Mainstream Weekly

Oust the Tyrants!

Mahasweta Devi — 2009-04-12T18:07:48Z

The following is a message from Mahasweta Devi, veteran novelist and one of the foremost intellectuals of West Bengal today, to a Press Meet organised by the friends of Kabir Suman, a noted progressive singer, contesting from the Jadavpur constituency of Kolkata for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. The Press Meet took place at the Kolkata Press Club on April 2, 2009. The message speaks volumes of Mahasweta Devi's passionate advocacy of the cause of democracy in the present scenario of (…)

- April 2009

Nehru's Dream of Socialism

Mahasweta Devi — 2007-05-30T22:47:14Z

Jawaharlal Nehru was, in the truest sense, the builder of modern India. He saw the naked poverty and hunger of the Indian people and registered his protest through his lectures in meetings throughout the country, and through his writings against the British Government. He was a true national leader.
“Nationalism of the modern type,” as Jawaharlal pointed out, “was yet to come. India had still to go through much sorrow and travail before she learnt the lesson which would give her real (…)

- May 25, 2007

SINGUR! Do We Really Want Rabindranath?

Mahasweta Devi — 2007-04-24T21:10:00Z

Kolkata's Bengali daily, Dainik Statesman, on the happenings in the State. In the following piece she exposes the role of the powers that be in attempting to destroy Tagore's Santiniketan—once again in the name of ‘development', the word the State CM has been continually employing to defend the indefensible actions of his government in Singur. We are reproducing it with due acknowledgement. (…)

- December 23, 2006