2016

• Braving the Heaviest of Odds
  26 December 2016, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  With this issue of the Annual Number 2016, Mainstream steps into the fiftyfifth year of its modest existence.
  In its inaugural issue on September 1, 1962 the Mainstream editorial clearly stated: “it shall be our endeavour to try  (...)
• Nehru for Today / India-Pakistan: Imperative of Amity / We Must All Resist BJP’s Two-Nation Theory / Relevance of Gandhiji’s Message Today
  26 December 2016, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  Nehru for Today
  More than twentyone years after his passing away, Jawaharlal Nehru remains a colossus in the eyes of his countrymen and of the world abroad. Age has not withered his memory nor customs stale it. If Nehru has  (...)
• Bangladesh deserves More Attention and Appreciation from India
  26 December 2016, by Bharat Dogra
  Suppose you have two neighbours—one hostile neighbour and one friendly neighbour. For different reasons you need to give a lot of attention to both. The hostile neighbour requires attention for some reasons while the friendly nation requires  (...)
• The Year of Unravelling
  26 December 2016, by Badri Raina
  The best of times were promised, but the worst of times are here. Not in any war fought since the independence of India were so many millions seen waiting their turn in interminable lines, not before ration shops, but banks and ATMs to be  (...)
• Populism Finds the Way: Trump, Pollsters and the People’s Choice
  26 December 2016
  by Pradeep Nair and Sandeep Sharma
  In the aftermath of the American presidential elections, streets in several cities of America rocked with the slogan “Not My President†. This sloganeering rose against a person who went into election (and won the  (...)
• The Trump Call: Pakistan gets a jumpstart in dealing with the coming US presidency
  26 December 2016, by M K Bhadrakumar
  If India was hoping to corner Pakistan on the issue of cross-border terrorism at the Heart of Asia conference on December 3-4 in Amritsar, that has been overtaken by the telephone conversation between US President-elect Donald Trump and Pakistan  (...)
• Letter to PM by CPI-M General Secretary
  26 December 2016
  The following is the text of a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by CPI-M General Secretary and MP Sitaram Yechury on December 12, 2016 regarding the finalisation of the ‘Major Defense Partner’ designation to India by the USA.
  Dear  (...)
• Rome was Not Built in a Day. Nor the Hindu Rashtra . . .
  26 December 2016, by Ajayakumar Kodoth
  by Ajayakumar Kodoth
  Even while judging the BJP government as a pro-Fascist one, the CPI believes that it cannot be called Fascist yet. We resort to this label not merely because of hostility towards BJP but because we believe it is true. Even  (...)
• Curbing the Black Economy: Demonetisation Not the Way
  26 December 2016, by Arun Kumar
  Tackling the black economy is laudable. The PM has announced demonetisation of the high denomination currency notes to do that. But most analysts are of the opinion this is not the way to even dent (much less eliminating) the black economy in  (...)
• Demonetisation: A Silent but Monster Killer - Modi Must Own Up Killing Over A Hundred in Bank Queues
  26 December 2016
  by K. Narayana
  Over a month has gone by after the fateful decision to demonetise the high-value currencies by the Modi Government. The initial stated purposes in a bang focused on sucking out 86 per cent of the money in circulation in order to  (...)

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