2024

In India, we can observe how nationalism is a political ideology that holds devotion to one’s country as paramount to all other concerns. It was not until the late 18th century that nationalism became a widely acknowledged sentiment shaping public and private life and one of the great, if not the greatest, single determining factors of modern history, though people have always felt a solid connection to their native countries, their parents, and their governments. When the British ruled (…)

[marron]Statement by Arundhati Roy at the meeting of Working People Against Apartheid and Genocide in Gaza, at the Press Club, New Delhi, on March 7, 2024marron]
The richest, most powerful countries in the western world, those who believe themselves to be the keepers of the flame of the modern world’s commitment to democracy and human rights, are openly financing and applauding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The Gaza strip has been turned into a concentration camp. Those who have not already (…)

Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy
Press Statement Released on the 4th March, 2024
Peoples’ Forum urges for resumption of comprehensive dialogue between India and Pakistan
The Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) warmly welcomes the suggestion that New Delhi and Islamabad resume the dialogue on outstanding differences and potential fields of cooperation between them. PIPFPD welcomes the dialogue offer by the Pakistani government and (…)

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4th March, 2024
Press Statement
The Press Club of India and Press Association expresses its grave concern over the treatment meted out to award-winning journalist Asif Sultan by the J & K Government and urges the Press Council of India to institute an (…)

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Keeping Up the Good Fight From the Emergency to the Present Day by Prabir Purkayastha
LeftWord Books, New Delhi
2023 230 pages Paperback 978-93-92018-97-8 Ebook 978-93-92018-58-9
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The rather slim volume, Keeping Up The Good Fight: From The Emergency To The Present Day, by Prabir Purkayastha, having some 230 pages in all – that includes, inter alia, a Foreword and seven sections of the main text plus customary (…)

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An Education for Rita A Memoir 1975-1985
by Brinda Karat
Leftword, January 2024
(Paperback) ISBN 978-93-92018-21-3
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Brinda Karat, a former member of Rajya Sabha is one of the founders of All India Democratic Women’s Association. A member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India( Marxist) she penned down a memoir titled An Education for Rita, A Memoir 1975-1985. She dedicated the memoir to her comrades in the (…)

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This is a short but very inspiring and interesting biography of a communist activist who struggled for the rights of the poorest people in Bundelkhand region. Keeping in view the weakness of the communist parties in the Hindi belt in recent times, it may be of interest to many young people that the undivided Communist Party of India and after its division the CPI used to be very strong in the undivided Banda district (now including Banda and (…)

* Field Reports from Sandeshkhali | Arup Kumar Sen
* Against Hindutva’s appropriation of Indian radicals such as Bhagat Singh and Sahajanand | Jairus Banaji
* Justice for Gaza: Report of a Public Meeting | Indians For Palestine
* “No God, No Boss, No Husband” | Mona Eltahawy

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 2, 2024
The week began with the denial of entry into India of a Britain based University Professor who had been invited by a state government to deliver a lecture at a conference , it is very surprising that the immigration officials at the Bengaluru airport who detained and then deported the British National with a valid OCI card “informally” referred to her criticism of the RSS, the far-right Hindu nationalist organisation. Since when has it (…)