2024

THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS has at last come out with its election manifesto, now that all the assembly elections of 2023 are over. It’s a bit too late, though. The general elections in India start on April 19. Hardly two weeks for people to read the Congress manifesto, decide and give a conscious thumbs up for this party.
Within ten minutes of the manifesto going public, Whatsapp posts were flooded with the misinformation that the Congress manifesto promised to bring back the Triple (…)

The forthcoming general election in India, scheduled from April 19, 2024, to June 1, 2024, to elect the 543 members of the 18th Lok Sabha and the new Government of India, carries immense significance for the preservation of India’s identity as a liberal, secular, and constitutional democracy. The prevailing fascist ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), coupled with the authoritarian rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the dictatorship of Mr. Narendra Modi, poses a grave (…)

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Who is this person and able to beat the Zamindars and civil servants of the village and planted his name in the minds of the villagers. He was an ordinary school teacher but turned into a household name in Odisha. People in Baragarh came to the bookshop demanded Acharya’s book. In the universities today Professors advise their Ph D students to take help the translation books of Baikuntha Acharya to improve one’s English which can help them to (…)

With all the States in southern region of the country going to polls in the first four phases - April 19 to May 13 - the election campaign by all parties is in full swing in this region. Among the States Tamil Nadu will be the first one to have the polling in one day - on April 19. The other States which will have polling in one day are Kerala - April 26, Andhra Pradesh and Telengana - May13. Karnataka which has 28 seats will have election in two phases - April 19 for 14 seats and April (…)

How did Mukhtar Ansari die? It is a matter of concern because the reasons given for a jailed inmate’s death ought to be made public and there ought to be an accompanying rationale. If several well-known politicians and Mukhtar Ansari’s own immediate family have raised serious doubts over the government’s given ‘heart attack’ theory, then the concern only compounds.
Today a sense of fear prevails. Such is the scare of the government machinery that no citizen can dare to cry out in (…)

Abstract:
Despite being born in an untouchable family and experiencing persistent caste discrimination, Ambedkar remained steadfast in his fight for justice and dignity for the depressed classes, including women. His contributions to public life were overlooked, and the social elites dismissed his overall accomplishments, labelling him only a Dalit leader. However, Dr. Ambedkar was a city on a hill that could not be hidden, a beacon of knowledge that simply refused to dissipate. How the (…)

Introduction
The national election time in India has started and in June India will have a new government in place based on these election results. These are widely regarded as very important elections for the country. While ideally elections are about considering and debating the various paths of socio-economic development, politics and governance, continuity and change, in practice a comprehensive view on various important issues seldom emerges in various election debates. To (…)

The historical revisionism that attempts to reshape the collective memory of anti-fascism in Slovenia and in the territory of the former Yugoslavia is only a part of historical revisionism. The other part relates to the dissolution of Yugoslavia and Slovenia’s attainment of independence.
Historians from the area of the former Yugoslavia, have a great deal of experience with historical revisionism as one of the key pillars of today’s authoritarian and fascistic regimes. Recently, we pointed (…)

Is There A Level Playing Field?
April 11, 2024
Dear Shri Rajiv Kumar/Shri Gyanesh Kumar/Dr. S.S. Sandhu,
We are a group of former civil servants who have served the Central and State governments in various capacities. We have no affiliation with any political party but are strongly committed to the ideals enshrined in the Constitution of India.
In the Election Commission of India (ECI) meeting with officers nominated as Election Observers on 11 March 2024, the Chief Election (…)