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  Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no.15 | July 4, 2020

  4 July 2020

  Contents: Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 29, New Delhi, July 4, 2020 Letter to the Readers – Mainstream Lockdown Edition No.15 | The Editor Tribute to Jolly Mohan Kaul | Sankar Ray Jolly Mohan Kaul (22 Sept 1921 - 29 June 2020) | Aditi Roy Ghatak Early India, Goats and Brahmins | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Russian bounty killing forces Trump’s hands on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan | M. K. Bhadrakumar The Escalating Crisis on the India-China Border | Achin Vanaik Page from History: Nehru and (…)

• LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.15

  4 July 2020

  Letter to the Readers – Mainstream, July 4, 2020
  Consolidating National Solidarity: PM Narendra Modi’s speech at the frontier post at Nimo in Ladakh yesterday has been interpreted in various ways today. Several press analyses have pointed out that it was an unambiguous assertion of India’s territorial integrity violated by China; even if Modi refrained from using the word ‘China’ in his utterances the implication was clear. Only days ago the PM’s remark at an all-party meeting had stoked (…)

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  Tribute to Jolly Mohan Kaul | Sankar Ray

  4 July 2020, by Sankar Ray

  Jollyda joined the Communist Party of India (CPI) in 1941 and started working among railway workers. His parents thought of him as a member of Indian Civil Service after he passed B A with first-class honours in English, but his life changed after he befriended Prasanta Sanyal, a bright leader of All India Student Federation, a frontal organisation of undivided CPI. He was elected a member of Calcutta district committee in 1943.

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  Jolly Mohan Kaul (22 Sept 1921 - 29 June 2020) | Aditi Roy Ghatak

  4 July 2020

  Jolly Mohan Kaul would have stepped into his 100th year on September 22. That he fell a trifle short of his century does not detract from the scintil­lating innings that he has played, nor the stout defence" "against death that he put up at Bellevue, where he breathed his last at 5.55 pm.

• Early India, Goats and Brahmins | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

  4 July 2020

  by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
  I met Tony Joseph, the author of Early Indians - the History of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From, first in Jaipur Literature Festival in 2019 and next at Mathrubhoomi Literature Festival in January, 2020 at Thivanthapuram. I had a lengthy discussion about his understanding of cattle like goats, buffalos, cows and so on, caste and race relations in ancient India and where the brahminic understanding of India went wrong and they became anti-animal economy and (…)

• Russian bounty killing forces Trump’s hands on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

  4 July 2020, by M K Bhadrakumar

  As expected, the controversy over Russia’s alleged bounties for killing American and NATO troops in Afghanistan is steadily snowballing. The New York Times has come out with more leaks such as bank transfers from accounts identified with the Russian military intelligence to the Taliban, “hawala” transactions as well as the Afghan government’s assistance to the US intelligence to zero in on the Russian-Taliban nexus.

• The Escalating Crisis on the India-China Border | Achin Vanaik

  4 July 2020

  In the last week, simmering tensions on the Indian-Chinese border in the Himalayas have escalated to open conflict, with fatalities on both sides. India’s foreign policy, and not just China, deserves much blame for the escalation.

• Page from History: Nehru and Dange | Nitin Deshpande

  4 July 2020

  by Nitin Deshpande
  This is just a note on a piece of history that no one seems to remember in the ongoing debate on the issue of the Chinese problem facing India today. Surprisingly even the media seems lost in endless debate on whether the government was ready or not and so on.
  In the year 1962 when China attacked India, there was an intense debate the world over about the line the Chinese Communist Party had taken especially in the Socialist countries when the then USSR had declared (…)

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  An open letter to International NGOs who are looking to ‘localise’ their operations

  4 July 2020

  An open letter to International NGOs who are looking to ‘localise’ their operations
  Our plea is that you work with us, not against us. We need to be supported, not competed with.