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After battling against death for eight days, Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Kopad breathed his last at the Army Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi this morning. The poignancy of his death becomes more acute when it is borne (...)
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One Death: Several Questions
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Perverted Logic of Powerful Corporate Interests drive the India-France Nuclear Connection
14 February 2016, by Harsh Kapoorby Harsh Kapoor
The French President was in India as the chief guest at the surreal nationalist military parade of January 26, 2016. As is the practice, he was accompanied by a high-powered delegation and many multilateral deals got signed (...) -
Sangh-BJP Atacks and Police Brutality Cannot Stop the Battle for Justice for Rohith
14 February 2016The following is the editorial in ML Update (a CPI-ML weekly newsmagazine) of February 2-8, 2016.
It is being reproduced, with due acknowledgement, for the benefit of our readers.
The institutional murder of young Dalit research scholar Rohith (...) -
In Lieu of a Bio-data
14 February 2016TRIBUTE
Renowned Professor of Political Theory at the University of Delhi and well-known Marxist thinker Prof Randhir Singh, 95, passed away in Delhi on January 31 night. He was cremated at the Lodhi Crematorium in the evening of February 1, (...) -
On the Question of Socialism Today
14 February 2016, by Randhir SinghThe following are excerpts from the conlcuding part of an address that Prof Randhir Singh delivered to the journal Itihasbodh at Allahabad on March 8, 2007. The full text of the address, entitled ‘Future of Socialism’, is available in the Monthly (...) -
Prof Randhir Singh: The Compulsive Critique
14 February 2016, by Rup Narayan DasA STUDENT’S TRIBUTE
I learnt about the passing away of Prof Randhir Singh while flipping through the newspaper, The Tribune. Not many newspapers in India reported his passing away, although there were a couple of articles in leading newspapers. (...) -
Crisis in the Social Sector
13 February 2016, by Bharat DograA crisis situation has emerged in the social sector in several parts of the country due to lack of availability of adequate financial resources.
The ‘social sector’ includes women and child development, nutrition, health, education, panchayat (...) -
A Cancer Survivor speaks in First Person
13 February 2016, by A K BiswasThis article is being published to mark to the International Cancer Day which fell on February 4.
The screeching headline of a national daily, “Not bad luck, pollutants and lifestyle cause most cancers.........†,1 urged me to look back and pen (...) -
Kalpana Dutt
13 February 2016, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The following lines were written by N.C. twentyone years ago and published in this journal’s February 18, 1995 issue. It is being reproduced on the occasion of the distinguished revolutionary Kalpana Dutt’s twentyfirst death (...) -
Decrying Afzal’s Execution is not ‘Anti-National’
13 February 2016by Mohammad Ashraf
An event at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on February 9 on Mohammad Afzal Guru, the Kashmiri young man who was executed in Delhi’s Tihar Jail precisely three years ago on February 9, 2013, found two groups of (...)