2018

From N.C.’s Writings
The time has come when we can no longer afford to indulge in mutual recrimination. The time has come for us to hang our heads in shame.
What has happened at Moradabad is a blot on our patriotism. No amount of quibbling, finding fault with each other, can save us from the ignominy of having to face a situation in which citizens of this country were shot dead by the police for the crime of belonging to a minority community. It is an indication of the magnitude of (…)

IMPRESSIONS
We have to sympathise with Communist hardliner Prakash Karat. He is unable to decide whether Enemy No. 1 is the BJP or Sitaram Yechury. In public he said it was the BJP. In action he moved against Yechury’s line of electoral understanding with other parties including the Congress. His stand was such a boost to the RSS-BJP that their party organ wrote an editorial saying Karat was “right”. That’s a testimonial no other Communist leader has got from the Hindutva circles. (…)

by Aniket Alam
One could argue that despite socio-economic conditions in India being conducive for its politics, the Left regularly manages to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Indeed, the manner in which the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India-Marxist recently rejected any possibility of a united electoral front against Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party suggests we are in for a repeat show of that most successful play of the Communists: “historic blunder”.
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Editorial
Today is January 23, the 121st birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the stalwarts of our freedom struggle whose Azad Hind Fauj, which symbolised Hindu-Muslim unity, played a vital role in hastening the British departure from India thereby ensuring our nation’s independence from alien rule on August 15, 1947. And after three days we shall celebrate our sixtyninth Republic Day; we reinforced our freedom by becoming a Republic and adopting a Constitution which has (…)

January 30 this year marks the seventieth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. On this occasion we remember the Father of the Nation by reproducing excerpts from a piece that Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in homage to the pioneer of our freedom struggle three years after Gandhiji’s martyrdom.
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. . . What gods there are, I know not and am not concerned about them. But there are certain rare qualities which raise a man above the common herd and appear to make him as made of (…)

The most beautiful ocean is the one we have not yet seen,The most beautiful child has not yet grown up.Our most beautiful days are those we have not yet livedAnd the most beautiful things I would like to tell you I have not yet told.
Nazim Hikmet
(Translated from the Turkish by Ali Yunus)

On the occasion of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s 121st birth anniversary on January 23 this year, we offer our homage to the memory of that indomitable freedom fighter by reproducing excerpts from one of his writings.
A question which many people ask is as to what will happen when the British are forced to leave India. British propaganda has made many people think that without the British there will be anarchy and chaos in India. These people conveniently forget that British occupation (…)

From N.C.’s Writings
After forty years of the foundation of our independent republic, the Frankenstein has appeared again—the monster that is out to destroy democracy and plunge this nation into civil war that shall rend asunder thousands of towns and villages of this great country.
The term communalism does not convey the gravity of the crisis that confronts us today—let it be bluntly stated that what we face today is the demon of Hindu-Muslim hatred. Over a large part of this land, (…)

The following is the fact-finding report on Rashtra Seva Dal’s inquiry into the Bhima-Koregaon riots conducted by the Rashtra Seva Dal. The inquriy team was headed by Dr Suresh Khairnar, the President of the Rashtra Seva Dal.
Located at the eastern side of Pune and situated on the banks of River Bhima, Koregaon-Bhima can be traced along the Pune-Ahmad-nagar highway and approximately 25 km from the Pune City; its population is around 7000-8000.
January 1, 2018 was the occasion of (…)

Despite a long-standing tradition for annually commemorating the victory of the Koregaon battle fought on the banks of river Bhima in district Pune of Maharashtra on January 1, the event became contentious in 2018, being its bi-centenary. the Akhil Bharatiya Brahman Mahasangh and Udaysinh Pashwe, a descendant of the Peshwas, asked the Pune Police to ‘deny permission for the event’ to the organisers. The Pune Nagar Hindu Parisad, Shivaji Pratishthan and Samasta Hindu Aghadi (All Hindu Front) (…)