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June 28, 2008
On N.C.’s 10th Death Anniversary (June 27, 2008)
K.R. NARAYANAN:
Nikhilda—A Glorious Human Being
Reminiscences
by V.R. KRISHNA IYER, MRINALINI SARABHAI, P.B. SAWANT, ARUN BOSE, D. BANDYOPADHYAY, SOM BENEGAL, S. VISWAM, T.J.S. GEORGE, SURENDRA MOHAN, MRINAL PANDE, SYEDA HAMEED, NEERJA CHOWDHURY, SUHAS BORKER
GIRISH MISHRA
Rural Loan Waiver or Moral Hazard?
ASH NARAIN ROY
US’ Violation of Human Rights in Afghanistan
EDITORIAL
Sonia Gandhi has to take the Political Call
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Nikhil Chakravartty : I Salute You
30 June 2008, by V R Krishna Iyer
Nikhil Chakravartty was a great journalist, a clear thinker, an authentic socialist, a public figure beyond party purchase, and, above all, a noble human being whom ambition could not buy. I had known Nikhil for several decades at an intimate
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A Letter
30 June 2008
Nikhil Chakravartty in a letter after his receiving a journalists’ award wrote a few lines I would like to share with all those who mourn him.
A feel a sense of fulfilment on having been able to communicate whatever my thoughts maybe, to those
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Nikhilda, the Unimpeachable Journalist
30 June 2008, by P.B. Sawant
Many things have happened in the world in general, and in the field of journalism in particular, during the last ten years after Nikhilda bowed out of this turbulent existence. His life was a continuous intellectual struggle as is the work of
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N.C.’s Two Qualities
30 June 2008, by Arun Bose
[(COMMUNICATION
This letter was sent more then two years after N.C.’s demise by a close comrade of his since his days in England, one who became a member of the CPI Polit-Bureau and later a distinguished Professor of Economics, Kirorimal College,
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A Perennial Void
30 June 2008, by D. Bandyopadhyay
It is said that nature abhors vacuum. Perhaps it is so in case of natural phenomena. But in human society a void created by the passing away of a colossal figure remains unfilled for a long, long time. Nikhil Chakravartty, as he was known to
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Requiem for an Old Comrade
30 June 2008, by Som Benegal
An old ditty of World War I went: “Old soldiers never die, they only fade away.” Nikhil Chakravartty who was an old soldier, and comrade who left us ten years ago never died but, more importantly, has never faded away.
Nikhilda was a soldier but
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A National Loss
30 June 2008, by S Viswam
Tempus fugit. Time flies. And how! I was completely taken aback on being reminded by Sumit that the tenth death anniversary of Nikhilda will fall on June 27. “No, it cannot be,” I protested. “Not ten years already.” “Yes, yes,”said Sumit, “it is, it
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The Power of One
30 June 2008, by T J S George
From the end of the 1950s, Delhi became India’s densest journalistic jungle. The transplantation there of a wholly Bombay phenomenon like Frank Moraes was a pointer to the inexorability of the process. No one will understand the economics of
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Letter to the President
30 June 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
[(The following is the text of the letter that the Editor of Mainstream sent to the President of India on January 27, 1990 detailing the reasons for his inability to accept the Padma Bhushan award conferred on him on the Republic Day that
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Conscience of a Progressive Polity
30 June 2008, by Surendra Mohan
Nikhil Chakravartty launched the weekly Mainstream when the country did not have serious political journals apart from publications of political parties, like the AICC Economic Review, the New Age, the Janata and the Mankind. When the weekly
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