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Wanted Substance, Not Rhetoric
30 October 2010, by SCAs the third phase of polling for the Bihar Assembly elections ends today, it is still not certain if Nitish Kumar would return to power at the head of the JD(U)-BJP combine though there appears to be unanimity on the opinion that he and his (...) -
How to Meet the Caste Challenge in Politics
30 October 2010, by Chaturanan MishraCaste-based regional political parties have come up because the Central Government did not address the problem of regional backwardness. Such regional parties may appear to give the impression of democracy reaching the people down below. But (...) -
US Administration Beating Hasty Retreat
30 October 2010, by M K BhadrakumarThe sudden accretion of tensions in the United States-Pakistan ties in recent days raises several questions. Most certainly, they were contrived tensions and they dissipated as quickly as they gathered. It all began with a dramatic jump in the (...) -
Bhagwat Puran of A Different Kind: Conflating Hinduism and Hindutva
30 October 2010, by Subhash GatadeI
Mohan Bhagwat, the ‘young’ supremo of an eighty plus-year-old exclusively male cultural organisation called the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, is in high spirits these days.
It is not very difficult to understand the glee on his face which has (...) -
Life, Dignity of Kashmiris have Lost Meaning
30 October 2010by Zafar Meraj
There seems to be no end to the vicious plan of what can easily be termed as selected killings of Kashmiri youth in the most brutal manner. Notwithstanding the tall daims made by the rulers both in Srinagar and New Delhi, a (...) -
On ‘The Kashmir Calculus’
30 October 2010COMMUNICATION
This refers to Uddipan Mukherjee’s article “The Kashmir Calculus” (Mainstream, October 9, 2010). It’s a very well written article but towards the end when he delineates the path ahead, he has dwelt on a number diversions. I agree with (...) -
Ethnicity, Religion, Politics and Nation
30 October 2010by N.V.K. MURTHY
As a teenager, growing up in India during the freedom struggle, I remember my heart swelling up with pride when I sang poet Iqbal’s celebrated song “Saare Jahan Se Acha Hindustan Hamara”. Now, looking back at my life over the last (...) -
Response to D. Bandyopadhyay
30 October 2010, by Sumanta BanerjeeCOMMUNICATION
Since from among those whom I addressed my open letter (in Mainstream of September 11), only D. Bandyopadhyay has come up with a rejoinder (in the October 9 issue), I feel obliged to respond to his observations with a few words. (...) -
Maoism: A Variety of Anarchism
30 October 2010, by Anil RajimwaleMaoism and Naxalism are nothing but a modern variety of anarchism, which was demolished long ago by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Anybody familiar with their criticism of theories and practice of Bakunin, Kropotkin, Lassalle, Proudhon, Narodniks and (...) -
Ensuring Right to Education in the Red Corridor
30 October 2010, by Gladson DungdungThe Indian Government and media are repeatedly telling us that 92,000 square kilometres of geographical area covering 170 districts in nine States of India are out of control of the Indian state. The vicinity is full of natural resources (...)
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