2023

The Editors Guild of India Address: 4/7- A, INS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001
24th January 2023
Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw The Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Electronics Niketan, 6 CGO Complex, Pragati Vihar, Lodhi Road New Delhi - 110003
Subject: Concerns regarding draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021
Hon’ble Minister,
amendments to the reads (amendment in blue and (…)

All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
AITUC Office
01st February 2023
Press Release
The following statement is issued by the AITUC Secretariat on Budget 2023-24
Budget 2023-24 - Unimpressive and hollow
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman has presented her last full budget, placing it with pomp as ‘amrut kaal budget’. As usual the bombastic jugglery of words and encomiums on the Prime Minister filled the substantial part of her budget speech. In sum, the budget woefully is hollow (…)

Samyukt Kisan Morcha - Press Statement on Union Budget 2023
UNION GOVT HAS ABANDONED ITS DUTY TOWARDS FARMERS OF INDIA IN UNION BUDGET 2023
Delhi, 1st February, 2023: SKM expresses shock and bewilderment at the Union Budget 2023 announced by the Finance Minister in the floor of Parliament today.
While it is universally known that farming and farmers have been economically neglected by the BJP led Union Govt, SKM had expected that after the sustained and determined protest of the (…)

Socialist Party (India)
Press Release
THE UNION BUDGET IS A DISAPPOINTMENT
The Socialist Party (India) is of the view that the Union Budget is disappointing as it lacks clear plans and vision to address the problems of common citizens of India, especially the marginalized sections of population. To solve the problems of farmers or workers, constructive measures are not proposed. There is no relief for the farmer either in terms of promise of guaranteed Minimum Support Prices or from (…)

Reviewed by Andrew Watson (University of Saskatchewan)
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Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
by Victor Seow
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
University of Chicago Press 2021. 376 pp | ISBN 978-0-226-72199-6
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Writing in 1940 about Japan’s energy security, German economist Kurt Bloch referred to coal as “the lifeblood of modern industry.”[1] As Victor Seow makes abundantly clear, this somewhat understated coal’s importance. With (…)

* Message from Women Wrestlers Fighting Sexual Harassment is Get up and Stand up for your rights!
* How riots formed Kolkata’s ghettos | Samaddar & Bandyopadhyay
* Kerala Peoples Plan & Hegemony of the Left-front | Chathukulam & Joseph
* Digital gaming market and rising health crisis | Geeta Sinha
* Modi Govt’s Big Hydrogen Programme Poses Many Crucial Questions | Prabir Purkayastha
* The Rafael Deal: A Chit on Our Conscience | Papri Sri Raman

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 21 & 28, 2023
The Message from Women Wrestlers Fighting Sexual Harassment is Get up and Stand up for your rights!
The past few days in Delhi saw an unusual protest over sexual harassment led by women wrestlers of India of national and international acclaim, many of them gold medalists with considerable popular appeal. The wrestlers’ protest was against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brijbhushan Sharan Singh and several (…)

While celebrating the 73rd anniversary of the Republic of India it is important to be mindful that leaders of freedom struggle while struggling to make our country free from British rule demanded the establishment of a Republic. Their arduous exertions eventually got fructified on 26th January 1950 when the Constitution came into force.
Republic as Birth Right
Lokmanya Tilak’s clarion call that “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it” is fairly well known. In fact it is lesser (…)

When the Indian republic inaugurated itself on the 26th of January 1950, it was a major historic transformation in our nation’s journey towards the emancipation of its masses. After getting itself free from colonial clutches, India embarked on a journey of building a society that our freedom fighters sacrificed their lives for. That society was to build on the premise of liberty, equality, fraternity and justice as enshrined in the Preamble of our Constitution. The enactment of the (…)

Much as Modi Bhakts and the Godi media may try to dismiss the two-part BBC serial on ‘Modi question’ as nothing more than condescending western propaganda against the Indian Prime Minister and implicit western interference in sovereign India’s internal affairs, fact of the matter, it seems to have woken up Hindu Hriday Samrat, Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi to repair his profile for the foreign audience.
The BBC serial, most of which is irrefutable and fully substantiated by instances it has (…)