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With Donald Trump sweeping the 2024 US Presidential Elections, what's now left of the 'left' in the American polity outside the neo-liberal democrat ecosystem?

What helps the Uttar Pradesh government, which has a low per-capita income and a troubled, jobless economy, to spend on extravaganza like the Deep Diwali festival held in Ayodhya recently?

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed at an election rally in Jharkhand, that he is poor, owns no property and doesn't even have a bicycle. But is this true? What does data say?

What does Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Islamophobic hate-mongering imply? Is he losing confidence on his "Modi Ki Guarantee" narrative? Or is it an exhibition of his frustration?

Iran's April 14th attack on Israel was its first direct strike and the maiden one from another country for Tel Aviv after the Arab-Israel war.

Finally, the Rules of the CAA 2019 saw the light of the day (or night, technically). But as this publication predicted four years ago, it won't benefit the Bengali Hindu refugees but throw them under the bus.

Amid a global recession, the "India Out" campaign, which aims economic self-sufficiency by boycotting neighbouring India's commodities, has gained momentum in Bangladesh, especially after the controversial general elections.

The CAA 2019 has always been a political trap for the refugees and a dilemma for the BJP. Now Shantanu Thakur's "slip of the tongue" exposed the hollowness of Modi's much-hyped citizenship law once more.

In the wake of India’s Interim Budget 2024-25, questions arise: Is it a budget of business as usual or a political gambit? With a cautious conservatism characterising the budget, we delve into the numbers, the narratives, and the nuances.

South Africa wins a legal battle against Israel at the ICJ, accusing it of genocide in Gaza. While the court lacks enforcement power, the ruling exposes the plight of Palestinians and challenges biased narratives. Can this be a turning point for accountability?

What's behind the BJP's victory in the 2023 assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan? Beyond numbers, lies a complicated web of political and organisational factors.

The BJP has restarted another deceitful campaign regarding the citizenship of Matuas with an eye on the forthcoming 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The recent Israel-Palestine crisis is restructuring the 2020 Abraham Accords, which had implications for oil pipeline routes and defence deals, but now seems to be disintegrating as we see the Gulf engaging in a multifaceted diplomatic venture.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE strategically navigate the Russia-Ukraine conflict, aiming to bolster their soft power influence. These Gulf states' increasing aid, mediation, and trade efforts showcase their commitment to multipolarity and growing influence on the world stage.

TMC MP Mahua Moitra is reportedly under fire from the BJP for questioning Adani in the Parliament. But the BJP's actions exposed it once more.

Did the West just dig its own grave in the Middle East and in the Global South by supporting the Zionist Israeli attack on Palestine?

The Palestinian resistance stunned the world with its strategic offensive campaign. Is this the beginning of the end of Zionist hegemony?

What does the CPI(M) want in West Bengal? It's not clear from the party's recent actions whether it's concerned about defeating the BJP at all.

On the allegations of minority persecution in India, S Jaishankar claimed in the US that there is none as the minorities get ration in India.

What do Ramesh Bidhuri's anti-Muslim slurs targeting BSP's Danish Ali hint at? Is this going to be the template that the BJP will use in 2024?

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed at an election rally in Jharkhand, that he is poor, owns no property and doesn't even have a bicycle. But is this true? What does data say?

What does Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Islamophobic hate-mongering imply? Is he losing confidence on his "Modi Ki Guarantee" narrative? Or is it an exhibition of his frustration?

The CAA 2019 has always been a political trap for the refugees and a dilemma for the BJP. Now Shantanu Thakur's "slip of the tongue" exposed the hollowness of Modi's much-hyped citizenship law once more.

What's behind the BJP's victory in the 2023 assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan? Beyond numbers, lies a complicated web of political and organisational factors.

TMC MP Mahua Moitra is reportedly under fire from the BJP for questioning Adani in the Parliament. But the BJP's actions exposed it once more.

What does the CPI(M) want in West Bengal? It's not clear from the party's recent actions whether it's concerned about defeating the BJP at all.

What do Ramesh Bidhuri's anti-Muslim slurs targeting BSP's Danish Ali hint at? Is this going to be the template that the BJP will use in 2024?

The partition of Bengal in 1947 is a forgotten chapter in history, although its trauma and pain are still visible in the lives of the people.

