2025

A female student and leading member of the BJP

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The New India, like the old one, is a land of miracles. Western visitors admired Indians for walking on water and the rope-trick. Now, they love its Nonbiological Being (NB) who claims in human voice that he is not human! Moses split the sea. Prophet Muhammad split the Moon. NB split society, a feat no less than splitting the atom.
Indophiles, who come to explore exotica, find that the New India is not beguiled by modernity. They interview (…)

Supreme Court

The Indo-Pacific region has become a pivotal geopolitical and economic hub, but it is under increasing risk from Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. The article addresses the complex influence of IUU fishing on marine ecosystems, regional maritime security, and coastal communities’ livelihood. Case studies from Indonesia’s Lombok and Sunda Straits are examined, and local issues and responses are identified. The function of multilateral forums like the Quad countries (the four (…)

July 18, 2025
Opposition to the National Education Policy in Maharashtra isn

Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
July 24, 2025
Press Release
CPI expresses its anguish and concern at increasing starvation deaths in Gaza, Condemns Complicity of Israel, US, UK, EU

Citizens for Democracy
F-1/A Shalimar Garden, Sahibabad
Uttar Pradesh
The following is an appeal made by the Citizens for Democracy to the President of India to restore the independence of the Election Commission of India.
A public appeal to the Hon

Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
July 27, 2025
Press Release
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (July 27, 2025) the following statement:
The Communist Party of India expresses its deep sorrow at the passing of eminent journalist and steadfast progressive voice, Comrade Sumit Chakravartty, in Kolkata.
Sumit Chakravartty was a distinguished journalist and a committed intellectual who upheld the highest values of truth, justice and secularism (…)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)
[July 25, 2025]
Condemn Bombay High Court’s Anti-Constitutional Observations
The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the observations of the Bombay High Court bench while rejecting an application by the Party to challenge the Mumbai Police’s refusal to allow a protest action against the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
While doing so, the court went to the extent of calling into question the patriotism of the Party. Ironically, the bench (…)

The Editors Guild of India
Press Statement
July 28, 2025
The Editors Guild of India condoles the death of its former general secretary and Mainstream weekly editor, Mr Sumit Chakravartty.
Mr Chakravartty passed away in Kolkata on Saturday after battling a long illness.
Mr Chakravartty was the general secretary of the Editors Guild of India between 1999 and 2001. He had also held other positions in the Guild.
Mr Chakravartty