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Neo-liberalism, Neo-conservatism and the Inequalities in Education
18 February 2010, by Michael W. AppleThe following is a summary of the lecture delivered by Michael W. Apple (Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) at the National Council of Educational Research and Training (...) -
Season of Goof-ups
18 February 2010, by Humra QuraishiCall this a season of goof-ups. Yes, one after another. If those goof-ups from R.K. Pachauri manned TERI and IPCC don’t seem to end, there is this one from the Union Ministry of Women and Child Welfare. With that full-blown advertise-ment (...) -
Opium Trade and Corruption: Manifestations of Afghanistan’s Multidimensional Crisis
18 February 2010, by Bashir MohammadAll efforts to build a sustainable economic infrastructure and functional democracy in Afghanistan are currently under threat from widespread corruption and the sway of illegal drugs in the country. Unless drug-related corruption—which happens to (...) -
Letter to the President
18 February 2010, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThe following is the text of the letter that the Editor of Mainstream sent to the President of India twenty years ago on January 27, 1990 detailing the reasons for his inability to accept the Padma Bhushan award conferred on him on the Republic (...) -
Warning Note from the Past
8 February 2010, by SCSixty years ago in a message to the nation on the occasion of India becoming a Republic, our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who was aptly described as the architect of modern India, conveyed the following warning note:
We are fortunate (...) -
Happy New Year? For Whom?
8 February 2010, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
There’s a brand new addition to our National Register of Shame. The law has been amended to allow free air travel, business class, to “any number of companions and relatives” of Ministers. MPs were already enjoying this obscene (...) -
Netaji on Our Freedom Struggle and India after Independence
8 February 2010On the occasion of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s 113th birth annivarsary on January 23 this year we offer our homage to the memory of that indomitable freedom figher by reproducing excerpts from his speeches and writings.
This is Subhas Chandra (...) -
Lead, kindly Light....
8 February 2010, by Nikhil ChakravarttyEvery year we dutifully go through the ritual of offering homage to Gandhiji on the day of his martyrdom.
We shall once again be witnessing the ceremony on January 30 to be conducted as per protocol—early morning prayer at Rajghat, singing (...) -
Towards Violent Uprising?
8 February 2010COMMUNICATION
What is new about the presence of a few policemen at the new year party toasted by an NCP politician, allegedly for and on behalf of an underworld don? The fact that many politicians, and quite a few men in khaki, have always had (...) -
Tiibute to Jyoti Basu
8 February 2010TRIBUTE
Jyoti Basu is no more. After 17 days of valiant struggle (that first began when he was hospitalised on New Year’s Day having been struck by a bout of pneumonia) he finally succumbed to multi-organ failure and breathed his last at (...)
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