Mainstream Weekly: Table of Contents

Most recent articles

• After Modi’s Thoughtless Firman

  22 November
  POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
  It was heartening to see the entire Opposition in Parliament, barring Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), close ranks in opposing the demonetisation decision of the Modi Government and its fallout throughout the country putting to great  (...)

• Controlling Black Money via Demonetisation of High Denomination Currency

  22 November, by Arun Kumar
  The PM’s announcement that high denomi-nation currency notes will soon be worthless paper caught everyone unawares. Even the government departments did not know of it and prepared for its implementation after the TV announcement. It is an attack  (...)

• USA Election — Democratic Party damaged its own prospects by discriminating against Bernie Sanders

  21 November, by Bharat Dogra
  It is now belatedly being realised by many people that Bernie Sanders had better chances of defeating Donald Trump if he was the Democratic Party’s chosen candidate in the presidential election in the USA. This is because he was more capable of  (...)

• US Elections 2016: The Spectacular Triumph of Donald Trump

  21 November
  by Purusottam Bhattacharya
  The United States and the world have witnessed a ‘revolution’—the spectacular electoral victory of Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee, over his Democrat rival, Hillary Clinton, in the race to the White House. Trump  (...)

• Architect of India

  21 November, by webperson
  Dark tides roll around leaping forth gleefully
  to throw mud and slush 
  at the towering Architect of India.
  The mud-slingers are there everywhere—in the press, media, social sites,
  howling foul about Nehruvian mistakes.
  Let them proclaim then,  (...)

• Obama Contributed to Donald Trump’s Triumph

  21 November, by M K Bhadrakumar
  In the hurly-burly of the November 8 election in the United States, what has been largely overlooked is that in many ways the moral and political responsibility for the crushing defeat of the Democratic Party lies squarely with President Barack  (...)

• Trump triumphs

  21 November, by Kuldip Nayar
  When the country’s mood is the Right, you cannot expect it to vote for Hillary Clinton who represents the Left-of-Centre if not the Left. Donald Trump’s victory is an assertion of the White who constitute nearly 63 per cent and still have the  (...)

• A Nascent Caste on the Horizon: the Judicial Dynasties

  21 November
  by Kunal Ghosh
  During the Emergency of 1975 to 1977, called by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the Parliament passed laws for preventive detention of individuals and took the extreme step of suspending the Habeas Corpus. Even in 1962, during  (...)

• Prime Minister Modi’s Black Money Magic

  21 November
  by M.C. Pindwal
  The demonetisation of Indian currency, as announced by PM Modi at 8 pm on November 8, 2016 in his address to the nation, has no solid basis. It is being argued from the government’s side that demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000  (...)

• Why the Two Greatest Indians were Denied Nobel

  21 November
  by Praveen Davar
  ‘Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.’ So said Albert Einstein on Mahatma Gandhi soon after his assassination on January 30, 1948. Renowned historian  (...)

• Most recent articles

  • Legacy of Tipu Sultan

    21 November
    by S.N. Sahu and Sandip Mesra
    The Government of Karnataka is celebrating Tipu jayanti. Well known and acclaimed as Tipu Sultan in history, he was a renowned warrior who courted controversy and at the same time commanded attention and admiration  (...)

  • Triumph for Family Bonding

    21 November
    COMMUNICATION
    The unexpected win of Donald Trump in the US Presidential election is a blessing in disguise for a major reason. Trump, a rabid nationalist reposing faith in America for the Americans only, may adversely impact the worldwide  (...)

  • The Anti-National Role of RSS

    21 November, by Sandeep Pandey
    The most despicable action due to the growth of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh’s ideology was the killing of Mahatma Gandhi. If there is one individual with whom people associate India’s identity all over the world it is Gandhi. Gandhi is a  (...)

  • Artists do not die because the world needs art; Arakkal gave us pleasure by painting pain

    21 November, by T J S George
    IMPRESSIONS
    It is not for nothing that every Rajnikant movie is released with uproarious publicity brouhaha, from milk abhishekam of oversize portraits to trailers exploding with the hero’s superman feats. Marketing is everything. For film folk,  (...)

  • Russian Economy: From Recession to Hope of Recovery

    21 November
    by R.G. GIDADHUBLI
    As the year 2016 comes to an end, the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has reason to feel relieved with signs of economic recovery after persisting recession during the last few years. This is because Russia’s Minister for  (...)

  • Being a Proud Indian

    21 November, by Nikhil Chakravartty
    From N.C.’s Writings
    Amidst the profusion of tributes paid to Indira Gandhi on the tenth anniversary of her martyrdom on October 31, perhaps the most eloquent but concise was by the eminent scientist-philosopher, Professor Yash Pal, who said she  (...)

  • Elusive Cliff

    21 November
    It has been a stiff climb, chiselling steps
    both by heart and charter;
    yet the cliff still seems eluding.
    Today, I see myself in a cage,
    scrawled with a tattoo — a stigma to me,
    not erased, but paraded by them
    to use me as a pawn
    in the murky  (...)

  • Indira Gandhi — Democrat or Dictator?

    21 November
    by P.C. JAIN
    November 19 marks Indira Gandhi’s ninetyninth birth anniversary.
    Indira Gandhi has been much maligned and misunderstood for imposition of the Emergency and the excesses committed during this period. What to talk of the Right even  (...)

  • On Religion Today

    21 November, by Eduardo Faleiro
    Over 90 per cent of the world population is affiliated to some religion or the other and for millions of people life would be unthinkable without the guidance of their religion. Religion provides a sense of peace and meaning to life and connects  (...)

  • Goa BRICS Summit — a New Milestone

    21 November, by Arun Mohanty
    With the Eighth BRICS Summit over at Goa, it is time for stock-taking of the developments at the meet. BRICS is the youngest and fastest growing international grouping that is designed to make the world truly multipolar ending the hegemony of  (...)