Mainstream Weekly

Remembering Bhupesh Gupta

Abu Abraham — 2014-10-20T02:24:24Z

The late Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic, once wrote in the course of a review of one of Brendan Behan's plays: “The English hoard words like misers; the Irish take them out on a drunken spree.”
Mr Bhupesh Gupta never drank, but when he spoke he took words out in the Irish manner. Words in his mouth achieved a kind of inebriation and they flung themselves out like a mob pursuing an enemy of the people. He spared no one, yet everyone (almost) had a soft spot for him. There were exceptions, of (…)

- 2014

More to Gandhi and Gandhism

Abu Abraham — 2008-01-26T21:02:27Z

On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary Mahatma Gandhi's martyrdom (January 30, 1948) we reproduce the following pieces that appeared in Mainstream exactly 20 years ago on January 26, 1988 when both Abu and N.C. were in our midst.
I have just noticed something about the way we Indians have reacted to Gandhiji in the last forty years since his death. I think it's just like the way we have taken the Fairfax Commission report, or may be like the judgement of the five-member Bench of the (…)

- January 26, 2008