by Kumudini Pati
Unique Persona
Srilatha Swaminathan was not only a comrade, with whom I worked for almost ten long years in the women’s movement led by the All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA); she was a dear friend with whom I (...)
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In Memory of Comrade Srilatha Swaminathan
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BJP’s Feverish Attempts to Win UP Polls
12 March 2017, by SCEDITORIAL
The marathon State Assembly elections are over. The seventh and final phase of polling in UP came to an end today—the percentage of polling being 60; whereas the second and final phase of polling in Manipur recorded an 80.6 per cent (...) -
PIPFPD expresses Solidarity with Gurmehar Kaur
12 March 2017The following is the press statement issued by the Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy on March 1, 2017.
Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) expresses its solidarity with 20-year-old Gurmehar Kaur and (...) -
Does Only One Person in India Have the Right to ‘Mann ki Baat’?
12 March 2017by Om Thanvi
In response to the rape threats issued on a public forum against Gurmehar Kaur, the government and its Ministers ought to have clearly come out in support of the young student. They did exactly the opposite.
Finally, they managed to (...) -
Tribute to Rabi Ray
12 March 2017by S.N. Sahu
Rabi Ray is no more. He breathed his last on March 6, 2017 at Cuttack due to age-related ailments. He was more than an admirable and outstanding figure of India’s public life. He was the only public figure of Odisha who could be (...) -
Panchayats, Women and Sustainable Development Goals
12 March 2017WOMEN’S WORLD
by Bidyut Mohanty
The following article is being published against the backdrop of the International Women’s Day on March 8.
Abstract
The current century saw new concerns of the people of the world, such as gross inequality cutting (...) -
In Memory of Baljit Malik
12 March 2017, by Bharat DograTRIBUTE
Baljit Malik, who passed away in Delhi on February 18, will be remembered with mixed feelings by a large number of friends. He will be remembered for his involvement with and contribution to many different kinds of worthy causes. He will (...) -
Budget in the Era of Growing Protectionism
12 March 2017, by Kobad GhandyThis is another article dissecting the Union Budget, written by the noted Marxist-Maoist thinker, Kobad Ghandy, and sent to Mainstream for publication from the Cherlapalli Central Jail, Cherlapalli, Medchal district, Hyderabad, where he is (...) -
Student Politics
12 March 2017, by Kuldip NayarThere was politics even during the period when I was in college before partition. But it was not on communal lines as it is today. Then the enemy was the British and all were in the struggle to oust them. It was in the 1940s when Qaid-e-Azam (...) -
‘Embedded’ Journalists and Banking Scams
12 March 2017MEDIA
by Amitava R. Sinha Roy
Watchdog journalism informs the public about corruption, nepotism, cronyism and institutional chicanery. As the fourth pillar of democracy the media, along with the judiciary, executive and the legislature, fights (...)
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