Mainstream Weekly

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan — Poet, Writer, Freedom Fighter and Friend of the Poor

Reshma Bharti — 2015-03-30T09:30:22Z

WOMEN'S WORLD
india's freedom movement was a time of high ideals for many writers and poets which inspired them to devote their literary talents and creativity to the larger cause of liberation of their people and country. In the process these writers and poets accepted many hardships including jail sentences. Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904-1948) was one such writer who combined the writer and activist roles with a zeal and devotion which won her the heartfelt affection of millions of (…)

- 2015

Guru Nanak Combined Bhakti and Social Reforms with Great Communication Skills

Bharat Dogra, Reshma Bharti — 2011-11-12T19:14:33Z

November 10 marks Guru Nanak's birth anniversary.
Guru Nanak combined deep spiritual yearnings with ideas of social reforms that were far ahead of his times. He emphasised equality at all levels—social, economic and religious—and openly declared that he is with those whom the society considers to be the lowest of the low. He openly spurned the hospitality of the most powerful persons and told them on their face that he cannot accept the invitation of exploiters. He spoke strongly against (…)

- 2011

Appeal and Open Letter to the Prime Minister

Bharat Dogra, Reshma Bharti — 2009-07-11T18:10:28Z

Respected Prime Minister,
As Ganga and her numerous tributaries originate in the Uttarakhand Himalayas, this can rightly be called the maternal home of Ganga. We are two journalists who travelled in this region extensively for two weeks in June and were shocked to see the alarming extent to which the Ganga and its numerous tributaries/sub-tributaries are being ravaged and threatened by the indiscriminate, hasty, ill-planned, ruthless and in several cases illegal execution of hydel (…)

- July 2009

Roots of Current Violence are in Oppression under Colonialism and Dictatorships

Bharat Dogra, Reshma Bharti — 2009-07-02T11:14:39Z

Pakistan's Wild West
In order to understand the roots of the present-day violence in Pakistani's Pashtun (or Pathan) belt, we need to go back to colonial times. While the British colonial rule was oppressive all over (the then united, pre-partition) India, it was even more ruthless in this region (present-day North-West Frontier Province and FATA area) as this was regarded as the strategic gateway of India which had to be secured for British interests at all costs.
Although the (…)

- June 2009