Mainstream WeeklyHaving but recently left Russia, we feel that our first and most urgent words must be spoken in behalf of our political prisoners in Russia.
It is a sad, heartbreaking commentary upon the situation in Russia to speak of political prisoners in the land of the Social Revolution! Yet such is the fact, unfortunately. Nor do we refer to counter-revolutionists who might be, conceivably, prisoners of the Revolution. Incredible as it may seem, the jails and prisons of Russia are today densely (…)
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Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 9, 2021
9 January 2021* Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, Jan 9, 2021
* Too Much Democracy, Mr Kant, Or Too Little? | Avay Shukla
* Modi government getting ready to confront the farmers | Arun Srivastava
* India in a Scissors Crisis | Shubham Sharma -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 9, 2021
9 January 2021Letter to the Readers
January 6, 2021, will go down as a black day in the history of American Democracy. On this day the elected representatives to the US Congress and Senate were to meet at the Capitol Hill in a joint session to certify the election of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States. Hours before the beginning of the session President Donald Trump — spoke at a rally "Save America March," of his supporters in Washington DC, where he made repeated claims of voter fraud (…) -
Too Much Democracy, Mr Kant, Or Too Little? | Avay Shukla
9 January 2021by Avay Shukla
2 January 2021
So now we finally know why the Modi govt. has messed up the Farm Bills issue big time: it has advisors like Mr. Kant who no doubt firmly believe that a few more jackboots on peasant throats would have made them gladly swallow the legislation without any demur. And, for all we know, he’s the one who is also advising our resident sage: " We kant back down now!"
Amitav Kant is one of the most powerful and influential policy makers in the present (…) -
Modi government getting ready to confront the farmers | Arun Srivastava
9 January 2021by Arun Srivastava
After 40 days of peaceful nonviolent satyagraha, a situation reminiscent of the famous 1942 “Do or Die” movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi, is fast emerging on the political horizon with the farmers’ not willing to accept anything below scrapping of three black farm laws and providing legal status to the MSP acquiring a new dimension and dynamics.
If it was the reluctance of the Britishers to listen to the Indian voice that forced Mahatma Gandhi in 1942 to give the (…) -
India in a Scissors Crisis | Shubham Sharma
9 January 2021by Shubham Sharma
December 31, 2020
India, a modern-day bourgeois democracy with socialism sitting uncomfortably in the Preamble, neither faces a civil war nor an invasion of states. Its problems are self-generated. The twin blades of economic and political crisis have been self sharpened by the government on the whetstones of indifferent governance, communalism, and neo-liberal capitalism.
India is in a ‘scissors crisis’. The phrase was employed first, and duly plotted on a graph by a (…)