BOOK REVIEW
by Dipak Malik
Farewell To Kabul: From Afghanistan to a more dangerous world by Christina Lamb; William Collins, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, London; 2015; pages 640; price: $ 22.47.
The story of Afghanistan does not blur (...)
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A Must Read for those Meticulously following Afghan Events
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Politics of Hate
9 October 2017COMMUNICATION
The recent brutal murder of the brave journalist, Gauri Lankesh, in front of her home in Bengaluru reminds us of Hannah Arendt’s insightful observation, made long time ago: “...under conditions of terror most people will comply but (...) -
Biplab Halim Is No More
9 October 2017We have received the following message from a frequent contributor to Mainstream, VidyaBhushan Rawat:
“Just read on Ujjaini Halim’s wall the sad demise of her father, Biplab Halim, in the morning today (September 28, 2017) in Kolkata. It is a (...) -
Bure Din is Staring Us in the Face
29 September 2017, by SCEDITORIAL
The worsening political and economic situation within the country is having its inevitable impact on the ruling dispensation at the Centre.
The BJP’s official position of forcing the Rohingyas in India to go back to Myanmar has been (...) -
Taking Educational Institutions Backwards
29 September 2017, by Sandeep PandeyOn September 11, 1893 Swami Vivekananda delivered his famous speech in the Parliament of World’s Religions in Chicago. The Bharatiya Janata Party Government decided to celebrate the event and Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the youth of (...) -
Gandhi for Today
29 September 2017On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s one hundred and fortyeighth birth anniversary on October 2, 2017, we are reproducing the following excerpts from his writings and pronouncements. This is followed by a couple of articles on Gandhi and N.C.’s (...) -
Gandhiji at the Dawn of Freedom
29 September 2017by Kshitish Chandra Das Gupta
The Fifteenth of August, 1947, was drawing near. India was going to shake off two centuries of British domination and join the comity of nations as a sovereign independent country. None could have been happier at (...) -
A Gandhian Approach to Current Problems
29 September 2017by Sadiq Ali
On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s one hundred and fortyeighth birth anniversary on October 2, we are reproducing the following text of Sadiq Ali’s Nineteenth Annual Gandhi Peace Foundation Lecture delivered on January 30, 1993 in (...) -
To Mahatmaji
29 September 2017. . . Came flood, came death, came the storm of war
Great Famine left its signature on every road,
Every moment I was afraid the whole history was under threat
Yet I kept my spirit up, although besieged by death, and heaved no sigh of despair (...) -
Mahatma Gandhi — The Great Communicator
29 September 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The following is the text of the Gandhi Peace Foundation Lecture 1995 delivered by Nikhil Chakravartty in New Delhi on January 30, 1995. It first appeared in Mainstream (October 3, 1998) after N.C.’s demise.
I am deeply (...)
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