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Mythily Sivaraman Was A Model Human Rights Activist And Trade Union Worker
By R. Vaigai “Freedom is indivisible. There is no question of freedom for one and none for the other. We have to stand united for complete freedom,” said Mythily Sivaraman, a Marxist, trade unionist, and women’s rights activist, who left us on May 30, 2021. Comrade Mythily, a friend,...
If Modi’s Wishes Had Wings, Things Would Have Been Different
By K Raveendran The Allahabad High Court had said that the state of affairs regarding treatment and management of Covid cases in Uttar Pradesh could only be considered ‘Ram Bharose’. The government quickly moved the Supreme Court against the observation. The apex court obliged, asking high courts to desist...
My Days With Alapan Bandyopadhyay, New Chief Adviser To Mamata
By Nitya Chakraborty Alapan Bandyopadhyay is in the eye of the storm raging between the Centre and the State of West Bengal. The gentleman bureaucrat has been hogging national headlines after the Modi-led Union government ordered his transfer on the night of May 28 following the PMO charge that...
Bengal BJP In Swoop As Centre Takes On Alapan Bandyopadhyay
By Arun Srivastava Unable to take Mamata Banerjee head on, Narendra Modi is resorting to tactics of attacking her from behind. This is certainly not the characteristic of a warrior, as fighter as Modi is being projected by his supporters and party colleagues. The show cause notice to Alapan...
Minority Scholarship Order: Kerala Govt Caught In A Cleft Stick
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala High Court’s verdict which quashed the 80:20 ratio in granting scholarship to minorities has put the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in a tight spot. The Government had granted 80 per cent scholarships to the Muslim community and 20 per cent to Latin...
No Takers For Post Of 4,900 Doctors In Covid-Hit Madhya Pradesh
By Kashif Kakvi The devastating second wave of COVID-19 and warnings about a third wave on the horizon may made the Madhya Pradesh government keep oxygen, ventilators and beds ready, but is any attention being paid to the biggest gaping hole that the state’s health system may be left...
Christopher Thorpe Explored The Anthropology Of Western Ghats Region
By Harihar Swarup Christopher Thorpe, 65, first toured the entire length of the Western Ghats as a 20-year-old backpacker, travelling by bus and train right down to Rameswaram, completely enchanted by the beauty of landscape. However, it was only in 2008 that he started looking at the ancient land...
Biden Needs To Change His Approach To President Maduro Of Venezuela
By Tim Young Donald Trump’s approach to Venezuela proved to be singularly unsuccessful. As president he ratcheted up sanctions against Venezuela’s elected government in an attempt to bring about “regime change.” Over Trump’s time in office, sanctions against Venezuela were widened and intensified into a blockade of its commercial...
Centre-Bengal Tussle Is Hurting The Very Concept Of Cooperative Federalism
By Kalyani Shankar If West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee does not leave any opportunity to settle political scores with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, nor does the Centre (BJP) with Banerjee. Last week, to show her annoyance, she opted out of the meeting to review the cyclone havoc in...
Narendra Modi Is Determined To Teach Mamata Banerjee “A Lesson”
By Nitya Chakraborty The confrontation between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the West Bengal Chief Minister has now reached a critical level posing questions about the very future of our federal system guaranteed by the Indian constitution. The letter by the centre sent on Monday evening to Alapan...
Bengal’s Proposal For A Legislative Council Evades Crucial Questions
By Sagarneel Sinha After coming back to power for the third consecutive time, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has once again reignited an old debate in the state. The debate is about the efficiency of a bicameral house in a state. Back in 2011, when Mamata first came to power,...
Only Full Vaccination Of The Entire Population Can Beat The Virus
By Sushil Kutty The United States, says the tribe of anti-vaxers, is past the “incentives phase” of the “vaccination escalation hierarchy’. The incentives phase follows the “voluntary phase” and precedes the “punishment phase”. India remains stuck in the “voluntary phase”, where vaccination is pushed by legacy media, Social Media...
Many American Investors Want To Relocate Facilities From China To India
By Subrata Majumder American investors splurge investment in India in 2020, despite COVID 19 battered the economy. India’s GDP recorded big decline in 2020 but US investment in India surged by over 297 per cent in 2020 (up from US $ 3.6 billion in 2019 to US $ 14.3...
Many Lessons To Learn From Recent General Elections Held In Vietnam
By Amiad Horowitz We Americans are used to the never-ending and increasingly costly cycle of U.S. electoral campaigns. Theoretically, elections are supposed to happen once every two to six years depending on the office and, one would think, campaigns for those elections would coincide with the election schedule. The...
CPI(M) Leader Mythily Sivaraman Passes Away In Chennai On Sunday
By Satyaki Chakraborty Mythily Sivaraman, veteran Marxist leader, a champion of workers and women’s rights and a formidable name and popular political leader from Tamil Nadu, passed away in Chennai on Sunday. She was 84 and is survived by her husband and daughter. Sivaraman, a leading member of the...
India’s Investor Friendly Image Gathers Momentum
By Nantoo Banerjee It remains a big mystery over the last seven years of the BJP rule as to why the government continues to defend an indefensible law, allowing retrospective tax demand on companies, enacted in 2012 by the previous United Progressive Alliance regime. The law was a brainchild...
BJP Is Getting Nervous About Poll Prospects In Uttar Pradesh
By Amulya Ganguli The BJP’s opponents had easily outrun the saffron party in the last round of assembly elections, winning in three – West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu – of the four states. Even in the fourth, Assam, they performed well enough in terms of vote share if...
Narendra Modi Trampling The Bengali Sub-Nationality Sensibilities
By Arun Srivastava Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was absolutely right in his avowal that second wave of corona which consumed lakhs of innocent people happened because of Narendra Modi failing to perform his moral responsibilities. No incident could illustrate Narendra Modi’s incompetent handling of the pandemic in a more...
