by Rohit Kumar*
THE IMPORTANCE OF movements and protests for the good health of a democracy is inevitable, keeping in view that these consolidate new political consciousness and help to spread and form new political cultures. However, after (...)
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Paradoxes of Public Policy and Protest Politics under BJP Rule | Rohit Kumar
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Playing with Public Perception: Opposition and the Public Enquiry | Shilp Shikha Singh
29 October 2022Public perception plays a crucial role in today’s politics. While inclusivity of such public remains questionable it nonetheless creates a perception of common will. While BJP has mastered the art of creating perception through its meta (...) -
Where did India’s millions of working women go? | Rajendra P. Mamgain
29 October 2022by Rajendra P. Mamgain *
Nearly 40 million women have left the workforce in India since the turn of the millennium despite an economic boom. Now, there’s a window to reverse the trend.
Since the turn of the millennium, women have been leaving the (...) -
No Images of Gods on Indian Currency Notes - Letter to the Editor
29 October 2022October 27, 2022
The Editor,
We strongly protest against any move to emboss Indian currency notes with the images of Goddess Laxmi and God Ganesh. It is a conspiracy to give Gandhi the Divine status and manufacture a new Trimurti.
It is a move (...) -
Baji Rout, the Light of India’s Liberty | Kamalakanta Roul
29 October 2022by Kamalakanta Roul
Introduction: Achieving Swaraj by Indian Masses
The paper examines the role and contribution of India’s youngest martyr Baji Rout who was just twelve years old when he laid down his life for the freedom of our country. He (...) -
What Bandobast on Dengue? / Habib Jalib / Pran Nevile | Humra Quraishi
29 October 2022, by Humra Quraishi26 October 2022
With Dengue cases on the rise, one’s been sitting wondering: where are all the development machinery and gadgets and the much promised bandobast to keep mosquitoes away from us.
Today it gets easier for the State machinery to (...) -
Bolshevism, Metaphysics and Fascism. A Note On The Left’s Debacle In India | Murzban Jal
29 October 2022by Murzban Jal
In the first place I do not know the meaning of Bolshevism.—M.K. Gandhi, ‘Bolshevism and Discipline’, in Young India, 21 August, 1924.
Writing in 1924 M.N. Roy then in the flush of revolutionary zeal said in an article ‘Mahatamaji (...) -
Lessons from Sri Lanka’s cascading, multiple crises | Pragya Narang
29 October 2022by Pragya Narang
October 20, 2022: The world watched the economic crisis in Sri Lanka turn into a political one during four months of massive sustained public protests called the Janatha Aragalaya that mushroomed all over Colombo from March to (...) -
Russia: How War and Mobilization have Affected the Lives of Industrial Workers | Azamat Ismailov
29 October 2022by Azamat Ismailov *
October 19, 2022
The first piece in the Labor Rights series gives an overview of the car industry
Ten years ago, Igor Kholmanskikh, shop foreman at the tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod, promised Vladimir Putin to “bring out (...) -
Mike Davis: 1946–2022 | Jon Wiener
29 October 2022A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory
by Jon Wiener
Mike Davis, author and activist, radical hero and family man, died October 25 after a long struggle with esophageal cancer; he was 76. He’s best known for (...)
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