Mainstream Weekly: Table of Contents

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• Dalit Mobilisation, Indo-Pak Tension, J & K

  27 May, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  In recent times one special feature of the Indian political situation is the fact that Dalits are asserting themselves across the country. This has been the result of persisting attacks on Dalits in different areas, the most recent  (...)

• A Jallianwala Bagh-like Situation

  27 May, by Kuldip Nayar
  Hashimpura is as deep a tragedy as the anti-Sikh riots in 1984. Both minorities have not allowed the wounds to heal because they go on reminding them of the killings at that time. The perpetrators, the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) from  (...)

• Tagore and the October Revolution

  27 May
  by Jayanta Kumar Ghosal
  The 156th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore was observed this month on May 9. This year will also mark the centenary of the Great October Revolution. The following article is being pubished against the backdrop of  (...)

• Hindu Rashtra: {Is it Good for Hindus?

  27 May
  by Ram Puniyani
  Hindu Rashtra is the goal of Hindu nationalist politics, which is also called Hindutva. In contrast to Hinduism, Hindutva is politics in the name of Hinduism with Brahmanism as the core of the same. In a nutshell, Hindutva is  (...)

• Excerpts from Nehru’s writings and interviews

  27 May
  May 27 this year marks the fiftythird death anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru. On this occasion we are reproducing the following excerpts from Nehru’s writings and interviews that are of exceptional relevance even today. 
  Words that Endure
  The  (...)

• The If-ing of Nehru

  27 May
  by M. Chalapathi Rau
  The following article appeared in Mainstream on November 10, 1962, to mark Jawaharlal Nehru’s 73rd birth anniversary on November 14 that year. This took place during the Chinese aggression in India which began on October 20,  (...)

• Nehru and Minorities

  27 May
  by S. Gopal
  The following contribution from Nehru’s biographer, Dr S. Gopal, was published in Mainstream (November 12, 1988). It was based on the Ansari Memorial Lecture which he delivered at the Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi on February 22, 1988.  (...)

• Secular Outlook

  27 May
  by Rafiq Zakaria
  The following is a tribute to Nehru offered by the author as a member of the Nationl Committee set up for Nehru’s birth centenary. This contribution was included in a book published on November 14, 1989 following yearlong  (...)

• Secularism and the State: Categorising the Nehru Model

  27 May, by Anil Nauriya
  I. The “Nehru Models”: The Historical Nehru Model and the Posthumous Nehru Model
  In most circles where opinion-making on behalf of minorities takes place, one of the reasons for appreciation of Jawaharlal Nehru’s approach towards the minorities  (...)

• Jawaharlal Nehru and the Strength of our Secular Democracy

  27 May
  by Sukumaran C. V.
  “Nehru Dead! Nehru Dead!! Nehru Dead!!!” The teleprinter message was hammering away in my brain. At 2 pm on Wednesday, May 27, 1964, each one of us, four hundred and fifty million Indians, died, as the great-hearted Jawaharlal  (...)

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