2011

• On the Threshold of a Milestone
  27 December 2011, by SC
  With this Annual Number Mainstream completes fortynine years of its eventful journey through crests and troughs to step into the fiftieth year of its modest existence.
  It has doubtless been a purposeful voyage with all the trials and  (...)
• Welcome Home, Goa!
  27 December 2011, by P.C. Joshi
  [(The following lead piece was written by that outstanding Communist leader P.C. Joshi, the first General Secretary of the CPI, in the party’s weekly organ, New Age, on December 24, 1961, five days after Goa’s liberation from Portuguese  (...)
• March to Panjim
  27 December 2011
  by RAZA ALI
  Panjim, December 21—The lush, luxuriant wild beauty that is Goa has risen and gripped our entire country these days in a close embrace, as it were.
  The story of the triumphant march of our Army to bring Goa back home is known  (...)
• Indo Pak War of 1971 - Some Not-so-public Facts
  27 December 2011, by Rajindar Sachar
  The recently declassified documents of the 1971 war between India and Pakistan have without any doubt established the fact of the absolute tilt of US President Nixon and Kissinger against India.
  This hostile aggressive stand taken by Nixon was  (...)
• Lines on the Massacres in East Pakistan, March 1971
  27 December 2011, by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
  This is how my sorrow became visible: in dust, piling up for years in my heart, finally reached my eyes, the bitterness now so clear that I had to listen when my friends told me to wash my eyes with blood Everything at once was tangled in  (...)
• New Stature, New Tasks | Meaning of Mujib
  27 December 2011, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  [(FROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
  Both India and Bangladesh have on December 16 this year befittingly observed and celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the liberation, with New Delhi’s generous and unstinted assistance, of what was known as East Pakistan  (...)
• Looking Back on December 16, 1971
  27 December 2011
  by SUKHARANJAN SENGUPTA
  Anticipating the imminent fall of Dacca and the surrender of nearly a lakh of Pakistani troops to the Indian Army at any moment, my photographer colleague Ganesh and I (both of us were representing the Bengali daily  (...)
• Memories of Bangladesh Liberation War
  27 December 2011, by Barun Das Gupta
  The Beginning...
  The Bangladesh liberation war started in the night of March 25/26, 1971. I was working as a reporter for Patriot at Gauhati (Guwahati was still not the spelling). On March 30 or April 1, I got instructions from my Delhi office  (...)
• From Tirupati to Pashupati: Some Reflections on the Maoist Issue
  27 December 2011
  by JAIRAM RAMESH
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  I am not just privileged but also truly humbled to be part of this prestigious lecture series launched a half-century and six years ago by none other than C. Rajagopalachari. Many distinguished personalities have preceded me  (...)
• Peace-talk Process in Junglemahal
  27 December 2011
  by SUJATO BHADRA
  From 2001, the people of West Bengal began to acknowledge—albeit slowly—that in the remote areas of three districts, namely, West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia (traditionally considered as the most backward districts), the  (...)

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