Mainstream Weekly

Suggestions to the Victor of General Elections - 2014

Pritish Acharya — 2014-05-12T11:41:09Z

The ensuing general elections (GE) have witnessed the participation of a large number of parties and political outfits, with many significant and important players in the fray. However, the central players remain the Congress and BJP. Whatever may be the election results, the government cannot be formed without the direct and active involve-ment of either of these two parties. The Congress has remained in power for most of the length of India's independence, and whenever it has not, the BJP (…)

- 2014

Remembering Rammanohar Lohia

Pritish Acharya — 2010-03-20T05:40:00Z

Between March 2009 and March 2010 Rammanohar Lohia's (March 23, 1910-October 12, 1967) birth centenary has been celebrated across the country. Many meetings and seminars, yatras and padyatras have been organised and quite a few writings on him published. Without being noticed by the ‘national' media, many of these celebrations and publications were outside Delhi and not in English. One such, the Sapta Kranti Vichar Yatra consisting of 25 youths, was started from Maharashtra in August 2009, (…)

- 2010

Soldiers in the Nationalist Struggle

Pritish Acharya — 2009-08-19T07:21:52Z

The national movement in India was one of the longest and most widespread mass movements in the history of the modern world. Though it was initiated by a handful of newly educated persons, gradually more and more people got associated with it and made the process of nation-making very eventful in the country. It is in this context that an attempt has been made here to understand and analyse the role of soldiers in the movement. It purports to discuss how the soldiers as a social class had (…)

- August 2009