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First Com P Sundarayya Memorial Lecture in Delhi

ON May 23, 2023, the first P Sundarayya Memorial Lecture in Delhi was delivered by CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Prakash Karat at the Harkishan Singh Surjeet Bhawan in New Delhi. The topic of his lecture was "P Sundarayya's Contributions to the Agrarian Question and its Contemporary Relevance".P Sundarayya was a renowned freedom fighter, and the towering leader of the historic Telangana Peasants Armed Struggle against landlordism. He was also the first general secretary of the CPI(M) from 1964 to 1976.The lecture was organised by the P Sundarayya Memorial Trust, Delhi.

Kerala: LDF Govt Focuses on Health Infrastructure, Inaugurates 5,409 Public Health Centres

The Public Health Centres will function in association with LSGs to ensure antenatal care, child and maternal care, and fulfilling other medical needs.THE Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala, as part of the 100 days programme to celebrate the completion of its two years in office, inaugurated 5,409 health and wellness centres across the state.The primary aim of the centres would be preventing diseases, ensuring annual checkups to people of the respective neighbourhoods, and following up treatment for those in need.

Exchange Rate Depreciation and Real Wages

MOST people, including even trained economists, fail to appreciate the fact that an exchange rate depreciation, if it is to work in reducing the trade deficit in a capitalist economy, must necessarily hurt the working class by lowering the real wage rate. A capitalist economy, looking at it differently, improves its trade balance, for which it must improve its competitiveness, by lowering the real wage rate; and an exchange rate depreciation is one way of doing so.Most textbooks in economics do not mention this fact.

Ennu Swantham Sreedharan, the Real Kerala Story

THERE is much debate in the media about the recently released feature film 'The Kerala Story', which falsely claims that 32,000 women from Kerala were forcefully converted from Hinduism to Islam and are buried in Syria and Yemen. The 138-minute film weaponises shreds of reality to create a false narrative on why a handful of Indians joined the embraced Islam.Kasargod and Malappuram in Kerala have been unjustly portrayed as dangerous recruitment places for the Islamic faith. Showcasing their utter lack of creativity, the filmmakers show the ringtone of the main character, Asifa's ph

Brazen Assault on Democratic Federalism

IN a brazen authoritarian move, the Modi government has promulgated an ordinance to nullify the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on the Delhi government’s control over administrative officers under its jurisdiction.The ordinance gives the control over postings and transfer of officers back to the Lt. Governor and hence the centre. This is done by constituting a National Capital Civil Service Authority which will recommend the transfer and posting of officers in Delhi. The body will consist of the chief minister, chief secretary, and the principal secretary.

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