Report from Ajmer District: Struggle of Kishangarh Farmers Exposes Glaring...
So many senior politicians have been saying time and again that as far as possible efforts will be made to avoide acquiring fertile and irrigated farmland. Even the Prime Minister has said that fertile...
View ArticleA Savage Civilisation
May 9 this year marks not only the seventieth anniversary of Victory over Fascism but also the one hundred and fiftyfourth birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. As our homage of Gurudev on this...
View ArticleThe River of History
From N.C.'s WritingsThis week all the world over is being celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the victory over fascism. For, this was the week, thirty years ago, when the Hitler war-machine was...
View ArticleWar Poems
May 9, 2015 marks the seventieth anniversary of Victory over Fascism in the Second World War. On this occasion we carry poems by Russian poets who, like all other citizans of their country, actively...
View ArticleDeath of a Free Thinker
by Nirupam HazraEvery year, 21st February is observed as the International Mother Tongue Day since 2000. The historic significance of the day is intricately associated with the liberation movement of...
View ArticleHow Far Can the Air Force's Biases Go?
In the recent past, there have been several developments reflecting the title of this article. The first is the government‘s very close-to-formal decision-taking on a modern single piston engine...
View ArticleThe Rafale Deal: Was there an Alternative?
COMMUNICATIONTwo critical comments on the recently-concluded Indo-French deal on Rafale MMRCA have been carried by the Mainstream (April 18, 2015). One critic has said that the Rafale was designed in...
View ArticleModi Government's Budget sans Destination and Direction
by A.V.V.S.K. Rao“Striving to better,Oft we mar what's well.”—William ShakespeareFor a country like India opting for a mid-way path as against the neo-liberal path in the context of globalisation,...
View ArticleTrinamul Sweeps Civic Elections In Bengal: Glory Marred By Violence
Municipal elections were held in West Bengal on April 18 and 25. As expected and as predicted by pre-poll surveys, the ruling Trinamul Congress swept the polls, capturing seventy of the ninetytwo civic...
View ArticleAam Adami Party Today — Crisis of Success
Indian democracy is known to spring surprises at most unexpected moments since its inception. From institutionalisation of the multi-party system and parliamentary elections within a largely poor,...
View ArticleBeginning Once Again — The CPI-M has a New Struggle Ahead
In times when political parties are led by supremos for seemingly endless durations, what a welcome contrast the Communist Party of India-Marxist has provided us!Prakash Karat's being succeeded by...
View ArticleBengal Local Poll Results Don't Bode Well for the Bjp, Left
The Trinamul Congress has pulled off a massive victory in West Bengal's municipal elections by winning 71 of 92 civic bodies (up from 38 won in 2010). Its Kolkata win was even more crushing: 114 of 144...
View ArticleWiden the Circle, Broaden the Left
The Communist Party of India-Marxist has a new helmsman. Sitaram Yechury, a less forbidding man than his predecessor, carries with him the sunny goodwill of many inside and outside the Party. Many...
View ArticleLeft Perspective Today
EDITORIALBy the time these lines come out in print Sitaram Yechury would be completing three weeks in office as the General Secretary of the largest communist formation in the country, the CPI-M. In...
View ArticleOn India's Participation in SCO Summit at the Highest Level
by Michael ToddThe next summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is going to be held at Ufa, Russia on July 9-10, 2015. This will take place along with the summit of the BRICS (an...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Managing Constitutional Change
On April 28, Sri Lanka commenced a process of constituional change that has passed unnoticed by large sections of the media in this country. The significance of the enactment of the 19th Constitution...
View ArticleThe Positivity of India-Bangladesh Relations
There is a fairly large group of British investors keenly watching the situation in the wake of the Indian Parliament's passage of the Constitution (119th Amendment) Bill ratifying the India-Bangladesh...
View ArticleChallenges to Royal Legitimacy in Saudi Arabia
The Royal legitimacy in Saudi Arabia drawn from religion and rentierism is beset with a number of challenges today. To begin with religion: it is well known that Islam is deeply embedded in the...
View ArticleWho is Afraid of History?
by Murzban JalIf Hindu Raj becomes a reality then it would be the greatest menace to this country.—B.R. Ambedkar,Pakistan or Partition of IndiaThe ideologues of the RSS are openly flexing their fascist...
View ArticleNepal: Indian Media: Cause for Embarrassment
The self-respecting people of Nepal need to be congratulated for compelling the jingoist brahmanical Indian media to ponder over its follies and idiocies in reporting the painful stories of earthquake...
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