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Bombay After Ayodhya, A City in Flux by Jitendra Dixit
HarperCollins Publishers India
P- ISBN – 978-93-5629-411-0
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Bombay After Ayodhya, A City in Flux by Jitendra Dixit documents the change in city’s character and landscape . This book stands as a testament to author’s in- depth knowledge of the city. He loves the city and its people from the core of his heart. He knows every nooks and corner of the city. Rasheed Kidwai (…)

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Marx’s Theory of Value in Chapter 1 of Capital: A Critique of Heinrich’s Value-Form Interpretation
by Fred Moseley
Palgrave Macmillan 2023. xxix + 167 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-3-031-13209-4.
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Reviewed by Jason E. Smith (Art Center College of Design)
Marx and Method
For the past few decades, Fred Moseley, a professor of economics at Mount Holyoke College until his recent retirement in 2016, has been a leading figure in (…)

* How the RSS is using the Kolkatta rape case to mobilise | Arun Srivastava
* What the Indian Left Should Learn from Raya Dunayevskaya | Murban Jal
* Text of Citizens Statement Against Sexual Violence From Kiokata to Manipur, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Bihar, UP . . .
* Hema Committee Report on various issues faced by women in cinema (Dec 2019)

Letter to the Readers
India remains a conservative society is also reflected in the stance of our lawmakers across the political spectrum. On August 27, 2024, the Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed a bill brought in by the ruling Congress Party raising the marriage age for women from 18 to 21 years. This is a socially regressive move that mimics a bill proposed earlier by the Modi Government (The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021) but which lapsed. The age of marriage for (…)

by Arun Srivastava
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee was trolled and ridiculed for taking out a rally on August 16 in Calcutta demanding stringent punishment to the perpetrators of the horrid crime of rape on a trainee girl medic. A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to protect the dignity of women and asked the state governments to take action against these elements.
While the conscience keepers, liberal intellectuals and academics questioned the moral authority of (…)

Taking a suo motu cognisance of the gruesome rape and murder of a junior medic at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital on August 9, 2024, The Supreme Court of India’s timely assertion on August 20, 2024, is seen as a beacon of hope for women’s safety especially doctors’ safety in hospitals. The junior doctor was found dead at a seminar hall of the medical college on August 9 while the autopsy confirmed that she was raped and murdered. The heinous incident sparked nationwide outrage and protests with (…)

In recent years, there has been an increase in kidnappings in Nigeria by various groups to use this as a tool for money. Since 2014, kidnapping has become frequent in Nigeria, especially in the Northwest and North-Central parts of the country. Initially first kidnappings were carried out in 2014 by Boko Haram which kidnapped 276 students from a girl’s school in Borno state. Since then, this tactic has been used by various groups and criminal bandits who do not have any ideological (…)

29 August 2024 How many more homes will get bulldozed in the country? How many more abodes will get ruined and demolished and destroyed? I am of the opinion that bulldozing of homes is a barbaric rejoinder to crime, where not just the supposed or alleged or suspected culprit is punished but his or her entire clan. And in the latest case in Rajasthan’s Udaipur, even the landlord’s home wasn’t spared! Was there any valid justification of bulldozing the landlord’s home, whose tenants were (…)

A new phrase is getting traction in the academic circle, politics, and the de facto category of ’Not Found Suitable (NFS)’ in Indian universities across India. Indian academics are known for their brutal discriminatory practices in the interview and the selection processes in order to deprive and discriminate against the candidates belonging to the reserved classes in the name of dubious concepts like merit, objectivity, and institutional independence’ ever since the public money funds these (…)

A PTI report in The Times of India published on August 24, 2024, stated that Pakistan is in talks with banks in the Middle East to borrow approximately USD 4 billion to meet its external financial commitments for the current fiscal year. For the current fiscal year, Pakistan has pitched about USD 20 billion in foreign borrowings in the budget, besides another USD 3 billion rollover from UAE that was reported separately in the balance of payments. The IMF indefinitely postponed the approval (…)