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A Colourful Night Walk for Gender Equality

THIRD in a row, the 'Gender equality Walk' undertaken on the night of July 4 took the city of Chennai again by surprise, this time with even more excitement, exultation and extended participation. People beyond the Party membership swarmed near Thanthai Periyar statue at Anna Salai at around 10 pm at the warm invitation of the CPI(M) Central Chennai District Committee to take a vow for gender equality and condemn the increasing atrocities against women and children in the society. 

Hindutva Loot of Ayodhya Would Shock Even Ghazni

THE news of the loot of donations from Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir may have come as a shock to innocent devotees. But what has happened is only a continuation of what had been taking place in the name of the Ram Mandir from the very beginning — while all of it was kept out of the public eye amid the deafening frenzy of religious mobilisation. To borrow the famous words of Abraham Lincoln, this can be described as the story of a robbery committed by hooligans who had been appointed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “his own boys” in the temple trust.

When Seafarers Become Casualties of Conflict: Four Indian Lives, One Global Crisis

The oceans have long been celebrated as the highways of global commerce, carrying nearly 90 per cent of world trade and connecting economies across continents. Yet beneath this image of prosperity lies a harsh and often forgotten reality. Every cargo of crude oil, every shipment of food, medicines and industrial goods reaches its destination because millions of seafarers spend months at sea, isolated from their families and exposed to extraordinary occupational risks.

When Seafarers Become Casualties of Conflict: Four Indian Lives, One Global Crisis

The oceans have long been celebrated as the highways of global commerce, carrying nearly 90 per cent of world trade and connecting economies across continents. Yet beneath this image of prosperity lies a harsh and often forgotten reality. Every cargo of crude oil, every shipment of food, medicines and industrial goods reaches its destination because millions of seafarers spend months at sea, isolated from their families and exposed to extraordinary occupational risks.

Delimitation, Demography, and the Hindu Rashtra: The Electoral Architecture of a Theocratic Order

IN the first part of this analysis, we traced the trajectory of hollowing of India's constitutional institutions including the Election Commission, the anti-defection law, the judiciary's countervailing role, the conventions of federalism. Each instrument of democratic accountability has been bent, bypassed, or broken. That, however, was only the scaffolding. In this second part we try to highlight what is being constructed on that scaffolding.

Neo-Liberalism and The Intelligentsia

ONE important feature of neo-liberal capitalism in a third world country like India is the chasm it introduces between the working people and the intelligentsia. In the colonial period in India several members of the intelligentsia took it upon themselves to highlight the misery to which the Indian people had been subjected by colonialism; and of course many joined the active resistance against colonialism, suffering incarceration and deprivation in the process.

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