From N.C.’s Writings
Whatever 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 (...)
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The Valley of Incongruities
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CPI on the Hanging of Afzal Guru
18 February 2013The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of India has issued the following statement to the press.
The secretive hanging of Afzal Guru, a secondary accused in the Parliament attack case, and certain irregularities in completing the (...) -
Media Scene Today
18 February 2013, by Anees Chishti[(To mark fifty years of Mainstream, a panel discussion was held at the India International Centre, New Delhi on January 29, 2013; the topic was “Indian Media Scene Today: Potential and Reality”. Those who spoke on the subject were Kuldip Nayar, (...) -
Greetings to Mainstream
18 February 2013[(The following message of greetings were received for the January 29, 2013 meeting in the Capital to mark Mainstream’s fifty years.)]
Thank you so much for the invitation. In fact I was thinking of it today. I am slightly unhappy because I am (...) -
Ominous Portents in Troubled Times
15 February 2013, by SC“From Kashmir to Delhi, Intolerance Cuts Across Religious Boundaries”—read The Times of India’s February 5 frontpage headline over two reports of (i) J&K’s first all-girl rock band quitting after online threat by conservatives on social media and the (...) -
Tribute: D. R. Goyal
15 February 2013, by SCDesh Raj Goyal, 84, passed away in New Delhi after a brief illness in the afternoon of February 3, 2013. A veteran journalist and academic, he was the editor of Secular Democracy. From 1963 to 1967 he edited Mainstream. He leaves behind his son (...) -
Communal Challenge to Free India: Some Reminiscences and Reflections
15 February 2013by D. R. Goyal
For a person nurtured in the RSS culture it was not possible to share the euphoria touched off by the advent of independence. All the more so in Punjab which was bearing the brunt of partition.
I did not belong to that part of (...) -
Women’s Victory: Justice Verma Committee Report and the Road Ahead
15 February 2013, by Pamela PhiliposeIf the gang-rape of a 23-year-old student—on a Delhi bus on December 16, 2012—led to a sense of both outrage over and despair about the entrenched violence women experience in India, the Report of the Justice Verma Committee —emerging exactly five (...) -
Violating the Vulnerable—
Manifestations and Attitudes
15 February 2013, by S G VombatkereThe latest spurt in crime is focussed on rape, brutal rape, brutal gang-rape. Women who resist rape and fight back are brutally mauled after being raped. In the December 16, 2012, Delhi bus gang-rape case (referred to as the “Damini case” (...) -
Is India the Most Dangerous Place
for Dalit Women?
15 February 2013, by A K Biswas“A wave of sexual assaults has rocked the northern Indian State of Haryana. In the last one month alone, a dozen, mostly Dalit, girls and women have been raped, raising concerns about the security of women in India.” Thus went in the air a (...)
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