The moral compass has no tones of grey
It is white or black
It is light or darkness
It is good or evil
It is Gandhi or Godse.
Suhas Borker
[Suhas Borker is an independent documentary filmmaker and Convener, Working Group on Alternative (...)
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Gandhi or Godse
1 June 2019, by Suhas Borker -
Let not Truths remain Tongueless
1 June 2019, by Badri RainaAthens feared the cloutless Socrates,
Because he said what he had to say;
He drank the hemlock cheerfully,
And Athens is known by him today.
Wycliff wrote the word of god
In the English tongue;
Burnt at the stake, he is now
The English immortals (...) -
Love for Godse, Hatred for Gandhi!
1 June 2019by Binoy Viswam
The imaginary wall that the Sangh Parivar built in between the BJP and Godse has crumbled. All along these years, whenever the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi was discussed, the BJP leadership was extra-vigilant to distance (...) -
Subhas Mukhopadhyay 100
1 June 2019by Amiya Dev
I first saw Subhas Mukhopadhyay in the mid-1950s. A Peace Conference was being held at Wellington or today’s Subodh Mallik Square. I had gone to hear it. One of the speakers was
Subhas Mukhopadhyay. But I was surprised by his mode (...) -
Special Category Status for Odisha
1 June 2019by S.N. Sahu
When the State of Odisha was hit by cyclone Fani it was stated that it was the worst cyclone after the super cyclone of 1999 described as “the most powerful ever recorded in India, and one of the strongest anywhere in the world in (...) -
Floating Boat of Politics and the Skeletal Mahanadi
1 June 2019by K.C. Ratha
Abstract
The major thrust of the article is to explore how river-dependent communities around the basin are bereft of minimum living support including safe drinking water and irrigation on the one hand and the political parties are (...) -
The Continuing Relevance of Karl Marx
1 June 2019by Zahoor Ahmad Wani
Those who are awake have one common world...
—Heraclitus
... they have a world to win
—Marx and Engels
This article examines how relevant Marx’s ideas are in the contemporary neoliberal world. It is impossible in this short (...) -
Why Modi is Invincible and Disastrous
1 June 2019by Sukumaran C.V.
But the problem is no longer merely a moral or an ethical one. It is a practical and urgent problem of today, for the world is in a hopeless muddle, and some way out must be found....If we are to find a way out of this crisis (...) -
Only a few days, dear one, a few days more
1 June 2019Under oppression’s shadows condemned to breathe,
Still for a time we must bear them, and tears, and endure
What our forefathers, not our own faults, bequeath:
Fettered limbs, each impulse held on a chain,
Minds in bondage, our words all watched (...) -
Revisiting the Bilkis Bano Gang Rape Case
1 June 2019, by Arup Kumar SenOn the day Gujarat went to the Lok Sabha polls (April 23, 2019), the Supreme Court ordered the Gujarat Government to pay Rs 50 lakhs as compensation, provide a government job, and “accommodation in a place of her choice” to Bilkis Bano, who was (...)
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