2024

The wedding of Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, the richest business tycoon in Asia, during July 12 through 14, 2024 and the pre-wedding ceremonies spread over six months before that, have opened a window to the glaring inequality in Indian society. The vulgar display of wealth in the gaudy extravaganza became a cruel joke in the face of the mass impoverishment of millions of people in a country that houses the largest number of poor people in the world. It became a series of (…)

The general election of 2024 changed the political scenario. Each section of people of Odisha be young or old, man or woman remembers Naveen Patnaik like a hero.
Keywords: General election, defeat, hero and public policies
Introduction:
Although the BJD has got one percentage of votes more than the BJP but it lost in state assembly and all parliament seats except one for Congress , In the name of Naveen Patnaik folk songs are getting created. Here a song talks of his quality as (…)

Abstract: We are intrinsically curious creatures that we have a natural desire to understand world. To say that we are satisfying our goals depends on what to say that we have a practical interest in believing which track the world is. So, our interest in truth is an interest in the way things are. Interdisciplinary is one of the major changes that the relationship between science and the life world has experienced, putting it in the same level of relevance as the Enlightenment that has (…)

Introduction: Environmental governance is a concept in political ecology used to find best solutions to contentious issues affecting environmental management. ‘Governance’ signifies the act or process of governing to address collective needs, problems and challenges - a social function covering all instruments and mechanisms. More specifically, environmental governance in relation to public goods deals with problems of varying nature, their temporal and spatial effects, often transboundary, (…)

Backdrops: Global and internal
The Interim Budget was presented on February 1, 2024. The shelf life of the full budget for 2024-25 is barely six months. This budget has been presented in the backdrops of geo-political uncertainties and high policy rates in developed countries that affect the inflow of FDI at one level and global growth (3%) resilience and softening inflation at another.
On the domestic front, the Indian economy has recorded a high growth of 8.2% in 2023-24 even if the (…)

In the inaugural address of the Budget Session on 23rd July, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman mentioned that people have given a unique opportunity to their government to take the country on the path of strong development and all-round prosperity. In the interim budget, the government promised to present a detailed roadmap during the full budget in July for the government’s pursuit of ‘Viksit Bharat’. In line with the strategy set out in the interim budget, she mentioned that this full (…)

India is a land of many contradictions.
There was a time when it mesmerised people outside for being ’saperon ka desh’ or many such exquisite things
Much water has flowed down the various rivers here but it’s core essence perhaps remains intact
With the advent of Hindutva Supremacists at the top - who supposedly want India ( rather Hindu India) to be among the top notch countries of the world but who still yearn for a mythic past, such scenes have become a common sight where "Sengol’ - (…)

originally published in La critique sociale 10 (Nov 1933): 159-65, 11 (Mar 1934): 205-11.
CHAPTER II: THE STATE
In the contemporary period, social homogeneity is linked to the bourgeois class by essential ties: thus the Marxist conception is justified whenever the State is shown to be at the service of a threatened homogeneity.
As a rule, social homogeneity is a precarious form, at the mercy of violence and even of internal dissent. It forms spontaneously in the play of productive (…)

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PRESS RELEASE
DUJ BLASTS PRESS GAG IN PARLIAMENT
The Delhi Union of Journalists is shocked at the government’s move to restrict the movement of accredited journalists inside (…)

Press Statement
The following joint statement is issued to the press by the Platform of Central Trade Unions on 31st July 2024
CTUs oppose Union Budget 2024-25 - exercise of betrayal yet again Pressing economic issues side stepped – Corporates catered Clarion Call for Nationwide protests on 9th August 2024 Union Budget 2024-25 of the NDA coalition government has come out as another colossal betrayal on the people. BJP has failed to learn lesson from its drubbing in the elections. It (…)