Mainstream Weekly

Most recent articles

• 

  Video: The Origins of Life - From Geochemistry to Biochemistry | Nita Sahai

  1 July 2023

  Play
  "The Origins of Life: From Geochemistry to Biochemistry" by Case Western Reserve University https://youtu.be/CeVk9yC0_vk

• 

  Music: Saraswati at Montreaux (2017) | Abhijith P S Nair, Sandeep Mohan, Mohini Dey & Dave Weckl

  1 July 2023

  Play
  SARASWATI AT MONTREUX - ABHIJITH & SANDEEP ft.DAVE WECKL & MOHINI DEY..!!! by Abhijith P S Nair https://youtu.be/IFQPDtR55BY
  Abhijith P S Nair - Violin, Electric violin, songwriter
  Sandeep Mohan - Electric guitar, songwriter
  Mohini Dey - Bass Guitar
  Dave Weckl - Drums
  Recorded at - Abhijith P S Nair Studio (Violin and Electric Guitar), Mohini Dey Studio (Bass guitar), Dave Weckl Studio (Drums)
  Mixed and Mastered - Balu Thankachan (20db Studios Chennai)
  2017

• 

  Table of Contents - Mainstream, June 17 & 24, 2023

  17 June 2023

  * Imphal - a Historic Turning Point? | S G Vombatkere
  * CPM’s 34-year rule in West Bengal (Part 1) | Kobad Ghandy with Ghosh and Hazra
  * Development Delusions & Forthcoming Panchayat Elections in Bengal | Sunil Ray
  * Fadnavis’s “Aurangzeb Ki Aulad” Narrative Violates Constitution . . . | S N Sahu
  * Future of Work & Its Implications on the Labour Market | Kingshuk Sarkar & D N Venkatesh
  * Why do some Filipinos support the police shoot-to-kill policy? | Danielle P. Ochoa

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 17 & June 24, 2023

  17 June 2023

  Authoritarian Streak Under the Modi Regime is Getting Bigger
  On June 15, 2023, an official meeting decided to change the name of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML). This is a disturbing development that has rightfully come under criticism. A prestigious national institution both as a library - archive and one that was conceived as a memorial space for India’s first Prime Minister should not have been renamed, and there should have been prior consultation for a consensus with (…)

• Imphal – A Historic Turning Point ? | S G Vombatkere

  17 June 2023, by S G Vombatkere

  Manipur, with its capital at Imphal, is bordered by Nagaland, Assam, and Mizoram. To its east is part of India’s sensitive international border with Myanmar (formerly Burma), increasingly under covert Chinese influence.
  A turning point A part of the Second World War Burma Campaign, the gruelling and historic Battles of Imphal and Kohima were fought during March to July 1944, at great cost to both Indian and Japanese troops. The outcome was the defeat and withdrawal of Japanese forces, (…)

• ‘Development Delusions’ and The Forthcoming 2023 Panchayat Election In Bengal | Sunil Ray

  17 June 2023

  by Sunil Ray *
  I am writing this piece based on my discussions with several people from different wakes of life while visiting several rural areas of Bengal recently. While it was an opportunity for me to explore the political pulse of the people of rural Bengal on the eve of the forthcoming panchayat election, I intend to reflect here mainly on the ‘development delusions’ being created by the ruling party against the backdrop of firstly on freebies that are being doled out, particularly (…)

• The Indispensability of Brij Bhushan Singh | Faraz Ahmad

  17 June 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  The cat is finally out of the bag. The months’ long supposed investigations by Amit Shah and Narendra Modi governed Delhi Police has finally come out with a report running into thousands of pages, which has made all the effort to let off the hook Wrestlers’ Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, better known as a toughy of Eastern UP and a six time member of the Lok Sabha on the strength of his muscle power.
  We will soon have a Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) (…)

• The CPM’s 34 year rule in West Bengal (Part 1) | Kobad Ghandy with Ghosh and Hazra

  17 June 2023, by Kobad Ghandy

  by Kobad Ghandy with inputs by Raktim Ghosh and Bonhihotri Hazra
  [bleu marine]This article will be divided into two parts. The first will deal with the CPM led West Bengal government’s approach to globalisation/SEZs, development with focus on Singur and Nandigram, Industry and labour, education and health......and its resultant actions on the people and their movements. The next will deal with the nature of its rule in the state.bleu marine]
  People may ask as to what is the point now in (…)

• The Congress Government in Karnataka and NEP 2020 | P. S. Jayaramu

  17 June 2023

  10th June 2023
  The Congress Party in Karnataka had included in its manifesto that if it comes to power, it would scrap the National Education Policy, (NEP) 2020. After winning the elections with an emphatic victory, the Congress Government has declared that since education is on the Concurrent List, it would take measures to scrap the NEP. In an article in these columns on 28 August 2020, I argued that while the NEP as mixed bag, the stand of the state governments would be crucial for the (…)

• Fadnavis’s “Aurangzeb Ki Aulad” Narrative Violates Constitution, Otherises Minorities, and Endangers Communal Harmony | S N Sahu

  17 June 2023, by S N Sahu

  Possibly no public figure occupying a high office as that of Deputy Chief Minister ever used the derogatory and offensive term “Aurangzeb ki Aulad,” “Progeny of Aurangzeb,” after an alleged social media post containing the image of Aurangzeb was met with a violent response from Hindutva groups against Muslims in Kolhapur in Maharashtra. The concerned Deputy Chief Minister is Devendra Fadnavis of Maharashtra and he used the humiliating term to point fingers at Muslims and spew venom and (…)