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Union Cabinet Reshuffle and Its Impact on Bengal BJP | Barun Das Gupta
9 July 2021, by Barun Das GuptaThe Union Cabinet was reshuffled on Wednesday. Four new Ministers of State were inducted from West Bengal and two sitting MoS were sacked. But this time also, West Bengal did not a get a cabinet rank minister in Modi’s team, though the State had (...) -
To take on BJP in 2024, opposition needs a leader who’s proudly secular, leads without fear and enjoys a big fight | Sanjay Jha
9 July 2021by Sanjay Jha *
July 5, 2021
Is ideology going to be the final arbiter of India’s destiny in 2024? Is a country of nearly 140 crore people today hypnotised by one individual largely because they know what he stands for? That it has nothing to do (...) -
Issues in stitching together an Opposition Front to BJP | P S Jayaramu
9 July 2021, by P S Jayaramuby P. S. Jayaramu *
2nd July, 2021
There has emerged and is still emerging, plenty of writings about the need for stitching together an Opposition Front to take on the BJP behemoth in the Parliamentary elections of 2024. The need part is (...) -
Stan, now part of the Adivasi folklore of resistance - Judicial and Jail systems guilty in ’death by default’ | John Dayal
9 July 2021, by John DayalAshes to ashes, dust to dust.
Stan Swamy died a prisoner in a Mumbai hospital, was cremated after a funeral Mass, and his ashes taken to his beloved people of Jharkhand to dispersed amidst the forests and the fields. Fr Stan Swamy, the (...) -
Patriotism of those who have never been patriotic | Sukumaran C.V.
9 July 2021, by Sukumaran C.V.The oppressive laws like the Sedition Clause of the IPC which is a colonial vestige and the UAPA which is the creation of ’democratic’ India make our democracy truly autocratic. It is now an open secret that the Maharashtra police under the then (...) -
Jesuit Communist | Basu Acharya
9 July 2021by Basu Acharya*
July 7, 2021
The only time I met Father Stan Swamy was nearly four and half years back. On a lazy summer afternoon, I arrived in Ranchi, the state capital of Jharkhand, to attend a two-day seminar commemorating the hundredth (...) -
Death of Fr Swamy has thrown open many Constitutional questions in public domain that look for answers from the authorities | Arun Srivastava
9 July 2021by Arun Srivastava
Who is guilty — Father Stan Swamy or those who kept him behind bars? These are not the only two questions that need a reply from the authorities. Swamy died in the NIA custody, but he has left behind a number of questions that (...) -
Rethinking Ideology | Murzban Jal
9 July 2021by Murzban Jal*
I refuse to engage in any philosophical discussion.
V.I. Lenin, ‘To Maxim Gorky’, 1908.
The Mouse Trap and the Iron Cage of Capitalism
One of the most important questions in Marxism is the question on the theoretical nature of (...) -
Higher Education In India: Need For Internal Governance | Gull Mohammad Wani
9 July 2021’ When I give food to poor they call me a saint, when I ask them why they are poor, they call me a communist’ —Helder Camara
The university system in India as we experienced it suffers from multiple ailments. It was so before the pandemic (...) -
Dilip Kumar passes on / Prisons / Handling a Divorce Annoucement
9 July 2021, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS - 7 July 2021
Humra Quraishi
As I was about to file my this week’s column, came in the news of the passing away of the legendary film star, Dilip Kumar...nostalgia tightening its hold, taking me back to the summer of 1999, (...)
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