2021

"Indignantly have I heard women argue in the same track as men, and adopt the sentiments that brutalize them, with all the pertinacity of ignorance," says Mary Wollstonecraft in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which was published in 1792 and "is considered the first great manifesto of women’s rights".
Genuine feminists in Kerala have been witnessing indignantly women arguing ’in the same track as men’ against a 22 year old mother, Anupama, whose infant son was forcibly taken away (…)

IMPRESSIONS
Where are we headed? Seventy-four years after independence, fifty-seven years after the death of Jawaharlal Nehru, three years after Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s death, where are we headed? Seven years after Narendra Modi changed the grammar of politics, where are we headed?
Answers to these questions should not be hurried. They must take into account some recent developments that point to new realities that have become part of our lives. The answers that come out of these (…)

by Ram Puniyani
The story of contemporary Indian society is mired by the regular outburst of violence against its religious minorities. As the Prime Minister is hugging Pope, back home the anti-Christian violence is on the constant rise, though in low-intensity endemic form. Muslims as a community have been the prominent victims with violence against them erupting at diverse places. The impact of communal violence on the social dynamics is constantly visible as the Muslim community is (…)

By Sandeep Pandey, Seema Muniz and Gopal Krishna Verma
Some people are disheartened with the disruption in children’s education due to the menace of Covid and the successive lockdowns. While a number of children are getting used to attending online classes, their counterparts from the weaker socio-economic backgrounds continue to struggle either because of unfamiliarity with technology or because of having to share a single device with their siblings and/or parents. More unfortunate (…)

by Bhabani Shankar Nayak *
The progressive Odia daily newspaper ’Dharitri’ has organised ‘Odisha Youth Conclave on Climate Change’ while celebrating its 48th birthday on 24th of November 2021. In a profit-driven mass media industry with its rent-seeking family ownerships, it is rare these days for newspapers to think about people and planet. The ’Dharitri’ and its family deserves all appreciation for being different and carrying forward the alternative visions for a better tomorrow based (…)

The political situation in various states or provinces of India can differ. The analysis presented here is mainly in the context of the following states—Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Punjab, Haryana,Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi. These states are mainly located in North and Central India where Hindi is commonly spoken, even though this may not be the main language in all the states. Some of these states are due for Assembly elections next year.
In these (…)

by P S Jayaramu *
20th November 2021
Indira Gandhi’s 104th birth anniversary passed off quite unnoticed. While it is understandable that the BJP led Government would not attach any significance to it, the Congress Party too was subdued in observing it. To the best of my knowledge, no national newspaper carried any editorial or article as a mark of her birth anniversary on19th November. Is Indira Gandhi fading away in the national imagination?
While it is well known that Indira was (…)

by Shubham Sharma *
Jawaharlal Nehru was the first prime minister of independent India. A romantic at heart he was a puissant anti-colonial nationalist who saw British colonialism as the chief contradiction plaguing India. It was deliverance from it that mattered to him the most. And it was to fulfil this goal that he dedicated his life to without much fanfaronade.
Nehru’s era was that of the twilight of colonialism wherein the colonial empires were on the wane and the anti-colonial (…)

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Statement issued by Binoy Viswam, Leader of CPI Parliamentary Group & Secretary, National Council on Suspension from 255th Session of Parliament
The Government has once again showed its authoritarian and dictatorial face as it suspends 12 Members of Parliament, including myself, for the events that occurred on 11th August 2021 during the 254th (…)

‘Primitive Accumulation’ is a seminal theoretical concept used by Karl Marx to trace the genesis of capitalism. He characterized it as “an accumulation which is not the result of the capitalist mode of production but its point of departure”. The history of primitive accumulation includes “those moments when great masses of men are suddenly and forcibly torn from their means of subsistence, and hurled onto the labour-market as free, unprotected and rightless proletarians”. Again, to put it in (…)