THE Modi government has made much of the revision in rates of the Goods and Services Tax that it has announced. Its propaganda machine has worked overtime to tom-tom the benevolence of the government, how it has lightened the load on the common man precisely when the common man needed it the most, that is, during the festive season. Every coach in the Delhi metro has multiple government advertisements, with pictures of Modi and of the Delhi Chief Minister...
SRIDHAR Vembu, known for the Zoho software and Arattai social media platforms which are being pushed by the ruling dispensation, is also known for his back-to-the-future traditionalist ideas.He recently made the controversial and unsubstantiated claim that childhood vaccines lead to autism. His claim, based on an unreviewed report from the McCullough Foundation, have understandably sparked controversy since it is clearly based on false...
One of the biggest failures of the RSS ideology is its fumbling, and faltering efforts to glorify Hindutva (or Sanatan) even while trying to convince the people that it condemns an integral part of Hindutva – the cruel and inhuman caste system. To establish the Hindu Rashtra, the RSS wants to rally around and unite all Hindus. That has been its primary goal, indeed, its very reason for existence.
The poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty overlooking the New York harbour is Emma Lazarus's “The New Colossus”, which begins with “Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, / With conquering limbs astride from land to land; / Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand / A mighty woman with a torch...” The poem concludes with the iconic lines, “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe...
Sometime in 1924, Bhagat Singh returned to Lahore to be with her ailing grandmother. Following his return to Lahore, Bhagat Singh started going to college, though maybe not regularly. In the meantime, college teachers had conceived of a forum for the youth to enhance their education and national consciousness. Chhabil Das, the then principal of National College, Lahore, recalled in an interview years later that...
Due to inclement weather the mass meeting to be addressed jointly by Tejashwi Yadav and Brinda Karat in Bibhutipur Constituency was cancelled. But, braving incessant rain, Brinda Karat reached Bibhutipur on October 31 and was received there by CC member and in-charge of Bibhutipur Constituency Awadhesh Kumar and the Party candidate Ajay Kumar, District Secretary Ramashray, State Committee Member Neelam Devi and others. She visited the village of Martyr Ram...
NOVEMBER 16 marks the 110th death anniversary of Kartar Singh Sarabha, a young martyr and one of the founding members of the Ghadar Party. November 3 marked the commencement of the centenary of the formation of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha, a youth organisation founded by Bhagat Singh and his compatriots. The youth front, supported by the Party observed this event in a befitting manner in Sarabha village,...
‘SHARPEN revolutionary communication and defeat capitalist manipulation of data’ was the general call that emanated from the 3rd International Conference of Theoretical Publications of Left-Wing Parties and Movements held in Nico Lopez university, Havana, Cuba on October 15-17, 2025. The fact that the President of Cuba and First Secretary of the central committee of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), Diaz Canel...
THE night of November 2, witnessed the silent fracturing of patriarchy, hidden behind the victory of an iron-willed determination at DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai. This was not just a final; it was the end of a half-century-long wait for Indian cricket, an epic night whose creators were our own daughters. After a journey spanning 50 long years, wiping away the pain of twice returning from the doorstep of the final - Harmanpreet Kaur's India finally won...
The Satchand area of Sabroom subdivision in southern Tripura became the stage for an extraordinary show of public defiance and unity on November 4. Hundreds of men and women, tribal and non-tribal alike, poured into the streets to voice their grievances and assert their rights, transforming the region into a sea of red flags and raised...
Big protest action against bribery, drugs and crime against womenTHE CPI(M) in Tripura has organised a statewide protest movement on three key demands – dismissal of state minister Sudhangshu Das who admitted to accepting bribe from contractors and government suppliers, immediate identification and arrest of the drug-traffickers who transported two huge consignments of banned Eskuf cough syrup, and prompt action against the perpetrators of several recent dastardly... |
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