A series of events on the international stage has blown the Modi mythology of ‘India First’ and hyper-nationalistic rhetoric of the ruling BJP/RSS to smithereens. It has now become clear that the Modi government is bending over backwards to fulfil the demands of US on a whole range of policy issues, to the detriment of Indian people. The latest, and perhaps the most shameful, episode in this saga is the announcement by various Trump administration officials that India has been ‘allowed’ to buy Russian oil for 30 days.

ON March 24, 2026, the Jan Akrosh Rally in Delhi will become the united roar of India’s workers, peasants, agricultural workers, women, youth, students and oppressed, led by CPI(M) cadres from the Hindi heartland and across the country. It will be a culmination of the state level Jathas that are being organised in the north Indian states from Jammu & Kashmir to Jharkhand, building a tide of resistance in every district, tehsil and basti.

THE release of documents from the Epstein files has done more than expose the depravity of one man. The documents illuminate the dark truths of a new model of “bonding” between political power, corporates, financial institutions, the wealthy and the influential. Structural class-based bonding is hardly new, nor is treating criminality and impunity as entitlement. But the files show how deep the rot is — the elimination of even the semblance of morality as a reference point in systems devoted to private profit.