https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article7411.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article7411.html 2017-08-20T07:30:37Z text/html en D.R. Goyal <p>Desh Raj Goyal, 84, passed away in New Delhi after a brief illness in the afternoon of February 3, 2013. A veteran journalist and academic, he was the editor of Secular Democracy. From 1963 to 1967 he edited Mainstream. <br class='autobr' /> Goyal-sahb was a crusader against the growing menace of communalism in the country since he fully comprehended the threat it posed, having himself been a full-time RSS pracharak in his youth. He later eschewed his connections with the RSS and joined the Communist Party. He (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique112.html" rel="directory">2017</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article6816.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article6816.html 2016-11-16T22:59:02Z text/html en D.R. Goyal <p>You do not have to be an idol-worshipper to remember Nehru today. Every day something happens that compels your mind to recall a man exerting every nerve to pull his countrymen out of the morass of superstition, to debunk the ‘bullock-cart mentality' and to instil in them the confidence that they could shape their own destiny. He was a man far above his peers, loved and adored by the millions, respected and honoured the world over as the passionate voice of peace and freedom; a man who could (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique111.html" rel="directory">2016</a>