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All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS)
AIKS Office: Ajoy Bhavan, 15 Indrajit Gupta Marg, opp Bal Bhavan, New Delhi-110002
President : Rajan Kshirsagar (Cell: +91 9860488860) General Secretary : Ravula Venkaiah (Cell : 9490952231) Tel. No. 011 - 41052522 Fax No : 011-23235543 E-Mail : allindiakisansabha[at]gmail.com
Press Release : 3rd April 2025 : AIKS on US Tariff
All India Kisan Sabha Condemns U.S. Economic Aggression and Indian Government’s Surrender
New Delhi, 3rd April 2025

Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
April 4, 2025
Press Release
CPI Rejects the Waqf Legislations
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (April 4, 2025) the following statement:
The Communist Party of India rejects the Waqf legislation in its entirety, which is an assault on secularism and equality in the garb of reform. This Bill strips away key legal protections, centralizes control and enables state interference in religious endowments, violating (…)

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Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur Was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent
by Nandita Haksar
Speaking Tiger
ISBN: 978-93-5447-701-0
Year:2023
Price: Rs 399/-
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Manipur has been engulfed in violence since May 3, 2023. So far, hundreds have lost their lives, countless homes have been destroyed, and thousands remain displaced in relief camps. The economy has collapsed, and the education system lies in ruins. (…)

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Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding of Transformative Mode of Production
by Sunil Ray
Germinal Publications, Kolkata
2024
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The author is hopeful about the future of the world and

* Need to go beyond puerile

A public performance of an acclaimed stand up comedian in India was attacked recently in Mumbai by a mob of supporters of the ruling state govt, he is now facing defamation charges framed by the state police [1], around the same time a Palestinian man a co-director of an Oscar winning documentary was nearly lynched by Israeli settlers & then detained in the West Bank [2]; and elsewhere a comedian was arrested in Russia for supposedly mocking war invalids [3]. Tough in different (…)

Overall regional Bias
Haryana’s budget of Rs205017 crore for 2025-26 was presented by the CM and Finance Minister (FM) Naib Singh Saini on 17th March 2025. It shows an increase of 13.70 % compared to 8.38% in the previous year

Violence against the Muslim community in diverse forms has become an organic part of statecraft in BJP-ruled India. The genealogy of such violence is a long one. A classic case is the Bhagalpur riots in Bihar in 1989. Very recently, Tanweer Fazal has narrated and analyzed the mode of production and reproduction of this anti-Muslim violence in his book, Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India. (Three Essays Collective, 2024)
While narrating the roots of such violence, (…)

Abstract: A new spirit of materialism, and sensual indulgence began to take root after World War II. As the commercialization of identity took an aura of prestige, the argument that the unauthorized advertising use of one

Evidence so far surfaced in the case of sacks full of currency notes in the bungalow of Justice Yashwant Varma of the Delhi High Court, leads anyone to believe that this raises questions on Justice Varma