Mainstream WeeklyMany incidents in the recent days in particular that curtail freedom of speech and expression, compel us to engage once again with the idea and practice of democracy. Freedom of speech and expression guaranteed in the Constitution of India in Article 19 as a Fundamental Right is the essence of liberty. It includes the right to voice one’s opinion, the right to seek information and ideas, and the right to receive and impart information, which are essential to strengthen democracy. However, it (…)
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The Idea and Practice of Democracy | Suranjita Ray
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V.P. Menon: A Long Forgotten Hero | M R Narayan Swamy
19 March 2021, by M R Narayan Swamyby M R Narayan Swamy
V.P. Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India by Narayani Basu Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Pages: 440; Price: Rs 799
There could not have a more unacknowledged and forgotten hero of a modern nation like V.P. Menon, and there could not have been a more gripping and readable biography. Imagine a rags-to-riches story, a man who rose from being a coolie and a street hawker to a top post in the Raj, an architect of modern India, a right hand of Sardar Vallabhbhai (…) -
Review: The French Revolutionary Script in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802
19 March 2021William S. Cormack. Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies: The French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2019. 392 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0395-6.
Reviewed by Grant Kleiser (Columbia University) Published on H-Atlantic (March, 2021)
Those in the United States who are anxious about media misinformation, racial and class tensions, and insurrection might take some comfort in reading William S. Cormack’s (…) -
Can Myanmar’s civil disobedience movement restore democracy? | Nicola Williams
19 March 2021by Nicola Williams*
17 March 2021
Since Myanmar’s coup and limitations placed on withdrawals indicate a looming liquidity crisis. Foreign trade is frozen have joined protests, refusing to do the dirty work of the military.
A groundswell of protests have swept across the country, with Myanmar’s tech-savvy youth proving to be a creative mobilising force the old guard has not faced before. As Min Aung Hlaing sports bulletproof vests in rare outings and uses state media to blast the civil (…) -
Germany: Surprise on The Left | Victor Grossman
19 March 2021by Victor Grossman
(Note: Wissler quotations at the bottom)
Surprise, surprise! Things worked out quite differently than expected at the congress of the LINKE, the left-wing party. The surprise was not that it took place at all, after the pandemic forced postponements from June to October and from October to last weekend, with most of the 580 delegates at home in front of a screen, microphone and camera; only the socially-distanced, masked leaders sat in a sparsely occupied hall in (…) -
Smugglers’ protests: Iran succumbs to trauma and demons | James M. Dorsey
19 March 2021by James M. Dorsey*
March 14, 2021 Recent clashes in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochistan highlight Iran’s vulnerabilities as well as its inability to overcome trauma and control its demons.
The clashes sparked by a crackdown on cross border fuel smuggling to neighbouring Pakistan achieved what past US and Saudi machinations failed to accomplish: ethnic unrest in a strategic, impoverished and long restive majority Sunni province in predominantly Shiite Iran.
The clashes in (…) -
Video: Afghan women orchestra Zohra at Berwaldhallen in Stockholm, March 2019
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Video: Profit or Life? - The power of the pharmaceutical companies | A DW Documentary
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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Mar 13, 2021
12 March 2021* Changing Goals of India’s Foreign Policy: An Analysis | P S Jayaramu
* Lessons of the Dandi March on its 91st Anniversary | Satya Sahu
* Remembering Fukushima: Phase-out all Nuclear power | Soumya Dutta
* Kronstadt Revolt in the Soviet Union: List of sailors demands in Feb. 1921 -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Mar 13, 2021
12 March 2021Exactly 91 years ago on 12 March 1930 Mahatma Gandhi had embarked on the Dandi March also known as the Salt March or Salt Satyagraha — Gandhi walked from his ashram in Sabarmati to the small town of Dandi in Gujarat to protest against the repressive salt tax imposed by the colonial government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose political party the BJP (and its ideological mothership the RSS) which had nothing to do with India’s anti-colonial movement has decided that it is politically (…)