2025

I see it every day. Feminist advice for the current regime. Don

New Delhi, 30 November 2025
AIKS opposes the Compromise Proposal of ITPGRFA Demands to withdraw Draft Seed Bill 2025 !
AIKS appeals to farmers to Observe 10Th December Nationwide Protest Day !
AIKS calls to burn the copies of Draft Seed Bill & Compromise Proposal of ITPGRFA !
New Delhi, India 30 Nov 2025

Communist Party of India
Central Office
New Delhi
December 5, 2025
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today December 5, 2025) the following statement:
For years, we have cautioned the Union Civil Aviation Ministry and the Government of India that allowing near-monopoly control in the civil aviation sector would ultimately compromise passenger safety, burden pilots and crew, and strengthen private airlines at the cost of public interest. The current (…)

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]
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The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care
by Carl Ohman
University of Chicago Press
2024. 200 pp.
(cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-82822-0
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Reviewed by Tanya Goyal (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
The internet never dies

* Few Questions To those who, during the Bihar election campaign, tarred Lalu Prasad Yadav years in Govt as "Jungle Raj" | Suresh Khairnar
* The Importance of Being Hidma | Kobad Ghandy
* The spectral presence of Christians in Indian politics | John Dayal
* The

This photograph is from 1992. Lalu Prasad Yadav had become Chief Minister of Bihar for the first time in 1990 after the elections that followed the 1989 Bhagalpur riots. Soon after he took over, when news arrived of riots breaking out in Sitamarhi during the Durga Puja idol immersion, Lalu Prasad reached Sitamarhi from Patna by helicopter in the darkness of night itself. The moment he landed, he walked through the lanes of Sitamarhi on foot, appealing to people to restore peace. If this was

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a far-sighted strategist for his party the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has, with the much-needed proactive assistance of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar Gupta, achieved in the just concluded Bihar assembly elections, what the BJP had only been dreaming of but never really imagined to achieve.
First and foremost, he has clipped the wings of Chacha Paltu Ram and reduced him to a mere puppet on the Sanghi string. Nitish Kumar kept hopping from BJP

Democracy demands magnanimity in victory and dignity in defeat. These values are fast eroding in our political landscape. Amidst this decline, Justice B. Sudershan Reddy, the India Bloc

by John Dayal
There are hardly any Christian MPs and MLAs in India other than those elected on a political party ticket from Kerala, Andhra, Telangana, West Bengal, Karnataka, Goa, Orissa and the tiny-population north east states of Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal and Manipur.
There are almost none in the Hindi states of the Central and northern parts of India. The exception are a very few Adivasis of the Chhotanagpur contiguous belt. The total number of ministers in the Union (…)

It was the late 1990s. Anu, my late wife, had just returned from spending 3 years in Bastar with the armed guerrillas. She would often say it was the best years of her life, though it took a toll on her health, finally leading to her death. Though her arthritic knees gave her much problems and she would regularly stumble over the rough terrain, she was much loved by the simple tribals. Having picked up a spattering of Gondi (she would say it was akin to Tamil), she would talk at length of (…)