Mainstream Weekly

Indiraji's Martyrdom

Mohit Sen — 2017-11-19T11:11:04Z

Ten years have not dimmed but, on the contrary, brightened the image of Indira Gandhi as one of the most luminous leaders that India and the entire world have known in modern times. These years have also made it clear why she was murdered and who did the murdering.
In assassinations of this kind it is rarely, if ever, that any enquiry commission finds out the conspirators even if the actual assassins are caught red-handed. This has happened in the case of President Kennedy. So also has it (…)

- 2017

Nikhil

Mohit Sen — 2012-11-07T20:53:21Z

It was the mid-forties that I first came across Nikhil. Bundle, my eldest brother, belonged to the outer fringe of the Indian Communist students group formed in England in the late 1930s. Indrajit Gupta, Mohan Kumaramangalam, Parvati Krishnan, N.K. Krishnan, Bhupesh Gupta, Renu Chakravartty, Jyoti Basu, Arun Bose, Rajani Patel, Nikhil Chakravartty were among the members of this group. They all worked with and in the Communist Party of India on their return to our country. At first it was an (…)

- 2012

Chinese Attack and CPI

Mohit Sen — 2012-10-31T16:14:13Z

On the occasion of the Chinese aggression's fiftieth auniversary this month we are continuing to publish and reproduce relevant articles on the subject.
The Chinese pinpricks on the border continued all the time. The Indian posts were also moved to different positions in the north-west of our country whils the status quo was more or less maintained in the north-east. Tension and irritation remained but there was no expectation of any major flare up. V.K. Krishna Menon met the Chinese (…)

- 2012

Tolstoy, Gandhi and the Peasant

Mohit Sen — 2012-10-02T19:03:16Z

The author, a distinguished Marxist ideologue, was a CPI leader about whom Jawaharlal Nehru had written that he was a Communist with a nationalist vision. He passed away in May 2003. This article, which is being reproduced from Mainstream's Gandhi birth centenary issue that appeared on October 4, 1969, was actually a paper he presented at a seminar on “Gandhi and the West” orgainsed by the University of Mysore in 1969.
The question of ideological indebtedness is always tricky. Much more so (…)

- 2012

Reflections on Marx, Lenin and Us

Mohit Sen — 2012-05-18T20:26:09Z

(The following are excerpts from the chapter ‘Reflections' from the autobiography of noted Communist ideologue Mohit Sen, A Traveller and the Road: The Journey of An Indian Communist.)
Though the birth of the Communist movement took place in 1847-48 when Marx read out the Communist Manifesto, it would not be unfair to date its birth from the victory of the Russian Revolution on November 7, 1917. The news of its victory was sent 'To All! To All! To All!' Since then, despite defeats, it (…)

- 2012

Remembering Ravi Narayan Reddy

Mohit Sen — 2010-09-17T08:49:13Z

Ravi Narayan Reddy was the outstanding leader of the Telangana armed struggle. His birth centenary celebrations took place last year and are still continuing. September 7 marked his death anniversary and September 17 is the Hyderabad Liberation day. We offer tributes and salutations to Ravi Narayan Reddy by publishing the following article (constituting the introduction to RN's autobiography) written by the renowned Marxist ideologue and CPI leader, late Mohit Sen.
The continuity of his (…)

- 2010

Reflections on October Revolution and Crisis in Communist Movement Today

Mohit Sen — 2009-11-07T17:48:55Z

Renowned Marxist ideologue and veteran Communist leader Mohit Sen passed away in early 2003. On the occasion of the eightyninth anniversary of the October Revolution on November 7, 2006 we carried excerpts from the chapter ‘Reflections' from his memoirs A Traveller and the Road—The Journey of an Indian Communist (published by Rupa and Co., New Delhi) to bring out his views on the October Revolution and its aftermath in the light of the latest developments on the global scene and our own (…)

- November 2009

Ajoy Ghosh

Mohit Sen — 2009-02-23T12:22:25Z

The Communist Party of India has been nourished on the sacrifices and advanced by the wisdom of many thousands of the finest representatives of our great people. They truly are the best of the best which the edging forward of our country to freedom and to socialism have produced. And among the tallest of these noble souls was Ajoy Kumar Ghosh, the General Secretary of our party from 1951 till the day of his death on January 13, 1962.
Ajoy Ghosh was born on February 20, 1909 in a (…)

- February 2009

Nikhil

Mohit Sen — 2007-11-03T16:57:08Z

- November 3, 2007