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Chinese Bonanza for Pakistan: In the Wider Interest?
2 May 2015, by Uttam SenChina’s multifaceted initiative on Pakistan has been received pragmatically by public opinion in India on the watch for what works best. Even the windfall of submarines, as long as it is not technically converted into a platform for directing a (...) -
Ten Lodestars From Xi’s Pakistan Visit
2 May 2015, by M K BhadrakumarLooking at it from any angle, the Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Pakistan has been an extraordinary event. To be sure, Pakistan experienced the “Midas touch”. Almost overnight, there is buzz that Pakistan is an overlooked reform (...) -
Why ‘May’ Day?
2 May 2015, by Anil RajimwaleThis year again, the world is celebrating the First of May as the May Day, a day of labour struggle, solidarity and festival. It would be interesting to learn why the month of May was chosen for the first all-American industrial strike in 1886, (...) -
Congress of the Future
2 May 2015, by Sitaram YechuryAt its 21st Congress, the Communist Party of India-Marxist redoubled its resolve for strengthening the Party, the class and mass organisations and unleashing powerful people’s struggles for forging the Left and Democratic Front, based on a (...) -
Yechury and the Kerala Selfie
2 May 2015by Appukuttan Vallikunnu
The election of Sitaram Yechury as the CPM’s General Secretary without a contest is significant in one aspect. It is a small beginning of that party’s rectification process. First, a victory for those who waged an (...) -
I give you the Bullet Train
2 May 2015, by Badri RainaAre you hungry, are you in pain? Come, I’ll feed you the bullet train.
Have you no roof ov’r your head? Are you directly under the rain? Come, jump into the bullet train.
Are you on foot, pursued apace By rapist, moralist, policeman’s cane? (...) -
’Opposition-mukt Bharat’ is a Dangerous Thesis. Is Yechury up to the Task of Defeating it?
2 May 2015, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Outside of religious faith-lines, can the dead be brought to life again? The principal commu-nist grouping in India, the CPI-M, was so systematically destroyed during the Prakash Karat years that it would be difficult to imagine it (...) -
Jyoti Basu’s Bombshell
2 May 2015, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Now that the CPI-M’s 21st Congress at Visakhapatnam is over and Sitaram Yechury has been elected as the new General Secretary of the party throwing the dominant party leadership’s plans in jeopardy, we once again remember (...) -
Reimagining Strategy, Returning To Grassroots : Challenges before Yechury
2 May 2015, by Praful BidwaiThe election of Sitaram Yechury as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist is noteworthy not least because the CPM, with one million members, is the world’s second largest Communist Party (after the Chinese), but also (...) -
Unprecedented Development, Stupendous Task
2 May 2015, by Barun Das GuptaSomething happened at the 21st Congress of the CPI-M at Visakhapatnam that had never happened in the party Congress of any Communist Party perhaps anywhere in the world and certainly not in India. The name suggested by the outgoing party General (...)
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