Panchayat elections in West Bengal are marred in violence as the rural grassroots government bodies have become the epicentre of corruption.

While responding to Rahul Gandhi's questions on his ties with the Adani Group, Modi evaded the questions using rhetoric against Gandhi-Nehru.

Nitish Kumar's volte-face and return to the Mahagathbandhan reeks of opportunism and desperation as the BJP turned it into a docile tool.

The "Agnipath" protests by the youths of different States has caused a severe ignominy for the BJP as its core support base is on the streets

TMC's Babul Supriyo and Shatrughan Sinha won the Ballygunge Assembly and Asansol Lok Sabha by-elections. The results show interesting trends.

The Rampurhat massacre exposed how TMC supremo Mamata Bandopadhyay's rule has imposed a reign of terror in West Bengal, affecting people.

Nomination of Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo for Asansol and Ballygunge byelections by Mamata Bandopadhyay exposed the TMC's Hindutva.

The Modi regime’s Ukraine evacuation failure has jeopardised the lives of nearly 8,000 Indians stranded in the war-hit country with one dead.

Why Modi's "Nava Punjab" promise and the BJP's prospects in Punjab are doomed? What are the roadblocks that the BJP can't overcome in Punjab?

Can all the MLAs and ministers quitting the BJP in Uttar Pradesh be helpful in the Opposition's quest for power in the 2022 UP Assembly polls?

The ruckus over the alleged breach in Modi's security during his Punjab trip is a well-orchestrated election drama, staged by the BJP to win public sympathy.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah praised his boss, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for providing "good governance". But what does facts say?

What helps the Uttar Pradesh government, which has a low per-capita income and a troubled, jobless economy, to spend on extravaganza like the Deep Diwali festival held in Ayodhya recently?

In the wake of India’s Interim Budget 2024-25, questions arise: Is it a budget of business as usual or a political gambit? With a cautious conservatism characterising the budget, we delve into the numbers, the narratives, and the nuances.

The Union Budget 2023-24 was Nirmala Sitharaman's last full-fledged budget with no scope of happiness for the poor. Rather, it comes with rhetoric and attempts to divert the people's attention from the core issues.

The Hindenburg Research's report on the Adani Group has exposed the tip of an iceberg, but it's not the only capitalist entity into stock manipulation, which is normal practice among corporates.

Though the Modi regime went into a jubilation mode, citing 13.5% GDP growth in Q1 of FY 2022-23, the reality shows an alarming picture.

Why Modi's late reduction in excise duties and the resulting drop in petrol and diesel prices a mere cosmetic measure by the government now?

As the unemployment situation in India is worsening rapidly, the government and the press are working in tandem to divert mass attention.

As Brent crude oil price crossed $100 per barrel following Russia's war with Ukraine, will there be a steep hike in fuel prices in India now?

The Union Budget 2022-23 didn't announce anything significant for 85% Indians, which exhibits Modi's unapologetic corporate appeasement policy.

Oxfam’s inequality report has again stirred the controversy over India's widening wealth gap. However, it's just the tip of the iceberg.

Under the garb of closures and mergers, Indian Railways’ privatisation is advocated in CEA Sanjeev Sanyal-led panel's recommendations to the Modi government.

Indian unemployed youth celebrated National Unemployment Day on Modi's purported birthday on September 17th 2021 to highlight their agony but did Modi notice?

The BJP's and the Modi regime's amplified cacophony over the claim of 20.1% GDP growth in Q1 FY 2021-22 shows how propaganda is used to kill common sense.

Modi's asset monetisation programme, the NMP is going to be catastrophic for the economy as public assets will be given out on long term lease at a low cost.

The Modi government's plan to expand the oil-palm plantation in India will threaten biodiversity and the environment. But who will profiteer from palm oil?

India's public sector banks collectively wrote-off Rs 4.37 trillion-worth non-performing assets between April 2018 and December 2020, benefitting corporates.

Nirmala Sitharaman successfully passed the GIBA Bill 2021 to privatise nationalised general insurance companies. This will jeopardise India's financial security

India's economic liberalisation turned 30. Manmohan Singh expressed his apprehensions regarding the economy. But can he escape the liability of the crisis?

How Ashwini Vaishnaw's inclusion as the Minister of Railways will boost the Indian Railways' privatisation drive and fulfill Modi's mission of selling it?

