2025

Before analyzing India

Celebrating S.A. Dange

Abstract
The emergence of "civil celebrities" has transformed how civil servants interact with the public in India. Traditionally known for their quiet dedication to governance, these officials are now becoming prominent figures on social media, sharing glimpses of both their professional achievements and personal milestones. This shift, driven by platforms like X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, has blurred the line between public service and personal branding. While this (…)

The

As expected, Donald Trump, after his inauguration of second term, is unleashing the ferocious wave of unilateralism through flurry of orders. In fact, the Trump has declared a full-frontal war on rule-based multilateral world order.
The announcement that he would claim Greenland from Denmark and Panama Canal from Panama, withdrawal from the resolution of Paris climate summit and World Health Organization (WHO) and the imposition of sanction on International Criminal Court (ICC) appear (…)

Are 21st century ideologues suffering from a kind of ecotopia and a paralysis of imagination? We seem to be moving towards the slow decay of critical thinking. We don

Ismat Chughtai was a rebel woman writer in the world of Urdu fiction. In his Foreword to Ismat

1969 pamphlet by Fredy Perlman on the beginnings of the 1968 revolutionary movement in Yugoslavia.
"Heretics are always more dangerous than enemies," concluded a Yugoslav philosopher after analyzing the repression of Marxist intellectuals by the Marxist regime of Poland. (S. Stojanovic, in Student, Belgrade, April 9, 1968, p. 7.)
In Yugoslavia, where "workers’ self-management" has become the official ideology, a new struggle for popular control has exposed the gap between the official (…)

Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
February 11, 2025
Press Release
CPI on Mass Killings in Chhattisgarh
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (February 11, 2025) the following statement:
The recent encounter killings in Chhattisgarh, purportedly in the name of combating Maoist extremists, have raised serious concerns. Though the CPI has stark ideological differences with the Maoist extremists, the government’s approach of mass killings leaves no (…)

People’s Union for Civil Liberties
12th February, 2025
PUCL demands that the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) chaired by the PM, make public their assessment of causes of stampede and suggestion of measures to be taken to ensure similar disaster doesn