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Few Questions To those who, during the Bihar election campaign tarred Lalu Prasad Yadav years in Govt as "Jungle Raj" | Suresh Khairnar

Suresh Khairnar — 2025-11-29T10:50:54Z

This photograph is from 1992. Lalu Prasad Yadav had become Chief Minister of Bihar for the first time in 1990 after the elections that followed the 1989 Bhagalpur riots. Soon after he took over, when news arrived of riots breaking out in Sitamarhi during the Durga Puja idol immersion, Lalu Prasad reached Sitamarhi from Patna by helicopter in the darkness of night itself. The moment he landed, he walked through the lanes of Sitamarhi on foot, appealing to people to restore peace. If this was

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A quick take on Narendra Modi

Suresh Khairnar — 2025-10-11T10:58:45Z

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Narendra Modi

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What is the point of celebrating 14th August Partition Day | Suresh Khairnar

Suresh Khairnar — 2025-08-09T12:06:00Z

On the coming 15th of August, even after 78 years of our independence, 28% of the population has to go from one place to another for employment to earn their livelihood. However, the current Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi repeatedly said in his election campaign that if I make you the Prime Minister, I will give employment to two crore unemployed people every year.
This means that in the eleven years of his becoming the Prime Minister, 22 crore unemployed people should have been given (…)

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We don't want any dictator! | Suresh Khairnar

Suresh Khairnar — 2025-05-31T03:44:56Z

On the occasion of 61st death anniversary of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru
On 27 May 1964, I was eleven years old when the news of Jawaharlal Nehru's death came. There is a taluka named Shindkheda in Dhule district of Maharashtra, where I had gone to spend summer holidays at my aunt's house. And my aunt had bought a good radio of that time from the Philips company. So, before 2 o'clock in the afternoon on 27 May 1964, I was shocked to hear the news of Jawaharlal Nehru's death being broadcast by (…)

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Story of Raj Narain, the Indian Scocialist | Suresh Khairnar

Suresh Khairnar — 2025-03-15T07:12:03Z

After reading the 512 page book titled "Rajnarayan is not a name but history" edited by my Lucknow friend Shahnawaz Ahmad Qadri, I am writing this article as a self-confession and to review the book. Although Shahnawaz ji had been urging me for a long time to write something on Rajnarayan ji. But whatever I had heard about Rajnarayan ji from the leaders of the Praja Socialist Party of Maharashtra since childhood, he was nothing more than a ridiculous person. But after reading this book, I (…)

- 2025

Comrade M.N. Roy, the father of 'neo-humanism' | Suresh Khairnar

Suresh Khairnar — 2025-01-25T23:13:58Z

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, (…)

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Who killed Judge Loya? | Suresh Khairnar

Suresh Khairnar — 2025-01-04T02:22:01Z

Perhaps in my reading list of books, this will have to be included in the most surprising book of the year 2024. That is why in the state level program of West Bengal NAPM, when I was specially asked to speak as the keynote speaker, I first tried to say this book and what kind of people have India in their hands in the present times and freeing it should be our first goal. Who can do what in the intoxication of power? This is what one feels after reading this book. And how all the (…)

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The ongoing controversy regarding places of worship! | Suresh Khairnar

Suresh Khairnar — 2024-12-07T22:12:22Z

On 24 October 1989, during the Ramshila Puja procession in Bhagalpur, riots started, which spread to almost the entire Bhagalpur Commissionerate. In which an attempt was made to destroy the houses of the people of the minority community in more than three hundred villages. And after demolishing their places of worship, we saw with our own eyes the words Ramji's temple, Durga's temple, Hanumanji's temple written on the debris with black tar or red ochre. And it seemed that the existence of (…)

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Where are we today? And where is the RSS? | Suresh Khairnar

Suresh Khairnar — 2024-12-07T22:01:00Z

Friends, I am not writing this post to show anyone down or up. I have been a soldier of Rashtriya Seva Dal since I was 12 years old. And counting, I was 20 years old. Till then (during the Emergency of 1973-1976, I had to resign due to going to jail!) I have been working as a full time worker of Rashtriya Seva Dal.
And due to the current situation of the country, in which communal polarization has increased the most since the independence of our country, after a gap of forty years, I was (…)

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Reflections on the 100 years of the Communist Party in India | Suresh Khairnar

Suresh Khairnar — 2024-11-23T06:31:08Z

This is even more important in view of the competition between the present countries and the world to run after capitalism. Soviet Russia and China, the countries that were once the guides to socialism in the entire world, are today moving ahead in the competition of capitalism at such a fast pace and are exploiting their own workers. They are already defeating the countries that supported capitalism. From human rights to the workers and farmers, with whose help the socialist revolutions (…)

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