2022

Date: 20.10.2022
CPI to campaign for Health to be a Fundamental Right
Increase the public spending on health to 6% of GDP
The Communist Party of India (CPI) has demanded health to be a Fundamental Right. Resolution to the effect was passed unanimously at the 24th Party congress of the CPI held at Vijayawada from 14 to 18 October 2022. Dr Arun Mitra, who moved the resolution said that it is unfortunate that the despite poor health conditions of the people, health has not been given its (…)

Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
October 27, 2022
Press Communiqué
The Party Congress of Communist Party of India was held in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh from October 14 to 18, 2022.
In the Party Congress D RAJA has been unanimously re-elected as general secretary of the Party.
The newly elected national secretariat members are: 1. D Raja, General Secretary 2. Kanam Rajendran 3. Atul Kumar Anjaan 4. Amarjeet Kaur 5. Dr. K. Narayana 6. Dr. B.K. Kango 7. Binoy Viswam 8. Pallab (…)

PRESS STATEMENT
October 28th, 2022
The Editors Guild of India had issued a statement on January 11, 2022 expressing deep concern about the online harassment and targeting of women journalists.
Amongst other instances, the statement had also referred to a series of reports carried by the Wire on an app called the Tek Fog. Since the Wire has removed those stories as part of their internal review following serious questions on the veracity of their reporting, the Guild withdraws the (…)

To, Shri Bhupender Yadav ji Hon’ble Minister of Labour & Employment Govt of India Shram Shakti Bhawan Rafi Marg, New Delhi 110001
28th October 2022
Sub: Submission by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions on certain issues pertaining to Labour and Working People of India, requesting urgent intervention.
Dear Sir,
The Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent Federations/Associations, in its meeting held on 23rd September 2022 in New Delhi, unanimously resolved (…)

Book Review:
by Sobhanlal Datta Gupta*
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The Rise and Eclipse of the Soviet Civilisation.
Vol I : The Rise
Vol 2 : The Eclipse
by S.P.K. Gupta E Book
New Delhi : Evelyn Publishers
2022
Vol I : 2288 pages
Vol II : 1257 pages
Rs 500.00 each volume __0__
A book authored by a very senior journalist stationed as PTI correspondent in Moscow for quite a long period and reflecting on the fall of the Soviet Union after thirty years of its demise made me deeply (…)

Reviewed by M.R. Narayan Swamy __0__
When The Heart Speaks: Memoirs of a Cardiologist by Dr Upendra Kaul Konark Publishers Pages: 202 Price: Rs 750 __0__
There are plenty of good doctors in this country, fortunately. Yet, it is not easy to know a doctor who is a successful professional, nationally recognized and yet a warm-hearted human being whose heart bleeds for the peaceful society that Kashmir, his home state, once was.
Dr Upendra Kaul devotes much of the book to his more than (…)

* Experiences of Women Naxals from Odisha & AP | Barik & Nanda
* Who feels Guilty? | Subhash Gatade
* Unemployment Report Summary | Arun Kumar

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 22, 2022
The Congress Party which emerged out of the National Freedom movement has a long history of choosing consensus candidates for the post of its President and a real contest in internal elections for top leadership have been rare. In the past decade and more Sonia Gandhi has been its President. Rahul Gandhi had been elected President in late 2017 but he decided to resign after in July 2019 and since then the party has not had a permanent head. (…)

by Gull Mohammad Wani and Ouffee Maqbool Naik
Mahatma Gandhi after his return from South Africa was advised by Gopal Krishan Gokhale to undertake a Padyatra and meet people of all castes and communities keep the "mouth closed" and let people speak and don’t lecture them for you cannot have answers to many of their questions. The common people have a lot to tell you". Bapu as he was commonly called abided by it and moved in the length and breadth of India and thus became the (…)

by Radhakanta Barik & Manas Ranjan Nanda *
SOCIETY IN THE east coast State of Odisha is split longitudinally into Peasant and Tribal society. Both are agrarian in nature. The State has a 450 km-long coastline and populations all along the coast from north to south farm fish. Where the Daya river falls into the sea, the lagoon spreads over three districts around Puri and forms a brackish water lake, known as Chilka lake which yields a rich harvest of fish. More than a hundred kinds of (…)