by Anamitra Roychowdhury
The clear continuity in economic policies between the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government is discernible to any observer of the Indian economy. Finance (...)
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Will the Recent Changes in Labour Laws usher in ‘Acche Din’ for the Working Class?
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Tribute to Tahira Mazhar Ali
12 April 2015Pioneer of the Pakistani progressive women’s movement and noted Leftist leader Tahira Mazhar Ali passed away in Lahore on March 23, 2015. The editorial in The News International (March 25, 2015) observed: “Daughter of Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, (...) -
The Women Prisoners sang Bulleh Shah
12 April 2015by Jawed Naqvi
“BY then, I had befriended all the women from the so-called criminal cell,” Tahira Mazhar Ali smiled, her tone toggling between impishness and conspiracy. She was sharing with me one of her many unrecorded stories about the ups and (...) -
Acquitted for Lack of Evidence
12 April 2015, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
For those survivors who had been witness to the May 1987 massacre at Meerut’s Hashim-pura locality—where 42 innocent Muslim men were picked up from near a mosque and shot dead in cold blood by the Uttar Pradesh PAC cops—these 28 years have (...) -
Tribute to Daya Varma
12 April 2015Dr Daya Varma, life-long communist, scientist, activist, dreamer, pharmacologist, professor emeritus at McGill University, Montreal, passed away on March 22, 2015 in St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. He was born on August 23, 1929. A former (...) -
Uzbek Presidential Poll: Islam Karimov, the Unchallenged Leader of Uzbekistan
12 April 2015by R.G. Gidadhubli
During the last over two decades since the Soviet break-up, having given up 70 years of communist ideology and adopting the Western system of political democracy and market economy, all the 15 sovereign and independent states (...) -
Ever More Gas
12 April 2015, by Mukul DubeWe are to believe that the ass is actually a horse because Modi and his people choose to call it that.
In the months since Narendra Damodardas Modi campaigned for the general election and then became the Prime Minister, there has been a barrage (...) -
Where Are We Heading?
5 April 2015, by SCEDITORIAL
While the Aam Aadmi Party’s squabbles have snowballed with the summary expulsion of two of its founder-members—Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan—and some other leading figures in the party, like Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha, also meeting a (...) -
Modi Government builds Tempo for National Law Banning Conversions to Christianity
5 April 2015, by John DayalThe Indian Government sees an absolute ban on conversions to Christianity as the only way they can control Hindu religious nationalist elements from attacking nuns, clergy and churches, big and small, from the forests of Central India to the (...) -
Free Trade Faults: Europeans Fear Wave of Litigation from US Firms
5 April 2015by Christoph Pauly
With broad public resistance and a Euro-pean Parliament majority against it, EU officials are rethinking their positions on the proposed free-trade agreement with Washington. Many fear investor protection rules will wreak (...)
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