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• Marxist political parties in Bengal must look beyond outdated populist moves for emerging as the powerful force | Arun Srivastava

  2 November 2024

  by Arun Srivastava
  Is the modern Middle Class the vanguard for a Marxist agitation? This is the question that is making round in the academic and intellectual circles. Probably this question might not have attained so much of seriousness if the Marxists had not put huge amount of stake on the Junior doctors, who have been agitating seeking justice for their woman medic colleague and fighting corruption prevailing inside the health system for last 72 days, for reaching out to the urban (…)

• Modi Finds a New Enemy | J P Gadkari

  2 November 2024, by J P Gadkari

  November 1, 2024
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi has found a "new enemy" to attack in most of his discourses whom he calls "Urban Naxals". He accuses them of trying to "destabilise" India by "tarnishing its image by joining hands with domestic and foreign forces".
  Modi unleashed this campaign against the "Urban Naxals" for the first time in his address to a jubilant crowd of BJP workers celebrating the victory of the party in Haryana Assembly elections at party headquarters in Delhi. (…)

• Will Congress repeat Haryana in Maharashtra | Faraz Ahmad

  2 November 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  Has the Congress learnt any lessons from its awful defeat in the Haryana Assembly elections, last month? Or rather is it going to repeat the same mistake in Maharashtra Assembly elections slated for the 20th of this month? It appears so.
  We may still believe that Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, is sincere about an inclusive Congress and an equally accommodative INDIA alliance, committed to ensuring its joint victory to defeat the BJP at the prospective Assembly (…)

• Barmer Women Workers

  2 November 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  India is among very few developing countries to have a rural employment guarantee scheme. Apart from providing employment during the lean farm work season, this scheme can make a big contribution to important needs like water and soil conservation. Workers can get employment within or very near to their village on the kind of work which improves the sustainable development prospects of their village.
  Under this law people of any village can ask for employment according to simple procedures (…)

• Bhagalpur Communal riots 35 years on | Suresh Khairnar

  2 November 2024, by Suresh Khairnar

  October 24, 2024
  It has been 35 years since the publication of the article Mannusherder Sandhane (In Search of Humanity) by the famous Bengali writer and journalist Gaur Kishore Ghosh in the Sunday Special issue of Anandabazar Patrika on 17 June 1990.
  This article was written on the Bhagalpur riots which started on 24 October 1989. This article was written after about eight months. It is not that there was no news article or reporting on the Bhagalpur riots before that. But after reading (…)

• 2024 Assembly Elections: Who will crack Maharashtra? | Thirunahari Seshaiah

  2 November 2024

  After the 18th Lok Sabha elections, assembly elections held in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir, two other states - Maharashtra and Jharkhand - will go to polls in November 2024. In a state like Maharashtra, which is politically and economically strong in the country, elections are considered prestigious and all major parties are engaged in big tussle. In the last five years, the developments in the politics of Maharashtra, the change of governments and the splits in the parties have become a (…)

• From chits to chatbots: cheating in India’s education system | Naresh Singh

  2 November 2024

  Cheating and plagiarism are already widespread in India’s higher education sector. AI tools are making the problem worse but could also make things better.
  In June 2024, a video clip of mass cheating during MA and MBA exams conducted by the Indira Gandhi National Open University in Bihar raised serious questions about the state’s education system.
  It’s the latest in a string of such incidents in Bihar.
  In February 2023, a video clip surfaced in Bihar’s Samastipur district, which showed (…)

• India

  2 November 2024, by Gopal Krishna

  The Aadhaar Act disallows an individual access to the biometric information that forms the core of his or her Unique ID (Aadhaar). The lack of access is problematic for the following reasons: First, verification of whether the biometrics have been recorded correctly or not in the first place is not possible. This becomes critical when that same information forms the basis of identity and is the basis of authentication and subsequent access to welfare benefits and other services. Second, (…)

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  Tribute to Kumar David (1941-2024) | Rajan Philips

  2 November 2024

  October 20, 2024
  by Rajan Philips
  One by one the lights go out. In a span of seven months, Sri Lanka

• The Kazan BRICS Summit: An Analysis | P. S. Jayaramu

  2 November 2024, by P S Jayaramu

  25th October, 2024
  The annual summit of the BRICS member nations was held in Kazan, Russia, from 22-24th of October. An analysis of the summit and its official communique is very much in order. Before doing so, let me present a bird