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• Where is the Congress Party heading after the Working Committee meeting? | P S Jayaramu

  29 October 2021

  by P S Jayaramu
  18th October 2021
  The much-awaited Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting is over. There was speculation that it would be a stormy affair with the ‘reformists’ openly criticising the leadership for the sorry state of affairs in the Party and demand a discussion on the report of the Committee which went into the dismal performance of the Party in the recent assembly elections. Going by media reports, no such thing happened at the meeting. On the contrary, the CWC meet (…)

• Congress playing Dalit Card in Punjab | Nishit Navin and Sangam

  29 October 2021

  by Nishit Navin and Sangam *
  The speculations are rife and doing rounds in the political climate of Punjab. Punjab’s former chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh is going to launch a party and may ally with the BJP for the upcoming state election. This has kept the major political parties on their toes. However, there is a new twist to the politics in Punjab which is going unnoticed. Congress put a Dalit leader as chief minister of the state. To certain political pundits, it is a (…)

• Many faces of ’National Interests’ | T J S George

  29 October 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  "National interests" has become a phrase that challenges the citizen, frightens him and threatens him all at once. In a vibrant democracy like India, it won’t be easy to come across two people who agree on what is "national interests." Narendra Modi’s idea of "national interests" certainly will not be the same as Rahul Gandhi’s idea of it. Mamata Banerjee will have her own interpretation of the idea and Pinarayi Vijayan’s will be different from that of all the others. Yet (…)

• Dhurjatiprasad Mukhopadhyay: A Forgotten Multilingual Bengali Intellectual | Arup Kumar Sen

  29 October 2021, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Dhurjatiprasad Mukhopadhyay (1894-1961) was a prominent Bengali intellectual who simultaneously belonged to the cultural world of Bengal and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh (UP).
  Dhurjatiprasad’s formal educational journey was a non-conventional one. He passed the school-leaving Entrance Examination in 1909 in second division. However, he got highest marks in both English and Sanskrit in the said examination of the year. He passed the I. Sc. Examination from Ripon College in Kolkata (then (…)

• Sacrilege or blasphemy: The dirty attempt to cover up the caste prejudices against Dalits | Vidya Bhushan Rawat

  29 October 2021, by Vidya Bhushan Rawat

  There is no doubt in the fact that Sikhism actually was a revolt against the Brahmanical system and superstition. Guru Granth Saheb is perhaps the only holy book which contains matters from different religions as well as those of various Sufi Saints including Kabir, Ravidas, Baba Farid and others. The aim of Sikhism was to create an egalitarian society and definitely Punjab that way is far better than many other states in India where violence against Dalits is rampant. However, there are (…)

• Now That Two Chief Ministers Have Raised Serious Questions About Role of Dams in Aggravating Floods, Can We See Some Action? | Bharat Dogra

  29 October 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  Recently the Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee has written a detailed letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding the man-made floods created in her state due to excessive water discharge from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) Dams. In particular she has criticized the discharge of about 10 lakh acre-feet of water between September 30 and October 2 2021 which caused serious devastation in lower Damodar region before the festival season.
  She has reminded that she (…)

• Moscow Format Conference: Hoping For Solution On Afghanistan | R G Gidadhubli

  29 October 2021

  by R.G.Gidadhubli *
  October 25, 2021 On the 20th of October 2021, Russia organized Moscow Format Conference to make efforts to deal with problem in Afghanistan. A high level Taliban delegation attended the Conference apart from officials from eight other countries including China, Central Asia, India and Pakistan. The Indian side was represented by joint secretary J P Singh and Joint Secretary (Eurasia) Adarsh Swaika. The Conference was not attended by the USA. The Taliban (…)

• Gandhism And Marxism | Murzban Jal

  29 October 2021

  by Murzban Jal
  There is a belief abroad that Gandhi is against capitalism. This misplaced belief is obviously the result of his fanatic tirades against the “satanic civilization of the west”. The antics of his economic theories must also have contributed to this belief. You need not be told his groundless his belief is. ‘Mahatma and Capitalism’, in Masses, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1925.
  Titanic and terrible events are approaching with implacable force. Mankind lives in expectation of war, (…)

• Invigorating Agriculture Cooperatives | Atul Sarma and Shyam Sunder

  29 October 2021, by Atul Sarma

  by Atul Sarma and Shyam Sunder *
  After curving out a separate ministry for cooperation out of the ministry of agriculture, the minister for home and cooperation announced in the first national cooperative conference held on September 25, 2021 that the centre together with states will expand the number of primary agriculture cooperatives from the existing 60,000 to three lakh in the next five years. Explaining that the new “ministry has been created to bring transparency and strengthen, (…)

• Speak up … for each other! | Humra Quraishi

  29 October 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  27 October 2021
  Tell me where to start from and where to end? The in-between anyway seems so very frightful and complicated …murkier it gets by the day! Yet we sit as mute spectators. Do we have the freedom to even raise our voice or throw up a query or two on the all’s -going- fine narrative, uttered rather too frequently and shamefully by the ruling lot! Today let us talk of Dengue and Hunger and the related deaths from the onslaughts of the two deadly disasters. Mind you, (…)