Ramdev’s Bogus Claims to Sell Patanjali Products Combines with BJP’s anti-Science Nationalism

ALL publicity is good publicity—so the old marketing slogan goes. Is that why Ramdev courts controversy by laughing at Covid-19 victims gasping for air on his Astha channel? His attack on allopathic medicine as “stupid science” and false claims that “10,000 doctors have died” after two shots of the vaccine are recent ones.Ramdev courts controversies as it provides him free advertisements for himself and whatever he sells. Make no mistake, it is the Ramdev “brand” that sells his Patanjali products, from noodles to Ayurvedic medicines.

Modi Regime Denounced in Historic Nationwide Action on May 26

IT was a culmination and a catharsis of all the emotions that had welled up in the hearts and the minds of the people of India during the last seven years of this oppressive regime.

Joint Statement by 12 Major Opposition Parties

On May 23, 2021, Sonia Gandhi (INC), HD Deve Gowda (JD-S), Sharad Pawar (NCP), Mamata Banerjee (TMC), Uddhav Thackeray (SS), MK Stalin (DMK), Hemant Soren (JMM), Farooq Abdullah (JKPA), Akhilesh Yadav (SP), Tejaswi Yadav (RJD), D Raja (CPI) and Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M) have issued the following statementWE extend our support to the call given by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) to observe a countrywide protest day on May 26 marking the completion of six months of the heroic peaceful kisan struggle.On May 12, 2021 we had jointly written to Prime Minister Modi saying the following:“Repeal farm

Haryana: Scrap the Purchase deal with Patanjali: CPI(M)

IN a statement issued by the state secretariat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on May 25, strongly objected to the decision of the Haryana government to purchase one lakh medical kits of the Patanjali company. The BJP-JJP government of the state is misusing the state exchequer. The kits being purchased for crores of rupees in the name of Corona patients is disputed and has no sanction at all as a medicine, the statement lamented. All this is being done for providing commercial benefits to the Patanjali company.

Casteism in the Diaspora

IN his seminal and instructive work The Annihilation of Caste, Dr Ambedkar says ‘….turn in any direction you like, caste is the monster that crosses your path.’ Nothing has occurred to alter this shameful truth in any way; not just in India but wherever Hindus are to be found.When federal law enforcement agents raided the premises of the huge temple built by the Swaminarayan sect in Robbinsville, New Jersey (USA) on May 12, they revealed new evidence of this. The agents were responding to a lawsuit filed days earlier by a group of lawyers led by Swati Sawant, a dalit immigration lawyer

More Congratulations for CPI(M) Victory in Kerala

THE Communist Party of Russian Federation (CPRF) congratulated the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for its historic victory in Kerala. In its congratulatory message it stated that the victory of the CPI(M) led LDF in Kerala is confirmation of its growing support from the people of Kerala. Because of the consistent policies of the CPI(M), it is an important political force to resolve the social problems of the country and Kerala in particular, it stated.

Lakshadweep; an Agenda beyond Praful Khoda Patel

THE coercive moves of Lakshadweep’s administrator, Praful Khoda Patel in the archipelago are in sync with the RSS’s political Holy Grail: repression of minorities and the insidious plan to implement the Hindutva agenda. The similarities in CAA, the decision to scrap provision of Article 370 that granted a special status to Kashmir, criminalising divorce among Muslims alone, arbitrariness over Ayodhya, and such moves of the Narendra Modi-led government with this latest raft of measures are inescapable.

Re-bundling Britain’s Railways

LAST week saw the announcement of a momentous reform of Britain’s railway system. While the term “reform” under the neo-liberal policy framework these days connotes increased privatisation and deregulation, the UK government under prime minister, Boris Johnson has gone the other way. The UK government released a white paper based on an official review set up in 2018 led by businessman Keith Williams, former head of the now privatised British Airways.

Bihar: CPI(M) observes Demands Day

BIHAR state committee of CPI(M) observed a demands day on May 25, against the crumbling health infrastructure, state government's failure in containing the spread of Covid, and the overall health situation in the state.

Gujarat Model in Lakshadweep

THE union territory of Lakshadweep is a group of islands which are home to around 65,000 people. These quiet, peace-loving people are being subjected to a ruthless regime which seeks to deprive them of their way of life, livelihoods, food and cultural rights. The plague on the island did not come in the form of the Covid-19 virus first, but when a new administrator took charge in December 2020. Till then, all previous administrators had been IAS officers. For the first time, a politician from Gujarat was appointed. Praful Khoda Patel was an MLA in Gujarat previously who had also been a

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