December 2009

• Return to the Basics
  26 December 2009, by SC
  With this issue Mainstream enters the fortyeighth year of its modest existence.
  When this weekly made its appearance in 1962, the editorial in the first issue cogently spelt out its basic objectives in the following words:
  Faith in the  (...)
• On Thermonuclear Weapon Capability and its Implications for Credible Minimum Deterrence
  26 December 2009
  Soon after the Pokhran-II tests on May 11 1998, the scientists of the two organisations concerned, the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and the Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO), had jointly evaluated the success of the two tests—the fission  (...)
• Bangladesh: Promise of Change
  26 December 2009, by Kamal Hossain
  Citizens of Bangladesh have persevered in their effort to establish a working democracy. The movement to restore democracy had resulted in 1990 in an agreed commitment amongst all political forces to restore parliamentary democracy and to  (...)
• Evolve Alternative Paradigm of Economic Growth
  26 December 2009, by M.B. Naqvi
  On November 7, 2009, veteran Pakistani journalist-cum-writer Mohammad Baqir Naqvi passed away in a Karachi hospital. Naqvi sahb was a prominent peace activist and crusader against nuclearisation of the Indo-Pak subcontinent. At the time of his  (...)
• Needed: India’s Positive Role for Universal Nuclear Disarmament
  26 December 2009, by Sailendra Nath Ghosh
  Recently the DRDO’s former senior scientist, Dr K. Santhanam, raised a controversy that the Pokhran-II test for thermonuclear device was unsuccessful and that fresh nuclear tests were necessary to face the threat from China. Two former Chairmen  (...)
• Changing Weather and Shifting Glaciers: Deeper Ecological Concerns
  26 December 2009, by Chandra Mohan Bhandari
  Intellect, will and emotion, the powers of head, chest and heart with whom man as a conscious being has been endowed, will prove his undoing if, caught in the net of his concepts, in the brilliance of his achievements and in the web of his  (...)
• Justice Liberhan Report: Half-Truthful and Half-Untold
  26 December 2009, by Syed Shahabuddin
  Historians will indeed take a poor view of the national leadership in the critical days of 1992: a Prime Minister who was either naïve or incompetent and least interested in performing his constitutional and legal duties; an Opposition leader,  (...)
• The Babri Controversey and Liberhan Report
  26 December 2009, by Shree Shankar Sharan
  Seventeen years after the Babri tragedy occurred, the Liberhan Report seems a bit of an anachronism and almost an unnecessaary irritant. The broad contours of the tragedly are no revelation to the country, the tragedy having been already deeply  (...)
• On the Liberhan Commission
  26 December 2009, by Mukul Dube
  It has long been held that justice delayed is justice denied. The 16.5 years that the Liberhan Commission took to produce its report on the Babri Masjid demolition must, in that light, be called a travesty of justice. Why might it have taken so  (...)
• A Wall Collapses, the World Changes
  26 December 2009, by T J S George
  Our press and patriots made quite a splash to mark the 25th anniversary of Indira Gandhi’s tragic death. As it happened, it was also, to significant sections among us, the 25th anniversary of the tragic massacre of Sikhs in Delhi. So the  (...)

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