Barring us, Socialists, all Opposition politics in the country today have degenerated into succession politics.
Opposition parties seem to have decided that the task of changing the attitudes of the people is far too difficult for them; or (...)
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March 2009
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Politics of Succession
21 March 2009, by Rammanohar Lohia -
Dr Lohia—Our Revolutionary Mentor
21 March 2009, by Rajindar SacharOn Dr Lohia’s birthday, we remember him with love and affection and as one of our top leaders of the socialist movement. He had a many-faceted personality. He was different from our other leades like JP. We had a reverence the JP, a certain kind (...) -
Dr Lohia’s Life and Thought: Some Notes
21 March 2009, by Surendra MohanThe socialist movement in India was born in the womb of the struggle for independence. Some of its first rank leaders, who promoted the idea of forming a socialist group within the Congress party, were together in the Nasik prison in 1932-33. (...) -
Lohia Line on Destruction of the Caste System
21 March 2009, by Anand KumarDr Rammanohar Lohia was the theorist of seven revolutions in the context of creating a new world order on the basis of socialism. The programme of seven revolutions included confrontation with discrimination and deprivations based upon caste, (...) -
Rammanohar Lohia
21 March 2009, by Qurban AliGandhian socialist, rebel by birth, visionary, man of letters, great parliamentarian and crusader for the upliftment of the poor and downtrodden of the country Dr Rammanohar Lohia was born on March 23, 1910 in Akbarpur in Faizabad district of (...) -
Why The Complete Truth About Bangladesh Eludes Us
21 March 2009, by Bharat DograFrom all available indications the so-called mutiny in Bangladesh was actually a conspiracy to badly destabilise and, if possible, topple the Sheikh Hasina Government, so that the truth about the war-crimes and 1975 killings which this (...) -
The New Pitfalls
21 March 2009, by Subrata Sinha[(Communication)]
It is indeed heartening that a geologist of Subrata Sinha’s experience and eminence has highlighted the pitfalls in establishing a chemical hub in Nayachar (Mainstream, February 14, 2009). He has very rightly pointed out the (...) -
He Marched to Death
21 March 2009, by Bejoy Kumar Sinha[( The seventyeighth anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh and his comrades-in-arms, Rajguru and Sukhdev, falls on March 23. They were executed on that day in 1931. We pay homage to the abiding memory of those revolutionaries by (...) -
India and China in the Neo-Liberal World
21 March 2009, by Amna Mirza[(Book Review)]
The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China And What it Means for All of Us by Robyn Meredith; W.W. Norton and Company, New York, London; page: 252; price: US $ 15.95.
India and China, the two neighbours, share the (...) -
A Letter from Nagpur Central Jail
21 March 2009, by Arun FerreiraThis letter from one of the prisoners in Nagpur Central Jail, an alleged Naxalite undertrial, was sent on December 3, 2008 explaining the reasons behind the ‘Naxalite’ undertrial prisoners going on a token hunger strike on Human Rights Day last (...)