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We will make a new beginning in January 2022</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique1.html" rel="directory">About Mainstream</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve65.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve65.html 2019-08-31T20:50:17Z text/html en <p>In the special article on Hiroshima Day (August 6), “Threat from Nuclear Weapons is Increasing”, by Bharat Dogra on page 4 of Mainstream (August 10, 2019) the lines seven to ten in the first para should read “...that our world has nearly 14,500 nuclear weapons and in several important contexts (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique2.html" rel="directory">Archives (2006 on)</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve64.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve64.html 2019-08-03T21:03:10Z text/html en <p>On page 30 of the Mainstream issue of July 20, 2019 the last sentence of the second paragraph on column two should read: “He was not pathologically opposed to the ruling All India Trinamul Congress in Bengal but in 2018 he had forewarned that the propensity of the AITC would create space for the (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique2.html" rel="directory">Archives (2006 on)</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve63.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve63.html 2019-07-27T20:39:38Z text/html en <p>After the publication of the last issue of Mainstream (July 20, 2019), Sankar Ray, who wrote the tribute to Santosh Rana (“A Naxalite of a Distinctive Strain”—pp. 29-30), sent the following letter to the weekly's editor: <br class='autobr' /> “I did not describe Paresh Chattopadhyay as a ‘Marxist' scholar but a (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique2.html" rel="directory">Archives (2006 on)</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve62.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve62.html 2019-05-14T04:06:57Z text/html en <p>Readers, Please Note... <br class='autobr' /> A short story “Gazabganj” appeared under a pseudonym ‘Satyabaani' in the Independence Day Special of Mainstream (August 18, 2018) on pages 49 to 52. <br class='autobr' /> Actually the short story's author was Sagari Chhabra whose another short story “Meat” appeared in her own name in the (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique2.html" rel="directory">Archives (2006 on)</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve61.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve61.html 2019-03-23T13:20:16Z text/html en <p>The name of the victim of the diabolical murder at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018 has been misspelt in the heading of Gautam Sen's article that was published in Mainstream (March 16, 2019) on page 19. 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The third sentence in the first paragraph on column one, p.17 should read: <br class='autobr' /> “Moreover, in the wake of the movement, the Minister of State for External (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique2.html" rel="directory">Archives (2006 on)</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve57.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve57.html 2018-10-28T21:21:10Z text/html en <p>In the last issue of Mainstream (October 20, 2018) on column two of the editorial on page 2 the second sentence of the paragraph beginning with the words “This too is a revelation...” should read: “Even the Editors Guild of India, which Akbar had once headed as its President, remained silent.” (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique2.html" rel="directory">Archives (2006 on)</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve56.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve56.html 2018-08-16T14:00:32Z text/html en <p>The last sentence of para four of the ‘Editorial' “Tamil Titan of National Eminence Departs” on page 2 in Mainstream (August 27, 2011) should read: “And the fact that three persons, who had come to the Rajaji Hall for a last glimpse of their leader, died in the stampede there was illustrative of (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique2.html" rel="directory">Archives (2006 on)</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve55.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve55.html 2018-06-30T16:26:19Z text/html en <p>The Mainstream office has been shifted to the following address: 141 (Ground Floor), Shahpur Jat (Near Asiad Village), New Delhi-110 049 <br class='autobr' /> — - Editor</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique2.html" rel="directory">Archives (2006 on)</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve54.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve54.html 2018-05-20T09:17:45Z text/html en <p>Ram Puniyani's article “What is in a name?: Highlighting ‘Ramji' in Ambedkar's Name!” in Mainstream (April 14, 2018) contained a serious mistake. The sentence on line 15 in para two on page 4 column one should read: “Dalits have been compared to dogs by V.K. Singh in 2016, and recently by Anant (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique2.html" rel="directory">Archives (2006 on)</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve53.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/breve53.html 2018-04-07T13:49:11Z text/html en <p>In Vijay Pratap's article “Nepal-India Relations: Need for Urgent Paradigm Shift” in Mainstream (March 31, 2018) on page 32 column two the first para should read: “Actually on the ground the Nepali-Madhesi opinion was shaped by three contradictory factors: <br class='autobr' /> 1. 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