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This year we celebrate 200 years of Karl Marx and 170 years of the Manifesto of the Communist Party, the first pamphlet jointly produced by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels that critically analysed the capitalist society from the proletarian viewpoint and revealed to the working class its role and responsibility – not only of understanding … Read more
The toppling of the statue of communist leader Lenin in Tripura was really a sad affair for the country. In the communist pantheon leaders like Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro have always shined bright. However, in the right-wing press, all of them have been continuously portrayed as arch-villains and enemies of … Read more
There was a time when the mills of Bombay were the citadel of the militant working class movement led by the communist-influenced trade unions. More than Calcutta, the militant movement of the Bombay mill workers would panic the big comprador capitalists and their foreign investors, as at the end of the day, Bombay housed all … Read more
As the BJP sweeps Tripura, one of the last bastions of the parliamentary opportunist Left Front led by the CPI(M), riding on money and muscle power and by exploiting the anti-incumbency mood prevailing in the state that lags behind economically and socially due to the anti-people policies of the ruling clique, it doesn’t need any … Read more
Beneath the heap of accusations and counter-accusations, formed over the flotsam of the volley fire exchanged between the opposition and the Modi government over the Nirav Modi scandal, we are missing the details of a larger scam related to the Rafale Jet deal of the Indian Air Force, in which the senior Modi – Narendra … Read more
Four of India’s top diamantaires are involved in the largest banking fraud in India’s history. Gitanjali Gems (Mehul Choksi), Ginni (Choksi subsidiary), Nakshatra Jewellers (Choksi subsidiary), Firestar Diamond (Nirav Modi, his wife and his brother are owners) looted nearly ₹11,300 crore from the public sector bank – Punjab National Bank (PNB) and fled the country … Read more
The media is portraying the visit of Narendra Modi to Ramallah of Palestine as the “first ever” by an Indian prime minister to the “State of Palestine”, as recognised by the United Nations. However, beneath such irredeemable perversion of history using a host of twisting and tweaking of words and facts, the insouciance of the … Read more
As if the rechristening of various UPA-period schemes, projects and historic places were not enough during the extremely hyperbole BJP rule, that now we are about to witness the greatest reclamation of all times – Taj Mahal. The magnificent marble mausoleum built during the reign of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, a marvel of medieval Mughal … Read more
Apparently, our prime minister, whose sycophants boast over his unmeasured 56” chest size and a macho image, has a habit of giving a meek response on each of the crucial issues while turning into a demagogue on non-important ones, or those issues that are potent to bring him votes by polarising the majority Hindu community. … Read more
The curious case of Nathuram Godse killing Mohandas Gandhi and the intricacies of Indian fascism, represented by the RSS and the Congress party.
An average Indian news consumer knows that there is a good pious man, who is a good friend of Narendra Modi and he visited India with a 130-member-strong entourage to sell a basketful of stuff to his friends here and to build up a strong tie between his government and that of Narendra Modi’s. The … Read more
On 12 January, four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court called a press conference to fire a salvo against the present Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, accusing him of arbitrarily handling the Supreme Court’s daily affairs and allocating the hearing of the crucial cases to selective benches without any rational or consultation with other … Read more
The recent violent clashes between the Hindutva fascist groups and the Dalits in Maharashtra created a nationwide stir. The conflict that started over the celebration of the two hundred years of the battle of Bhima Koregaon, an event, which is seen as an event of Maratha humiliation by the upper-caste Hindutva followers, while is considered … Read more
The Narendra Modi government has brought a peculiar trend in India – celebrating the idea of “national unity” by spreading divisiveness; talking about the unity of the country by actually dividing the people of the country into sectarian lines. It’s the first government of India, which overtly, and quite unapologetically, identifies the unity of India … Read more
The interest of New Delhi in resolving the Kashmir issue, which is essentially an issue of a forceful military occupation over a people who wants freedom for themselves, is as much that a wolf has in eating grass. The recent appointment of former IB chief Dineshwar Sharma as the interlocutor of New Delhi in Kashmir … Read more
Jay Amitbhai Shah, the son of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah, has sued the independent media outlet, The Wire, in a defamation case for publishing a detailed investigative report on how one of his companies called Temple Enterprises suddenly saw a 16,000 times increase in its turnover between 2015-16, after his political uncle … Read more
Exiled Bangladeshi author, Taslima Nasreen exposed her hypocrisy more than once when it came to condemning Hindutva terror, which is slaughtering the minority community members and those who are expressing their dissent against the Modi regime of India. Ventriloquising on behalf of the RSS-led Sangh Parivar, the Modi government and all Hindutva venom spitters, Taslima … Read more
Rare moments are always frame-worthy, especially if it’s a historic handshake between two of the most notorious Muslim-killers of our time. Narendra Modi met Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar government’s caretaker and defacto leader, during his Myanmar visit at Naypyitaw. Modi, accused of being the chief architect of the 2002 Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom, praised … Read more
Every year since 1947 the Indian people have been subjected to a Prime Minister’s speech on 15 August from the podium atop the Red Fort in Delhi. Religiously the common people listened to the speech each year to find for themselves the answers to the burning problems in their lives, i.e. the problem of bread … Read more
Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen faced the wrath of Salafist goons of AIMIM at the Aurangabad Airport, where she was bullied and forced to leave the town after she came there to spend a holiday with a plan to visit the historical sites of Ajanta and Ellora caves. Under the leadership of the Aurangabad Central … Read more