By Azim Premji
Sixteen young men were mowed down by a train. The details are still being investigated. But we do know the basic truth. Like millions of others who lost their livelihood, they were starving. So, they decided to walk a few hundred (...)
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Azim Premji: The interests of workers, businesses are deeply aligned, especially in these times of crisis
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When People Know Govts Couldn’t Care Less ....... Who Can Stop People From Walking?
17 May 2020Is it a few hours, days or maybe a week into the harshest lockdown in the world? No, it is 50 days. The tide of workers which started walking home from day one, fully sure that it would not count for govts, fully sure that sure starvation and (...) -
US leverages Delhi-Kabul nexus. But what’s in it for India?
17 May 2020, by M K BhadrakumarMay 10, 2020
The two-hour stopover in Delhi on May 7 by the US special representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, accompanied by the White House official in charge of South Asia Lisa Curtis, raises eyebrows. The Indian media reported that (...) -
Andrey Kortunov : About the Wise Monkey Who Came Down from the Mountain
17 May 2020by Andrey Kortunov
Mao Zedong once summed up his philosophy on foreign policy with the following metaphor, "a wise monkey sitting on top of the mountain to watch the two tigers fight in the valley below.” The tigers in the Great Helmsman’s (...) -
Hari Vasudevan and the Soviet Archives : A Personal Remembrance
17 May 2020, by Sobhanlal Datta GuptaIt was May, 1995, exactly 25 years ago. Hari Vasudevan (Calcutta University), Purabi Roy (Jadavpur University) and I myself (Calcutta University) were in Moscow for two months, working as a team sent by The Asiatic Society, Calcutta in (...) -
In Memoriam: The Significance of Being the Sociologist Prof. Yogendra Singh
17 May 2020by Naren Singh Rao
Prof. Yogendra Singh, one of the iconic Indian sociologists and founder of Sociology department at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, passed away on May 9. He was 87.
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Dhaval Patel, editor and owner of a Gujarati news portal, ‘Face of Nation’, booked for sedition and detained by the state police - Statement by The Editors Guild of India, May 13, 2020
17 May 2020The Editors Guild of India notes with concern a growing pattern of misuse of criminal laws to intimidate journalists in different parts of the country
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Prof Anisuzzaman: One more light goes out
17 May 2020The Business Standard (Dhaka), 14 May, 2020
by Mir Mohammad Jasim
Bangladesh has lost one of its most respected scholars, pre-eminent academic and luminary in the passing of National Professor Anisuzzaman He was one of Bangladesh’s (...) -
Starting trains with only AC coaches and Rajdhani fares reeks of elitism and is only the latest example of the government’s discriminatory attitude
17 May 2020DOCUMENT
Socialist Party (India)
PRESS RELEASE ; 12 May 2020
The government has announced that railway services on several routes will be resumed on May 12. However, these trains will have only AC coaches, and the train fares will be equal to (...) -
The COVID Crisis Tsunami for the Poor
17 May 2020, by S G Vombatkere13.05.2020/SGV
Viruses
Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 which causes Covid-19 is just one of the more recent viruses in our environment, and it is here to stay [“One in 3 recover, time to learn to live with virus, says govt”; Deccan Herald; 09.05.2020, (...)
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