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Kenneth Kaunda: The Passing of an African Giant | Anil Nauriya
18 June 2021, by Anil NauriyaKenneth Kaunda, a giant of the 20th Century, has passed away. He stood in the first line of African liberation struggles and his going marks the end of an era. It is a great loss to Zambia of course, but also to Africa as a whole and to India (...) -
The Condemned Remain Condemned | TJS George
18 June 2021, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
How easily power goes to the head of politicians. When Delhi authorities were told to produce student leader Umar Khalid in Court, the police wanted to take him in handcuffs and leg chains. "Handcuffs in both hands from the backside" (...) -
Khadija’s Jail Time: A Prison Account from 1949 | Uma Chakravarti
18 June 2021, by Uma Chakravarti(Extracted from her unpublished and unfinished memoir by Uma Chakravarti)
Khadija Ansari Gupta was born in 1932 in Firanghi Mahal, Lucknow which trained ulema and was famous in the Islamic world for its rationalist syllabi which was adopted in (...) -
Reading Rabindranath Tagore in our Traumatic Times | Arup Kumar Sen
18 June 2021, by Arup Kumar SenThe great Bengali poet, writer, thinker and artist, Rabindranath Tagore published a collection of short but deep observations on life world 100 years ago. One short piece incorporated in the Bengali collection, titled Lipika, narrated the trauma (...) -
The Woman Who Was Not Afraid of Being “Unfeminine”: A Friend’s Tribute to Sharmistha Choudhury | Nandini Dhar
18 June 2021by Nandini Dhar *
Communists have their own mortuary rituals. The customary final red salute, the corpse wrapped in the red flag, the slogans and the final farewell with the Internationale – the communist death is a colourful and noisy affair. I (...) -
Essential Commodities and People | S G Vombatker
18 June 2021, by S G Vombatkereby S.G.Vombatkere*
Farm laws and food
The Farmers’ agitation starting 26 November 2020, was against three Farm Laws. The Essential Commodities Amendment Act, 2020, (ECA Act) is one of them.
ECA Act amends the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, (EC (...) -
How a Scottish graveyard in Kolkata revealed the untold stories of colonial women in India | Sayan Dey
18 June 2021by Sayan Dey *
June 16, 2021
When I was a child growing up in Kolkata, I would hear stories about the European colonisation of Bengal – the precolonial name of India’s West Bengal. These were selective narratives from a particularly male (...) -
Pandemic: Lessons to Learn | Suranjita Ray
18 June 2021, by Suranjita RayEver since Covid-19 hit India, it was apprehended that given its density of population and poor health care system, it would remain a challenging task for the state and its people to overcome the pandemic. This fear came true in the second surge (...) -
People of Bengal redefine the Marxist ideology and practice | Arun Srivastava
18 June 2021by Arun Srivastava
Usually, the left forces represent the aspirations of peasants and agricultural labourers and act as the vanguards of the agrarian movements. But in the existing political-economic scenario the left parties, their trade (...) -
Domestic Workers Are Not Just Unemployed, They May Even Lose Their Shelter | Bharat Dogra
18 June 2021, by Bharat DograDomestic workers generally lead a life of low wages and struggle for survival in Indian cities. However what they have faced in recent times is an unprecedented crisis. Periodic lockdowns have led to widespread loss of work and income. This (...)
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