Mainstream Weekly

Renu Chakravartty: Some Recollections

Hiren Mukerjee — 2017-10-23T20:18:38Z

October 21 this year marks the birth centenary of Renu Chakravartty, noted Communist parliamentarian who passed only on April 16, 1994. Remembering her, we are reproducing the following article by Hiren Mukerjee that appeared in Mainstream (April 23, 1994) after her death. Prof Mukerjee and Renu Chakravartty were Deputy Leaders of the Communist Group in the Lok Sabha when A.K. Gopalan was the Leader of the united CP in Parliament.
It is one of the torments of longevity that near and dear (…)

- 2017

This was a Man

Hiren Mukerjee — 2013-05-27T19:26:33Z

For four decades and more, this gentle colossus strode our Indian world and his place among the great figures of our time is secure. But his uniqueness lay in the unobtrusive opulence of endowment which gave him, in the thick of politics and in the face even of frustrations, a peculiar refinement and grace of spirit. It was not only that he was “a man without malice and without fear” but that he carried an ache in his mind and heart, an ache which betokened kinship with the whole wide world. (…)

- 2013

‘George' Biswas: Power and Passion of Song

Hiren Mukerjee — 2013-01-03T12:01:56Z

Early in the morning on August 18, there passed away in Calcutta a pre-eminent exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, truly a people's artiste whose vast repertoire was always ungrudgingly at the service of the stricken society around him, his death marking almost the end of an era, the era that saw the bursting into the scene of the Indian People's Theatre (IPTA) movement in the early forties, the new wave, the new dimension, the new categories of comprehension, as it were, which then suffused our (…)

- 2012

Maker of Our History

Hiren Mukerjee — 2012-05-28T13:22:35Z

It is an apparently cruel but basically comforting thought that in this world of ours nobody, howsoever cherished, continues to be missed, and life flows on with a resilience all its own, not even needing to mock at death which hurts sorely, but time heals the damage. There are however some hurts perhaps which remain congealed in the heart's interstices. Souffrir passé; avoir souffert ne passé jamais. Jawaharlal Nehru died twelve years ago. The news came life a bolt from the blue, for though (…)

- 2012

November Revolution : Some Reflections

Hiren Mukerjee — 2008-11-11T21:52:36Z

Sixtyone years have passed since the November Revolution, “the ten days that shook the world”—in the American eye-witness John Reed's memorable words—almost in literal fulfillment of the prophecy in the International hymn—-
The world will shake to its foundations
And we who are nothing shall be all!
Students of history will recall the exhilaration of the English radical, Charls Jams Fox, when he learnt of the fall of the Bastille (July 14, 1789) in Paris after assault by (…)

- November 8, 2008

Violence and Our Youth

Hiren Mukerjee — 2007-12-25T22:16:02Z

[(FROM MAINSTREAM FILES
This year marked the birth centenary of Prof Hirendranath Mukerjee (November 23). While remembering the veteran CPI parliamentarian (who also functioned for some time as the Leader of the CPI Group in the Lok Sabha) and distinguished scholar-historian, we reproduced the following that appeared in this journal in 1970—this was based on a speech he delivered in the Lok Sabha.)]
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There is a completion lack of a sense of proportion and a fundamental irrelevance (…)

- December 22, 2007 - Annual Number 2007

Reminiscences of Radhakrishnan

Hiren Mukerjee — 2007-12-03T16:11:20Z

[(November 23, 2007 marked Prof Hirendranath Mukerjee's birth centenary. The veteran parliamentarian, CPI leader, distinguished scholar-historian and eminent Marxist intellectual passed away in Kolkata on July 30, 2004 at the age of 97. Remembering him on this occasion we are reproducing an article he wrote in Mainstream (April 26, 1975) following the death of Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan. We are also reproducing two pieces written by distinguished parliamentarians Prof Madu Dandavate and (…)

- December 1, 2007

This was a Man

Hiren Mukerjee — 2007-05-30T22:57:56Z

- May 25, 2007