October 4, 2008

• Nanavati Commission and Gujarat 2002
  8 October 2008, by SC
  With the economic crisis in the United States refusing to be defused, latest reports from Washington show that top Congressional and White House officials, stunned by the House of Representatives’ 228-205 rejection of a massive $ 700 billion  (...)
• No Draconian Law, Please
  8 October 2008, by Rajindar Sachar
  The Delhi bombings resulting in horrible killings have understandably caused righteous indignation at the almost total failure of the intelligence machinery. The Prime Minister has commendably scotched the idea of a federal agency accepting  (...)
• Threat to National Integration
  8 October 2008, by Chaturanan Mishra
  Some people who come to me say that the country needs Mahatma Gandhi again. As a freedom fighter I feel that last time the partition of India and formation of Pakistan took place because of Muslim communalism but this time it is Hindu  (...)
• Unfinished Revolution
  8 October 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  [(The following editorial of N.C. was published in the October 4, 1969 issue of Mainstream marking the birth centenary of Mahatma Gandhi. It is being reproduced on the occasion of Gandhiji’s one hundred and thirtyninth birth anniversary (October  (...)
• Mahatma or Dharmatma
  8 October 2008, by K Swaminathan
  The following article, which appeared in Mainstream Annual 1988, was an abridged version of the author’s article in Employment News from where it was reproduced with due acknowledgement.
  Gandhiji was a good man and his greatness grew out of his  (...)
• Gandhiji—Missing Nobel Peace Laureate
  8 October 2008, by A K Dasgupta
  The question why Gandhiji was never chosen for the Nobel Prize came to the fore again when Geir Lundestad, the permanent Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, after the announcement of the 2006 award to Muhammad Yunus and the Gramin Bank  (...)
• How Gandhi’s Ideas can Help to Combat Globalisation related Threats
  8 October 2008, by Bharat Dogra
  An interesting and significant aspect of the freedom movement in India was that along with the struggle against colonial rule, vigorous efforts were made to find an alternative path of development. While several people in India were eager to  (...)
• Contesting Postmodern Notion of Truth through Gandhian Vision of Satya
  8 October 2008, by Upasana Pandey
  “Instead of pursuing the truth we should try to pave the way for construction of the truth.â€
  F.W. Nietzsche1
  “Truth is not something which might be found or discovered, but something that must be created†.
  F.W. Nietzsche2
  “We have to live today  (...)
• Democracy and Self-Representation
  8 October 2008, by Vivek Kumar
  After intense political debate it has been decided that for the first time in the 218-year old US democracy a Black will be contesting for the prestigious presidential elections. Is it out of blue that the world’s “most developed democracy†,  (...)
• Report on Encounter in Jamia Nagar
  8 October 2008
  The following is the report of a team (set up by Jan Hastakshep, Campaign against Fascist Designs and People’s Union for Democratic Rights) which undertook a fact-finding exercise into the alleged encounter at Batla House in the Capital’s  (...)

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