2025

All India trade Union Congress (AITUC)
New Delhi,
February 1, 2025
Press Statement
The following statement was released to press by AITUC as preliminary reaction on Budget 2025-2026 presented by the finance minister Ms Nirmala Sitharaman today
The Budget 2025-2026 belies hopes of workers, farmers and unemployed youth
No relief in sight for the common man from price rise of essential commodities
The Budget 2025-2026 reflects that there is continuity of policies which have (…)

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]
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The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664-1962
by Gauvin A. Bailey
McGill-Queen’s University Press
2022. 488 pp.
(cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01142-2
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Reviewed by Rachael Maxon (University of Iowa)
Bailey

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]
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The Heart of the Matter: Ilyenkov, Vygotsky and the Courage of Thought
by David Bakhurst
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2024. 402 pp., pb
ISBN 9798888902165
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Reviewed by Corinna Lotz
Bakhurst plays a kind of devil

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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream
As we mark 80 years of the liberation of German Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz [1], the openly reactionary, xenophobic, populist far-right quick fix is popular around the world [2]. Right-wing parties and their ideas have big appeal

The comments made by Sivagiri Madhom president Swami Sachithananda regarding the need to take measures to abolish the practice of forcing men to visit temples bare-chested, which he called regressive and evil, have reignited the debate over whether or not it is appropriate on the part of places of religious worship, including temples, to impose strict dress code on devotees on the grounds of the maintenance of traditional decorum and religious sanctity. The Sivagiri Madhom president

Late Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer was a champion of human rights. He

Two different views are in rage as for the current Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024. First, it is an attack on the Constitution, religious freedoms and the federal structure of India. Secondly, it does not infringe upon the freedoms of any religious community and the proposed changes are necessary to correct flaws in the current law. But inference should be drawn by going through some of the important provisions of the proposed Bill to know the fact, whether it is going to change the very nature (…)

Humble greetings today on the occasion of the 71st death anniversary of Comrade M.N. Roy, the father of ’neo-humanism’!
Narendranath Bhattacharya alias Manvendra Nath Roy (M.N. Roy is more popular), this thirteen-year-old boy was born 138 years ago, on 21st March 1887 in Bengal’s 24 Pargana district. That means Narendra was born in the last phase of the nineteenth century. And after crossing thirteen years, he devoted his life as a revolutionary. At the beginning of the twentieth century, (…)

The search for any ideological content in the Delhi Assembly elections scheduled to be held on 5 February 2025 would be like shuffling in a haystack for a needle.
But this ideological void does not appear to create any serious worry to people in the country’s capital and the centre of power. This is despite the fact that Delhi/NCR is home to a great number of important citizens: serving and retired government bureaucrats/officials, jurists/legislators, intellectuals, journalists, (…)