Letter to the readers, Mainstream, January 7, 2023 Awards Drama in Maharashtra | Kobad Ghandy Anjali Singh’s death, not a simple hit & run accident case | Faraz Ahmad Mobilisation and right to the city | Prachy Hooda Rammohan Roy on 250th Birth Anniversary | Jayanta Kumar Ghosal Mahatma Gandhi’s Vow of Fearlessness Getting Reflected in Rahul Gandhi’s Appeal… Read More Mainstream, Jan 7, 2023
YOGENDRA YADAV Has the Bharat Jodo Yatra lowered communal tempers? I ask this question with some trepidation. I have been a data person for a long time. I have asked for hard evidence for any cause-effect claim. And this question does not admit hard evidence. At least not in such a short time span. Yet… Read More Has Bharat Jodo Yatra lowered communal tempers or is it naive optimism?
P.V. RAMESH Medical education in India does not prepare doctors to effectively manage contemporary health challenges, let alone emerging ones. What we need is a comprehensive overhaul to align medical education with the needs of the country and the goal of universal healthcare. The Covid-19 pandemic wreaked unprecedented havoc on the lives and livelihoods of… Read More How’s India Doing in Medical Education for Universal Healthcare?
सीबीआई जज की मौत को लेकर उठे सवाल First posted November 22, 2017 NIRANJAN TAKLE NB: The essential feature of the fascist project is the abolition of the distinction between legal and illegal violence. The presence of DIG Vanzara, an accused in the Ishrat Jahan and Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter cases, in an RSS meeting attended by its ‘Sarsanghchalak’ Mohan… Read More A Family Breaks Its Silence: Shocking Details Emerge In death of presiding judge in Sohrabuddin Trial
Bharat Bhushan Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra (BJY) has become a headache for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Not only is it startled by the public response to the BJY north of the Vindhyas, but it can sense that Rahul Gandhi’s emerging leadership style offers a real challenge to that of the BJP’s top leaders.… Read More Rahul Gandhi’s alternative approach to leadership
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 24 & Dec 31, 2022 Indian Economy & Banking Under the Sway of Global Capital | Arun Kumar Not Rooted in Public Culture, Hindutva is a Lone Militant | Radhakanta Barik Spread of 2020-21 Farmers Agitation in Haryana | Jaglan & Rajeshwari Bharat Jod Yatra is Evocative of the Spirit of Dandi… Read More Mainstream Double issue, December 31 2022
Dear Friends, Baragaon Weaves wishes you and your families a very Happy New Year. As always, in the New Year we offer you pure, exclusive and rare pashmina shawls, made by our handloom weavers in Kashmir. The pashmina yarn is hand spun, the way it is on a Gandhi Charkha; subsequently, the shawls are hand… Read More Pashmina Shawls on Discount
Bharat Bhushan With the ascendance of Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda as Prime Minister of Nepal and India’s bete noir K P Sharma Oli playing king-maker, the Indian establishment has come a cropper in the Himalayan nation. It was betting the house on a favourite, Sher Bahadur Deuba, whose party, the Nepali Congress although short of majority… Read More Why India was blindsided in Nepal government formation
By Ankur Paliwal In a pristine forest in central India, the multibillion-dollar mining giant Adani has razed trees – and homes – to dig more coal. How does this kind of destruction get the go-ahead? In a lined notebook, Bhole Nath Singh Armo, a lean 28-year-old man wearing a blue shirt and matching baseball cap, drew a… Read More ‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coal mine that ate an Indian village
Mrinal Pande Writers are incurable fabulists. But lying sleepless in the dark encourages one to mull over the inflexible image of Hindutva, which is today less of a religion and more of a war cry against all non-Hindus. As elections in crucial states draw close and electoral rallies become vast, frenzied affairs, Hindutva is placed… Read More What today’s peddlers of Hindutva don’t understand about Hinduism
