A Rejoinder to Maxwell's Article
communicationIf some disparaging remarks about me make Neville Maxwell happy, I do not want to grudge him that. What disappoints me is a streak of self-righteousness which runs through his article...
View ArticleJumble of Indian Politics
India is halfway through the Lok Sabha election process. Two factors have come to the fore so far: caste and money. I am dismayed about caste. I had imagined that in some 67 years since independence,...
View ArticleWest Bengal Scenario: Will Mamata Learn from her Mistakes?
If psephological gurus are right then there are prudent reasons behind Mamata Banerjee's recent political postures. In spite of the drubbing she has received from Anna Hazare, it may be a distinct...
View ArticleElections: Trends and Projections
From N.C.'s Writingsin the midst of a general election, it is obviously unfair to predict who or which party is going to emerge victorious or be in a position to form the next government. This is...
View ArticleStop Election Violence, Join Wider Left Unity: Open Letter to India's Maoists
communicationIt was extremely distressing to read in newspapers today that 14 persons, including seven members of a polling team, were killed in landmine blasts triggered by Maoists in Chhattisgarh on...
View ArticleIntellectuals' Appeal to Defend Secular Democracy
Never before in post-independence India have political forces, which are a front for an organisation committed to creating a Hindu Rashtra, made as strong a bid for power as in the coming elections....
View ArticleSomnath Bharti as an Embarrassment for the Aam Aadmi Party
by Sanjay MishraIntroductionFor all its promise of cleansing the Indian politics of corruption—a tall order by any yardstick given the gargantuan and deep-rooted corruption in Indian politics—and for...
View ArticleWhy We Can Never be Hindus or the Struggle against Fascism in India
by Murzban JalEvery rise of fascism bears witness to a failed revolution.Walter BenjaminNow in your own interest and in the interest of this great country you must learn to listen and to read what we...
View ArticleKnow Your NaMo: Like ‘Father', like ‘Son' ?
Not very many people—living outside Gujarat—know that Narendra Modi, the Parivar's‘PM in waiting', also happens to be a ‘passionate writer, poet and a lover of culture.' and how ‘[d]espite his busy, .....
View ArticleLast Opportunity for Indian Communists
by Daya Varma, Vinod MubayiThe 2014 parliamentary elections are more critical for the future of India than any other in the past. A victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Narendra Modi, would...
View ArticleFootfalls of Fascism?
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKThe contours of the rift within the BJP are becoming clear. It is not a mere Advani versus Modi or an ‘old-versus-new' battle but has an ideological edge, too, which needs to be taken...
View ArticleDanger Signal from Bombay
From N.C.'s WritingsThe time has come when we have to seriously ask ourselves if we are really serious about preserving in one piece this Republic of India. Many in our country think that to talk about...
View ArticleCrucial Questions for Left Forces
The Left forces and activists need to engage constantly with what kind of alternatives they want to create in place of the existing system of capitalism based on exploitation, injustice and alienation...
View ArticleTowards Lok Sabha Elections 2014: Politics, Parties in West Bengal
by Pratip ChattopadhyayIn Indian politics one of the most happening States at present is West Bengal for its own logic of politics, change and populism. While practical politics of different genres...
View ArticleNo Paradigm Shift in Sixteenth Lok Sabha Elections
by Abhijit GhoshI intend to argue here that whichever political party or alliance comes to power in the sixteenthLok Sabha elections, there is no possibility of a paradigm shift in Indian politics. But...
View ArticleCivil Society
I have lately realised that we should be no political party's vote-bank. This is as bad as ballot-rigging. In order to come to power allexisting parties take recourse to ballot-rigging. Ballot-rigging...
View ArticleWhy Women Should Not Vote for Modi
by Pallavi BorgohainThe essay discusses the reasons behind why women would vote for Modi as an alternative in this election and then also seeks to give reasons as to why it is not advisable for them to...
View ArticlePolitical Overreach by Election Commission / Reserve Bank Governor
All parties have broadly agreed on various aspects of the model code worked out by the Election Commission for a certain period before the elections. It has worked quite satisfactorily. Fortunately the...
View ArticleA Brief History of Workers' / TU Movement, Red Flag and May Day
The following article is being published on the occasion of May Day.The modern working class is the product of the industrial revolution beginning with mid-18th century. But we can find workers'...
View ArticleRemembering Sunil (1960-2014), Socialist Leader and Writer
COMMUNICATIONSunil, the National General Secretary of the Samajvadi Jan Parishad and editor of Samayik Varta, breathed his last at New Delhi's AIIMS hospital on April 21. Sunil will be remembered for...
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