by Pushpa M. Bhargava
In the Catholic Church, for anyone to be canonised, the person must have performed two miracles, a miracle being an action or an effect which can be explained only by direct intervention of a divine power that can defy all (...)
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Miracles or Hoax by the Clergy?
28 March 2011 -
West Bengal: The Genocidal State under CPI-M Rule
28 March 2011, by D. BandyopadhyayTt was reported in the print media that under the CPI-M rule of the last 34 years in this State (West Bengal) 34 events of mass murder were organised either directly by the police resorting to wanton firing on the crowds consisting of Opposition (...) -
Food Deficit in Kerala: Exploring the Possibility of NREGS
28 March 2011by A.D. Manikandan
Kerala has a long history of foodgrains deficit, especially in rice. For instance, deficit in rice has increased steadily in the State from 45 per cent to 85 per cent between 1957 and 2008. However, not enough attention has (...) -
Central Budget 2011-12 in the Context of the Rural Sector
28 March 2011, by Kripa ShankarThe revenue receipt of the Union Government for 2011-12 is estimated at Rs 7.9 lakh crores and net borrowing at Rs 4.1 lakh crores. The Central Plan outlay is estimated at Rs 5.9 lakh crores. In other words, borrow funds account for 52 per cent (...) -
Coalition Politics and Good Governance
28 March 2011, by Indrajeet SinghRecently the Prime Minister said that corruption was a by-product of coalition politics. This raises the following questions: does corruption take place only under coalition politics? Was corruption absent earlier when there was dominance of the (...) -
Why the Left Matters
28 March 2011, by Prabhat PatnaikThe following article, by one of the CPI-M’s intellectual pillars, appeared in The Indian Express (March 17, 2011). We are reproducing it with due acknowledgement alongwith a reply by a noted Left-wing journalist and writer who has sent it for (...) -
CPM Abrogated the Regime of People’s Rights
28 March 2011, by Barun Das GuptaIn a recent article, eminent economist and CPI-M ideologue Prabhat Patnaik has contended that Nandigram and Singur were just “tragic episodes” that “do not represent an iota of shift on the part of the Left to any alternative, abridged, regime of (...) -
Bihar: Triumphant Truncated Area Development
28 March 2011, by J. GeorgeThe following article was written quite sometime back but could not be used earlier for unavoidable reasons. It is being published here as its contents remain valid even now.
The jury of the people in Bihar has given the verdict for truncated (...) -
The battle shall go on...
28 March 2011On March 26 this year we are observing the fortieth anniversary of the Bangladesh liberation struggle that was launched on that day in 1971 when the Pakistan Army began massive repression on the people of East Pakistan. To mark the occasion we (...) -
Japan ravaged by Disaster, UPA by Wikibomb
19 March 2011, by SCThe offshore earthquake (measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale, one of the largest ever recorded) near Japan’s eastern coast last Friday, March 11, 2011—that unleashed a ferocious tsunami slamming the coastal areas in the east, killing countless (...)
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