Mainstream Weekly

Metastasis of Maoist Networks in Urban India

Sudhanshu Bhandari — 2012-12-03T15:39:43Z

“Work in the rural base areas does not mean abandoning our work in the cities and in the other vast rural areas which are still under the enemy's rule; on the contrary, without the work in the cities and in these other rural areas, our own rural base areas would be isolated and the revolution would suffer defeat. Moreover, the final objective of the revolution is the capture of the cities, the enemy's main bases, and this objective cannot be achieved without adequate work in the cities.” (…)

- 2012

Impact of Unabated Anthropogenic Activities on the Ganga-Yamuna system

Sudhanshu Bhandari — 2011-12-27T17:22:33Z

RIVER, RIVER SURELY DYING
It was at the 1981 session of the Indian Science Congress in Varanasi that scientists expressed concern at the growing chemical and biological pollution in the river Ganga in presence of the then Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi. As a result of her initiative, the Planning Commission asked the Central Board for Prevention and Control of Water Pollution, New Delhi to conduct studies on the state of the river Ganga. In collaboration with the State Pollution Control (…)

- 2011

Prostitution in Colonial India

Sudhanshu Bhandari — 2010-06-20T11:51:34Z

Introduction
The prostitute has over the ages never been explicitly defined, but commonly any woman, who for the sake of monetary consideration or any other gainful remuneration, sells her body is regarded as such. Throughout the history of human society, the much reviled whore has been deprecated as a sinner, immoral, a repository of diseases, a profaner of religion, whose companionship should be shunned by the civilised, moral, virtuous and married man. Her synonyms are varied: harlot, (…)

- 2010

From Slavery to Debt-bondage: Two Centuries of Exploitation in India

Sudhanshu Bhandari — 2009-08-16T14:06:40Z

In human history, from the advent of advanced agrarian communities till the last quarter of the nineteenth century, slavery has been a part and parcel of most, if not all, human societies, and a most ubiquitous institution, with, of course, variations in the scale and intensity of exploitation. There have existed with various other forms of dependency such as villeinage, debt-bondage, pawnship but it was in slavery, that the worst forms of human exploitation and misery, the most blatant (…)

- August 2009