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Towards a Culture of Peace
4 July 2020, by Eduardo FaleiroThe last three decades have witnessed unprecedented conflict within and among nations, and religion has often been misused and invoked to justify sectarian strife. The United Nations which was created “to save succeeding generations from the (...) -
Orders Banning The Chinese Apps Amenable To Judicial Scrutiny | Chittarvu Raghu
4 July 2020As a retaliatory measure consequent to ‘Galwan Valley’ aggression, the Government of India invoked Sec.69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and banned 59 smart phone applications which include the most popular ‘ TikTok’, ‘Cam Scanner’ etc. The reasons cited was that these apps pose threat to sovereignty and integrity of India as per credible inputs received by the government.
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Germany in November 1918 - October 1923: Understanding the legacy of workers’ council movement | Arun K. Sinha
4 July 2020by Arun K. Sinha
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of (...) -
Table of Contents - Lockdown Edition no.14 | June 27, 2020
26 June 2020Full Table of Contents - Mainstream, June 27, 2020
LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.14
Why China’s Finger Points at Ladakh: Imperatives for India ; Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere
From the Archives: extracts from the story of (...) -
LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.14
26 June 2020Letter to Readers Mainstream, 27 June 2020 - Lockdown Edition no 14 Forty-Five years have passed since the midnight of June 25 - 26, 1975, when the infamous National Emergency was imposed on India by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi –- suspending (...) -
Why China’s Finger Points at Ladakh: Imperatives for India | Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere
26 June 2020, by S G VombatkereMao Zedong, first president of the People’s Republic of China, had designs on “reclaiming” territories to the west of China, by placing the “Chinese hand” over the region. Tibet was likened to the palm of the hand, and the fingers were Ladakh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and NEFA (now Arunachal Pradesh), spanning across the whole Himalayan range.
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From the Archives: extracts from the story of Mainstream’s Journey Through The Emergency
26 June 2020The story of Mainstream during the nineteen months of Emergency is both exciting and rewarding. It has many lessons to impart. The confrontation with a despotic authority could not possibly be direct and formal: by its very logic it was in the nature of a continuous political guerilla warfare for eighteen long months until its forcible closure with the issue of December 26, 1976. It could reappear only with the relaxation of Emergency following Indira Gandhi’s fateful decision to go to the polls.
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From The Archives: The Roots of the Emergency | Nikhil Chakravartty
26 June 2020, by Nikhil Chakravartty[Reproduced below is a piece from NC’s Writings first published in Mainstream on July 1, 1995]
As years pass by, one after the other, the past recedes more and more into distant memory. There are certain events in the life of a nation as of (...) -
Splintered but not broken: A history of Israel’s independent left | Matan Kaminer and Joel Beinin
26 June 2020From class struggles to women’s rights to fighting occupation, Israel’s ’independent left’ was never a cohesive social movement. Yet its impact is being felt to this day.
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The Statue Movement: Unbolting Gandhi | Khal Torabully
26 June 2020It is worth remembering that the movement of statues, beheading Columbus in Boston or throwing the slave trader Colston in Bristol, was preceded by a proposal to unbolt the statue of Gandhi in Ghana in 2018 and the destruction of that of Schoelcher (he voted for the abolition of slavery) in the West Indies. For Gandhi, we are coming back to the charge in the English city of Leicester at this very moment...
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