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Don’t Forget the Golden Age
3 January 2013, by T J S GeorgeIn his acclaimed survey of history, Eric Hobsbawn marked the third quarter of the 20th century as a golden age in the West. His argu-ment was that industrial progress occurred in the postwar years alongside egalitarianism and rising living (...) -
Fifty Years Young!
3 January 2013, by S ViswamI remember reading in a high-brow British magazine some years ago that a golden rule of literary criticism is that when you review a book you should forget its author and when you write about the author you should forget the book. I don’t know (...) -
On Mainstream’s Golden Jubilee
3 January 2013, by Girish MishraIt is an occasion both of rejoicing and introspection for a person like me who has been associated without interruption with the Mainstream since its birth and during all the years of ups and downs. In fact, it was Nikhil Babu who taught me the (...) -
Fifty Years of Fearless Journalism
3 January 2013, by Barun Das GuptaMainstream appeared at a critical moment of independent India’s history. Its first issue was dated September 1, 1962. The eighth issue (dated October 20) hit the newsstands a day before, on the 19th. And on the 20th, began the Chinese aggression (...) -
Illuminating the Path to Nation-building: The Legacy of Mainstream and Nikhilda
3 January 2013by O.P. Sabherwal
The rise of Mainstream synchronised with a period of building Indian nationhood, when both the economy and its political propulsion treaded an unchartered path posing baffling questions.
Those were the later decades of the (...) -
Mainstream: An Enlightening Half-Century
3 January 2013, by Anees ChishtiFifty years is a long period for any forum to survive and move from strength to strength. Mainstream can look with great pride to its role in the five decades of its existence, particularly because it started publication without big money support (...) -
Obama’s Tough Term: Political and Economic Risks Stare at the US
3 January 2013by A Commentator
Bushmaster guns have made it to the headlines after the recent heartbreaking shooting in a school in the United States. While the debate on gun ownership following the massacre was marked with outrage, what remained unchanged (...) -
Death Penalty and Mohammad
Afzal Guroo
3 January 2013, by Mukul DubeThere were fireworks and dancing in the streets when Ajmal Kasab was hanged. It is unlikely that the damage done in Mumbai in November 2008 was undone by this noise and boisterousness, and there is no reason to believe that the man’s execution (...) -
Critical History of Our Times
3 January 2013, by Rajesh Kumar SharmaBOOK REVIEW
The Underside of Things: India and the World: A Citizen’s Miscellany, 2006-2011 by Badri Raina; Three Essays Collective; 2012; Pages: xxii+758; Paperback Rs 850.
Badri Raina is like an all-season fruit-bearing tree. And the more he (...) -
On the Margins of Survival
3 January 2013, by Suranjita RayIn the context of the globalising economy, the hegemonic neo-liberal global policies have regained relevance. Based on large-scale indus-trialisation and privatisation, a higher economic growth focuses on increasing investment in terms of (...)