Mainstream Weekly

Nehru Observed

H Y Sharada Prasad — 2012-05-28T13:20:04Z

Is their long history, the Indian people have had two great love affairs. One was with Krishna of legend. The other was with a flesh-and-blood man of our own times, Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru knew how much he had received. He wrote about it in his will and testament. To deserve what he got, he gave abundantly. He wanted to be remembered as a “man who with all his mind and heart, loved India and the Indian people”.
Half of the people of India today have no personal experience of this (…)

- 2012

He was Unpurchasable

H Y Sharada Prasad — 2011-10-08T19:40:18Z

ON C.N. CHITTA RANJAN'S 90TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY
The ninetieth birth anniversary of outstanding journalist C.N. Chitta Ranjan took place last week—on September 29. Born in Ooty on September 29, 1921, he breathed his last in New Delhi on August 2, 1990. Besides Working in several newspapers and journals he was Mainstream's first editor. We remember him by reproducing the pieces written by his friends, colleagues and admirers after his demise in 1990. Most of these appeared in this journal's (…)

- 2011

Where is the Copywriter?

H Y Sharada Prasad — 2008-09-10T11:42:14Z

[(TRIBUTE
Distinguished Gandhian freedom fighter, erudite scholar, noted writer and columnist H.Y. Sharada Prasad, 84, who was the versatile Media Advisor to two Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, passed away in New Delhi at 1.30 pm on September 2, 2008 after a prolonged illness. He was suffering from Parkinson's disease and also a terminal lung ailment and was bed-ridden for the past eight months after a fall. Unassuming and soft-spoken, he was one of the last links with the (…)

- September 6, 2008

Between Emerging Tiger and the Poor

H Y Sharada Prasad — 2008-09-10T11:38:04Z

Even the cricket matches in Colombo didn't wholly eclipse Narasimha Rao's doings in Tiger-land this month as a weekend topic of conversation. Quite a number of people saw the direct telecast of his lecture to the Singapore Institute. More than the lecture, it is the question-and-answer session that followed which seems to have won approbation, especially the unfussy way in which the Prime Minister put the Pakistan High Commissioner in his place. That gentleman asked for it, by behaving more (…)

- September 6, 2008