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Taming The Second Covid-19 Wave Has Just Got Tougher
By Gyan Pathak Vaccine net expansion in India’s arsenal in fighting the COVID-19 battle is certainly a wise decision of the Modi government, though taken only after a great loss of lives and livelihoods, and tremendous pressure from the people, experts, and the opposition. However, it may not prove...
Modi-Shah’s Aggressive Polarising Campaign In Bengal Has Hurt Voters
By Arun Srivastava It was a protest with a difference on Tuesday by Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee. If opposition leaders appeared at the dharna place to express their solidarity with Mamata Banerjee, Hindu religious leaders and Muslim clerics were also present. The woman general secretary of the Hindu Maha...
Britain’s Local Elections See Largest Number Of Communist Candidates
By Ben Chacko LONDON—On May 6, voters in Britain will go to the polls in local elections that will see the largest number of candidates representing the Communist Party since the early 1980s. Candidates will be campaigning in the Welsh Senedd, Scottish Parliament, and London, Assembly as well as...
Keshubhai Patel Was One Of The Tallest BJP Leaders In Gujarat
By Harihar Swarup Keshubhai Patel, awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously, was one of the tallest leaders of Gujarat. Towards the fag end of his career, he gave a fight to Narendra Modi before he (Modi) became the Chief Minister for the first time. Modi, having ruled Gujarat for 13 years,...
Ambedkar Was One Of The First In India To Discuss History Shaping Identity
By Urvi Desai The writing of history is a sea of thought that encompasses labour and mobility, gender and sexuality, the local and global. It borrows from the prior academic work and historical imagination of the writer. In many cases, the writing of history dialogues with political and social...
Centre And State Governments Have To Jointly Combat The Second Covid Wave
By Kalyani Shankar Should political parties in India play politics over Covid 19? That is what is happening on vaccines’ delivery in the past few days when a dangerous second wave is endangering to attack the country. It has resulted in a fight for more doses of vaccines between...
New CEC Sushil Chandra Must Show The Guts To Discipline Modi And Shah
By Sushil Kutty India has got a new Chief Election Commissioner. Sushil Chandra moved to the top post April 13, a Tuesday and notably ‘new year’ in the Hindu calendar. What’s striking is that in photographs, he looks like a 1960s Bollywood movie actor. One of those oily characters...
Election Commission Has Compromised Its Character In Bengal Polls
By Barun Das Gupta Amid all the heat and hype of electioneering in West Bengal, one fact stands out prominently and incontrovertibly. The Election Commission has totally failed to conduct peaceful polls in West Bengal. What happened at Sitalkuchi in North Bengal on April 10 has got nationwide publicity...
Kerala High Court Order Is A Shot In The Arm For LDF Govt
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala High Court’s order that elections to the three Rajya Sabha seats, which will fall vacant in the State on April 21, be held before the current Assembly’s term expires, has come as a big relief to the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF)...
The Left Needs New Leadership To Revive Itself In Tripura
By Sagarneel Sinha The Left politics in the country presently is in a never-ending crisis. The leadership of the Left tries to talk more about development, providing jobs to the youth and improving the social conditions of the poor. However, when it comes to votes, the Left fails to...
Preventive Detention Laws In India: A Tool For Executive Tyranny?
By Jasir Aftab In the contemporary liberal-democratic era, where the right to personal liberty is near-universally recognised as of utmost importance and courts around the world readily interfere in cases concerning its infringement, preventive detention laws need to be examined with skepticism. They are a tool for detaining individuals...
Global Imbalance In Vaccinations Threatens Fight Against Pandemic
By John Bachtell As the Biden administration orchestrates a massive effort to open vaccination against COVID to every adult by April 19, a “shocking imbalance” in vaccination is occurring globally. While governments of many wealthier capitalist countries are vaccinating their populations, vaccinations have all but stalled in the global...
Too Early To Forecast India’s GDP Growth In FY 22
By Nantoo Banerjee The sudden spurt in Covid cases across the country over the last two weeks threatens India’s prospect of an early economic recovery in the current fiscal. Only last month, several national and global institutions, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and Reserve Bank had...
BJP Preparing For Babri 2.0 By Targeting Varanasi Mosque
By Amulya Ganguli Any presumption that the construction of the Ayodhya temple marked the end of the BJP’s religion-centric politics, ensuring that the Hindus and Muslims would live happily ever after, was a foolhardy one. The BJP has made so much headway by its pursuit of a Hindu agenda...
Election Commission Has Failed In Protecting Security Of Bengal Voters
By Arun Srivastava The Modi government’s narrative surrounding Sitalkuchi police firing in which four labourers were killed has been critically exposed. The nefarious design of Vivek Dube, the special police observer to put the blame on the local people lies shattered. In his report Dubey a known supporter of...
Conservative Banker Guillermo Lasso Wins Ecuadorian Presidential Elections
By Nitya Chakraborty The Left movement in Latin America got a big jolt on Sunday as the conservative banker Guillermo Lasso won the presidential elections in Ecuador in the run off by defeating the Left leaning candidate Andres Arauz who was much ahead in the opinion poll till the...
Dwindling Prospects For Indian Labour Working Abroad
By Gyan Pathak Internationally migrated people are among the most vulnerable groups to suffer disproportionally from COVID-19 pandemic. Due to repeated wave of infections destination countries and their people are hardening their policies and opinions about accepting the migrants. India is to greatly suffer in the present scenario posing...
Political Economy Of Covid-19 Vaccine Shortages In India
By Ravi Duggal As India enters the third phase of its ambitious COVID-19 vaccination drive, many state governments are reporting vaccine shortages and are having to close down some of their vaccination centres, with supplies available for only 2 or 3 days. Most of these states are non-Bharatiya Janta...