The microfinance companies have trapped the poor villagers of West Bengal in their obnoxious debt trap as these people have no access to institutional credit.

With Donald Trump sweeping the 2024 US Presidential Elections, what's now left of the 'left' in the American polity outside the neo-liberal democrat ecosystem?

Iran's April 14th attack on Israel was its first direct strike and the maiden one from another country for Tel Aviv after the Arab-Israel war.

Amid a global recession, the "India Out" campaign, which aims economic self-sufficiency by boycotting neighbouring India's commodities, has gained momentum in Bangladesh, especially after the controversial general elections.

South Africa wins a legal battle against Israel at the ICJ, accusing it of genocide in Gaza. While the court lacks enforcement power, the ruling exposes the plight of Palestinians and challenges biased narratives. Can this be a turning point for accountability?

The recent Israel-Palestine crisis is restructuring the 2020 Abraham Accords, which had implications for oil pipeline routes and defence deals, but now seems to be disintegrating as we see the Gulf engaging in a multifaceted diplomatic venture.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE strategically navigate the Russia-Ukraine conflict, aiming to bolster their soft power influence. These Gulf states' increasing aid, mediation, and trade efforts showcase their commitment to multipolarity and growing influence on the world stage.

The Palestinian resistance stunned the world with its strategic offensive campaign. Is this the beginning of the end of Zionist hegemony?

What's the reason behind Henry Kissinger's China visit in 2023? Why did the 100-year-old make his 100th trip overcoming all difficulties?

The US has suddenly started playing the victim card as China is asserting itself and countering the US's manoeuvres in the Taiwan Strait.

China's covid situation has been blown out of proportion by the western mainstream media at a time when the US and Japan are in sheer crisis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech during the accession of the new regions exposed the West and its evil agenda. Read to learn more.

Iran's 'hijab rebellion' has caught many eyeballs due to the incessant propaganda by western media outlets. But what lies behind the scene?

Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who brought down the Soviet Union, is dead. But his dark legacy must stay alive to act as a reminder for all.

Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit to support its secessionists not only provoked tension, but also violated the US's "One-China Policy".

The EU members have denounced Russia of violating the "peace" that prevailed in Europe since second world war. Are they telling the truth?

The Uvalde school massacre by an 18-year-old terrorist showed how vulnerable the "American lives" are that the US regime promise to secure.

Despite proposing peace talks amid the Russian military operations in Ukraine, what made President Volodymyr Zelensky evade dialogue with Russia?

The US and the NATO are sponsoring violence by neo-Nazi forces in Donbass region, intensifying the Ukraine crisis to trouble Putin's Russia.

For the US and the west, the theory of a purported Russian invasion of Ukraine helps in stirring Russophobia and distract the people at home.

The recent Kazakhstan protests have not just rocked the former Soviet republic, but also exposed a sinister geopolitical gambit in the region

While the Congress defeated the BJP in Karnataka, the threat of Hindutva fascism still looms large over the state, which only the left can combat.

On Lenin's 152nd birth anniversary revisiting his views on religion in the context of the working class's struggle. It's important even now.

Under Modi's rule India is going through a genocide under the garb of "pandemic". Yet, there is no accountability. Also, there is no simmering and visible anger

Modi's megalomania made him a demigod for his ardent fans, but with time, especially in the last two months of COVID-19 crisis, his incapabilities were exposed.

Why is Uddhav Thackeray, the quintessential underdog, emerging as a new leader by steering Maharashtra resolutely during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis?

Has the Indian democracy, after seven decades of its rickety carriage’s journey, created the Frankenstein that’s all set to devour it?

Modi used the terms Andolanjivi and Parajibi in galore during a speech to demean the role of people's movements against autrocracy,

Is India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, still a democracy or has crossed the Rubicon and has become a full-fledged fascist state? If the developments over the last six years are any evidence, then, India has arrived. It has achieved under Modi what the Hindutva fascist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)...

The Union Budget 2021-22 is nothing but a Hindutva quackery on an ailing Indian economy, pushing it to the extreme of a pernicious realm.

Modi has been working on the normalisation of “Hindutva shock therapy” for the consolidation of capitalism in India to benefit his big donors

The experiences of corporate control over agriculture globally show how farmers are ruined and the corporations enrich through such policies.

