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Manufacturing Discontent
5 May 2018, by Samit KarNoam Chomsky co-authored with Edward S. Herman to write Manufacturing Consent (1988) to uphold the agony of modernity to raise a manufactured consensual social reality keeping at bay the natural voice of protest, The authors lamented how the (...) -
Happy Birthday, Karl
5 May 2018, by Badri RainaAchilles of the Intellect, however
The money-lenders may pretend,
Every word you wrote still remains wise
To their perfidious argument.
Your fierce laser showed us
Who produces wealth,
And why those that produce
Remain in poor health.
You armed (...) -
Broken Myths and Future Trajectory of the Naga Women in Nagaland
5 May 2018, by J.J. Roy BurmanThe term Naga is shrouded in mysteries. On the one hand you have Naga—naked sadhus, Hindu mendicants who prefer moving virtually naked, except for the loin that covers the ultimatum. On the other hand we have got the Naga peoples inhabiting (...) -
Ashok Mitra
5 May 2018, by SCTRIBUTE
It was more than fifty years ago in the summer of 1967. Some of us, journalists, were sitting at the old Banga Bhavan in New Delhi, conversing with the Food Minister of the newly-installed United Front Government of West Bengal, Sudhin (...) -
Rationality Wins Over Left Sectarianism
28 April 2018POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
Rationality has emerged victorious over irrational (and infantile) dogmatism and Left sectarianism at the just-concluded 22nd Congress of the CPI-M. The preposterous idea that an all-in unity of secular and democratic forces (...) -
The Queen rules the Commonwealth!
28 April 2018by L.K. Sharma
It was a grand family reunion. The head of the family opened her magnificent home for the members coming from all over the world. She won them over by a charming smile and the display of her wealth. Her wish became her command. (...) -
Justice Rajindar Sachar (1923-2018): Our Finest Has Gone
28 April 2018TRIBUTE
by Qurban Ali
Veteran Socialist leader, noted jurist and champion of human rights Justice (retired) Rajindar Sachar passed away in Delhi on April 20, 2018. He was 94. A distinguished advocate for the protection of human rights, and poor, (...) -
Surendra Nihal Singh (1929-2018)
28 April 2018, by Sumit ChakravarttyTRIBUTE
Surendra Nihal Singh, who would have turned 89 on April 30, passed away in a New Delhi hospital on Monday, April 16, 2018 due to kidney-related ailments.
Nihal Sigh was, apart from editing two major daily publications, The Statesman and (...) -
Indian Communists in Summit
28 April 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The talk of polarisation has become very fashionable nowadays. Even Sri S.K. Patil has been talking about it—and many others have been toying with it or dreading its consequences. For a party as amorphous as the Congress, (...) -
Brazen demons: your time is up
28 April 2018, by Suhas BorkerWhat kind of land has this become
where little girls can no longer walk and play
safe and free from rapists?
In the mind’s eye of the people
the spokes of the Blue Chakra have come asunder
replaced by the little girl Asifa’s
bloody mutilated (...)
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