THE trouble with the post truth world is that it has an expiry date. The truth can be glossed over for some finite length of time, not perpetually. Truth eventually triumphs. It seems that we have reached that hour of reckoning. Indications were pronounced, coming from the Prime Minister himself, when he in no uncertain terms asserted the need for Indian citizens to ‘tighten their belts’ – an ‘austerity package of sorts’!

The BJP-led Union Government has once again cheated the farmers of India by declaring a paltry increase in Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for the Kharif season of 2026. This is in no way commensurate with the massive increase in the costs of inputs like seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, diesel, petrol, electricity, and water, especially in the context of the West Asian crisis. 

THE Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was perhaps the most consequential legislation enacted in post-independence India.

FOLLOWING the Cold War, when the United States, which had emerged as the world’s sole superpower, began facing a challenge from the new economic powerhouse China, it intensified its efforts to destabilise various governments across the globe out of sheer desperation. The current attack launched by the United States, in collaboration with Israel, against Iran is a direct result of America's attempts to preserve its own hegemonic dominance. The US-Israel-Iran conflict is also having a severely adverse impact on the Indian economy.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met on May 10-11, 2026 in New Delhi. It has issued the following statement.

Assembly Election Results: Assembly elections were held in five states – Assam, Keralam, Puducherry, Tamilnadu and West Bengal in April.