Mainstream Weekly

Saluting Sobho Gianchandani: A Symbol of Pride of the Subcontinent

Ajeet Jawed — 2015-04-17T15:37:51Z

[(TRIBUTE
Sobho Gianchandani, one of Pakistan's last leaders from its first generation of Marxists, passed away in Larkana (in Pakistan's Sindh province) four months ago on December 8, 2014. He was cremated in his native village near Larkana on December 9, 2014.
Gianchandani was a member of the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) and stayed active after it was banned in the 1950s.
With his death an era has come to an end in the sense that the generation of Leftist politicians who (…)

- 2015

Swami Vivekananda — A Warrior Saint

Ajeet Jawed — 2014-07-05T21:18:37Z

Swami Vivekananda was born on January 12, 1863 and died at just 39 years of age on July 4, 1902. His 150th birth anniversary was observed in January 2013. The following article has been written on the occasion of his 112th death anniversary that falls this week.
In the struggle for India's freedom numerous men and women sacrificed their lives. One amongst them was Swami Vivekananda. Though he did not directly challenge foreign rule, yet his contribution in the awakening of his countrymen (…)

- 2014

Swami Vivekananda — A Masiha of the Masses

Ajeet Jawed — 2013-07-07T15:47:47Z

The following article is being published on the occasion of Swami Vivekananda's one hundred and eleventh death anniversary on July 4. On January 12 this year we had observed his one hundred and fiftieth birth anniversary.
Nineteenth century India produced a number of eminent men and women who with their exceptional intellect and wisdom enriched different aspects of Indian life. The most important among them was Swami Viveka-nanda who in a short span of life, which lasted less than forty (…)

- 2013

Swami Vivekananda: An Iconoclastic Saint

Ajeet Jawed — 2012-01-31T11:44:01Z

Bengal has produced a galaxy of prophets, poets, philosophers and patriots who, by their rare intellect, devotion and dedication for their motherland and compassion for humanity, have made India proud. One amongst them is Narendranath Dutta, whom we all know as Swami Vivekananda. He was born on January 12, 1863 and died on July 4, 1902, at the age of 39 years, five months and 24 days. In such a short span of life, he immensely contributed to rousing Indians not only against the foreign rule (…)

- 2012

On M.A. Jinnah

Ajeet Jawed — 2011-11-27T11:15:04Z

COMMUNICATION
This in response to Mr Rawal's letter to the editor (Mainstream, October 29, 2011) regarding my article ‘Pakistan Failed Jinnah' in Mainstream (September 10, 2011). In this context I would like to draw his attention to the following facts:
1. It is a proven fact that before changing track in 1940 Jinnah was secular and nationalist. He had joined a secular organisation, Bombay Presidency Association, in 1900, the Indian National Congress in 1904, was the President of the (…)

- 2011

Pakistan Failed Jinnah

Ajeet Jawed — 2011-09-13T18:19:54Z

On September 11 this year falls Mohammed Ali Jinnah's sixtythird death anniversary. The following article is being published on that occasion. There are a few figures in the history of the world who can be put in both a positive and a negative frame. Mohammad Ali Jinnah is one of them. He is both revered and hated, and admired and cursed, by the vast masses of the subcontinent.
For forty years of his political career, he fought for the freedom of India. In those days he was proud to be (…)

- 2011

Unity to Partition: A Sad Saga of the Subcontinent

Ajeet Jawed — 2010-09-20T07:06:59Z

September 11 happened to be the sixtysecond death anniversary of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the architect and founder of Pakistan. We are belatedly carrying the following article while remembering him.
September 11 marked the death anniversary of M.A. Jinnah, the Father of the nation of Pakistan, which came into existence on August 14, 1947. In 1937 the Muslim League, under Jinnah's leadership, had declared the complete independence of India as its goal and had also expressed its willingness to (…)

- 2010

A United Struggle for United India-Azad Hind Fauj

Ajeet Jawed — 2010-09-08T08:34:30Z

September 1 this year marked the sixtyeighth anniversary of the formation of the Indian National Army (INA). The following article, bringing out the detailed history of the INA, is being published on that occasion.
In the history of India's freedom struggle, the INA occupies an important place. At the time when there were all round divisions on the Indian national scene, the INA exhibited complete national unity. The Indian soldiers fought unitedly for a united India. This armed struggle (…)

- 2010

The Unsung Heroes of 1946

Ajeet Jawed — 2008-10-01T20:13:15Z

The history of our freedom movement is the saga of innumerable armed struggles. One after another, these struggles kept on challenging the British rule in India. However, during and after the Second World War, these struggles acquired a new momentum and new strength. The revolutionary spirit of the Indian National Army had greatly affected the British Indian armed forces. Between March 1942 and the beginning of 1946 there were nineteen uprisings in the Royal Indian Navy alone. The most (…)

- September 27, 2008