Mainstream Weekly

Table of Contents, Mainstream, Dec 7 to Dec 28, 2024

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* Undertones of Parliamentary Election Schedule | Amal Mandal
* Landmark Intervention of The Supreme Court In The Places Of Worship Act, 1991 |

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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 7 - Dec 28, 2024

2024-12-07T22:21:05Z

32 years ago on December 6, 1992 thousands of Hindutva fanatics razed to the ground the Babri mosque

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Donald Trump & the US right he represents Versus Indian rightist forces | Arun Srivastava

2024-12-07T22:17:40Z

Indian rightist forces are quite elated at Donald Trump wining the US presidential election. For them it is one step closer to the burial of the centrist and liberal forces. They are quite optimist that with Trump in president

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A Day Off for Cricket in the Early Days of the Republic | Sreejith K

2024-12-07T22:13:41Z

The year India turned republic, by around this time when winter had set in, things had begun to look up. The riots which rocked the nation in the aftermath of the partition had subsided, the displaced and the refugees had, for the most part, found temporary shelters, and the worst seemed to be over. Much serious work, of course, remained to be done. The five-year plans would be launched the next year, and so too the first general elections which would be completed only months later the (…)

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Undertones of Parliamentary Election Schedule | Amal Mandal

Amal Mandal — 2024-12-07T22:12:53Z

Abstract
It is disconcerting that the role, particularly the election schedule, of the Election Commission of India (ECI) is courting controversies and insinuations. The allegation is that the ECI has been devising election schedule at the bidding of the ruling executive and the schedule offers tactical time and campaigning opportunities to the ruling regimen.
The peek into the 2019 and 2024 parliamentary election schedules

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The ongoing controversy regarding places of worship! | Suresh Khairnar

Suresh Khairnar — 2024-12-07T22:12:22Z

On 24 October 1989, during the Ramshila Puja procession in Bhagalpur, riots started, which spread to almost the entire Bhagalpur Commissionerate. In which an attempt was made to destroy the houses of the people of the minority community in more than three hundred villages. And after demolishing their places of worship, we saw with our own eyes the words Ramji's temple, Durga's temple, Hanumanji's temple written on the debris with black tar or red ochre. And it seemed that the existence of (…)

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Logistical comparison of the EVM and the ballot paper | Faraz Ahmad

Faraz Ahmad — 2024-12-07T22:11:09Z

Elections were

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A Bengali Nationalist

Arup Kumar Sen — 2024-12-07T22:10:24Z

Bipin Chandra Pal is a well-known nationalist leader of India from Bengal. He along with Lala Lajpat Rai from Punjab and Bal Gangadhar Tilak of Bombay are popularly known as

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2024-12-07T22:09:36Z

Let us start the article by explaining the word

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Jeremy Seabrook, Chronicler of the Struggles of the Underprivileged and Lifelong Friend of the Oppressed, is No More |

Bharat Dogra, Madhu Dogra — 2024-12-07T22:09:21Z

Jeremy Seabrook, who dedicated his life to writings which speak for the underprivileged and oppressed people everywhere, is no more. He breathed his last in a care home in London last week. He was 86. His absence will be deeply felt by friends, admirers and countless readers in many parts of the world.
Although his initial writings were based more on reporting from the UK, he subsequently travelled to many countries of the global south to write about important issues and struggles there. (…)

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