IMPRESSIONS
So it’s mixture as before—Shri Arun Jaitleyis wise, ministers of Southern States are dumb. The South objected to the Centre taking the 2011 population figures as the yardstick for the devolution of tax revenues to the States. Shri (...)
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Promoting Bad Governance Is Bad
22 April, by T J S George -
The Snake and the Piper: Story of the Oil Prices in India
22 Aprilby Atanu Sengupta and Sanjoy De
Oil is the basic lubricant of the economy. The price of this black liquid gold matters a lot in the lives of the common people in an economy. The tremendous growth of mankind and rapid industrialisation can be (...) -
Rape Victims face the Music, BJP Style
14 April, by SCEDITORIAL
In the midst of several major developments across the nation, two horrendous incidents of crime against women—in one case sexual assault on an eight-year-old girl child—in UP and Jammu respectively have rocked the country and shocked the (...) -
Honouring Ambedkar
14 April, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Today, April 14, 2018 marks the 127th birth anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. On this occasion we are reproducing the following piece by N.C. to offer our sincere homage to the abiding memory of that (...) -
What is in a name? Highlighting ‘Ramji’ in Ambedkar’s name!
14 Aprilby Ram Puniyani
Currently many Dalit leaders are up in arms and criticising the move of the UP Government of adding ‘Ramji’ in the official records of Bhimrao Ambedkar. It is true that Babasaheb signed the Constitution as Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, (...) -
Birth Anniversary of Dr Babasaheb B.R. Ambedkar: Wild India at her Worst Savagery
14 April, by A K BiswasPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s impassioned statement on Sunday, August 7, 2016 could have done a sea of good in placing India’s tens of thousands of Dalit and tribal people in a zone marked by high security and dignity: “If you want to attack, (...) -
Dr Ambedkar: A Titan Secularist, Educationist and Social Reformer of Modern India
14 Aprilby Ravindra Sharma
Tentatively, India’s anti-colonial journey (1858-1947) produced five mentors: M.K. Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar, Tagore and Bhagat Singh. While Gandhi is still the mentor of Modern India, Nehru is viewed as the architect of “secular (...) -
Civil Unrest in North India, Snedden’s Advice on J & K
14 April, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
If the killings and civil unrest in North India are not halted, anarchy would be spreading out. Going by the recent trends, dissatisfaction of the masses is peaking. Besides the rising numbers of the jobless and hungry, a predominant (...) -
Sociology of Budgeting Education
14 Aprilby Sujit Kumar Choudhary
Budgeting education for the Indian society is more related with the sociological aspect as the Indian society is based on the notion of unity in diversity where everybody has equal rights irrespective of having different (...) -
Human Rights Movement must rise to the occasion to defeat Hindutva Fascist Hooligans
14 AprilCOMMUNICATION
I am delighted to read Mainstream’s founder-editor, N.C.’s article “Human Rights: Basic Issues” (published on pp. 11-12 in the Mainstream issue of December 9, 2017). Though the lucid but thought-provoking article was written 25 years (...)
