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• Four Decades of Deeply Committed, Continuing Efforts for Construction Workers and Unorganized Sector Workers | Bharat Dogra

  15 February, by Bharat Dogra

  Despite the persistence of many-sided injustices and problems in unequal societies, democracy opens up several windows of opportunities which can be used by committed social activists, working with the help of respected mentors, to achieve significant rights for workers. This brings new hope to workers and the possibilities of replicating such efforts lead to more initiatives and greater hope. This in turn strengthens democracy and the various provisions of social justice in India

• Something is rotten in Aadhaar Based Digital Kingdom: India

  15 February, by Gopal Krishna

  Introduction
  If aadhaar based digital injustice, slavery and totalitarianism is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
  The question:Are we all going to continue to give our consent to voluntary servitude to the beneficial owners of the automatic identification and biometric profiling machines, or will we confront the naturalisation of the politics of obedience? raises the oldest political questions about knowledge, authority, power and human dignity. In his book The Politics Of Obedience: The (…)

• USA-India Trade Deal threatens livelihoods of Small Farmers | Soma Marla

  15 February, by Soma S. Marla

  On second of February US President Donald Trump announced that US and India have reached a trade deal under which India will stop buying oil from Russia and tariffs on Indian exports will be slashed from 50 to 18 percentage points, while Indian tariffs (customs duty) will come down to zero percent on all American goods. Our Commerce minister Piyush Goyal waited till evening on that day to applaud the announcement though the its terms were not disclosed fully and kept in secrecy. (…)

• A Telling Winter in Delhi: Banishing Dogs, Ignoring Air Pollution | Preeti Chauhan

  15 February, by Preeti Chauhan

  As the winter set in Delhi so did the smog, like every year for past many years though this year seems to be the longest and worst in terms of the AQI. The smog is more stubborn, the haze too visible and black to be ignored, it now can even be seen and felt indoors. Photos clicked by our phones capture the haze-depicting the pervasiveness of air pollution in Delhi. The Govt. response seem far too little and late to deal with Delhi

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  Obituary: Remembering Professor Andre Beteille | Adfer Rashid Shah

  15 February

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• Fear-Free Learning | Sunit Singh

  15 February

  When I entered a classroom of Vidyavanam (a primary school in Andhra Pradesh), I noticed four tables arranged in the room. Students from different grades were sitting together, with no strict seating arrangement, engaging in various activities. Some were playing, others were working on some tasks. There was no designated place for the teacher to sit. At one of the four tables, the teacher was guiding a few students to do an activity. Suddenly, one student, who was playing when the teacher (…)

• Savarkar’s Hidden Agenda was to Arrest Shudra/Dalit Liberation After Mahatma Phule’s Anti-Caste Movement | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

  15 February, by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

  The RSS/BJP Government of India started to take several steps to change the basic structure of the present political system in the light of the Hindutva thesis proposed by their father of the modern nation, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Savarkar’s main thesis in his book Essential of Hindutva though appears to be anti-Muslim and anti-Christian, its hidden agenda is to arrest the Shudra/OBC/Dalit/Adivasi liberation in the post-colonial India. It were the ancestors of these people who built this (…)

• Decoding the Presented Reality: India

  15 February

  Abstract
  This paper critically examines India

• Few Words on the New Policy by Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1921)

  15 February

  Preobrazhensky explains elements of the New Economic Policy to members of the International in the daily newspaper of the Third Congress,

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  CPI Moves Supreme Court Against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma

  15 February

  Communist Party of India Ajoy Bhavan, New Delhi
  February 10, 2026
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (February 10, 2026) the following statement:
  The Communist Party of India has moved the Supreme Court of India through Annie Raja, National Secretary of the CPI, seeking urgent judicial intervention against the repeated hate speeches and conduct of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. The CPI submits that a continuing pattern of (…)