2020

by R.K.MISRA
July 25, 2020
Never have so many suffered so much for the sins of so few.
As the puny and the petty head nations, a leaderless world hovers on the brink desperately clutching at miracle cures and searching for economic succour . Neither seem at hand.
The pandemic crisis is best summed up by free reference website, Worldometers which monitors COVID-19 round the clock. As of July 25, 2020, the outbreak of the coronavirus has been confirmed in around 210 countries or (…)

Book Review:
Socialism and Commodity Production: Essay in Marx Revival (Historical Materialism) by Paresh Chattopadhyay | Haymarket Books (19 September 2019) ISBN-10: 1642590509 ISBN-13: 978-1642590500
Review by Sankar Ray
The rarity of scholarship, taken randomly, is manifest in the manner Chattopadhyay reads Marx’s magnum opus, ‎’Das Kapital:Kritik der politischen’ (Capital: A Critique of Political Economy). He compares this with the French version, Le Capital, written by Marx, (…)

BOOK REVIEW
by Kaki Madhava Rao
From a Shepherd Boy To An Intellectual—My Memoirs By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Published by Samya/Sage/ Select New Delhi PP 360, 2019
Kancha Ilaiaha Shepherd’s first book, Why I am not Hindu, published in 1996’ made waves both in India and abroad.
Having read that book and his subsequent books, Post Hindu India and Turning the Pot and Tilling the Land, I quickly started reading his just released Autobiography, From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual—My (…)

DOCUMENT
Binoy Viswam 116, North Avenue New Delhi - 110 001 [Phone & email]
To
Shri Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Information and Broadcasting Government of India
Date: 27.07.2020
Respected Shri Prakash Javadekar ji,
The demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 and the subsequent mobilization around the Ram Janbhoomi Temple in Ayodhya has been a source of conflict and disharmony in the country for decades now. Despite the ruling of the Hon’ble Supreme Court, the fissures (…)

The arrest of Prof. Babu can be seen as part of the attempt to criminalize dissent, as was seen in the arrests of students who participated in the anti-CAA protests, and portends ominous times ahead for the academic community. It is extremely unfortunate that academic censorship and criminal vitiation of academic spaces stares us in the face and we rise in complete protest and rage. In this hour of strife and challenge, teachers from across the country have expressed their complete solidarity with Prof. Hany Babu and his family.

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July 20, 2020
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STATEMENT ON RIGHTS OF MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE PANDEMIC CONTEXT AND BUILDING A POSTCOVID ECONOMY IN ODISHA
Development Research Institute, Bhubaneswar had started a process of continuous information (…)

As Covid 19 has created havoc all rounds, the rulers of certain countries are using it to further intensify their set agendas. The democratic freedoms are being curtailed in certain forms

The Modi Government’s decision to nominate Ashok Lavasa, an Election Commissioner, who was slated to become the next Chief Election Commissioner in April 2021, as a Vice President of Asian Development Bank has fateful implications for democracy.

by Bhumika Rajdev
July 30, 2020
According to the 2011 census, the total population of transgender is around 4,87,803 out of which 57.06% are literate as compared to 74% of the total population. In 2011, there were 54,854 trans children in the age bracket 0-6 years. Therefore, these children are in the age group 10-16 years today and they should have been in our schools. As per supreme court judgement in 2014, they should be recognised as ‘Third gender’ and should get admission under the (…)

by Dr. Atulkrishna Biswas “Possession was taken of the town and the Temple of Jagannath by the British on September 18, 1803; the sacred will of the idol having been first ascertained through the medium of the officiating priest.” —J. Melville to Military Secretary to Lord Wellesley, Governor-General, 26 September 1803.
Part-I Jagannath Temple, Puri surrendered to East India Company, 1803!
18th September 1803 marked the black day which saw the launch of a campaign for “occupation of (…)