Mainstream Weekly

New Tasks in Agriculture

Bhowani Sen — 2013-01-03T13:55:21Z

Agriculture continues to be the weakest link in the chain of India's Plan-progress. In a certain sense this is true for every country, whether advanced or backward, or whether under the capitalist or socialist system; because, as yet, there is an inherent difference between industry and agriculture. The main distinctive feature of the latter consists in its dependence on weather, as the science of astronomy and weather-control is yet very undeveloped. The application of science in (…)

- 2012

Agrarian Struggles: Yesterday and Today

Bhowani Sen — 2009-07-18T09:45:15Z

On July 10, 1972 passed away in distant Moscow one of the most creative Marxist-Leninists this country has produced—Bhowani Sen (whose birth centenary was observed this year on January 26).
As was noted during his birth centenary in Mainstream (January 24, 2009),
“. . .apart from the fact that he was one of the most erudite scholars of Marxism in general and Marxist philosophy in particular, Bhowani Sen had a highly enriched analytical frame of mind and a broad national vision which is (…)

- July 2009

Remembering Bhowani Sen On His Birth Centenary

Bhowani Sen, SC, Susobhan Sarkar — 2009-01-26T12:11:55Z

January 26 this year is not only our sixtieth Republic Day. It also marks the birth centenary of one of the most outstanding Communist leaders this country has produced—Bhowani Sen, who was described by C. Rajeswara Rao, the erstwhile CPI General Secretary, as a “staunch Bolshevik”; in fact after Bhowani Sen's death in Moscow in the morning of July 10, 1972, Rajeswara Rao underscored: “He was a Bolshevik, every inch of him.” But apart from the fact that he was one of the most erudite (…)

- January 2009