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Statement of Indian Workers’ Association, Great Britain on Current Situation in India
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How Aadhaar Neglects Personal Privacy and National Security
20 March 2016, by Sudhir VombatkereThe Aadhaar Bill, 2016
The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016 (“Aadhaar Bill”, for short) was passed in the Lok Sabha on March 11, 2016, as a money bill, a strategem clearly meant to (...) -
Ambedkar on Bhagat Singh
20 March 2016, by Anand TeltumbdeLegendary freedom fighter and martyr Bhagat Singh’s birth centenary was observed on September 28, 2007. On the occasion of the eightyfifth anniversary of his martyrdom, we are reproducing, with due acknowledgement, the following article (...) -
Bihar Assembly Election Verdict 2015
20 March 2016by Sujit Lahiry
The verdict in the Bihar Assembly elections in 2015 has some politically significant impli-cations not only for regional politics, but also for national politics. The Grand Alliance won 178 seats — out of which JD (U) got 71 (...) -
Why do budgets always squeeze the middle class? Why should Secrecy cover Budget Proposals?
20 March 2016, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Indian budgets are presented on the last day of February so that Parliament and the government will have all of March to discuss and finetune it before a new financial year begins on April 1. (Another British era tradition stipulated (...) -
Meticulous Research to Understand India’s Revolutionary History
20 March 2016, by Chaman LalBOOK REVIEW
A Revolutionary History of Interwar India—Violence, Image, Voice and Text by Kama Maclean; Hurst and Company, London; First edition: 2015; 342 pages; price not mentioned.
One would be rather surprised to know the increasing interest (...) -
An Incomplete Version
20 March 2016, by Kuldip NayarI believe that a head of state should not publish his memoirs while in office. Political parties are reluctant to criticise him because he is the constitutional head, as much theirs as that of those who elected him. Pranab Mukherjee has violated (...) -
Pushing Hazardous GM Food Crops— Reason Trampled, Trust Betrayed
20 March 2016, by Bharat DograWhile India’s first GM crop, Bt cotton, has proved to be risky and hazardous in many ways, there was at least a saving grace that the introduction of the highly hazardous GM technology was confined so far to non-food crops. But more recently (...) -
Unequal exchange system — a variant of bonded labour system
20 March 2016, by Lakshmidhar MishraArticle 19 (g) of the Constitution of India confers on every citizen of India the fundamental right to practise any profession or to carry on any occupation, trade or business. By implication, it would include the right to appropriate or (...) -
Pirates of the Realm
20 March 2016, by Badri RainaNever was a more truthful thing
Writ than “those that have
Shall get”; thus when pirate
Is let loot the realm and best
“Investigating agencies”, this
Is done in the “national interest”.
Just as recoveries of pittance
Made from farmer on edge
Of (...)
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