BOOK REVIEW
Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India
by Suchitra Vijayan
Context (an imprint of Westland Publication)
2021. Pages 320. Rs 699.
The Dawn, on Sep 14, 2022, carried a piece on the demise of Queen (...)
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Review: Raghavan on Vijayan’s Midnight’s Borders
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Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 15, 2022
15 October 2022* West Bengal: Skirmishes at Mominpur | Upal Chakraborty
* Challenges Before the Left — Internationally & India | Kobad Ghandy
* Discontent Between the Governor & Left Govt. in Kerala | J Chathukulam
* AAP’s Mohalla Clinics | Priyanka Yadav
* Can the Bharat Jodo Yatra spur democratic governance? | Vikash Narain Rai -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 15, 2022
15 October 2022Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 15, 2022
In the past weeks there were a series of disturbing developments that were reported in the news. We recapitulate some of these here in public interest; First is an instance of a public flogging of (...) -
West Bengal: Skirmishes at Mominpur | Upal Chakraborty
15 October 2022by Upal Chakraborty *
Mominpur is a locality in Kolkata familiar to me personally because of various reasons.
The most vivid memories date back to a period in the late eighties when I recollect my father taking up a consultancy assignment with a (...) -
Challenges Before the Left — Internationally & India | Kobad Ghandy
15 October 2022, by Kobad GhandyPaper presented at a Seminar at Vijayawada organised by CPI On Sept 30 2022
By ‘left’ I would first draw a distinction between communists and social democrats as seen through history. Though the term basically encompasses both trends, which, of (...) -
Brewing Discontent Between the Governor and Left Democratic Front in Kerala: Does It Indicate the Fractures in Centre-State Relations and Academic Freedom? | Jos Chathukulam
15 October 2022, by Jos Chathukulamby Jos Chathukulam *
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The face-off between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala is the latest one to shook the adversarial and competitive political landscape in Kerala. While it is being (...) -
Saibaba release suspended while convicted murderer at large | Faraz Ahmad
15 October 2022, by Faraz AhmadOn the day the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court set aside the conviction of 90 per cent physically disabled former Delhi University English professor, Prof. G.N. Saibaba, for lack of requisite necessary sanctions, back in Nagpur, under a (...) -
Mohalla Clinics trying to fill the ‘Health for All’ gap in Neoliberal times | Priyanka Yadav
15 October 2022by Priyanka Yadav *
FOR YEARS OUT-OF-POCKET expenditure on health care has been the highest among the total health expenditure in India. The National Health Accounts Estimates 2018-19 observed that the total health expenditure was 3.2 per cent (...) -
Can the Bharat Jodo Yatra trigger democratic governance? | Vikash Narain Rai
15 October 2022by Vikash Narain Rai *
The over enthusiasts would be searching for glimpses of Mahatma Gandhi’s historic nation building marches in the on-going Bharat Jodo padayatra to showcase Rahul Gandhi’s campaign against communal hatred. However, what can (...) -
Apologising to Bilkis Bano | Sandeep Pandey
15 October 2022, by Sandeep PandeyIt is a matter of shame for us as a society that Bilkis Bano’s rapists have been released by a District level committee of Gujarat Government. Some people in the Hindutva family are also justifying the act by claiming that a few of the rapists (...)
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