May 19, 2007

• Behind Mayawati’s Spectacular Success
  19 May 2007, by SC
  The UP Assembly elections have indeed produced amazing results that have surprised most observers barring of course the real victor, Mayawati. However, it needs to be pointed out that one Dalit political leader of a Left party had forecast such  (...)
• Diversion of Crops and Small Farmers
  19 May 2007, by Chaturanan Mishra
  There is much talk in the government circles about the diversion of crops to increase the income of farmers. The traditional growing of rice and wheat does not give high prices. If instead vegetables and fruits are grown these will fetch higher  (...)
• Our Democratic Pretensions
  19 May 2007, by Suhas Palshikar
  The vandalism at MS University and the abject complicity of the university authorities in the episode are a sad sign of the failure to expand democracy to our civil and social lives. But before the MS University controversy arose, a small news  (...)
• Cricket and India’s Soft-power Miscarriages
  19 May 2007, by Bhartendu Kumar Singh
  The early exit of our ‘Team India’ from the World Cup show in Caribbean Islands has jolted the billion-strong nation. No one had expected that cricket, which is as the most popular street game in India and has engendered household names like  (...)
• Appeal To The Indian Left From A Progressive Pakistani: Evolve Alternative Paradigm of Economic Growth
  19 May 2007, by M.B. Naqvi
  [(The following is what the author wanted to present at a meeting in Karachi when the leaders of the two Indian CPs—the CPI and CPM—visited Pakistan in the recent past. —Editor)]
  I intend to ask a few questions to you. But first the perspective  (...)
• P.C. Joshi and 1857
  19 May 2007, by V N Datta
  It is gratifying that Mainstream has published a few interesting and instructive articles as a mark of respect to the memory of the distinguished Communist leader, P.C. Joshi, on his birth centenary (April 14, 2007). The article ‘Remem-bering  (...)
• The Moral Highs of India’s “Cultural Nationalists”
  19 May 2007, by Badri Raina
  India’s Hindu Right-wing is currently in the moral doghouse. Curious fate for an ideological set-up that stridently claims proprietary rights to the terrain of “values”. It is another matter that some fifteen years after they razed the mosque at  (...)
• Democratic Colonialism
  19 May 2007, by P K Chatterjee
  If any political analyst looks askance as to what kind of a government can democratic colonialism be, he has only to study the Indian Constitution and its working. Its Preamble recites some basic slogans of republican democracy, its Part-III  (...)
• Yeltsin and Putin in Retrospect
  19 May 2007, by S Nihal Singh
  Between them, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin destroyed the Soviet Union, the former out of the noblest of motives and the latter for opportunistic reasons. The West sang paeans of praise first for Gorbachev for his glasnost and perestroika,  (...)
• We Need No Taliban Here
  19 May 2007, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  Maqbool Fida Hussain is at the very centre of a storm whose after-effects are extremely relevant for our democracy—both for the democratic structure of our state and for the preservation of democratic values in our society.
  It is not that Hussain  (...)

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