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• We beseech Your Lordship !

  4 April
  by Sardar Amjad Ali, Ex-MP
  Needless it to say that one of most indispensable institutions of any civilised society is judiciary. With the advent of civilisation throughout the ages all over the world people have not only become right conscious  (...)

• Gandhi - Tagore Debate

  4 April, by Ashok Celly
  Gandhi launched his Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921-22 when Tagore was touring the West pleading for cooperation between East and West so that peace and harmony may prevail in the world. When the news of Gandhi’s Non-Cooperation Movement  (...)

• COVID-19: UN chief calls for global ceasefire to focus on ‘the true fight of our lives’

  4 April
  via: UN News
  23 March 2020
  In an appeal issued on Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged warring parties across the world to lay down their weapons in support of the bigger battle against COVID-19: the common enemy that is now  (...)

• Coronavirus and Migrant Workers

  4 April, by Arup Kumar Sen
  Migrant footloose labour plays a dominant role in the accumulation of capital under neo-liberal capitalism on a world scale. India is no exception on this score.
  In spite of its dominant role in the capitalist mode of production in contemporary  (...)

• The race to find a coronavirus treatment has one major obstacle: big pharma

  4 April
  by Ara Darzi
  AI companies and scientists are cooperating, but they desperately need access to pharmaceutical companies’ data
  The past few weeks have revealed the worst and the best in human responses to the coronavirus crisis – from the  (...)

• An Impudent molecule that paralyses the world

  4 April, by Badri Raina
  Those that have been used to having exclusive rights to the power and the glory of the world’s riches are chaffing at the bit.
  Think how a mere invisible molecule defeats their further grandiloquent plans and purposes for mastery of the  (...)

• Covid 19 Pandemic: What about those not hitting headlines

  4 April, by Arun Kumar
  `Manic Monday’ on March 9th has been followed by another one. Earlier the fall was 5.17% and now almost 8%. The rise on Friday was due to the intervention by public financial institutions, obviously on instructions from above. It is about 20%  (...)

• Need for Replacing The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 by a Statute Constitutionally Protected

  4 April
  by Gautam Sen
  The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 is a unique instrument of the British India period, but seems inadequate for the present time and a pandemic affected environment like that resulting from infection of novel Coronavirus or COVID-19.  (...)

• Lockdown: Meaning and Meaninglessness of FM’s Package

  4 April
  by Sudipta Bhattacharyya
  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman in her press conference on 26.03.20 declared a relief package owing to Corona. However a close scrutiny of the package reveals that the majority of the announcements are centered on  (...)

• LETTER TO THE READERS

  28 March
  This issue of Mainstream (Vol. LVIII No.15) dated March 28, 2020 is being brought out online as there is no possibility of printing the issue on account of the lockdown across the country due the deadly Corona Virus that has affected India and  (...)

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