2014

• Grim Scenario, Ominous Setting
  27 December 2014, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  As Mainstream steps into its fiftythird year with this Annual Number, the overall domestic situation has never been as grim as it is today.
  Seven months ago the outcome of the 16th Lok Sabha elections resulted in a political earthquake  (...)
• Gandhi or Godse
  27 December 2014, by Suhas Borker
  The moral compass has no tones of grey
  It is white or black
  It is light or darkness
  It is good or evil
  It is Gandhi or Godse.
  Suhas Borker
  [Suhas Borker is an independent documentary filmmaker and Convener, Working Group on Alternative  (...)
• On Haryana CM’s Observations
  27 December 2014
  COMMUNICATION
  Haryana Chief Minister M.L. Khattar has stated [;India Today; “Khaps have better sense of social justice than courts: Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar†; IndiaToday.in, New Delhi, December 6, 2014] that Khap Panchayats have a better  (...)
• The Subversion of the Constitution
  27 December 2014, by P.B. Sawant
  The Bharatiya Janata Party, though a minority party in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, being the party having the larger number of legislators in the Assembly than any other party, was called upon by the Governor to form the government in  (...)
• Face of the New World Order / Human Rights: Basic Issues / Prime Minister’s Predicament
  27 December 2014
  From N.C.’s Writings
  Face of the New World Order
  Turmoil in heaven—the heaven which is presided over by the supreme superpower of the day, possessing History’s largest number of deadly nuclear bombs and missiles, the Cruise to the Patriot, who at  (...)
• To Question Or Not To Question: That Is The Question
  27 December 2014
  The following is a slightly expanded version of the text of the Third Nikhil Chakravartty Memorial Lecture, organised by the Book Review Literary Trust, in New Delhi on October 26, 2014. Prof Romila Thapar has edited and expanded the text. It is  (...)
• Republic at Crossroads: Who is at the Wheel?
  27 December 2014, by Badri Raina
  I cannot recall if political India has ever before had a more momentously contentious ending to a calendar year.
  I say “political India†advisedly, because much that seems to be now culturally fraught is at bottom purely political in intent. And,  (...)
• Tragedy And Conciliation
  27 December 2014, by Kuldip Nayar
  There was genuine pain in India over the mindless killing of schoolchildren at Peshawar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked all Indian schoolchildren to maintain a two-minute silence in memory of the lives lost in Pakistan. He readily offered  (...)
• FDI increase in Insurance is Anti-National
  27 December 2014, by Rajindar Sachar
  The Modi Government has decided to introduce a Bill to allow increase of FDI from 26 per cent to 49 per cent in insurance. Outwardly the Congress and the other constituents of the erstwhile UPA Government are threatening to oppose it—though  (...)
• Indian Police
  27 December 2014
  COMMUNICATION
  All countrymen rightly condemn and resent the highly deplorable, thoroughly inefficient and corrupt Indian Police and its functioning.
  It has earned notoriety for adopting the immensely inhuman torturous three-degree methods  (...)

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