Mainstream Weekly

Comments on "How India is Turning into China"

Saurabh Kumar — 2013-04-28T17:44:19Z

The article brings to bear the writer's formidable skills for broad-brush painting of the contemporary scene with a keen eye on history to give us some valuable insights about the commonalities in the current travails of the two “rising” Asian powers that had set out on lofty historical missions more or less together, albeit with contrasting political systems—the “profound crisis of legitimacy” confronting them both, above all.
Attributing the “growing resemblance” to the state in India (…)

- 2013

Rural Industrialisation as the ‘Mahayana' of International Cooperation: A World Waiting to be Born

Saurabh Kumar — 2009-12-26T16:34:27Z

The following piece was written for the UNIDO's General Conference that took place in Vienna this month but could not be carried by any of the international papers because of a slight delay, although some feel its contents may not be ideologically palatable to them. Hence it is being carried here for the benefit of our readers. —Editor
A highly positive sum game awaits the community of nations if an internationally agreed programme for rural industrialisation in the LDCs (and in the (…)

- December 2009

Securing a Nuclear Weapon Free World

Saurabh Kumar — 2009-12-08T14:45:02Z

This article was written before PM Manmohan Singh's visit to the US as the first state guest to be hosted by President Barack Obama in the White House. But it is being published here in view of the undiminished validity of its contents.
I. A Historic Opportunity Beckons
More than six months after US President Obama's public declaration of “America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons” (and that “the US will take concrete steps toward a world (…)

- December 2009