November 17, 2007

• West Bengal’s Agony and Rabindranath’s Prasna
  25 November 2007, by SC
  Shocked into silence by the ongoing ‘Operation Nandigram II’ one has no option in this dark hour but to turn to our National Poet, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, for guidance and solace as this journal did thirtytwo years ago when Emergency  (...)
• Nandigram: Statement of Concerned Citizens
  25 November 2007
  We, the undersigned, have been dismayed and revolted by the events of the past few days in and around Nandigram in West Bengal’s East Medinipur district. The manner in which the anti-socials of the dominant party in the ruling front attacked the  (...)
• What is Happening in West Bengal?
  25 November 2007, by Arup Kumar Sen
  West Bengal has experienced three decades of Left Front rule with the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) acting as the dominant partner in the coalition government. After coming to power in 1977 the Left Front (LF)  (...)
• PM’s Moscow Visit And Indo-Russian Ties
  25 November 2007, by Ash Narain Roy
  Indo-Russian ties have reached a point where these can be likened to a marriage in which jealousy is greater than love. The romance is long gone. The marriage is going through rough patches, but no one is contemplating a divorce. Marriage is  (...)
• Pakistan : Repeat of 1971?
  25 November 2007, by Sreedhar
  Since the declaration of Emergency on November 3, the developments in Pakistan indicate that the country is slowly drifting into a civil war. General Musharraf’s rule is being opposed by two groups—Jehadis on the one hand and defunct political  (...)
• Lessons from Pakistan
  25 November 2007, by M K Bhadrakumar
  These are early days in Pakistan. But the unfolding developments in that country already offer some very serious lessons for India about the realities of the contemporary world order.
  First and foremost, we now know that being the biggest  (...)
• US Dilemma over Pakistan’s Emergency Rule
  25 November 2007, by Neha Kumar
  General Musharraf declared Emergency rule on November 3, 2007 as a desperate attempt to remain in power. He has justified the declaration of Emergency by saying that the terrorist groups surround Pakistan and the active interference of the  (...)
• Gandhi-Nehru Tradition and Indian Secularism
  25 November 2007, by P.C. Joshi
  (On November 14 falls the one hundred and eighteenth birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru. To mark the occasion, Mainstream reproduces in the following pages articles from distinguished contributors touching on different areas of immediate  (...)
• Jawaharlal Nehru and World Order
  25 November 2007, by A.K. Damodaran
  It is now more than two decades since Jawaharlal Nehru passed away. For more than forty years he had been a major figure in the Indian national movement. For the first two decades he had been a loyal lieutenant of Mahatma Gandhi, disciplining  (...)
• Temper of Tolerance
  25 November 2007, by C.N. Chitta Ranjan
  There can be, and will be endless debate on the achievements and failures of Jawaharlal Nehru, as politician and statesman, as Prime Minister and Congress leader, as democrat and socialist.
  But whatever the controversies and whatever the  (...)

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