrackpore, within the area (...) -
China’s 17th Communist Party Congress : An Assessment
3 November 2007, by Joshy M. PaulThe 17th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held in mid October (15-21), elected members to the two highest echelons of the Party, the 25-member Polit-Bureau and the Polit-Bureau Standing Committee comprising nine topmost (...) -
P.C. Joshi, the Organiser, Communicator and Culturalist
3 November 2007, by Rakesh Gupta[(BOOK REVIEW)]
P.C. Joshi: A Biography by Gargi Chakravartty; National Book Trust of India, New Delhi; 2007; Price: Rs 30.
Gargi Chakravartty has done a historic service to the cause that Joshiji held to his heart, namely, awaken the masses for (...) -
Subrata Banerjee is No More
3 November 2007On October 24, 2007 Subrata Banerjee passed away at his daughter’s residence in Washington at the age of 88.
He was born on November 21, 1919 in Dhaka in East Bengal. Both his parents came from cultured bhadralok families. In spite of many (...)
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