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By Krishna Jha Communist Party of India was formed on December 26, 1925. It has been a day that makes us remember how the suffering Indian masses were united against the forces of British imperialism. The commitment to fight to end the class divided society, to end exploitation, and...
Indian Farmers Began 2022 With Hope But Ending In Big Despair
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers in India began 2022 with great hope but are ending it with greater despair. The year started with peace after the year-long historical farmers’ movement was called off in December 2021, but a year later December 2022 witnessed re-emergence of agitations of all hues...
Trinamool Congress Faces Complexities In Its North East Poll Campaign
By Ashis Biswas As the pre-election campaign for state assembly polls in Tripura and Meghalaya warms up, new entrant Bengal-based Trinamool Congress (TMC) faces unexpected challenges. For a state-based party still chasing a ‘national’ status, the first priority for the Mamata Banerjee-led outfit is to win a respectable number...
Peru’s Pedro Castillo’s Removal And Arrest Is A Big Setback To Latin American Left
By W. T. Whitney Jr. “Pedro Castillo emerged from that deep, excluded, and marginalized Peru that has been the primordial object of nefarious consequences of treason by the elites,” according to an observer. Castillo was the first progressive candidate ever to win a presidential election in Peru. After harassing...
Three CJIs In One Year Make Consistency Quotient Anybody’s Guess
By K Raveendran Judicial academicians will do well to bring out the correlation, if any, between the tenure of Supreme Court chief justices and the quality of decisions pronounced during their respective tenures. The year 2022 would be a rich resource for any such study as it saw three...
Rahul Gandhi Is Emerging As PM Face Against Narendra Modi, Will Opposition Accept Him?
By Sushil Kutty As 2022 rolls over for 2023 the Opposition has to declare a PM-face. There is no other option for the opposition parties but to fight Narendra Modi unitedly. Consider it a fait accompli, something that has been decided, and all that remains is to make it...
2022 Has Witnessed Major Changes In Education Policy Of India After A Long Gap
By Dr. Gyan Pathak New rules are set in 2022 for an entirely new dynamics of education in India. Implementation process of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 were reviewed in a meeting in May 2022 chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi which elicited detailed plans from educations leaders for...
Bihar Will Witness Modi-Nitish Battle Of Nerves In 2023 With Lok Sabha Polls In View
By Arun Srivastava It is indeed a tough proposition to decode the political moves of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and to put in public domain. Even his close friends vouch that it is his political acumen not to allow his left hand to know what his right hand...
India Enters New Year 2023 With A Few Bright Spots And Lot Of Challenges
By K R Sudhaman The vision of founding fathers has ensured that the Indian economy developed wherewithal and resilience to weather the storm from time to time. The economy has developed unique ability to convert challenges into opportunity, be it food shortage of the 1950 and 1960s that led...
Rectification Drive Creates A Stir In Kerala CPI(M)
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala CPI(M)’s decision to undertake a massive rectification campaign has energized the party like never before. The drive, undertaken after a nine-year gap, is aimed at curbing the rise in bourgeois tendencies among the party leaders and cadres, especially after the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic...
