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  Uncovering the Ecologist in Marx: Kohei Saito

  10 April, by K. Sahadevan

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Marx in the Anthropocene
  Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
  by Kohei Saito, University of Tokyo
  Cambridge University Press
  15 January 2023 | ISBN: 9781108933544
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  Uncovering the Ecologist in Marx: Kohei Saito

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  Music: Price of Eggs by Carsie Blanton and The Burning Hell

  10 April
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  Podcast: Strait Outta Hormuz with Laleh Khalili

  10 April

• SIR and the Great Fear of the Bengali Migrants | Arup Kumar Sen

  31 March, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The special intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list on the eve of the assembly elections in West Bengal has generated great fear among the Bengali migrants. The Telegraph reported (March 22, 2026) in this context:

• April 2026 Assembly Elections: The Jalebi Basket Test | Papri Sri Raman

  31 March, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  FIVE INDIAN STATES go to the hustings in April 2026, amidst a huge tussle going on between federalism and unitarianism. This makes these assembly elections crucial to the survival of our constitutionally mandated federal structure. Election watchers need to also keep in mind that these will be the last assembly elections with existing population numbers, assembly seats will be re-determined after the next census. Populations of southern States will be much lesser than the northern States, (…)

• Questions to Narendra Modi: What

  31 March, by K. Sahadevan

  March 24, 2026
  I would like to ask some questions to Narendra Modi, who is coming to Kerala as a campaigner for the BJP candidate. It is not without remembering that he was not ready to answer the questions of the media during his tenure as the Prime Minister. When you were the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2007, your face, which trembled before the questions of the brave journalist Karan Thapar, asked for a drink of water and ended the interview halfway, is still fresh in memory as if it (…)

• 130th Constitutional Amendment Bill: A

  31 March

  Abstract
  In a democracy, Citizens are the sovereign and sole authorities. By the way of elections, citizens choose their representatives who can voice their needs and aspirations in the Parliament/Assembly. Most of the democratic nations have electoral laws that bans/prevents the entry of candidates with criminal offences charges/background. In certain democracies, the disqualification of elected representative applies after framing the charges by the investigative agency or conviction by (…)

• Capitalisation of Religious Sentiments to Consolidate Electoral Gains | Suranjita Ray

  31 March, by Suranjita Ray

  Political parties have always attempted strategies to consolidate the support of particular communities to remain in power in a democracy. Over the years we have seen that several political parties and their affiliated institutions have capitalised on the religious values, beliefs, traditions, and practices not only to win elections but also to gain legitimacy and exercise control. We see increasing allegations of religious conversions and cow slaughter resulting in troubling patterns of (…)

• A broad Platform To Resist Warring America | Soma Marla

  31 March, by Soma S. Marla

  The ongoing US-Israeli invasion on Iran has entered the fourth week. In the beginning of invasion, aerial carpet bombing and assassination of supreme leader Khamenei

• The Price of Someone Else

  31 March, by Varna Sri Raman

  $12 billion in two weeks. Oil above $108. The Strait of Hormuz shut. 3.2 million Iranians are displaced. In Delhi, families are paying Rs 3,000 for a black-market LPG cylinder. This war is now a month old.
  The joint US-Israeli war on Iran, four weeks old now, has produced what the IEA calls the largest oil supply disruption in history, sent Brent crude above $108, shut the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping, displaced 3.2 million Iranians, and triggered an LPG crisis across India. (…)