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Indian Right Is Determined To Give Wrong Lessons Of Country’s History
By Krishna Jha We are passing through a phase where present stands on a distorted historicity, with shifts, and leaves the world as it never has been, or at least efforts are made in that direction. When Faiz Ahmad Faiz is removed from the course of the tenth standard,...
It Is Time For Our Courts To Be Freed Of Elitist Tendencies
By K Raveendran It is not a clamour yet, but there is growing awareness about the need for the judiciary to shed its elitist character. As both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Supreme Court chief justice NV Ramana pointed out last week at the joint conference of chief ministers...
Remembering Karl Marx And His Teachings On His 204th Birth Anniversary
By Dipankar Bhattacharya Constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair… (what) we have to accomplish at present (is) ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense...
Press Freedom In India Facing Unprecedented Crisis Since 2014
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Press freedom in India is in crisis though there are over one lakh newspapers including 36,000 weeklies and 380 TV news channels. Such an abundance of outlets conceals tendencies toward the concentration of ownership while media in politically partitioned, journalists facing violence and authoritarian pressures,...
Raj’s War Against His Cousin Uddhav Is Leading To Turmoil In Maharashtra
By Sushil Kutty May 4, Wednesday 5 am, the loudspeakers started blaring. One began, and the other followed. The first one with the ‘azaan’, the second one with the ‘Hanuman Chalisa’. It was Raj Thackeray going ahead with the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ challenge to the Maha Vikas...
BJP Policies Are Meant To Marginalise The Muslims In Terms Of Economic Power
By Arun Srivastava Saffron Majoritarian politics has finally succeeded in achieving its mission of forcing the Muslims to withdraw from the mainstream life and go back to ruts. This is clearly manifest in the manner Muslims celebrated their greatest festival Eid this year. Diktat was issued by the BJP...
Ukraine Joins Afghanistan In Shaping Gulf Rivalries
By James M Dorsey The US withdrawal from Afghanistan was a geopolitical watershed. Its shockwaves continue to reverberate and are magnified by the wars in Ukraine and Yemen. Coupled with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the US withdrawal removed a major obstacle to Iranian projection in Central Asia and...
Jignesh Mevani Has Been A Consistent Fighter For Dalits In Gujarat
By Harihar Swarup To Nartwar Bhai Parmar, 69, son Jingesh Mevani always seemed a bit too idealistic. “He would talk about bringing about a revolution and I would like to say such revolution happened only before 1947.” He would then say, “I am ready to go to jail. In...
American Communist W. E. B. Du Bois Was The Father Of Pan-African Socialism
By Bill V. Mullen W.E. B. Du Bois is still the most famous black American Communist in US history, and the godfather of what has been called the black radical tradition. Best remembered for his remarkable work Black Reconstruction in America, he remains a vital reference point for those...
IMF Alone Can Save Sri Lanka From Financial Collapse
By Nantoo Banerjee No external credit can save Sri Lanka from its current deep financial crisis. The country is simply not in a position to repay its huge outstanding external loans — sovereign or commercial. Tourism, tea and garments export and overseas employment are among its 22.40-million strong population’s...
