2010

• Meeting the Challenge
  31 December 2010, by SC
  Mainstream’s entry into its fortyninth year with this Annual Number has coincided with a crisis afflicting the Indian polity the dimensions of which are unprecedented even by the standards set by the unforeseen developments in our chequered  (...)
• Tribute To Surendra Mohan
  31 December 2010
  Socialist leader Surendra Mohan is no more. He passed away in the morning of September 17 at his residence in Sah Vikas in the Trans-Jamuna area of Delhi. He had health problems no doubt but was not ailing. He literally died in harness. He is  (...)
• Remembering Surendra Mohan
  31 December 2010, by Devaki Jain
  In the passing away of Surendra Mohan, India has lost one more—soon after L.C. Jain—stalwart of the Indian political landscape. Surendra Mohan and L.C. Jain worked—I used to often tease them—like tweedledum-tweedledee during the space between the  (...)
• Indian People Should Extend More Support To Burma’s Democratic Movement: Suu Kyi
  31 December 2010
  “After seven years of house arrest the indomitable leader of Burma’s democratic movement, Aung San Suu Kyi, was released in Rangoon on November 13, 2010. Remembering her as an icon of the Burmese struggle for democracy that the ruling military  (...)
• In the Face of Ruthless Power
  31 December 2010
  by Aung San Suu Kyi
  Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and to uphold the disciplines which will  (...)
• Villain In Life, Hero In Death! Hindutva’s New-found Love for Hemant Karkare
  31 December 2010, by Subhash Gatade
  ...sources who were close to Karkare have said there was indeed a threat perception at that time and the former ATS chief was disturbed over allegations against his family after the Malegaon probe was made public.
  However, they said “Karkare was  (...)
• Judicial Corruption in Profusion Must be Wiped Out without Mercy
  31 December 2010, by V R Krishna Iyer
  The judiciary enjoys vast powers as they are final and infallible, so powerful that when an executive violates the law the judges can quash their action and issue directions in exercise of the writ power. When Parliament makes law and  (...)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
  31 December 2010, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  A great country caught in the web of sordid politics—that is how one is tempted to describe the state of the nation today.
  In contrast to the political set-up in India’s neighbourhood—right and left, north and south—it can of course be claimed  (...)
• Militant Left Radicalism, State and Civil Society with Special Focus on Land Rights
  31 December 2010, by B K Roy Burman
  First phase of militant Left radicalism and state response
  The first manifestation of militant Left radicalism was in the Naxalbari area of West Bengal. Though ideological issues were also involved, the then United Front Government considered  (...)
• West Bengal: Simmering Embers of Rajarhat
  31 December 2010, by D. Bandyopadhyay
  The simmering embers of discontent of the evicted population of Rajarhat is now taking the shape of a bush fire. Dr B.C. Roy conceived of the Salt Lake town to provide space for the middle classes who were being squeezed out of Calcutta proper  (...)

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