2025

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The auto met the electric car,
In a perfect perpendicular
On the Janpath road, where
Children, men, and women
Horses, tanks and planes,
Come together every year to
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Com. Prakash Karat, where are you? The people of Cheemeni (Kerala) are waiting for you.
Dear Com. Prakash Karat,
I trust you are aware that the government, led by your party, is in talks to construct two nuclear power plants in the Cheemeni area of Kerala’s Kasaragod district, each with a 220 MW generating capacity.
As an anti-nuclear activist who supported you and Com. Sitaram Yechury, the backers of the movement against the Jaitapur nuclear power plant project in the Ratnagiri (…)

Woven with words, holding the rope,
His blessings, I crossed the threshold.
— Kabir [1]
A saint-poet of medieval times Kabir was a rationalist, a social activist and a visionary.
The poem depicts his strong urge to cross over to the other side, from the materialistic worldly existence to the other, that of simple life and purposeful living. He was looking for a cross-over, and he managed it, holding on to

Privatization holds within itself a great source of anxiety and trepidation for some and hope and excitement for others. Privatization for some is opposed to state, its hope stems from the fact that capital can get some separation from the state, there is an unsaid acceptance that private capital is more efficient, accountable and responsible and direct investment in the public sphere leads to leakage and wastage. Some of us think of this movement towards private capital as part of a (…)

When JFK (As John. F. Kennedy, 36 th President was called) gave his inaugural dinner in White House after winning 1960 election, dubbed as mother of all elections between him and sitting Veep, Richard Nixon (Who subsequently became 37th president in 1968 and repeated his victory in 1972, but had to resign in 75 after Watergate scandal), he had invited all US- based Nobel laureates in the field of medicine, chemistry, physics, literature, economics and peace. Contrast this with list of (…)

On 20th January evening , soon after his swearing in ceremony, President Donald Trump signed an order to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and immediately dispatched a letter to the United Nations explaining his decision.
This is a very unfortunate decision especially 2024, the very first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit. This would potentially impacts all efforts to tackle the rising temperatures, stall threatening global warming that is challenging the survival of (…)

January 22, 2025
Donald Trump formally assumed office on 20th January. In his inaugural address, Trump made certain announcements which are being interpreted across the world for their implications for the United States as well as the outside world. Here is an attempt to provide a tentative reflection of his policy statements, as a definitive assessment of his policies will have to wait for the passage of time.
In his inaugural address, President Trump described 20th January as the

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Communist Party of India
Central Office
New Delhi,
January 21, 2025
Press Release
CPI on Imperialist and Reactionary Doctrine of President Trump
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (January 21, 2025) the following statement:
Donald Trump’s inaugural speech marks a troubling shift in global politics, reflecting overt imperialism and a vision to consolidate American dominance at the expense of international cooperation and equity.
Trump’s (…)