Mainstream Weekly

Urgent Need to Halt Onward March of Fascism

B N Arora — 2016-03-28T05:49:05Z

In my article “Videshi and Swadeshi Fascism” published in Mainstream of August 7, 2004, I had delineated in some detail incidents of a fascist mode occurring in our country. Even after more than eleven-and-a-half years the scourge of fascism stares us in the face. Before updating this gruesome phenomenon, it may be useful to recapitulate some of the more important points made in that piece. These are as follows:
1. The European fascism and its Indian version came into being around the same (…)

- 2016

Attempts to Obliterate the Nehru Legacy ignoring Tributes paid to It

B N Arora — 2015-12-26T13:47:03Z

“To endeavour to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.” —Jean de La Buruyers, French Satirist
We are indeed passing through a saddening scenario when the birth anniversary of a gigantic hero of our nation does not receive the celebration he richly deserved. This is the case with Jawaharlal Nehru whose birthday on November 14 did not get the highly merited respect, like the year gone by. The present dispensation, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has shown a (…)

- 2015

No Dirge for George W. Bush

B N Arora — 2009-02-11T03:46:26Z

By the time this small piece happens to see the light, George W. Bush would have moved to his multi-million dwelling after laying down office. When an eminent person or a person holding high office/position retires or demits office, we normally eulogise him. This writer, however, acknowledges a sense of guilt in painting Bush in a rather bad light.
Few tears would have been shed when the great George W. Bush (hereafter referred to as Bush Jr) laid down office as he was considered the most (…)

- February 2009

Denial of Right to Life

B N Arora — 2008-12-12T14:20:36Z

Even After Sixtyone Years of Independence, the Vast Indian Humanity Remains Sunk in the Quagmire of Poverty and Hunger
Considerable rhetoric about violation of human rights is being heard all around us. But the negation of the most basic human right, namely, the right to life, fails to get the attention it deserves. In his historic speech in the Constituent Assembly at midnight of August 14-15, 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said, inter alia, that the pledge that we shall take today is (…)

- December 6, 2008

Remembering Nehru when Communalism is at its Peak

B N Arora — 2008-11-16T01:33:54Z

The communal virus has of late again assumed frightening proportions and degenerated into communal fascism. At this critical juncture, the Nehru era comes to mind spontaneously.
As we know, communalism was there even before independence. The colonial rulers, who were on the look-out for a suitable moment, quickly grasped the opportunity and adopting the divide-and-rule policy fanned the flames of communalism till it grew into a full-blown malaise in Indian society. The ugliest face of (…)

- November 15, 2008