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• Yediyurappa resigns as CM of Karnataka: End of a long innings in State Politics | P S Jayaramu

  30 July 2021

  by P. S. Jayaramu *
  July 28, 2021
  Though there were rumours in Karnataka for the last two months as to when and how B.S. Yediyurappa’s tenure as Chief Minister would end, he chose the right time under the circumstances by announcing his resignation at a function organised on 2th July to mark the completion of two years of his Government. With his resignation, his long active innings in the politics of the State has come to an end. He has of course said that he would remain committed to (…)

• India Under Intolerant Indians | TJS George

  30 July 2021

  IMPRESSIONS
  The National Institutional Ranking Framework has named Delhi’s Hindu College as the best in the country in arts and science streams. It is a well deserved distinction based on its academic standards, the role played by its campus societies and its placement records.
  The name of the College also brings out the peculiar Indian practice of linking education with religion. This is a regressive approach, started during the colonial period by selfish Christian (…)

• Farmer Politics in Punjab | Pavittarbir Singh Saggu

  30 July 2021

  by Pavittarbir Singh Saggu *
  Abstract
  This article focuses on the role of the central and state governments in influencing the trajectory of agricultural growth in Punjab, as well as farmers’ political responses to three major policy areas. The first is the issue of government procurement and food pricing. The second concern is the provision of water and electricity. The third topic is land reform and agricultural taxes legislation. The central dimension of these issues is examined in (…)

• Martyr’s Day In Jammu and Kashmir: History From Below (July 13, 1931) | Gull Mohammad Wani

  30 July 2021

  by Prof Gull Mohammad Wani* The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir didn’t observe July 13 as a state holiday. The day was observed as ’Martyrs’ day to mark a 1931 protest against the then maharaja Hari Singh. The July, 13 (Martyrs day in Jammu and Kashmir) has figured in the ideological frames of political parties/actors in a partisan manner quite opposite to ’peoples history’ - the impulse for which is to understand the lives of common (…)

• Bengal politics: Is the cause of subalterns lost in a battle of perception? | Madhusudan Bandi

  30 July 2021

  by Madhusudan Bandi *
  Context
  The recently concluded Bengal elections were hyped to a level that it received an extraordinary attention across the country. The narratives weaved by the principle political parties and their sympathisers in media, academia and intellectual class in the run up to the elections also contributed in generating such a euphoria for a routine state assembly election. The contest was significant for the reason that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was prominently (…)

• On-Going War In Afghanistan And Spill Over Effects On Central Asia | R G Gidadhubli

  30 July 2021

  by R.G.Gidadhubli *
  There is on-going war in Afghanistan during the last few months between the State security forces and Taliban fighters. This is primarily subsequent to the declaration by the United States of America to fully withdraw its forces by the end of August 2021 and the process of withdrawal has started a couple of months back. At the beginning of July the U.S. forces vacated their largest base in Afghanistan at Bagram, north of Kabul. Having provided political support and (…)

• Afghanistan : The final betrayal | Apratim Mukarji

  30 July 2021, by Apratim Mukarji

  On August 31, the United States will officially close its role in Afghanistan, which is by far the most unfortunate country in the world today. This day will also mark the Final Betrayal of the Afghan nation by the world at large, a process in which the United States has been playing the lead role. The country today has been deserted by all except a handful, such as, Iran and India. In totality, this is the saddest moment in recent history.
  The stark reality at this moment is that (…)

• Interrogating the Death of Father Stan Swamy (1937-2021) | Arup Kumar Sen

  30 July 2021, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Recent death of Father Stan Swamy in judicial custody amply testifies that we are living in a State of Exception: “...modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system”. (Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception, The University of Chicago Press, 2005) (…)

• Civil society must strive to complete the unfinished task to protect the Bhima Koregaon victims of injustice | Arun Srivastava

  30 July 2021, by Arun Srivastava

  by Arun Srivastava
  A series of remembrances have since been held in honour of Father Stan Swamy, Jesuit priest and defender of the rights of Jharkhand’s tribal communities, with Church leaders, social activists and academics shedding their tears to console his death in the custody of the NIA.
  Swamy was made to languish in the jail custody nearly for a year. NIA used the dirty designs to thwart his trail. Denial of trial is indeed a sad commentary on the functioning of judiciary which (…)

• Marx in the MEGA | Pradip Baksi

  30 July 2021

  by Pradip Baksi *
  “The history of mankind is like palaeontology. Owing to a certain judicial blindness, even the best minds fail to see, on principle, what lies in front of their noses. Later, when the time has come, we are surprised that there are traces everywhere of what we failed to see”.—Мarx to Engels, 25 March1868 (MECW 42: 557).
  “... and here, as everywhere, it is important to tear off the veil of mystery from science”. “Taylor’s theorem, MacLaurin’s theorem and Lagrangian (…)