THE role of US, and specifically of President Donald Trump, is assuming the spectacle of ‘bulldozer’. In India, we are now familiar with the unilateral deployment of ‘bulldozers’ to trample legitimate rights of the weak and the defenceless. In a majoritarian ambience, such display of naked aggression finds loud approval from the bhakt brigade in the social media space. But, to experience a similar syndrome in the global sphere can only mean a severe loss of political and...
THE Indo-US Trade Agreement, even leaving aside specific provisions, has two unusual features that mark it out as an Unequal Treaty, of the sort that imperial powers used to impose on countries of the global south that they did not directly rule. The first is the stipulation that, leaving aside commodities excluded altogether from the purview of the agreement, while the U.S. would impose 18 percent import duty on Indian goods, India would...
WITH the end of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START 1991 and New START 2021), the last major nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia, all nuclear arms control treaties between the US and Russia have now ended. New Start was the last remaining arms control treaty, starting with Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties SALT 1 and SALT 2 in the 1970s, the 1972 Anti-Ballistic...
WITH the West Bengal assembly elections approaching, the Left parties, particularly the CPI(M), are facing intense media scrutiny, prompting numerous questions about their current political position. Interestingly, those who once dismissed the CPI(M) as irrelevant are now faced with its visible presence. Unable to ignore the party's activities, they are attempting to mislead the public by raising contentious issues. It is therefore crucial to address some of these...
THE Times of India on February 1, 2026 carried a report datelined Chandigarh drawing attention to the plight of a labourer from Faridabad who was forced to carry his deceased wife’s body home on a vegetable cart because the family had exhausted its funds on medical treatment and could not afford a private ambulance. Another story in the same newspaper three days later reported that in Noida, a family claimed...
THE Overseas Mobility (Facilitation and Welfare) Bill, 2025, which the Union Government intends to table in the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament, arrives not as a shield for the vulnerable, but as a legislative auction block where the Indian working class is sold to the highest bidder. This Bill represents an institutionalized betrayal, a premeditated retreat by the State from its fundamental...
OVER the last few years, we have seen how the direct benefit transfer schemes targeted at women have become a central feature of the BJP’s electoral strategy across multiple states. Now, as we are moving towards Assembly elections in five states, it becomes extremely crucial that we revisit this tool that has been repeatedly and successfully deployed by BJP and its allies. We see a consistency in the design,...
AS we stand on the precipice of 2026, observing the tectonic shifts of the New World Order, a glaring dichotomy emerges in how nations respond to the bullying tactics of American hegemony. From the vantage point of a political observer tracking these geopolitical fractures, the contrast is stark. On one side, we witness the developed nations...
The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) has expressed displeasure and anger over the Union Budget for 2026-27. While the finance minister’s Budget speech mentioned “women” five times, the current plight of the majority of women in the country has hardly been addressed in the Budget. A minor increase in total nominal expenditure is offset by 1.8 per cent declared domestic inflation rate, thereby already making...
The Delhi State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) organised an immediate protest demonstration today at Jantar Mantar against the objectionable video released from the official Twitter handle of the Bharatiya Janata Party, featuring Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. In the video, he is seen firing a gun while targeting the minority Muslim community.
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Condemn BJP Government’s Disgraceful Position on Venezuela |
