Mainstream Weekly

Rehabilitation of Imre Nagy

Subrata Sen — 2010-07-25T21:07:00Z

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- 2010

Requiem for the October Revolution

Subrata Sen — 2009-11-07T17:46:25Z

On the occasion of the October Revolution's ninetysecond anniversary we reproduce, with the author's consent, the following piece that appeared in Nagpur Times eighteen years ago.
Facts must be faced. Masses in the Soviet Union are today bent upon doing away with all vestiges of the October Revolution. Attempts to “analyse” the developments carefully avoiding the cardinal issue of the Stalinist legacy are obviously ridiculous. The current mass upsurge in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (…)

- November 2009

Murder of Leon Trotsky: Criminality of International Gulagism

Subrata Sen — 2009-09-09T17:54:15Z

What crime did we not commit! Our cruelty was no less than that of the imperialists and fascists! We can never be forgiven for this. Nor should we forgive and excuse ourselves. That we believed this to be the need of the cause is no justification. Mohit Sen, An Autobiography
On the twentieth of August, 1940, Bolshevik leader, Leon Davidovicn Trotsky, illegally exiled from the USSR, and living in Mexico City, the capital of the Central American Republic of Mexico, was hit on the head with (…)

- September 2009

Jallianwala in Beijing

Subrata Sen — 2009-08-16T14:06:27Z

An Indian cultural delegation got unwittingly caught up in the recent turmoil in Beijing. As the Army cracked down, the delegation had to be hurriedly evacuated. Talking to the Indian press, playwright Vijay Tendulkar and novelist U.R. Anantamurthy, the two most prominent members of the delegation, described the Tienanmen incident as worse than Jallianwala Bagh. One can hardly disagree.
The butchery beggars description and was, in the initial stages, seen alive on television (…)

- August 2009

Remembering the Massacre

Subrata Sen — 2009-08-16T14:06:23Z

The editor deserves compliments for the sincere remembrance of the Tiananmen massacre in the June 6, 2009 issue of Mainstream. Indignation and outrage felt by both S.C. and N.C. twenty years ago still touch the heart. This is in such sharp contrast with the ‘line' of a section of the so-called Left in this country. Your effort have inspired the writer to fish out a copy of an after-edit, published by the Nagpur Times (July 17, 1989). I hope you will be able to print it (after correcting some (…)

- August 2009