2025

• Privatization of Vizag Steel Plant | Soma Marla
  4 January, by Soma S. Marla
  The UK based steel multinational ArcelorMittal, has found favour with both Union and Andhra Pradesh (AP) state governments to establish a steel factory, located hardly a few miles away from the public sector Visakhapatnam steel plant (RINL).  (...)
• Challenges To Democracy In India: Insights of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar | Avatthi Ramaiah
  4 January
  Living in a democracy seems to be a dream of every one world over. But keeping democracy a democracy has been of a greater challenge today than ever before. In India, the challenges to democracy are increasing both in terms of number and  (...)
• Liberal democracy shrinks in India, Turkey and the US | Rahul Mukherji, Berk Esen
  4 January
  December 23, 2024
  Autocratisation has no relationship with the per capita income of a country. Political ideas matter
  The elections in India, Turkey and the US in 2024 point to the rapidly shrinking liberal political space in democracies.  (...)
• Unpacking the negative role played by communal forces during the Hindu Code Bill episode of 1940s-50s | Bhavuk
  4 January
  The recent fracas in the Parliament over the remarks made by Home Minister Amit Shah, on Nehru’s reaction to Ambedkar’s resignation over the Hindu code bill has sparked a debate in the public sphere. However, the entire issue remains shrouded in  (...)
• The changing face of employment in the 21st century | Upal Chakraborty
  4 January, by Upal Chakraborty
  There are developments in the global economy where established, time-tested models are going for a toss and right inside the heart of global capitalism – USA. Once upon a time, the Phillips curve was seemingly self-evident for students of  (...)
• Who killed Judge Loya? | Suresh Khairnar
  4 January, by Suresh Khairnar
  Perhaps in my reading list of books, this will have to be included in the most surprising book of the year 2024. That is why in the state level program of West Bengal NAPM, when I was specially asked to speak as the keynote speaker, I first  (...)
• Are You Dreaming Of A White Christmas? | Sagari Chhabra
  4 January, by Sagari Chhabra
  Are you dreaming of a white Christmas; the singing of carols and the Christmas tree, draped in mistletoe with gifts strung in golden filigree?
  Are you dreaming of a white Christmas; yonder, children lie listless, with vacant eyes, wondering what  (...)
• Interlinking Rivers: The story from scratch | S.G.Vombatkere
  4 January, by S G Vombatkere
  The interlinking of rivers (ILR) is ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating, and socially disruptive. Here’s why ILR needs to be scrapped, and integrated water resource management of river basins  (...)
• Municipal Socialism | Petr Kropotkin
  4 January
  (The essay below by Petr Kropotkin first appeared in Freedom 172, December 1902)
  In the early beginnings of Freedom, some sixteen years ago, there was in our paper an article, entitled ‘Local Action’, which attracted at that time a good deal of  (...)
• IMSD opposes calls for a ban on Satanic Verses
  4 January
  December 30, 2024
  Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) does not support the call by certain Muslim organisations for a re-ban on Salman Rushdie’s book Satanic Verses.
  Press statement:
  IMSD calls upon Muslims to recall the views expressed  (...)

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