2024

All India Kisan Sabha
Press release on Waynad Disaster 30 July 2024
All India Kisan pays heartfelt condolences to the citizens, farmers and labourers who died in the natural calamity of Wayanad landslide in Kerala...! For the rescue & relief work of landslide victims, AIKS workers in Kerala are active along with LDF Kerala Government machinery which is working on war footing.
The Narendra Modi-led Union Government should immediately activate all its machinery NDRF Military for the (…)

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Russian Revolution and the Indian Freedom Struggle Conceptualization: Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, Editor: Jaya Mehta Aakar Books, Delhi
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Twenty First century India view the images of struggles that suit its history, economic structure and social base to get rid of an exploitative system that is more entrenched today than what was imagined under Imperialism during the last century. In fact, the Freedom movement in India had a (…)

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Aruna Roy’s memoir published by HarperCollins under the title ‘The Personal is Political –An Activist’s Memoir’ has attracted a lot of attention within a short time, and for good reason. A part of the reason relates to what Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze say in their comment on the book, “Aruna Roy reflects on a life of deep engagement, weaving the personal and the political. A great inspiration.”
For most people Aruna Roy is a highly inspiring (…)

RSS is the biggest organization in the World. It aims at working for Hindu Rashtra and also claims that it is a Cultural Organization. It is as such striving for Nationalism (Hindu)’ contrary to the one underlined in our Constitution, Indian Nationalism. It regards Hindus as a Nation and so it has set its goal. Times and over again one or the other top leader of BJP voices the demand for scrapping the Indian Constitution and proclaiming that we should become a Hindu Rashtra. RSS (…)

* Statement by General Secretary AITUC on the Union Budget 2024
* With per capita allocation of Rs.638/- health budget a joke | IDPD
* Union Budget 2024-25 for Corporatisation of Agriculture | Samyukt Kisan Morcha
* Tribute to Samar Bagchi | Suresh Khairnar
* Thousands evicted in Paris ahead of 2024 Olympics | Bharat Dogra
* Toward an Explanation of the Radical | David S. D’Amato

Since 1966 there had been a ban in place on government employees participating in activities of organisations such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that propagates Hindutva supremacism & the Jamaat e Islami that pushes an Islamist ideology. Official circulars issued by successive governments in 1966, 1970 and 1980 maintained these restrictions and the All India Service Conduct Rules for civil servants reflected these to maintain the neutrality of the state officials and prevent (…)

The election verdict for the 18th Lok Sabha saw celebrations across the country. The celebration was not confined to the victory of the political party or parties that would form the government. The mandate was also celebrated by many for electing a strong opposition alliance. As a strong opposition party privileges debates, discussions, agreements, disagreements, and dissent on issues of concern, it remains critical for the idea and practice of democracy. We see that the political parties (…)

Paris marks a shift in the way the IOC awards hosting rights for the Olympics.
The way cities host the Olympic Games is changing.
Staging the event has become such a burden, fewer cities are interested in going to the trouble.
It has meant the International Olympic Committee has had to find a new way of making the games attractive to potential hosts.
In 2017, Paris and Los Angeles were nominated to host the 2024 and 2028 Games. This double nomination was unprecedented and has (…)

As an antidote to loneliness, the Bengali adda culture has no equal.
Adda is a way of life and key to happiness for many Bengalis.
Adda can be characterised as the practice of friends gathering together for extended and informal conversations. People can spend hours in adda sessions.
Some of the traditional spaces of adda would be parlours of middle-class houses, narrow ledges along residential houses called rawk, teashops, sports pavilions, the canteens of schools and colleges.
It (…)

In his introduction for Ivan Illich’s Celebration of Awareness, Erich Fromm defined radicalism not as “a certain set of ideas,