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Hundred Years On: How the Russian Revolution inspired India
26 November 2017, by Nandita HaksarA hundred years ago, American journalist John Reed witnessed the momentous events of 1917 in Russia, when Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik Party, backed by soldiers and working-class people, seized power to end centuries of Czarist rule in Russia. (...) -
Socialism is the Future: Build it Now
26 November 2017by Jaya Mehta
The year 2017 is the centenary year of the Great October Revolution. An armed insurrection by ordinary men and women—workers, peasants and soldiers succeeded in setting up a workers’ state in a country torn apart by military defeat (...) -
Putin’s Russia: Revolution, What Revolution?
26 November 2017by Anastasia Edel
Imagine France cancelling Bastille Day. Or America demoting the Fourth of July and celebrating British monarchs instead. That sounds fantastical, even in our “post-truth” West. Yet in Russia, this is how Vladimir Putin is trying (...) -
Lights of Moscow
26 November 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The following words were written 54 years ago, in November 1963. One may find these words somewhat alien against the present backdrop. Yet their significance will never fade from the pages of history, especially when we are (...) -
Russian Revolution and India - IV
26 November 2017by Shaukat Usmani
It was late in December that the Indian students of the India Military School at Tashkent decided to send this writer and Abdul Majid to Moscow for theoretical training. And Abdul Qadir Sehrai who was neither in our first batch (...) -
A Blow to Rural Justice Mechanism
26 November 2017by Mahi Pal
Nyaya Panchayats (NPs) have been an integral part of the rural local government system of Uttar Pradesh. The NPs came into being in the State as per the UP Village Panchayat Act, 1920. Their jurisdiction was limited to civil claims (...) -
The Great Wipe-Out
26 November 2017, by Badri RainaThis was the day the wand was waived
And Currency turned to paper;
When was the last the world had seen
So heroic a caper?
This was the day when beggars were beggared,
And taught selfless discipline;
They died in lines for their own dues,
So the (...) -
Grave Situation
19 November 2017, by SCEDITORIAL
Several major developments having a bearing on our national life have lately hit the headlines. One is the pollution crisis in the Capital which is affecting the people at large. The interventions from the National Green Tribunal in (...) -
India’s Contradictory Stances on Rohingya Refugees
19 November 2017by Kadayam Subramanian
During his visit to Myanmar in early September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed support for the Myanmar regime’s fight against “extremist violence” perpetrated by the Rohingya rebels but failed to mention the (...) -
Indian Struggles in 1917: On the Eve of the Russian Revolution
19 November 2017, by Anil NauriyaSeldom in history do things happen suddenly; they are often years in the making.
It is known that during his South Africa years Mahatma Gandhi had corresponded with Leo Tolstoy, described by Lenin in 1908 as the mirror of the Russian Revolution. (...)
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