2018

• Resisting Majoritarian Onslaught
  23 December 2018, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  As Mainstream enters the fiftyseventh year of its modest existence with this Annual Number, the nation is getting prepared for an intense electoral battle when the country faces its twentyfirst national polls for the Lok Sabha in five  (...)
• The Valley of Incongruities / Do We Need Nehru Today? / Good-bye Feroze / Grim Warning from Bhopal / India-Pakistan: Imperative of Amity
  23 December 2018
  From N.C.’s Writings
  The Valley of Incongruities
  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  (...)
• Mahatma Gandhi — The Great Communicator
  23 December 2018, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  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 touched by having been  (...)
• An Initial Victory and the Struggle Ahead
  23 December 2018, by Barun Das Gupta
  Will the BJP learn any lesson from its resounding defeat in the Hindi heartland which has been its bastion since its inception? The cow-vigilantism of its self-appointed gau-rakshaks who proclaimed that the life of a cow is more valuable than  (...)
• A Hint of Spring
  23 December 2018, by Badri Raina
  The spell is broken.
  The bewitching wand turns
  To wood.
  Paralysed slumber
  Of years lifts an eyelid
  And sees into the dark subterfuge.
  There is a hint of spring in December.
  A breach in the overcast
  Reveals a newborn David,
  Firing sure slingshot  (...)
• Wintry Tale
  23 December 2018
  Wee-hours of a cold, harsh morning -
  a shroud of fog still hangs
  on the landscape;
  icy breeze blows through leaves,
  over beds of grass;
  signs of life are yet to stir.
  A bleak, melancholic look
  grips the atmosphere.
  A homeless mortal lies
  on the  (...)
• Whither Politically tinkered Hinduism?
  23 December 2018
  by L.K. Sharma
  How Indian politics fares under the spell of Hinduism is covered extensively by the media. It is time scholars studying religions such as Karen Armstrong wrote on the impact of politics on Hinduism. Can this unique religion be  (...)
• Challenges of Dichotomous Growth in India
  23 December 2018
  by Arun Kumar
  The election results from the three North and Central Indian States suggest that farmers, youth and small businessmen are unhappy. Some of them have been openly agitating. Why is this happening if the rate of growth of the economy  (...)
• Indian Communists and the Challenges for their Revival
  23 December 2018
  by Arun Srivastava
  Indian Marxist-Leninists must counter the emerging threat of fascism. India has witnessed a massive political shift in the last four years with the BJP decisively replacing the Congress as the dominant political representative  (...)
• Babri Masjid: What should Muslims do?
  23 December 2018
  by Irfan Engineer
  A section of Hindu supremacist organisations are once again mobilising to demand the construction of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple (RJT) in Ayodhya on the spot where the Babri Masjid once stood and was demolished on December 6,  (...)

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