2016

• Universalism and Social Equality: Relevance of the Brahmo Samaj Today
  26 December 2016
  by Malavika Nagarkar
  The following is the address by Malavika Nagarkar, the President of the Brahmo Conference, at the inaugural session of the 126th All India Brahmo Conference (New Delhi, November 12, 2016).
  I feel truly humbled as I stand  (...)
• State of Affairs of Higher Education in India
  26 December 2016, by Sandeep Pandey
  In a country which neglects its school education can we expect a good quality higher education programme? All the governments, since the Kothari Commission’s recommendation of the Common School System was made in 1968, have successfully evaded  (...)
• Indian Communists and the International Left on Global Canvas
  26 December 2016
  by Arun Srivastava
  While the fascist ultra-nationalist forces have been striving hard to occupy the centre- stage of the global polity and evolve their own variant ideology, it is heartening to note that the Communists and Left forces especially  (...)
• Secret History of Gujarat Happenings by Stingers and Whistle-blowers
  26 December 2016, by John Dayal
  BOOK REVIEW
  Gujarat Files—Anatomy of a Cover Up by Rana Ayyub, With an Introduction by Justice B.N. Srikrishna; Self-published; 2016; pages: 204; Price: Rs 295.
  Gujarat—Behind the Curtain by R.B. Sreekumar, Indian Police Service [Retired]; Manas  (...)
• Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission: Emerging Challenges
  26 December 2016
  by Mahi Pal
  Since independence, in spite of implementing various programmes for rural development and improving the quality of life of the people, issues of poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, sanitation and hygiene, lack of skill development,  (...)
• Pitcher and Stone
  26 December 2016
  by Amiya Dev
  ‘Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher’ is a proverb we come across in DonQuixote, its source being Sancho Panza, that mine of popular wisdom. He justifies it to his master by simply  (...)
• On Rosa Luxemburg and Russian Revolution
  26 December 2016
  by Paresh Chattopadhyay
  We read with considerable interest the short piece ‘Rosa Luxemburg: Future belongs to Bolshevism’. (Mainstream, vol. LIV, No. 46) We may be permitted to make a couple of comments on this piece. (In the following we use the  (...)
• Jayalalithaa Is No More
  11 December 2016, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  As we go to press, Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa Jayaram, 68, is no more. She passed away at Chennai’s Appolo Hospitals on Monday night (December 5). She was admitted there on September 22 with fever and dehydration, and breathed her last  (...)
• How Fidel Shaped Cuba and Influenced Latin America
  11 December 2016
  TRIBUTE
  by Nina Dey-Gupta
  Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926 and passed away on November 25, 2016 after a prolonged illness of diverticulitis.
  Gandhi and Castro were both political leaders. While Gandhi’s political experience and  (...)
• What to Expect from the New Pakistani Army Chief
  11 December 2016, by M K Bhadrakumar
  The appointment of the new Army Chief in Pakistan invariably becomes an edifying spectacle for Indian observers. The ‘new normal’—namely, that a superannuating General calmly and with head held high walks into the sunset—underscores that Pakistan  (...)

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