2020

IMPRESSIONS
Virus cannot beat humour. A fun story circulating on the internet is titled «Class of 2025.» A delightfully strict school teacher calls out her class attendance ... Quarantine Joshi, Lockdown Singh Rathore, Covid Awasthi, Corona Pal Singh, Social Distan Singh, Mask Mahto, Gloves Gaekwad, Wuhan Bhadoria. When Wuhan does not respond, she warns: «Wuhan! You and Covid are very naughty. Get out of my class.» She admits in motherly style that her favourite student is Atmanirbharan (…)

by Debatra K. Dey (Dept. of Economics, Srikrishna College, Bagula, W.B)
It was probably the first time in India under the regime of liberal economy that the gap between India and Bharat became prominent when the Report of the National Commission For Enterprise in the Unorganised Sector in 2007 mentioned that ‘It concentrates on a detailed analysis of the conditions of work and lives of the unorganised workers consisting of about 92 per cent of the total workforce of about 457 million (as (…)

by Nayakara Veeresha
27.05.2020
Keywords: Alienation, Governance, Labour, Rights and Law
The novel corona virus (Covid-19) has affected the economy severely apart from the health crisis resulting in growth slowdown of major sectors. The agriculture, automobile, hotel, travel and tourism, manufacturing and services sectors are at the receiving end where in the production process has stagnated and curtailed the delivery of essential and non-essential goods. The national lockdown in India (…)

by Anand K. Sahay
As the year turned, however, it became evident that the local terrorists who had stayed under the radar began to find their stride
We will do well to recall that the fundamental reason cited in August 2019 for dissolving the state of Jammu and Kashmir — whose maharaja acceded to India on terms that explicated a clearly enunciated autonomy — was that the existence of this autonomy engendered a “separatist” mindset in the Valley.
That false premise produced the false (…)

Jarva Chowki is a rural hamlet located in Atarra Gramin Panchayat of Banda District (Uttar Pradesh). This hamlet is inhabited by 45 Muslim households.
The normal day-to-day life here is a life of extreme poverty and deprivation. While the account below deals with the pre-lockdown days, it can be seen clearly from this account how difficult lockdown can be in a community like this which suffers from lack of basic needs even in normal times.
The predominant reality of this (…)

DOCUMENT
Date: 22.05.2020
To Shri Narendra Modi Hon’ble Prime Minister, Government of India, New Delhi.
Ref.: Nationwide Protest on 22nd May 2020 against Draconian Changes in Labour Laws and opening floodgates of privatization of national resources and assets and other demands
Sir,
You must have received reports of nation-wide protests by mass of the workers called by joint platform of almost all the central trade unions and independent national federations of employees, held on (…)

by Anna Aslanyan
26 May 2015
Joseph Brodsky would have turned 75 on Sunday. In March, the Moscow publisher Corpus released Бродский среди нас (‘Brodsky among Us’), a memoir by Ellendea Proffer Teasley, who met the poet in 1969 in Leningrad and remained friends with him until his death in 1996. She was a graduate student at Indiana University when she went to the Soviet Union with her husband, Carl Proffer, who taught Russian at Michigan. In 1971 they set up the Ardis press in Ann Arbor, (…)

BOOK REVIEW:
by Monmayee Basu
Book : Suralakshmi Villa Author : Aruna Chakravarti Publisher : Pan Macmillan Publishing India Year of Publication : 2020 ISBN 978-93-89109-39-9
Suralakshmi Villa by Aruna Chakravarti, the well-known novelist, translator, the Sahitya Academy Award-winner, is another excellent addition to the collection of gems of books written by Indian women writers on issues of women. Extremely thought-provoking, the novel engages the mind of the readers so intensely (…)

Book Review:
by Shah Munnes Muneer*
Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance Politics: The Case of Kashmir Author: Inshah Malik Pages: 130 ISBN: 9783319953304 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (2018)
The book is a collection of different narratives collected and framed mostly through interviews across different perspectives. The author’s thrust is apparently on the subaltern section of the women-folk who according to her had affected much than those who became popular in the peoples history of (…)

by Dr. Atulkrishna Biswas
Part-I Widespread plague havoc across India
Bubonic plague, travelling from Manchuria, China, broke out in Bombay in 1896. The first case was detected at Mandvi in September. By 1917 plague deaths aggregated at 98,41,396 out of total population 31,51,56,396 returned in 1911 census. 1 The deaths represented 3.12% of subcontinental population in little over two decades! Bombay Presidency, the Punjab and United Provinces (now U. P.) together accounted for (…)