Bharat Mata ki Jai
by P.C. JainIt has been a special characteristic of the BJP that it has been surviving and seeking power through the catch phrases or slogans on which they become fetish and aggressive from time to...
View ArticleThe Kohinoor Story
A party which expects everyone to wear nationalism on one's sleeves made the most anti-national statement. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said that the Kohinoor diamond was “offered” by Dalip Singh,...
View ArticleReflections on Consent
“[W]hen we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the ‘division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human...
View ArticleOn Politics in West Bengal
West Bengal is witnessing Assembly elections in a novel perspective. The CPI-M-Congress alliance is the main contender of the TMC in the present elections. Rather than making a critique of their past...
View ArticleCPM in West Bengal: A Moment of Truth
From N.C.'s WritingsNow that elections to the West Bengal State Assembly are in full swing, it is a ‘moment of truth' for the present ruling party there, the Trinamul Congress, led by CM Mamata...
View ArticleReport of Fact Finding Team of Editors Guild of India on Attacks on Media in...
DOCUMENTThe Team: 1. Prakash Dubey, General Secretary2. Seema Chishti, Executive Committee Member3. Vinod Verma, Executive Committee MemberPlaces of Travel:Jagdalpur, Bastar and Raipur.Dates of Travel:...
View ArticleClimate Change and Workers / Push for Labour Law Reforms—Intelligent Market...
May 1 is the International Workers' Day. The following two articles are being published on that occasion.Climate Change and Workersby Bharat DograIt is now well known that life in the near future can...
View ArticleBrightening Prospects of Indo-Russian Cooperation in Oil and Gas
by Hasan HamidullahMoscow is seeking to decrease the dependence of its oil and gas industry on the West and for that purpose Russian energy companies are in search of new reliable partners and...
View ArticleBengal Polls, Uttarakhand, Chopper Deal
EDITORIALThe fifth phase of the West Bengal State Assembly elections is taking place day after tomorrow, that is, on Saturday, April 30, and the campaign for that phase of polling has come to an end...
View ArticleA Savage Civilisation
May 9, 2016 marks the seventy-first anniversary of Victory over Fascism; and on May 8 falls the one hundred and fifty-fifth birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. As our homage to Gurudev on this...
View ArticleDUTA demands Revocation of Suspension of Dr G.N. Saibaba
The Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) Executive, in its meeting held on April 27, 2016, discussed the matter of Dr G.N. Saibaba, Associate Professor, RLA College. The DUTA Executive condemns...
View ArticleNeed For Legal Justice
by Bhat Rasif Manzoor and Mohammad Yousuf DarLegal justice looks utopian, rather invisible, in societies with big chunks of poor and illiterate population unless the government and its flawless...
View ArticleLibya's Four Governments
The Western governments and NATO members are now regretting the war they had launched on oil-rich Libya, where the situation is becoming uncontrollable, because its warring governments are not willing...
View ArticleKarl Marx's Discovery of Fictitious Capital
May 5 this year marks Karl Marx's 198th birth anniversary. On that occasion we are carrying the following article.Karl Marx made great discoveries regarding fictitious capital and the money form of...
View ArticleAre Not Flyovers a Menace to the People? - The Case of Kolkata Flyover Collapse
by Debarati SarkarDevelopment is incomplete without expansion of the physical infrastructure of any country. India has re-emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In India, the...
View ArticleFree Speech's Relation to Objective Contribution to Public Sphere or Social...
BOOK REVIEWby Aejaz AhmadOffend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution by Gautam Bhatia; Oxford University Press; 2016; pages: 347 (Hardcover); Price: 750.Gautam Bhatia's magnum...
View ArticleWater and Spirituality
by Ishrat JahanIntroductionThe planet earth is endowed with a number of marvellous natural forces and natural resources as well. Each of these forces has a specific role. Of these forces water, wind,...
View ArticleWater, water everywhere, but . . .
Our real problem is population, I told this to an American Nobel Prize winner. He contradicted me and said: “Your problem is going to be water.” We were discussing the ordeals that India would face in...
View ArticleRemembering Rabindranath Tagore on his 155th Birth Anniversary
Today we are facing a frenzied furore on issues such as nationalism and patriotism artificially manufactured by the ruling dispensation which has created a vicious ambience whipping up divisiveness...
View ArticleRabindranath on Environment
by Jayanta Kumar GhosalThe fierce aggression of consumerism is causing huge damage to ecology and environ-ment. The concern for protecting them has also gained momentum these days. Unrestricted misuse...
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