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• Learning from Lenin: At 150, the leader of the October Revolution has lessons for a post-Covid world

  25 April 2020, by D Raja

  When we pay tributes to Lenin, we should not fail to think about ways to liberate people from all kinds of exploitations and enslavement.
  April 22, 2020, marks the 150th birth anniversary of V I Lenin. He was one of the greatest theoreticians of Left politics after Karl Marx. He was an excellent strategist and tactician, who led the first socialist revolution in 1917, in Russia. He was the head of the first socialist country and founder of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). (…)

• An Octogenarian Communist Looks Back

  25 April 2020, by Barun Das Gupta

  BOOK REVIEW
  Oshitipar Chokhe Firey Dekha Communist Jiban By Nitai Basu (Ganaudyog Prakashani, Kolkata Price Rs. 120.)
  The author, Nitai Basu (full name Nityagopal Basu), was born in a rural middle class family in Khulna district (now in Bangladesh). He portrays a picture of the social life in rural Bengal in the 1930s. Most members of his family were freedom fighters. A book written by his father was proscribed by the British Government.
  After reading up to Class V in his village (…)

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream’s Lockdown Edition no4 | April 18

  18 April 2020

  Table of Contents - Mainstream’s Lockdown Edition no4 | April 18 LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.4 Release Dr. G. N. Saibaba from Nagpur Central Jail Dr. Anand Teltumbde’s Arrest on Ambedkar Jayanti: A National Shame PUCL Statement on Rejection of the Petition filed by Gautam Navalakhs and Anand Teltumbde seeking time to Surrender Tripura CPIM’s ego throws 10,323 teachers in stress along with families | Prabhajyoti Roy Managing the Lockdown with a human face: the case (…)

• LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.4

  18 April 2020

  The lockdown has been extended further on April 14, 2020 with the PM announcing it through his address to the nation on that day. Early next week, the Government is expected to allow partial resumption of economic activity. However, what needs to be understood is that the situation will not be anywhere near to normal even if the normal is finally lifted after May 3. In fact, reports in foreign newspapers present an alarming picture of the global situation with regard to the pandemic. Latest (…)

• Release Dr. G. N. Saibaba from Nagpur Central Jail

  18 April 2020

  Committee for the Defence and Release of Dr. GN Saibaba 11th April 2020 Press Release
  Over the last six years, the health of Dr. G. N. Saibaba, incarcerated in Nagpur Central Jail, has deteriorated alarmingly. Prof. Saibaba is a teacher of English at the University of Delhi and is a human rights activist. Due to post-polio residual paralysis of his lower limbs, he is over ninety percent physically disabled and wheelchair bound. Since incarceration, he has developed severe additional (…)

• Dr. Anand Teltumbde’s Arrest on Ambedkar Jayanti: A National Shame

  18 April 2020

  PRESS RELEASE
  Jai Bhim!
  Coinciding with the upcoming Ambedkar Jayanti, Dr. Anand Teltumbde , one of India’s foremost public intellectuals and the strongest legatee of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s tradition of struggling for a truly democratic India, will be complying with the Supreme Court’s order to surrender to the jail authorities. He will be surrendering on the 14th April 2020, between 12 noon - 2 pm at the Sessions Court in Mumbai. This is both tragic and shameful for all Dalits, Adivasis, (…)

• PUCL Statement on Rejection of the Petition filed by Gautam Navalakhs and Anand Teltumbde seeking time to Surrender

  18 April 2020

  PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES 332, Patpar Ganj, Opposite Anand Lok Apartments, Mayur Vihar I, Delhi 110 091 Phone 2275 0014 PP FAX 4215 1459
  Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde President: Ravi Kiran Jain; General Secretary: Dr. V. Suresh E.mail: puclnat[at]gmail.com& pucl.natgensec[at]gmail.com
  09th April, 2020
  Statement on Rejection of the Petition filed by Gautam Navalakhs and Anand Teltumbde seeking time to Surrender (…)

• Tripura CPIM’s ego throws 10,323 teachers in stress along with families.

  18 April 2020

  by Prabhajyoti Roy
  Agartala, April 2020
  March 31, 2020 is a Black Day for Tripura. In this day 8882 school teachers of the state lost jobs for none of their folly.
  While some of the teachers journey started in 2010, others in the profession had entered in 2014. The number 10,323 bears a historical significance in the state’s political history. Since lots of turmoils had happened relating to the issue; ultimately coming from bolt from the blue as the High Court judgement against (…)

• Managing the Lock down with a human face: the case study of Odisha

  18 April 2020

  by Prof Radhakanta Barik
  As per latest information regarding cases under Covid19 are 41 cases including one recovered and one death. These cases are confined to the cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. This brings the extension of Lockdown till 30th April which is not an accepted proposition as the number of cases are small in comparison to many other States such as Maharasthra and Kerala. We could have gone to bring only capital town under the Lockdown as most of the cases are there. As (…)

• Coming: Corona’s Economic Shocks

  18 April 2020, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  These are days when I feel insignificant as a citizen. I am reduced to looking at politicians as the maa-baap of the country and obeying them. We citizens should be happy to do so except that the maa-baap speak in many tongues. Yogi Adityanath wants me to do yoga and thus cure all the ills of the nation. I spent a college year doing yoga, but did not see the world getting any better. Mamta Banerji wants me to know this whole corona panic is a BJP plot to divert (…)