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The Great Suicide
31 January 2015The following article was published precisely twentyfive years ago in the Mainstream Republic Day Special (January 27, 1990) after the Congress’ defeat in the 1989 Lok Sabha poll and created a stir in political circles. It is being reproduced in (...) -
Je ne suis pas Charlie; Sorry, I am not Charlie
31 January 2015, by Nandita HaksarThe French President, Francois Hollande, immediately declared that the attack on Charlie Hebdo was an act of terrorism and an assault on freedom of the press. Michael J. Morell, the former deputy director of the CIA and now a consultant to CBS (...) -
Long Live Charlie Hebdo!
31 January 2015, by Harsh Kapoorabout the January 2015 terror attack on the Paris satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and its gross misinterpretation by people of Left liberal sensibilities in India and much of the world.
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Tribute to B.G. Verghese: A Thorough Gentleman
31 January 2015, by Kuldip NayarEven after consuming reams and reams of paper, I would fail to describe Boobli George Verghese. Yet one word will suffice to portray him: Gentleman! He was a true Christian in faith and deed. He was a man of values who did his best to stay (...) -
Kamath of Dalal Street
31 January 2015, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
This is a piece the author, himself a reputed columnist, wrote for Mainstream remembering M.V. Kamath, the veteran journalist who passed away a few months ago last year.
At the dawn of independence Bombay was a vibrant, cosmopolitan, (...) -
Professor Rajni Kothari: Homage by a Socialist Worker
31 January 2015by Vijay Pratap
Prof Rajni Kothari, born on August 16, 1928, left this world on January 19, 2015. He was a rare academic person. In the last four decades I have witnessed many stalwarts leaving this world but not seen so many articles having (...) -
Travails of keeping Foreign Cows in Rural India!
31 January 2015, by Barun Das GuptaBOOK REVIEW
Book Discussion on ‘Inside-Outside: Two Views of Social Change in Rural India’ by Baburao Shravan Baviskar and D.W. Attwood (Discussants: A.M. Shah, Anand Chakravarti, Partha Nath Mukherji, Tulsi Patel); pages: 40; Institute of Social (...) -
Tribute: Remembering Perin
31 January 2015by Primla Loomba
The following is a tribute to Perin Chandra (née Bharucha), 96, who passed away in Mumbai on January 7, 2015, from one of her oldest associates since her days in Lahore.
I have had a long association with Perin. It goes back to (...) -
Tribute: Goodbye Comrade! Alvida Mehdi Chacha!
31 January 2015by Noor Zaheer
What can one write about an uncle who pampered one with hot chocolate and insisted on presenting a book on Marxism with it? What can one say about him who gets you the first proper job, the one that you love doing, and performs a (...)
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