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Grave Situation
EDITORIALSeveral major developments having a bearing on our national life have lately hit the headlines. One is the pollution crisis in the Capital which is affecting the people at large. The...
View ArticleThe Great Wipe-Out
This was the day the wand was waivedAnd Currency turned to paper;When was the last the world had seenSo heroic a caper?This was the day when beggars were beggared,And taught selfless discipline;They...
View ArticleA Blow to Rural Justice Mechanism
by Mahi PalNyaya Panchayats (NPs) have been an integral part of the rural local government system of Uttar Pradesh. The NPs came into being in the State as per the UP Village Panchayat Act, 1920. Their...
View ArticleRussian Revolution and India - IV
by Shaukat UsmaniIt was late in December that the Indian students of the India Military School at Tashkent decided to send this writer and Abdul Majid to Moscow for theoretical training. And Abdul...
View ArticleLights of Moscow
From N.C.'s WritingsThe following words were written 54 years ago, in November 1963. One may find these words somewhat alien against the present backdrop. Yet their significance will never fade from...
View ArticlePutin's Russia: Revolution, What Revolution?
by Anastasia EdelImagine France cancelling Bastille Day. Or America demoting the Fourth of July and celebrating British monarchs instead. That sounds fantastical, even in our “post-truth” West. Yet in...
View ArticleSocialism is the Future: Build it Now
by Jaya MehtaThe year 2017 is the centenary year of the Great October Revolution. An armed insurrection by ordinary men and women—workers, peasants and soldiers succeeded in setting up a workers' state...
View ArticleHundred Years On: How the Russian Revolution inspired India
A hundred years ago, American journalist John Reed witnessed the momentous events of 1917 in Russia, when Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party, backed by soldiers and working-class people, seized power to...
View ArticleRelevance of the teachings of October Revolution
by Jayanta Kumar GhosalThe toiling and oppressed mankind all over the world are observing the centenary of the epoch making ‘Ten Days that Shook the World' in October (November) 1917. The event was in...
View ArticleNew Research Reveals Much Higher Alcohol-related Damage to Health
COMMUNICATIONAccording to the WHO status report on health and alcohol (2014), in 2012 about 3.3 million net deaths or 5.9 per cent of all global deaths were attributable to alcohol consumption — 7.6...
View ArticleMany Obstacles before the Indian Trade Union Movement
by N. SundaramurthyTrade unions are perceived as cradles of socialism. By ideology, trade unions fight for the establishment of an egalitarian society. I believe that trade unions have a role in social...
View ArticleDemocracy and Development: Nehruvian Vision
by A.V.V.S.K. RaoDemocracy demands Discipline, Tolerance and Mutual Regard.— Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (First Prime Minsiter of India)“Democracy and Socialism are means to End not the End...
View ArticleFundamentalism and Secularism
On November 27 this year falls the nineteenth death anniversary of distinguished administrator P.N. Haksar, one of the country's foremost thinkers. [He passed away on November 27, 1998, precisely five...
View ArticleProfessor Satish Chandra and the Making of a Nationalist, Secular Historiography
TRIBUTEby R. MahalakshmiThe passing away of Professor Satish Chandra (November 20, 1922-October 13, 2017) has left a void not only in the world of historical scholarship but also in the academic...
View ArticleThe Press needs no Discipline
The press has been able to consolidate its freedom after several struggles. And today it is generally free from the government pressure. There are still other forces which do not allow it to be...
View ArticlePriya Ranjan Dasmunshi
TRIBUTEAmong the ‘Young Turks' who came into prominence during Indira Gandhi's moves to rejuvenate the Congress after the party's 1967 electoral debacle across the country, two were most noteworthy—one...
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On a Film and its Screening
EDITORIALAs the protests over the screening of the controversial film Padmavati show no signs of abating, with Congress-ruled Punjab (led by CM Amarinder Singh) joining three BJP-run States of Madhya...
View ArticleIndia surviving inside the Republic of Lynching
by Arun SrivastavaIn eastern Indian States, especially in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, people have been witness to an old-fashioned rural politics, called the “Bhumihari policy”. Under the policy the head...
View ArticleClassy Caste and Prejudice: Being Scientist, Being Khole
by Navneet Sharma and AnamicaMaharashtra is a land of wonders. Wonder leads to philosophy, it amazes and amuses, simultaneously it bewilders. Maharashtra has been the land of Shahuji Maharaj, Ambedkar,...
View ArticleDanger from Nuclear Reactors
by P.B. SawantThe news published with fanfare on May 18, 2017 that the government had decided to install ten indigenous nuclear reactors in four different States to augment energy by 7000 MW followed...
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