2012

• Pledge Redeemed
  3 January 2013, by SC
  With this Annual Number, this journal enters the fiftyfirst year of its publication. On the occasion of our Golden Jubilee we warmly greet all our readers as well as well-wishers who have stood by us through thick and think.
  Mainstream was born  (...)
• Thoughts at 25
  3 January 2013, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  As, Mainstream completes fifty years, we reproduce N.C.’s ‘Editor’s Notebook’ that appeared in this journal’s Twentyfifth Annual Special on October 10, 1987 as it brings out the purpose believed the publication of this periodical.  (...)
• I.K. Gujral: A Tribute from Bangladesh
  3 January 2013, by Rehman Sobhan
  The author sent a note alongwith the following article to the editor that read: “Gujral’s role was perhaps more appreciated in Bangladesh than it was in his own country which should be recognised, at least by your readers.â€
  Inder Kumar Gujral, a  (...)
• Islamic Resurgence: A Politico-economic Phenomenon
  3 January 2013, by Syed Shahabuddin
  One hears a lot of Islamic fundamentalism these days and the tone and context make it clear that fundamentalism is being equated with orthodoxy and obscurantism. The established image is that of a Mullah with a gun. Indeed fundamentalism has  (...)
• Caste, Sex and Crime: Aryavart in the Dark Age?
  3 January 2013, by A K Biswas
  In a brief compass, the following article aims at an indepth focus on the history of female infanticides as we see in some of North Indian States. The materials used are drawn from the archival source of the colonial administration.
  Perhaps many  (...)
• What is Happening in Kerala?
  3 January 2013, by K Saradamoni
  More than fifty years back people in the newly formed State of Kerala created history by voting to power, through the democratic election process, a Ministry led by the Communist Party. For the first time the hegemony of the Indian National  (...)
• Hands Rise, Sparks Fly: Many Facets of One Billion 
Rising Campaign
  3 January 2013, by Pamela Philipose
  It was the night of March 29, 1978. A young woman in Hyderabad, Rameeza Bee, was subjected to rape by three policemen and her husband beaten to death for resisting them. Public outrage and frenzy brought the city to a halt the following day.  (...)
• Why We Salute Mainstream
 in its Golden Jubilee
  3 January 2013, by Medha Patkar
  The Indian discourse on development has no doubt taken a new turn since the initiation of the globalisation-liberalisation paradigm and the free flow of the global capital as well as capitalist forces into our country. It is invariably realised  (...)
• Media Scene Today
  3 January 2013, by Kuldip Nayar
  How soon does time fly away? Mainstream is fifty years old. Yet it seems only yesterday when Nikhil Chakarvartty founded the magazine. He wanted to give the intelligentsia a mainstream where streams of different thoughts would pour in. His  (...)
• Mushahars of Mushahari
  3 January 2013, by D. Bandyopadhyay
  Long ago, in the late sixties of the last century, the Planning Commission of India constituted a Committee on Land Reforms under the chairmanship of Dr Z.A. Ahmed, a redoubtable CPI leader, who among other things distinguished himself as a  (...)

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