2022

Two newspaper headlines define Sri Lanka as it was on the 10th of July 2022 that an Indian newspaper The Sunday Express headlined the previous day’s story as “Colombo Overthrow.” The 4 September 2022 edition of the same newspaper captioned its story as “Gotabaya gets special security and bungalow on return to Colombo.”
The first story related to former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s great flight to escape the raging public on Colombo streets. The second story descibed how Gotabaya, the (…)

An arcane intra-Marxist debate has suddenly resurfaced, on social media, following the parting of ways of former Politburo member Kavita Krishnan with her party, the CPI(ML) Liberation. Arguments from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s — especially those that crystallized after Khruschev’s disclosures about the Stalin era — are being retailed all over again. I am not particularly interested in these arguments, having both once been on the other side, defending Stalin and then having gone through (…)

An Open Letter to Mr. Rahul Gandhi and His Team of Yatris
Dear Mr. Rahul Gandhi,
Vanakkam! First of all, please accept India’s sincere thanks for shouldering this great responsibility of defending our Republic, and saving our citizens from the Fascist onslaught along with hundreds and thousands of our people from across the country.
When we all met on August 22, 2022, at the Constitution Club in Delhi, I pointed out the Sangh Parivar’s nightmarish vision of establishing a divisive (…)

by Arun Srivastava
Sceptics are apprehensive of the real objectives of the Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, whether it has been launched to check the spread of the rightist forces, communalising the Indian society and restore the dignity and prestige of the Constitution or to unite the Congress. They also seek a clarification about the capability of Rahul Gandhi in uniting the Congress as the party has lost its mooring and credibility after he emerged as the new face of the party. (…)

by Rohit Kumar *
As state assembly’s elections are approaching in Himachal Pradesh many new factors and issues have found their headway in state politics in last few months. Where the results of five assemblies’ elections recently have once again established that the BJP is new dominant political force of the country, the victory for Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab state assembly’ elections created tensions for the political parties in upcoming elections in Himachal and Gujarat. Other than this (…)

It is now crystal clear that there are only two things that motivate Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi to act. One, the desire to suppress the citizens, not Muslims alone under the heavy spiked boots of his alma mater the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with all its widely spread tentacles all around the country and even across the seas. Second, to obliterate each and every achievement of the Nation under primarily the Congress party which like any Swaymsevak pracharak he should be resenting (…)

by Anshu Srivastava *
Gandhi’s entire life can be underlined by the word satyagraha as he continued fighting against racial discrimination in South Africa, the British rule in India and ugly social practices like untouchability in his own society. Perhaps the application of satyagraha tothe practice of untouchability remains unique as Gandhi was amongst the few nationalist leaders who envisioned its end. His understanding of limits of both ‘rationality and violence’ and superiority of (…)

by Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Orthodoxies are ideas, beliefs, traditions, knowledge, institutions, policies, processes and practices that domesticate people and the planet. The cultural, religious, political and ideological orthodoxies are driving the world towards a dangerous situation, where reactionary forces dominate politics, society and economy. It also create and facilitate oligarchical monopolistic environment. The oligarchical political and economic systems destroy democratic and (…)

by Chinmay Sanjay Bendre and Jayati Chetan Mistry
Abstract:
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an actor, social reformer, feminist, freedom fighter, reviver of Indian handicrafts, and a global proselytizer of Satyagraha. She was a woman who was years ahead of her time and a romantic renegade. She was possibly the first leader to involve women in the struggle for liberty. Kamaladevi promoted femininity as a common cause while representing India at the International Alliance of Women in Berlin (…)

by Vachaspati Shukla *
Despite government-mandated education, too many Indians remain unable to read and write. It’s time to revisit the policies.
Lack of literacy can have serious implications for employability. Conversely it can also be a major hurdle for applying for public welfare. The lack of basic literacy can influence someone’s resilience to setbacks, stress, feeling of well-being and the extent to which they feel in control of their lives.
‘Literacy’ is a complex and dynamic (…)