Plight of Sharecroppers in Odisha

IN today’s Odisha, hardly a day passes without a report of farmer suicide. The total number of farmers committing distressed suicide has crossed 70 in the past three months. However, state ministers and ruling party spokespersons, barring a few exceptions, are engaged in refuting and ridiculing such reports. Collectors of the districts, where farmer suicides have occurred, too have joined their political masters to reject such reports.

Tipu Sultan: East India Company's Most Formidable Opponent

TIPU Sultan’s place in history has to be judged primarily in terms of the prolonged contest between Mysore and the East India Company (EIC). The Company had to engage in four large-scale wars (the four Anglo-Mysore wars) for over thirty years, from 1766 to 1799, to subjugate Mysore. Throughout the latter half of the eighteenth century, Mysore was the main obstacle to British expansion and consolidation in India.

AIKS to Organise Rubber Farmers’ Parliament Dharna on Dec 1

THE office bearers’ meeting of the All India Kisan Sabha was held in New Delhi on November 17, 2015. The meeting noted that the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the centre has intensified the implementation of neo-liberal economic policies and systematically is curbing the rights of the workers, peasantry and agricultural workers.

AIKS opposes FDI in Agriculture, Animal Husbandry & Plantation

THE AIKS strongly opposes the decision of the Narendra Modi government to allow 100 percent Foreign Direct Investment in 15 sectors of the economy including agriculture, animal husbandry and plantations. In a statement issued on November 12, it said that this move in the long run will harm the sovereign rights of the country and make it subservient to world imperialism.

Condemn Venomus Attack on Kerala by RSS Mouthpiece

THE venomous attack mounted on the glorious traditions of Kerala in The Organiser, the RSS mouthpiece, needs to be condemned by one and all, transcending the barriers of political affiliations.

CITU-AIKS-AIAWU State Convention Gives Joint Struggle Call

THREE class organisations in Maharashtra – CITU, AIKS, AIAWU – came together to hold their first-ever statewide joint struggle convention at Parbhani in the drought-stricken backward region of Marathwada on October 31, 2015. The aim was to launch massive statewide struggles of the working people on their burning problems which are getting aggravated with the neo-liberal policies of the BJP-led central and state governments; and to defend the unity of the toiling sections against the onslaught of the reactionary and divisive forces of communalism and casteism.

Vimanas, Rockets, and Tipu Sultan

THE RSS and its camp followers have a strange relationship to imagination. They take the imagination of the mythology, and present it as matter of fact history. When it comes to the scientific imagination – how to create new sciences – they fall back on the sterile claim that we having nothing new to discover, as all of it has been already done by our sages in the past. This is the Batra version of science, available in the Gujarat text books. This view of science is also endorsed by the prime minister, Narendra Modi.

The Inversion of Reason

IN the era of finance capital, the familiar distortion of reality which lies in thinking that society is flourishing when the financial markets are on an uptrend, has its logical obverse in the equally familiar thought that the economic malaise in society arises exclusively because of some malfunctioning in the world of finance; and such malfunctioning in turn is attributed not to any intrinsic problems associated with this world of finance itself but to the unwise interference on the part of some external entity, notably the State, due to its having abandoned the principles of “sound finan

Thinking Together

According to the organisational rules of CPI(M), election is to be held for committees at every level. As per clause 15, the outgoing committee will propose a panel. Any member present can object about any name so proposed and can even propose name or names of candidates with their consent. The proposed panel with additional names will then go for voting by secret ballot. If there is no additional name, then the panel will be accepted by raising hands.

My questions in this background are:

KARNATAKA: Sangh Parivar Whips Up Communal Passion on Tipu Birthday

THE BJP and the Sangh Parivar in Karnataka once again are in the game of disturbing communal harmony in the state. This time around it was on the pretext of opposing the birth anniversary celebrations of 18th century ruler of Mysore, Tipu Sultan. The Congress government in Karnataka has decided to celebrate the Tipu birthday officially from this year onwards and it prepared to conduct official functions throughout the state on November 10.

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