Who Allows Usurpation Of Constitutional Values?

          A former Director General of Border Security Force, DGP, UP and Assam, Prakash Singh has written a piece in Indian Express saying that Kathua and Unnao incidents of rape were not as much of darkest hour since Independence as claimed by 49 prominent retired bureaucrats, which include N.C. Saxena, E.A.S. Sarma, Harsh Mander, Wajahat Habibullah…

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Guilty Men of Two-Nation Theory:  A Hindutva Project Borrowed by Jinnah in India 

No other fascist organisation, in the present world, can beat Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in demagogy, double-speak and unabashed use of conspiracies. A leading Indian English daily, in the aftermath of 2002 genocide of Muslims in Gujarat, candidly wrote that in case of the RSS, what George Orwell termed as “doublespeak” would be an understatement….

Is it Politically Relevant Today to Ask Whether Nehru Visited Bhagat Singh in Jail?

In the recently held Karnataka elections, Narendra Modi made several statements which were not true, and which were made to raise the emotive pitch against his opponents. In a blatant lie, at a rally in Bidar, he asked, “When Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Batukeshwar Dutt, Veer Savarkar, greats like them were jailed fighting for the country’s…

Broken Dreams and Lost Lives: Israel, Gaza and the Hamas Card

Stanley L. Cohen For days now, the Israeli rewrite has been well underway, working overtime, to convince the world that seven weeks of carnage in Palestine, more particularly Gaza, did not happen. Or, if it did, Israel’s response to the Great Return March was a measured, proportionate answer to the menace posed by some burning…

Chavismo in Seven Parts : Part I

Nicolas Maduro Wins Venezuelan Presidential Elections In a big win for the global socialist movement, the heroic people of Venezuela overwhelmingly voted President Nicolas Maduro to power for a second term as Venezuela’s president in the presidential elections held on May 20, 2018, Sunday. The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela announced the result on…

Citizens’ Statement on Police Violence Against Sterlite Protestors in Thoothukudi

On May 22, 2018, the Tamil Nadu police opened fire in Thoothukudi on a protest march in which thousands of people were participating, demanding the closure of the Sterlite Copper Plant in their area. At least 13 people  have died in the firing, and hundreds injured. The police even gave hot pursuit and shot at…