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By Harihar Swarup The last nine months have tested our collective resilience like no other period in recent human history. A virus, the size of a fraction of human hair, has ensured that countries across the world are put under varying levels of lockdown, movement of people and...
Economic Recovery Signs Are Too Fragile At The Moment
By Nitya Chakraborty The Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das’s projection about the trends in the Indian economy in the remaining four months of the current fiscal, has some sense of objectivity about the sectoral pattern of the industry’s operations but the analysis has some false sense of complacency...
Maharashtra Poll Results Give A Big Boost To Uddhav Thackeray’s Image
By Sushil Kutty It’s a fact now: The majority of graduates and teachers of Maharashtra prefer Maha Vikas Aghadi over Bharatiya Janata Party. Uddhav Thackeray over Devendra Fadnavis. Sanjay Raut over Arnab Goswami. And, Uddhav’s Shiv Sena over Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sena. Uddhav’s ‘secular Shiv Sena,’ that is,...
A Bruising Battle In Kerala For Control Of Local Bodies
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The local body elections, billed as the Semi Final is well and truly on, with the campaign shifting into top gear in the final lap. The three main contenders – the CPI-M-led Left Democratic Front (LDF), the Congress-headed United Democratic Front (UDF) and the...
‘Ballad Of An American’ Is A Graphic Biography Of Paul Robeson
By Tony Pecinovsky This has been a tumultuous year. Millions marched in the streets against police brutality and violence after the killing of George Floyd. They were tear-gassed, shot with rubber bullets and percussion grenades, and run over, among any number of other civil liberties abuses. Their demand...
Spain’s Left Is Winning The Battle For Welfare Through Budget
By Eoghan Gilmartin & Tommy Greene “This government is different because we are in it,” Spain’s deputy prime minister Pablo Iglesias told Jacobin last month. “We are the only force from our political tradition that is in the government of an EU country, indeed in the fourth-biggest euro...
Rajinikanth Is A Phenomenon In Tamil Nadu Political And Social Life
By Kalyani Shankar Come 2021, Tamil Nadu is getting ready to welcome the mega superstar Rajinikanth’s political party even as he is yet to announce its name. After many decades of playing the role of the Hamlet in real life whether to jump into politics or not,...
Lakhs Of Farmers Are Fighting For A Better Future Of The Country
By Binoy Viswam The challenges posed by those who provide food for the nation is not so simple, as the rulers think it to be. The farmers of India are waiting at the borders of the national capital for the last one week. At the moment tens of...
Special Parliament Session Is Needed To Repeal Farm Laws
By Arun Srivastava Two rounds of meetings between the agitating farmers and junior ministers deputed to talk the farmers by Narendra Modi himself have failed. The agriculture minister after today’s failed meeting announced that the third round of meeting would take place on December 5. It...
What The Second Quarter GDP Estimates Reveal
By Prabhat Patnaik It is ironic that government spokespersons should exhibit so much euphoria over the second quarter (July-September) Gross Domestic Product estimate, which shows a drop “only” of 7.5 per cent compared to second quarter 2019-20. The expectation had been that the drop would be larger,...
No End To The Continuing Woes Of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Victims
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Despite the fact that world’s biggest industrial tragedy hit Bhopal thirty six years ago there is no end to the woes of the survivors. Participants in several events held on December 2 and 3 not only recalled the shocking happenings witnessed by...
Isaac Episode In Kerala Govt Is Not A Closed Chapter
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Thomas Isaac episode is a closed chapter, says CPI(M) state acting secretary A Vijayaraghavan. It certainly is not. The issues raised by the Finance Minister are very much valid. They need to be discussed and debated in detail and not brushed under...
Priyanka Should Adopt Strategy To Strengthen Party Organisation
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Congress leaders and workers want Mrs Priyanka Gandhi to strengthen the party organisation at grass root level to face 2022 assembly polls. There is a realisation among Congress leaders that Priyanka strategy to confront with Yogi government on people’s issues has succeeded in...
Search On For Filling The Position Of Treasurer Of Congress Party
By Rahil Nora Chopra The sudden demise of Ahmed Patel has triggered speculation about who could become the permanent treasurer of the Congress. The party announced Pawan Bansal’s name as interim treasurer. The entire discourse is based on the misconception that the treasurer is supposed to raise funds...
BJP’s Hyderabad Bid Is A Challenge To Regional Parties
By Prakash Karat The BJP conducted a high-voltage campaign in the just-concluded Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) election, the results of which are awaited. Fresh from their victory in the Dubbaka assembly by-election, which they snatched from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the BJP conducted a vicious communal...
Pari Nirvan Of Dr Ambedkar And India’s Problems Today
By D Raja On December 6, 1956 Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar passed away after a brief illness. It is being observed as solemn Pari Nirvan of Dr Ambedkar. Nirvana is the process of enlightenment. Pari Nirvana or Maha Pari Nirvana is the term used to signify the day...
Workers, Farmers Fighting Together For Their Rights
By Amarjeet Kaur Despite all odds, with heavy rains and a typhoon in some states and oppressive methods of the government, the nationwide strike on November 26, 2020 was a grand success, surpassing the participation in the January 8, 2020 General Strike. The number of participants in...
BJP’s It Head Amit Malviya Branded ‘Manipulative Media’
By Sushil Kutty BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya is in the middle of a twitter storm and he cannot honourably tweet about it having been dishonourably tagged and red-flagged with the dubious honorific “manipulated media”, a reference that not even President of the United States Donald J....
