WALKING through the main gate, we used to marvel at the expanse. Quiet, beautiful, stoic solitude of our university, with nearly 2,600 acres all for itself. University, the ideal place to think, contemplate, debate, innovate and research upon your ideas! Wow, passing through the main gate, we always felt how the physical presence of the university matches these ideas, providing the right atmosphere to materialise them.A security barricade slows your march within a few steps of crossing the main gate.

WHAT started as a jatha from Singur has turned out to be spectacular mobilisation of people throughout its way. The main jatha has been joined by many streams with more and more people enthusiastically participating, breaking all earlier records.Thousands of people started the march from Singur on January 16 with the main slogan of industry and employment in West Bengal.

MARXIST theory holds that in societies that come late to capitalism, the bourgeoisie is no longer capable of dealing those telling blows against the feudal order which the bourgeoisie in an earlier epoch had done, such as during the French Revolution. This is because when the bourgeoisie comes late on to the historical scene, ie, when bourgeois property itself has come under challenge from the nascent socialist movement, the bourgeoisie becomes afraid that any attack by it on feudal property might well rebound into an attack on bourgeois property itself.

IT is indeed a tragedy that we move towards our 67th Republic Day with the country bowing its head in shame and in anguish over the circumstances that have pushed a young bright dalit student to commit suicide in one of our premier central universities. The University of Hyderabad was declared only last year by the president of India who is also the visitor of the University to be the best university in the country. It is in this university that we find such a gruesome incident taking place.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on January 17, 2016.

THERE is a lot of speculation over the tactics that the CPI(M) will employ in the forthcoming elections to the state assemblies. The CPI(M)’s electoral tactics will be in accordance with the political-tactical line adopted at its 21st Party Congress. The Polit Bureau and the Central Committee will take a decision at an appropriate time regarding electoral tactics in each of these states.