2021

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 20, 2021
  20 February
  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 20, 2021
  Over the past few years both prominent and little known critics of the Modi government have been targeted by the police at central and state levels in pretty visibly politically motivated cases.  (...)
• BJP Seems Nowhere Near Conquering West Bengal | Barun Das Gupta
  20 February, by Barun Das Gupta
  As these lines are being written, news is pouring in from Punjab that the BJP has been wiped out in the civic elections. It is the Congress which has made a clean sweep, even winning, for the first time in 53 years, it won the Bathinda municipal  (...)
• RSS and BJP are engaged in the fight for their survival | Arun Srivastava
  20 February
  by Arun Srivastava
  Upsurge of the kisan mahapanchayats on massive scale in Haryana, Rjasthan and Punjab and broadening the base of the farmers’ movement has not only unnerved the RSS leadership but has also sharpened the contradiction between  (...)
• Shaibal Gupta: A Life Devoted to the Service of Bihar | Muchkund Dubey
  20 February, by Muchkund Dubey
  Dr. Shaibal Gupta, recognized both nationally and internationally as an authority on understanding the roots of Bihar’s backwardness and its social and economic dynamics, passed away in Patna on 28 January 2021. He held many important positions  (...)
• Romance and reality of farming over the years | B S Chauhan
  20 February
  by B S Chauhan
  The ongoing farmers’ agitation in India is generating more heat than light. Suicides by farmers failed to get public attention. Protesting farmers are keeping the TV anchors, politicians, activists and official agencies on their  (...)
• The WEF Agenda Behind Modi Farm Reform | F. William Engdahl
  20 February

  In September 2021 the UN will hold a Food Systems Summit. The aim will be to reshape world agriculture and food production in the context of the Malthusian UN Agenda 2030 “sustainable agriculture” goals. The recent radical farm laws from the government of Narenda Modi in India are part of the same global agenda, and it’s all not good.

• Covid-19 Vaccines: Politics, Nationalism and Diplomacy | K N Ninan
  20 February
  by K N Ninan
  While commending the approval granted by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to two covid vaccines manufactured in India Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that this was a great achievement for realising ‘Atmanirbhar  (...)
• Modi Cries. India Too Can Only Cry | TJS George
  20 February, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  Our Prime Minister cried in Parliament the other day. No, his face didn’t go into contortions of grief and the body did not shake with sobbing. His was a dignified crying that could be managed with a quick flashing of the thumb under  (...)
• Karnataka Legislative Assembly: More representative, but less effective functionally | P. S. Jayaramu
  20 February
  by P. S. Jayaramu
  An attempt is made in this article to analyse two important aspects of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly( KLA), firstly, how representative it has been over the decades and secondly, how effective its functioning has been.  (...)
• Jata Shankar Jha (1926-2021): An Obituary of a Historian | Mohd Hussain Ganie
  20 February
  by Mohd Hussain Ganie *
   Jata Shankar Jha (1926-2021), one of the eminent historians produced by Bihar, passed away on Thursday, 4 February, 2021. His death is indeed a great loss to the academic world. He was born in a village in Rajnagar,  (...)

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