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• 2021 Delhi MCD Election Results Give Warning Signal to AAP | M R Narayan Swamy

  12 March 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

  THAT the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won four of the five by-elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) should not surprise anyone. That the BJP – which now controls MCD – drew a blank is no shocker either. That the Congress won a single seat handsomely is certainly news but that victory – more so the margin — is an ominous setback to the ruling AAP in Delhi.
  Fifteen years of uninterrupted hold over MCD has taken the shine off the BJP. The North MCD and East MCD – all five (…)

• The Death of Imagination: A Reply To D. Raja’s Nostalgia | Murzban Jal

  12 March 2021

  by Murzban Jal
  Reading D. Raja’s nostalgic recalling of the welfare state reminds one of Lenin’s celebrated statement: “none of the Marxists understood Marx!!” Lenin is writing this with the eruption of the First Imperialist World War in 1914. Kevin Anderson calls this the “crisis of world Marxism”. The crisis was that the communists who saw the essence of war as imperialist loot capitulated against the respective national governments in support of this imperialist war. The capitulation (…)

• If A Horse Befriends The Grass | Jawed Naqvi

  12 March 2021

  by Jawed Naqvi
  March 9, 2021
  THERE’s talk of peace between India and Pakistan, which should be welcomed with a tight embrace by both sides and by the world at large. If true, the move will be nothing short of a somersault for hard liners on both sides.
  Not long ago, right-wing nationalists had daubed with dark paint the face of my peace activist friend Sudheendra Kulkarni as he hosted a welcome for Pakistan’s former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri in Mumbai. The Gandhian in (…)

• Lessons of Dandi March When on its 91st Anniversary Celebrations of 75th Anniversary of India’s Independence has Commenced | S N Sahu

  12 March 2021, by S N Sahu

  The Government of India has decided to commence celebrations of the 75th anniversary of India’s independence, falling on 15th August 2022, by organising Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav on 12th March 2021, the day marking the 91st anniversary of historic Dandi March launched by Mahatma Gandhi on 12th March 1930 from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi to break iniquitous salt law and achieve independence for our country. Prime Minister of India Mr. Modi launched the Mahotsav on 12th March 2021 and said that (…)

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  Mahatma Gandhi (Bapuji) on the Dandi Salt March by Nandlal Bose (1930)

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  ’Cobra’ Dancer! #mithunchakraborty | Satish Acharya

  12 March 2021

• Growing Global Criticism of Narendra Modi Government | Sankar Ray

  12 March 2021, by Sankar Ray

  What is ‘international conspiracy’ in the political lexicon of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi is international solidarity to libertarians the world over. Mind you, Modi termed the three-month-plus-long farmers’ stir in the borders of National Capital Region in his pre-election campaign in West Bengal at Haldia during the end-February. Around the same time on 27 February Toronto Star carried a full-page advertisement, expressing solidarity with the struggling farmers and (…)

• Galwan Valley clashes and China’s death narratives | Bhartendu Kumar Singh

  12 March 2021

  by Bhartendu Kumar Singh
  Wars and clashes between nations are often contested in terms of cause, consequences and even statistics. Most nations have their own perspectives and interpretations to these conflicts though the truth may be something else! The Galwan valley clashes of 2020 was no different! Thus, while China reluctantly and belatedly accepted the death of four PLA soldiers in recent videos, Russian news agency TASS had earlier confirmed forty-five Chinese soldiers’ death as (…)

• Remembering Fukushima: Demand phase-out of all Nuclear (fission) power plants | Soumya Dutta

  12 March 2021

  by Soumya Dutta *
  Ten years ago, on the 11th of March 2011, ‘all hell broke loose’ in the Pacific coast of Japan. A huge Tsunami, triggered by the gigantic ‘Tohuku earthquake’, which swept away towns and villages, also hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants on the coast, overwhelming the ‘defensive sea walls’. What followed is now well known to the whole world, as the live television coverage of the apocalyptic events streamed into all homes around the globe. Three of the six (…)

• Budget 2021-22: In Pursuit of Atamnirbhar Bharat - Funds from Monetization of Govt. Assets and Debt Instead of Taxing the Haves | Sher Singh Sangwan

  12 March 2021

  The budget 2021-21 is broadly in pursuit of Atamnirbhar Bharat (ANB) mission which was announced by the Government in May 2020 with the packages amounting to Rs.27.1 lakh crore including both the monitory and fiscal measures. The slogan of be vocal with local was followed by structural reforms like redefinition of MSMEs, privatization of the Mineral Sector & Public Sector Undertakings, Agriculture and Labour Reforms, one Nation One Ration Card for ease of labour mobility and Production (…)