Struggle at JNU Till Now and Prospects Ahead
by Vikas BajpaiThe StruggleWhen we at JNU embarked on our struggle against the slanderous and repressive onslaught that has been unleashed on the Jawaharlal Nehru University, we did so with our backs...
View ArticleWould Bhagat Singh have raised the Slogan ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai' ?
by Sandeep Pandey and Rahul PandeyAs we know, the great revolutionary Bhagat Singh was an atheist. He wrote a famous article ‘Why I am an Atheist?' Even after he knew that he was going to be hanged by...
View ArticleIs Hindu Society Changing?
Something extraordinary and adorable happened to the Hindus, who number 80 per cent in India. Breaking the 400-year-old tradition, widows at Vrindavan, about 110 kilometres from Delhi, celebrated the...
View ArticleGetting One's Priorities Right
by N.V.K. MurthyThe following was written by the author sometime ago but could not be used earlier due to space constraints. It is now being published as its contents have not been fully overtaken by...
View ArticleOverriding Task at Present Juncture
EDITORIALAs the campaign for the elections to the State Assemblies of Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry hots up with the BJP making a desperate bid for power in Assam banking on the...
View ArticleWhy Land Reforms Remain Important
COMMUNICATIONAt a time when the government is increa-singly marginalising the most important develop-ment issue of land reforms, people's movements and all pro-poor forces and scholars should come...
View ArticleGandhi and the Rising Tide of Fascism
COMMUNICATIONSumanta Banerjee's piece, “Recalling Gandhi in Narendra Modi's India”(Mainstream, March 25, 2016), underlines the fact that the dead old man has not, after all, outlived his utility. Even...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Does Rajapakse smell an Opportunity?
‘Yahapalana' is a term that has been much in use in Sri Lanka's political discourse ever since the present government came to power early last year. ‘Yahapalana' is a Sinhala word, and means ‘good...
View Articlef Donald Trump is America's Most Dangerous Man, History is poised for some...
IMPRESSIONSImagine Praveen Togadia becoming the Prime Minister of India. Or Vijay Mallya. That is the kind of scenario that is developing in the US with Donald Trump's apparently unstoppable race to...
View ArticleHonouring Ambedkar
From N.C.'s WritingsApril 14 this year marks the 125th birth anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. On this occasion we are reproducing the following piece by N.C. to offer our sincere...
View ArticleGoodbye, Sushil Koirala
TRIBUTEThe is a tribute to the late Prime Minister of Nepal, Sushil Koirala (August 12, 1939-February 9, 2016), by someone who was a close friend and knew him intimately since his days of exile in...
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Political Economy of Farmers' Suicide A Case of Western Odisha
by Pradip Kumar Nath and Hemprabha Chauhan“Kadaleepali farmer's suicide still shrouded in mystery”—drew attention of many and revealed the nexus of agrarian crisis, poor governance, assurance of job...
View ArticleMyanmar on Move....: Love-hate Relationship and a Marriage of Convenience!
by Sonu TrivediHaving undergone transition from authoritarianism to democracy in 2010, Myanmar's ‘disciplined' democracy is on move since the first free and fair democratic elections in 2015 held after...
View ArticleRSS Experimenting with the Philosophy of Creation of Hindu Rashtra
by Arun SrivastavaA saffron conspiracy has been hatched to divide the country into two segments: the nationals and the anti-nationals. The RSS has been forcibly thrusting its design in the garb of...
View ArticleAre Universities Under Ideological Attack?
Is there a concerted effort by the Sangh Parivar to infiltrate into the realm of higher education in the name of nationalism, culture and indigenous knowledge? In the nineteenth and twentieth...
View ArticleShame on You!
by K. Narayana“I feel ashamed of you now, after all these years of admiration. What is your status and what is Kanhaiya's level? Why did you go to the airport to receive him?”—complains a well- wisher...
View ArticleRandhir Singh: A Life Dedicated to Keeping Alive the Idea of Socialism
TRIBUTEProf Randhir Singh, a well-known Marxist activist-intellectual who used to be a teacher at the Department of Political Science in Delhi University, passed away at the age of 94 on January 31,...
View ArticleCelebrating a People's Historian in Terrible Times
MUSINGSOn Monday, March 28, the Jawaharlal Nehru University's Centre for Historical Studies hosted a day-long convention—Jashn-e-Azaadi: Remem-bering Bipan Chandra... celebrating the people's...
View ArticleThe Kolkata Flyover Collapse: Some Questions
Till the afternoon of Thursday, March 31, the Hyderabad-based construction firm Iragava-puru Venkata Reddy Construction Ltd., better known by its initials IVRCL, was not a very high-profile company....
View ArticleSC Decision to Release Saibaba on Bail
The Committee for the Defence and Release of Dr G.N. Saibaba wholeheartedly welcomes the decision of the Supreme Court of India to release Dr G.N. Saibaba on bail forthwith. This is indeed a...
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