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Widespread Violence in Panchayat Polls in West Bengal
20 May 2018, by Barun Das GuptaPanchayat elections were held in West Bengal on May 14. The polls saw widespread violence and hooliganism which has took a toll of over two dozen lives. The victims belonged to all the political parties—Trinamul Congress, CPI-M, Congress, BJP and (...) -
Marx and Marxism / Journey beyond Marx
20 May 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
In the light of the ongoing debate on Marx and Marxism that the bicentenary of Karl Marx’s birth (May 5, 1818) has generated, we are reproducing two articles by N.C. on Marx, Marxism and the Indian communist movement in the (...) -
Relevance of Marxism in Contemporary World
20 May 2018, by Suravaram Sudhakar ReddyKarl Marx was an eminent philosopher, renowned economist, historian, journalist, political ideologue, revolutionary socialist, great intellectual and multilingual expert. Karl Marx obtained a law degree and simultaneously studied Hegelian (...) -
Jinnah’s Importance
20 May 2018, by Kuldip NayarThe Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is not just a place of learning. It was in the forefront of a movement for the demand of Pakistan and still leans towards what is considered beneficial to the millat. A photo of Mohammad Ali Jinnah on the wall (...) -
Indian Tradition — as Tagore Realised
20 May 2018Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s 157th birth anniversary fell last week, on May 9, 2018. The following article is being published as a tribute to his memory now that India is under attack from the Hindutvavadis in power.
by Jayanta Kumar Ghosal
A (...) -
Towards an Understanding of Martyrdom in Kashmir
20 May 2018, by Arup Kumar SenOn January 14, 2011, the Supreme Court sought answers from the Union and Andhra Pradesh governments regarding the “encounter” killings of the Maoist leader, Azad, and a journalist, Hemchandra Pandey, in July 2010. The two-judge Bench of the (...) -
Wuhan Meeting: Tryst of Compulsion under the veil of Amicable Summit
20 May 2018by Gouri Sankar Nag
Backdrop
Exactly after 242 days since the Doklam imbroglio petered away unexpectedly on and from August 28, 2017, Modi and Xi Jinping met at central China’s Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, for an informal one-on-one (...) -
Kashmir: Old Political Chimera is Social Again
20 May 2018by Navneet Sharma and Showkat Ahmad Mir
Don’t see J&K as a conflict state and a political issue, it is a society which has social issues right now. — Haseeb Drabu
(the) deep sense of victimhood prevalent in the Kashmir Valley. It surely (...) -
RSS Unmasked: Insider’s Account of Sangh’s Activities
20 May 2018BOOK REVIEW
by T. Navin
Cellars of the Inferno: Confessions of an RSS Pracharak by Sudheesh Minni; Publisher: Chintha Publications; pages: 122.
The RSS has been critiqued for long for its divisive and fascist ideology. Its role in spreading (...) -
Social Capital and Empowerment of Bahujan Bharat — Role of Agency
20 May 2018by Mahi Pal
Introduction
The author is neither a historian nor a scholar of Bahujan which encompasses all forces except the Brahaminical Social Order (BSO). However, as a keen student of social development he has relations with various people of (...)
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