November 22, 2008

Shuklaji
by Shamsul Islam, Neelima Sharma
It is unbelievable but a fact now that our beloved thinker I.K. Shukla Saheb is no more. He breathed his last in San Francisco on October 17. All his friends and admirers knew about his deteriorating health problems but his everyday internet postings showed no sign of his sickness. His last posting that we received was on September 13 in which he protested against the spying (by the IB) of the SAHMAT’s activites in Delhi.
His death is an (…)

Turmoil in heaven—the heaven which is presided over by the supreme superpower of the day, possessing History’s largest number of deadly nuclear bombs and missiles, the Cruise to the Patriot, who at the same time lords it over the world’s largest money-lending bank. Yes, in such a country advertised the world over as the ultimate repository of power and affluence—in the mighty United States of America—there has erupted a spate of violence brought about by fierce racial hatred.
After the (…)

[(The following article was written on the occasion of the national anti-imprialist seminar, organised by the RSP in New Delhi on August 9, on the role of the Left in the present situation. It was not presented there but the author gave it for publication in Mainstream. Regrettably it could not be used earlier due to space constraints. —Editor)]
“My son Dr Binayak Sen is today held in jail, a victim of extreme injustice. As patriot, he devoted his entire professional life to the untiring (…)

One of the most important features of a democratic polity is elections at regular intervals. Elections constitute the signpost of democracy. These are the medium through which the attitudes, values and beliefs of the people towards their political environment are reflected. Elections grant people a government and the government has constitutional right to govern those who elect it. Elections are the central democratic procedure for selecting and controlling leaders. Elections provide an (…)