2024

After having pounded Gaza for over three months killing more than 26,000 Palestinians, during the course of which Israel also attacked Children’s hospitals and refugee camps in West Bank, on the pretext of flushing out Hamas fighters from there, Israel, with the help of its western allies, is doing the most unthinkable thing – trying to stop the humanitarian help to the beleaguered citizens of Gaza reaching through United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near (…)

The order of the International Court of Justice is a root-and-branch rejection of the Western consensus that Israel has no case to answer for the devastation it has caused in the Gaza Strip
Mukul Kesavan
January 28, 2024
The order of the International Court of Justice on South Africa’s request for provisional measures to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip is, in the words of The Economist, a “stinging rebuke” to Israel. It’s more than that; it is a root-and-branch rejection of the (…)

The country’s domestic politics are becoming dysfunctional just when Berlin’s leadership on the world stage may be needed most.
by James Angelos
Germans have long considered the blandness of their politics to be a virtue.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a man whose seeming automation earned him the sobriquet “Scholzomat,” was voted into office on an unspoken promise to keep German politics boring. He depicted himself as a guarantor of stability and as the natural heir to his predecessor, (…)

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PRESS RELEASE
1st February 2024
Record Tenth Anti-Farmer, Anti-People Budget in a Row by Modi-led BJP Government
No Step to Ensure Legal Guarantee of MSP@ C2+50%
Promise of Doubling Farmers’ Income a Farce; Aimed at Maximising Corporate Profits
The Narendra Modi-led BJP Government is (…)

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Press-Release
Dt. 1st February, 2024
The interim budget presented by Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman today has been disappointing, said CPI Parliamentary Party Leader Binoy Viswam. One steady trend of the BJP government is to reduce corporate tax to benefit the rich and that has continued, while the common people are denied the same protection. Finance Minister’s speech seemed like an attempt to present a blooming picture of the (…)

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Press Release Date: Thursday, February 1, 2024
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
Interim Budget 2024-25:
Modi ’Development Model’ – Enriching the Rich by Squeezing the Poor
Despite the tall claims made by the Finance Minister about the state of India’s economy, the interim Union Budget for 2024-25 reveals the grim economic situation confronting India’s working people and the (…)

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Press Statement — 2nd February, 2024
Over 250 citizens condemn the harassment by Indian State agencies of Dr. Harsh Mander, Director Centre for Equity studies, New Delhi
Demand closure of the FIR filed by the CBI and all other investigations underway
We the undersigned unequivocally condemn the continued victimisation and intimidation of Dr. Harsh Mander. We are deeply disturbed by the raid on the morning of 2nd February, 2024 at the (…)

BOOK REVIEW
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City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh by Zeyad Masroor Khan
Harper Collins India 2023 Pages: 297 Price: INR 599/- (Hardcover) ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9356998248 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9356998247
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The book under review is a memoir of a young Muslim. It explores the everyday Hindu-Muslim strifes in the U.K (Upar Kot, not to be confused with the United Kingdom), a part of the town of Aligarh (130 kms southeast of Delhi) in Uttar Pradesh, since the 1990s. The memoir can partly (…)

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by Radhakanta Barik
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Caste, State and Society:
Degrees of Democracy in North India
by Jagpal Singh
Routledge India 2021 / 330 Pages ISBN 9780367559748 __0__
It is an interesting work to explain the position of MBC (Most backward castes) in the context of social economic and political changes happened after Independence. This is a rare study with detailed analysis of capitalism and its impact on the various castes specifically (…)

* Post-Ram temple inauguration politics | P S Jayaramu
* Multiple Meanings of Consecration Ceremony of Ram Temple | Arup Kumar Sen
* The nation is not a map drawn on a piece of paper | S D Saxena
* Electoral uncertainty casts a shadow over Sri Lanka | Neil DeVotta
* The necessity of equality | Harry Shutt