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The threat to our freedom and national integrity has in the last few days assumed menacing proportions. The new wave of Chinese aggression all along the northern frontier, (...)
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Meeting the Challenge
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Tagore for Today
3 January 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThe following appeared under Editor’s Notebook in the first Mainstream issue to come out after the proclamation of Emergency (June 25, 1975).
Somewhere in the excitement of National Emergency, the editor has lost his notebook. However, (...) -
Demolishing the Wall
3 January 2013The following is the editiorial that appeared in the first issue of Mainstream (September 1, 1962)
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The other day a letter arrived at our desk from a senior leader of the Indian National Trade Union Congress. Referring to our request (...) -
New Tasks in Agriculture
3 January 2013, by Bhowani SenAgriculture continues to be the weakest link in the chain of India’s Plan-progress. In a certain sense this is true for every country, whether advanced or backward, or whether under the capitalist or socialist system; because, as yet, there is an (...) -
Taxation and Disparities
3 January 2013, by V K R V RAOThe question is often asked: Is taxation in this country equitable? On the one hand national income has gone up, on the other economic disparities have widened. In this article, which is based on an exclusive interview to Mainstream, one of (...) -
Money-Power in Elections: A Plea For Public Funding
3 January 2013by L.K. Advani
Shortly after assuming office as the Prime Minister in January, 1985, Rajiv Gandhi invited various party spokesmen in Parliament, one by one, for a series of informal talks on problems facing the country. My meeting with him (...) -
The Great Suicide
3 January 2013by Congressman
The dust of the Lok Sabha election is settling down… Well, not quite, because the Assembly elections in several States to be held shortly will be the final act after which the country will hopefully settle down to the performance (...) -
Political System is Hostage to Racketeers
3 January 2013by Madhu Limaye
In a scarcely noticed address to the 12th Joint Conference of the CBI and State Anti-Corruption Bureau Officers on October 20, 1994 the Prime Minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao, called for “a multi pronged action plan to tackle the (...) -
‘George’ Biswas: Power and Passion of Song
3 January 2013, by Hiren MukerjeeEarly in the morning on August 18, there passed away in Calcutta a pre-eminent exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, truly a people’s artiste whose vast repertoire was always ungrudgingly at the service of the stricken society around him, his death (...) -
The Truth About DMK
3 January 2013by S. Mohan Kumaramangalam
The recent victory of the DMK in the Tiruchengode by-election has once more drawn all-India attention to this party. Naturally, throughout the country and even in Tamilnad itself, these questions are being asked with (...)
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