2025

Via the Facebook Page of Dipankar Bhattacharya — May 28, 2025
Following the extra-judicial killing of CPI(Maoist) general secretary Comrade Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju in the Narayanpur massacre on 21 May, the Modi government seems to be in a celebratory mode. While Home Minister Amit Shah called it ’a landmark achievement in the battle to eliminate Naxalism’, promptly endorsed as a ’remarkable success’ by PM Narendra Modi, the BJP Karnataka unit used a meme showing Amit Shah (…)

While the centrist-liberal Congress was unforgiving towards the Naxalites, but the right wing forces led by RSS and BJP are determined to wipe out the Maoists from the political map of the country and create a ’Maoist Mukta Bharat’ (Maoist Free India), as just they had pledged to create ’Congress Mukta Bharat’, soon after Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, which nonetheless could not be accomplished.
Ever since rightwing Modi government came to power eleven years ago at least 1000 (…)

The resignation letter of the first General Secretary of the CPI(M), P. Sundarayya

On the occasion of 61st death anniversary of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru
On 27 May 1964, I was eleven years old when the news of Jawaharlal Nehru’s death came. There is a taluka named Shindkheda in Dhule district of Maharashtra, where I had gone to spend summer holidays at my aunt’s house. And my aunt had bought a good radio of that time from the Philips company. So, before 2 o’clock in the afternoon on 27 May 1964, I was shocked to hear the news of Jawaharlal Nehru’s death being broadcast by (…)

HE IS SUBTLE. So, he is less discussed than the younger Bollywood actors who are at best a few films old. Less written about in

Code named Operation Sindoor, India

May 27, 2025
From battlefield resilience to diplomatic advantage, Pakistan emerges stronger-yet lasting peace demands more than wartime unity
by Mazhar Abbas
Undoubtedly, Pakistan emerged stronger both on the war as well as diplomatic front following the April 22nd Pahalgam incident in Indian-held Kashmir. While war rarely brings joy, when a country faces aggression and responds decisively, it can offer a momentary sense of relief and national pride.
As always, truth is the first (…)

As expected, a US federal judge, Allison Burroughs, an Obama appointee, extended the status quo order even against the decision of the Trump administration barring Harvard from enrolling international students. Not content with freezing of 2.2 billion endowment funds of Harvard, one of the oldest and storied Ivy League institutions in the United States, and most prestigious Universities of the world, the Trump administration has further intensified its attack by issuing flurry of retributive (…)

Ashoka University professor, Ali Khan Mahmudabad, was recently arrested by the Haryana police over his remarks in the social media that allegedly

If Socialist Party (India) would have been in power it would have pursued a completely different foreign policy. It would have not wasted any more time in trying to prove that Pakistan is a patron of terrorism. Narendra Modi has already tried it for the 11 years he has been in power. He has probably visited every country on earth and the prominent ones a number of times. He has left no opportunity to label Pakistan as a source of terrorism. But the world is not convinced of that. United (…)