Despite housing the world's second-largest Muslim population, India has a very skewed ratio of the community's share in politics and power.

As Frederick Engels turned 200 on November 28th 2020, we turn to his views on "authority" in the context of working class's quest for power.

Has the AIMIM got the space that the BJP-led Hindutva politics has created through bullying and marginalising the Muslim community.

Soon after a French middle-school history teacher was killed in the Conflans Sainte-Honorine suburb of Paris, allegedly by an Islamist bigot, a global Islamophobic outcry began, accompanied by the demand that Muslims apologise for terrorist acts like this. From the mainstream press to the social-media rabble-rousers of the right-wing ecosystem,...

The NEP 2020 has been planned meticulously to deprive the poor students of the right to education, not just higher education but also school education.

The NEP 2020 is neither inclusive nor progressive. Ten questions are asked on this policy, which no one would like to answer. Read them here.

The essence of an idea of nation lies with its imagination. The recent consistent onslaught on its idea is gravely frightening.

This comment article critiques how authoritarian narcissist personality of a populist leader and his style of governance impacts the nation. All is well when everything goes well. Victory is easy even when governance is failing the people continually.

If there is an ominous silence over the arrest of a pregnant woman like Safoora Zargar under false charges, then that's a crime. Dissenting isn't.

Mumbai local train services will only allow fully-vaccinated passengers from August 15th. This decision is discriminatory and violates fundamental rights.

The suspension of suburban local train service in West Bengal has not just caused inconvenience to commuters but also affected the economy.

September 2nd is gone with the wind and a birth centenary year of a renowned Bengali poet has passed by in the corona-ruled lockdown times. A people’s poet has unfortunately been seen to be a prisoner in Facebook Live programmes and so on. Renowned poets and artists have been seen...

Social distancing is a term that's used 24/7 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in our social context, is this the right term to use at this hour?

How Irrfan Khan’s death was used to deny the US’s accusation of religious intolerance in India. Can mourning Khan's death imply there is no Islamophobia?

An effort to map the individual physical and psychological transformations that the world is undergoing during the lockdown period due to COVID-19.

Yogi Adityanath regime could allocate 250 buses to rescue 7,500 students from Kota but his government and the BJP ignored the plight of migrant workers.

The mass exodus of millions of workers from metros to their native villages isn't merely a result of the COVID19 outbreak but Modi regime's sheer apathy.

Who is spreading Coronavirus in India? Which class is responsible for the spread of Coronavirus and why would people pay for this class's irresponsibility?

The death of Rajesh Kumar Shaw in Sinthee Police Station, Kolkata, due to custodial torture, exhibited, once more, the similarity between BJP and TMC.

How the strategy of character assassination is adopted by the BJP to combat the challenge thrown by Shaheen Bagh.

Kamlesh Tiwari, a notorious Hindutva fascist leader who belonged to the Hindu Mahasabha and later founded a small outfit called the Hindu Samaj Party, was murdered at his house in Lucknow’s Naka area by two unknown assailants on Friday, 18 October 2019. His murder created a ruckus as both Hindu...

The gruesome murder of Bandhu Prakash Pal, a school teacher, and his family in Murshidabad's Jiaganj has sparked a communal controversy. We analyse the case

CRPF woman constable Khushbu Chauhan's diatribe against dissent in democracy exposed Hindutva state's contempt for human rights, followed by its forces.

The Hindutva fascist camp is frantically attacking Bengal's Durga Puja celebration in a bid to transform the occasion into a puritan version of Navratri.

Though Jinnah is a despised name in Indian polity, yet, the actions of PM Modi and his BJP has instigated fresh trouble for the BJP as they seek respite.

Hindutva radicalisation programme of the RSS is creating an army of bigoted fanatics like Richa Bharti. Deradicalisation is a must to stop this menace.

Goa Forward Party leader Durgaprasad Kamat recently made a derogatory statement over "cheap tourist" by citing a photo of people sleeping at Goa airport.

India is running out of water. It's not surprising that the Modi regime and its corporate funders are exploiting the situation to profiteer from mass agony.

The children's death due to AES in Bihar's Muzaffarpur, has a malnutrition and poverty angle to it that no one is talking about.

