2023

Prime Minister Modi while addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on 15th August 2023 stated that India suffered slavery for a thousand years following the defeat of a small kingdom of India 1000-1200 years ago. He is the first Prime Minister of India to have said so while delivering his speech on independence day. No other Prime Minister ever made such a claim.
Modi’s Narrative of Thousand-Year-Old Slavery in India and Abroad
He did not say this for (…)

by Uttara Purandare
16 August 2023
India’s rapid development needs help, but are the consultants value for money or just cashing in on another big project?
It is monsoon season in India. This means heavy rains and as the climate crisis accelerates it can also mean disasters like landslides and floods.
It’s been no different in 2023. Indian cities, including the capital New Delhi, the financial centre Mumbai, and the tech centre Bangalore, among others, have been inundated and (…)

by Arun Srivastava
What made Narendra Modi exude the confidence of becoming the Prime Minister for the third consecutive term and hoisting the national flag at the rampart of Red Fort on August 15 in 2024 despite facing public hostility and his mentors in the RSS publicly expressing a lack of trust in his leadership, has indeed been an omerta.
Ever since Modi become the prime minister in 2014 for the first time, he has been projecting himself as the visionary, who will shape the destiny (…)

It is all very well for a good section of Opposition parties to come together and form Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A.) in their bid to defeat the authoritarian, regressive and anti-people Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as they prepare to sit together this time in Mumbai on August 31, but it is time to urgently look at their logistics to perform this stupendous task.
This cannot be achieved but by closely observing BJP management of polling booths and taking a (…)

14th August 2023
One of the key features of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has now become an Act after the “Anusandhan National Research Foundation” Bill was passed by the Parliament recently, amidst all the furore and daily walkouts in the two Houses. The nomenclature of the Act, bringing in the Hindi word Anusandhan appears a bit odd. NRF, as such, would have been alright. But, naming all Bills in Hindi is a feature of the Modi Government. While moving the Bill, the Minister (…)

Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) 139-E, Kitchlu Nagar, Ludhiana – 141001 Punjab website: idpd.org
18.08.2023
Ongoing violence in Manipur a major public health problem
Immediate effective steps needed to ease the situation
The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) issued following statement on the situation in Manipur that we, the doctors associated with Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD), strongly condemn in unequivocal terms the unabated (…)

All India Kisan Sabha
18th August 2023
Press Release
Modi-Adani-Niti Aayog Project to Corporatise Agriculture Exposed
AIKS Demands Joint Parliamentary Committee Probe
The recent investigation by The Reporters’ Collective has exposed the sinister nexus and larger design of the Modi-led Union Government, the Niti Aayog, and leading corporates led by Adani, to loot Indian farmers and consumers by corporatising Indian agriculture. The two-part investigative series, titled “Ahead of (…)

Karl Marx, the influential philosopher, economist, and social theorist, continues to remain relevant today, despite living in the 19th century. His ideas and critiques have had a profound impact on various fields, including economics, sociology, philosophy, and political science. This article explore the reasons why Marx’s ideas are still pertinent in contemporary society.
First and foremost, Marx’s analysis of capitalism remains pertinent in understanding the economic system prevalent (…)

United Nations - ohchr.org
Statements
14 August 2023
GENEVA (14 August 2023) – Two years after seizing power in Afghanistan, the Taliban continues to violate many human rights including implementing a system of total discrimination, exclusion and subjugation of women and girls, UN experts said today. The gap between promises and practices by Afghanistan’s de facto authorities has widened and the idea of a “reformed” Taliban has been exposed as mistaken, the experts said. To mark that (…)

August 8, 2023
The second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is fast approaching. Since then, Afghan women have been denied the most basic human rights in what can only be described as gender apartheid.
Only by labelling it as such and making clear the situation in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity can the international community legally fight the systematic discrimination against the country’s women and girls.
Erasing women from the public sphere is central to (…)