Mainstream Weekly

Now it is Syria

Sukumar Pathak — 2013-10-01T00:44:10Z

After Afghanistan and Iraq it is now Syria's turn to be devastated by incendiary and high explosive bombs, artillery shells and rockets by the American Army and Air Force.
Afghanistan was accused of hiding Osama bin Laden; Iraq of having “Weapons of Mass Destruction” (WMDs); Syria is being accused of using chemical weapons in mid-August in a Damascus suburb that killed about 300. The USA was trying to get its planned strike against Syria approved by the Security Council of the UNO. But (…)

- 2013

Talibanisation or Disintegration?

Sukumar Pathak — 2009-05-23T17:38:58Z

Pakistan had started out with five provinces in 1947: Punjab (its west part), North-West Frontier Province or NWFP, Sind, Baluchistan and East Bengal (or East Pakistan). Of these East Bengal seceded from the parent body after a bloody war of liberation in 1971. Among the remaining four, the North-West Frontier Province, bordering Afghanistan, has come into prominence of late because of the resurgence of the Taliban who were defeated by the Americans in 2001. The NWFP consists of six settled (…)

- May 2009

Why India Became Free

Sukumar Pathak — 2008-10-01T20:07:30Z

The end of the World War II in 1945 also saw the end of the colonial domination of the European nations, especially that of Great Britain overseeing the empire on which the sun never set. The years following 1945 saw a spate of grant of freedom to its dependencies: in 1946, Transjordan from a British protectorate became independent Jordan; in August 1947, India (and Pakistan) became free after 200 years of British rule; Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), a British colony, was free in October 1947; in (…)

- September 27, 2008