The celebration of International Women's Day 2022 with the theme 'break the bias' mocks Indian women who reel under patriarchy's juggernaut.

The Karnataka hijab row has been used by the BJP-RSS to deny Muslim women right to education, while the Opposition fell in the "hijab" trap.

Why the raising of the women's legal age of marriage by the Modi regime isn't going to solve the "underage" marriage issue but complicate it further?

Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu won the Miss Universe pageant, which was marred in controversy over its normalisation of Zionist terrorism in Palestine.

National Family Health Survey shows that around 75% of women in three Indian states support domestic violence by their male partners.

When the BJP celebrates Muslim Women Rights Day after violating their rights and dehumanising them, irony dies a thousand times.

The ripped jeans controversy stoked by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat is beyond the scope of what a girl should wear.

West Bengal's schools and Madrasahs have microscopic presence of Muslim women writers in their syllabus, which exhibits an exclusionary policy

From "will you marry her?" as a question to a rape convict to normalising marital rape, the judiciary's comments provide a licence to rape.

The controversy over Karnataka's BJP leader Ramesh Jarkiholi’s alleged sex tape has also exposed the patriarchal hypocrisy of the Opposition.

India will celebrate International Women's Day while the women lose their right to "choose" their life partner due to the 'love jihad' bogey.

The Hathras gangrape and murder of a Dalit girl didn't trigger an outrage in the upper-caste sections, exemplifying myriad dynamics of rape.

The single working mothers have been going through a toughest phase in their lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic and no one is talking about their issues.

The state repression exhibited by the arrest of two Pinjra Tod activists, Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal, exemplifies the Modi regime's fear.

Who should be blamed for the Instagram "Bois Locker Room" controversy? Is it just a fringe incident or a reflection of our misogynist society?

It is time to understand the real significance of International Women's Day, 8 March, and reclaim its legacy by fighting against patriarchal capitalism.

The allegation of sexual assault on Gargi College students on 6 February 2020 shows that the Hindutva fascist rape brigade is rampaging with impunity.

The women of Shaheen Bagh and Park Circus have shown how resiliently women can trigger panic within the Hindutva fascist state and cause it severe ignominy.

India will cast the Unnao rape victim and many like her, whose case won't instigate the Brahminical patriarchal middle class, to the oblivion.

The gang-rape and murder of Priyanka Reddy is one of the goriest incidents but the Hindutva fascist camp's attempt to communalise it is extremely heinous.

Journalists demand powerful people's media in India in view of the corporate-communal nexus under the BJP in an event organised by the CASR.

Yogi Adityanath's ad in The Indian Express using a Kolkata flyover's photo to show Uttar Pradesh's development stirred a controversy after the paper apologised.

Danish Siddiqui's killing in Afghanistan raises uncomfortable questions regarding the practice of "embedded" journalism that jeopardises journalists' security.

When India was reeling under the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment and conflict with China, the Modi regime was planning to muzzle the press.

Any attack on journalists is a threat to the functioning of a democracy. But in Modi's India, attacking and imprisoning journalists is a norm.

The row over Paranjoy Guha Thakurta’s articles on Adani Group continues as a Gujarat court issued an arrest warrant against him recently.

A fake news in the west that says Russian President Vladimir Putin has Parkinson’s disease is republished without verification by Indian media

Arnab Goswami's arrest on charges of abetment to suicide isn't an attack on "press freedom" and it's not something to be happy of either.

Bajaj and Parle's boycott of toxic news channels can't stop hate-mongering as the servile corporate-owned media survives on spewing venom.

Recently, Indian mainstream media outlets like Zee News and Times Now published a story showing a video of a few soldiers of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) crying. Citing a Taiwanese publication, the Zee News and Times Now stories claim that the Chinese PLA soldiers crying in the video...

The arrest of journalist Rajeev Sharma, accused of spying for China, raises unpleasant questions for the Delhi Police and the government.

India's mainstream journalism is at the peak of its decay in decades. It has metamorphosed into cheap showbiz, aiming to sensationalise news.

Arnab Goswami is howling over an attack on his freedom of speech and got a respite from the Supreme Court too. But can irony stand this man's theatrics?

No, China didn't send masks made of underwear to Pakistan as claimed in a video circulated on social media and publicised by the Indian mainstream media.