by Ramaiah Bheenaveni
By committing suicide at the Hyderabad Central University, Rohith Vemula, a research scholar, has shocked the entire country and set up a political stir. An ideological person like Rohith had the potentiality to debate and (...)
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Rohith Vemula: From Shadows to the Stars
30 January 2016 -
Nothing but a State-Sponsored Murder
30 January 2016by Binoy Viswam
Rohith Vemula’s dream was to become a writer. A writer of science, like Carl Sagan! But the oppressive social realities around him did not allow that talented young research scholar of the Hyderabad Central University to realise (...) -
CPM Plenum
30 January 2016, by Amitava MukherjeeInitially the CPM Plenum in Kolkata had raised some expectations and a section of the media had even described it as the one which would provide the much needed guidance to the Left politics of the country. In the end, however, the Plenum turned (...) -
CPI-M: Kolkata Plenum and the Ideological and Political Contradictions
30 January 2016by Arun Srivastava
Addressing the valedictory session of the CPI-M’s Kolkata Plenum, party General Secretary Sitaram Yechury reiterated that the Left could offer India a “policy alternative, a better political culture which fights corruption, (...) -
Reflections on Decentralised Health Delivery System in Kerala
30 January 2016by Jos Chathukulam
The much acclaimed Kerala model of health care system (Elamon, Franke and Ekbal, 2004) had faced serious challenges in the mid-1980s and early 1990s due to the dilution of the politics of collective action and deficit in (...) -
Behind the Kaliachak Violence
30 January 2016, by Barun Das GuptaLarge-scale violence broke out at Kaliachak, a small town in Malda district of West Bengal, about twenty kms south-west of Malda town, on January 3. Several thousand Muslims (Malda is a Muslim-majority district) had gathered to protest against (...) -
Malda Violence: Secularists are Not Silent, it is just that Some have turned Deaf
30 January 2016by Ram Puniyani
The violence in Malda poses the basic question: was it a case of communal violence or was it just a criminal act, anti-social violence as some are claiming?
On January 3, a large Muslim crowd mobilised to protest against the (...) -
The Lone Wolf Phenomenon
30 January 2016, by Mohan K. TikkuA couple of years ago, the annual State of the Future report of the Millennium Project in Washington had sounded an early warning on the Lone Wolf phenomenon that has gone largely unheeded across the world. Now that the animal is getting closer (...) -
What makes the ISIS more dangerous than Al-Qaeda?
30 January 2016, by Sandeep ShastriIn his final State of the Union address, Barak Obama mentioned that the ISIS does not pose a threat to the US. This comes at a time when we have witnessed two back-to-back attacks, one in Istanbul and another one in Jakarta. Over the past six (...) -
Looking Beyond the Pathankot Attack
30 January 2016, by S G VombatkereThe Pathankot IAF base is near the border with Pakistan. A Pakistani terrorist squad entered the Air Force base in the wee hours of 2016 New Year’s Day by crossing the security wall, and hid in sarkanda grass before launching an attack on (...)
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