Communalism

Dabholkar to Pansare: Journey of Rabid Communal Terrorism

THE dastardly assassination of Comrade Govind Pansare, the veteran 81-year old former CPI state secretary, national council member, trade union leader, eminent lawyer and prominent Marxist intellectual and writer – exactly a year and a half after the similar assassination of renowned rationalist and socialist Dr Narendra Dabholkar - has been another black mark in the recent history of Maharashtra.

Politics of Vendetta Shall Not Defeat the Cause of Justice

The following is the statement issued in solidarity with Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand by intellectuals, academicians, writers etc on February 16. Some of the prominent signatories of the statement are
Irfan Habib, Noam Chomsky, Ashok Mitra, Romila Thapar, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Utsa Patnaik, Vivan Sundaram, Prabhat Patnaik, Mushirul Hasan, Arjun Dev, Jayati Ghosh, C P Chandrasekhar, Aijaz Ahmad, Sheldon Pollock, Akeel Bilgrami, Zoya Hasan, Mihir Bhattacharya, Saeed Mirza, Malini Bhattacharya, Sashi Kumar and Ram Rahman.

Ideological Politics of BJP in Power

THE real essential goal of Hindu Sangh Parivar led and controlled by Mohan Bhagwat, the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh is to control the State power and its apparatus and instruments to establish a Hindu State and society in India.This is the reason why Mohan Bhagwat publically stated that it is for the first time after 67 years of India in Independence that a real Hindu government has been formed at the centre with RSS Pracharak Narendra Modi at the helm of affairs.

The Real & Insidious Nature of 'Ghar Wapsi’ Campaign

‘GHAR’ is one of the most loved and evocative words in Hindustani.  It conjures up a place that is always welcoming, always accepting, not only to those who belong to it but to their friends and comrades.  The doors of a home are always open, the space in a home is also elastic, capable of enveloping as many as want to enter the haven that it offers.  ‘Ghar wapsi’ therefore signifies a happy return home.  From a voyage, from a long absence, from a holiday.  It is a happy home-coming not only for a family favourite but even for a prodigal son (or daughter).  In short, it is

Demystification of Modi

NARENDRA Modi has launched his new year with Pravasi Bhartiya Sammelan and seventh vibrant Gujarat festival of three days where he extended an open invitation to investors from capitalist countries, whether NRI’s or private capital investors of multinational corporations to accelerate their engagement in the ongoing process of capitalist development of India led by Indian monopoly capitalist fractions of the ruling class.

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