JHARKHAND: CPI(M) State Conference Vows to Strengthen the Party

THE Santal hool or rebellion of 1855 holds a prominent place in the history of our struggle for independence. The Santal peasantry of what today comprises the Santal Pargana Commissionery of Jharkhand rebelled against the reckless exploitation of peasants and tribal communities by East India Company and zamindars acting as stooges of the British.

Gandhiji and Savarkar in Post-Truth Project of Saffron Brigade

Perhaps Vinayak Damodar Savarkar didn’t ever think that new-age Sangh Parivar patriarchs would drag him in such an uncomfortable controversy and that too involving none other than Gandhiji! While formally releasing a book on Savarkar on October 13 in the presence of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, Defence minister and former BJP president Rajnath Singh claimed that Savarkar had submitted mercy petitions to the colonial administration while he was locked up in the Andaman jail and that it was Gandhiji who had asked him to do so!

Farmers’ Suicides Increase, India Slips Further In World Hunger Index

A LARGE number of Indian diaspora in the United Kingdom, who are supporters of the historic farmers' movement in India, gathered in Glasgow last week to protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Holding placards that said "Struggle of Indian farmers is our struggle" and with banners that called Modi a "killer of hundreds of innocent protestors", these people of Indian origin extended their support to the protesting farmers in India. The protestors held up banners saying that Modi is not welcome in Scotland.

Facebook’s Meta: Rebranding out of Trouble or Building a Dystopian Future?

LAST week, Zuckerberg at Connect 2021 launched a new company brand Meta. According to Facebook, "...brings together our apps and technologies under one new company brand. Meta's focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses."Is this merely a rebranding of Facebook after the considerable hit its image has taken with the revelations of the whistle-blower Frances Haugen and earlier Sophie Zhang? Is it to move away from its sullied past and present to an alternate universe, the metaverse that Facebook will create?

Comrade Pramila Pandhe

COMRADE Pramila Pandhe, veteran member of the Party passed away on October 31, 2021. She was 94 years old.Pramila Pandhe was born on November 26, 1927 in Bhusawal, Maharashtra. Her father, an official in the railway, was not politically active but was a follower of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and supported his ideas about independence. She started going for the ‘prabhat pheris’ at the age of seven with all the other children.

Communal Violence in Tripura

THE most hateful act resorted to by the fundamentalists of secretly putting a Koran beside a Hindu idol at a Durga Puja Pandal at Comilla, Bangladesh in the dead of night on October 13, sparked large scale anti-Hindu violence in ten districts of that country.

Quad for West Asia: India in Losing Game

THE part-virtual and part-person meeting of the foreign ministers of four countries – the United States, Israel, India and United Arab Emirates – on October 18 saw the emergence of a new grouping in West Asia. It is significant that the meeting took place when the Indian foreign minister, S Jaishankar, was visiting Israel to hold talks with the Naftali Bennett government.According to the US readout of the meeting, the talks concerned trade, climate change, energy and maritime security.

An Appeal for Tripura Solidarity Fund

ON September 8, Tripura witnessed widespread attacks on CPI(M) offices and the houses of CPI(M) cadres across the state. More than a score of offices were burnt down or ransacked. Even the state committee office in Agartala was not spared. Vehicles in front of the offices were burnt. Many houses of Party leaders and activists were set on fire or ransacked. These coordinated attacks by mobs of BJP men were meant to suppress the CPI(M) and stop its activities among the people.

The Homogenisation of Education

EDUCATION in post-independence India was supposed not just to provide knowledge and skills to students, but also to facilitate the process of “nation-building” (to use a clumsy word).

J&K: Disillusionment, Hopelessness Created by BJP’s Divisive Policies Bound to Provide Ground for Extremism to Grow

THE recently concluded visit of union home minister Amit Shah, his first since the special status of Jammu & Kashmir under Article 370 was arbitrarily and unconstitutionally revoked in August 2019, has been one more addition to the long list of disillusionments as except rhetoric nothing came out of it.

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