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Day One in Calcutta
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThe following report by Nikhil Chakravartty, the Calcutta correspondent of People’s Age (published from Bombay), appeared in the weekly’s August 24, 1947 issue (it was wired from Calcutta on August 17, 1947) under the following headlines: ‘End of (...) -
The Story of a Gadfly
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThis following is one of the best exposés of N.C. as a reporter and it was carried in the India Press Agency feature news service N.C. had founded with another outstanding Communist journalist, David Cohen (who thereafter left the Communist Party (...) -
Indo-Pakistan Relations: New Perspective
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyMilitary aid has suddenly become the main topic of political discussion in New Delhi, almost downgrading Sheikh Abdullah’s olive-branch mission to Pakistan and Sri Nehru’s repeat offer to Peking to open negotiations.
This is somewhat natural in (...) -
After Nehru; Lobbies Squabble
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyAs the golden flame licked up the funeral pyre, an unforgettable scene ended near the banks of the Jumna and under the shadow of the Red Fort.
It was an emotional experience without precedence, to watch this mightiest demonstration of love and (...) -
New Stature, New Tasks
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyIt is like the end of a long night for men, women, and children of this country as Bangladesh proclaims her independence from Pakistan’s military junta. The rejoicing is not merely in the feat of arms—though the military defeat of the (...) -
Tagore for Today
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThe following appeared under Editor’s Notebook in the first Mainstream issue to come out after the proclamation of Emergency (June 25, 1975).
Somewhere in the excitement of National Emergency, the editor has lost his notebook. However, (...) -
Do We Need Nehru Today?
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyTwelve years ago Jawaharlal Nehru died is harness on May 27. Inevitably, much has changed in these twelve years among his people and in the humanity at large. He was not the man who would have preferred the status quo to change; and if the (...) -
Good-bye Feroze
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyParliament has just repealed the Parliamentary Proceedings (Protection of Publication) Act which came into force twenty years ago in 1956. Late Feroze Gandhi, who initiated and piloted the Bill in Parliament, made a powerful case which might (...) -
The Valley of Incongruities
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyWhatever may be the substance of the much-advertised point of difference between Peking and Washington over the question of détente, it may be safely assumed that Gerald Ford’s talks with Mao Tse-tung and his cohorts explored the further (...) -
Good-bye to all that
1 November 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThere comes a moment in the life of a paper, as in the life of many an individual, when the sense of purpose is in danger of being lost by the constraints of circumstances. Such a moment has come today for Mainstream, after more than fourteen (...)
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