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• For Left Consolidation: A Note on the Crisis and Tasks of the Left in the Present Situation | Bhanudeb Dutta & Sobhanlal Datta Gupta

  9 November 2024, by Sobhanlal Datta Gupta

  Preliminary remarks :
  It is undeniable that the Left in India is at present passing through a crisis which is unprecedented since independence. In contrast to the steady concentration of power in the hands of the Right, the rapid decline of the Left over the years is extremely alarming. This is especially manifest in the marginalization of the Left in Parliament and their exit from power in West Bengal and Tripura. Only in Kerala the Left is still in power, but it is plagued with many (…)

• Analysing Donald Trump

  9 November 2024, by P S Jayaramu

  November 7, 2024
  The American Presidential election was very much in the news for quite some time. More so, because it was dubbed by the media and the leadership of both the Republican and Democratic Parties as a closely contested poll, with the pollsters describing it as a neck to neck fight between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Pollsters described it as a battle with a margin of about 1 percent, with some of them predicting a possible win by Kamala Harris. Many predicted a long legal (…)

• Paradigm Shifts in the Development and Judicial Discourses | Arup Kumar Sen

  9 November 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

  In the post-independence period, the dominant paradigm of development followed by the Nehru regime was State-led industrialization strategy for the

• The Return of Trump With An Ethical Minefield of Toxic Trumpism | Vijay Kumar

  9 November 2024, by Vijay Kumar

  So, Donald Trump has returned to the White House as the 47th President of the United States of America. He is the only second American, who has won two non-consecutive terms. In the end, the result was not as close as it was predicted. Trump registered an emphatic win by securing a majority in the Electoral College as well as in popular votes. All the seven swing States tilted, rather decisively, in favour of Trump in drastic contrast to the 2020 election in which six out of the seven (…)

• Can the Naxalites Re-Emerge as a Stronger Force Committed to Achieving Justice in Peaceful Ways? | Bharat Dogra

  9 November 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  The word

• Nehruvian Science in Nation Building | Soma Marla

  9 November 2024, by Soma S. Marla

  On the 135th birth anniversary of first Prime Minister the nation fondly remembers Jawaharlal Nehru as builder of democratic modern India. Pandit Nehru built scientific foundation by establishing iconic national scientific institutions and attempted to use science to change the prevalent mind set to bring socio cultural transformation in the newly liberated backward nation. Remembering his contribution to nation building is necessary especially in current times when active (…)

• The Colonial Legacy of ARJ’s Institutional Economics | Ajay Kumar Mishra

  9 November 2024, by Ajay Kumar Mishra

  Abstract
  Institutions establish the rules of the game and shape the man-made constraints that help reduce uncertainty. However, social structures play a crucial role in shaping these institutions and how they operate. Institutions that are socially structured have a better chance of surviving and maintaining their momentum. Whether an institution is inclusive or extractive depends on its ability to reflect social realities.
  New institutional economics emphasizes the neoclassical (…)

• BRICS a ray of hope for peace and just international economic order - sans commitment to nuclear weapons abolition | Arun Mitra

  9 November 2024, by Arun Mitra

  Date: 04.11.2024 The declaration of the recently ended 16th summit of the BRICS (now extended BRICS) has several points for which the developing and least developed countries have been aspiring for many decades. Even though colonization through direct military control by the erstwhile colonial powers has largely ended, the grievances of these countries continue as the imperial powers have evolved new methods to exert their control. Only a few decades ago the possibilities of (…)

• A Tribute to Jawahar Lal Nehru on his 135th birth anniversary | Suresh Khairnar

  9 November 2024, by Suresh Khairnar

  I was eleven years old when the news of Jawaharlal Nehru’s death came on 27 May 1964. Shindkheda is a taluka of Dhule district where I had gone to my aunt’s house to spend summer vacation. And my aunt had bought a good radio of Philips company at that time. So, just before 2 o’clock in the afternoon on 27 May 1964, the radio broadcast was suddenly stopped and the news of Jawaharlal Nehru’s death was broadcast. I was shocked to hear it with my own ears.
  As it happened some times before (…)

• An Ode to a Comrade (A fictionalized account of a political tragedy in Kerala) | Sreejith K

  9 November 2024

  On those evenings the weather stays clear, from her favourite spot on the ’charupadi’, she would watch momentarily the sun go down between the coconut palms in the distance, but today, she kept gazing at the western sky long after the lingering crimson of the day that just went by had faded into yet another starlit night after which, with her cloudy eyes, she browsed through the pages of the party newspaper which chirukandan has been dutifully dropping on her verandah every morning, since (…)