Terror Accounts For 0.007% Of Indian Deaths, Ill-Health 90%

Terror Accounts For 0.007% Of Indian Deaths, Ill-Health 90%

“One has to be alive to be a patriot,” former Indian health secretary K Sujatha Rao wrote on Twitter on May 13, 2019, referring to election debates that focussed on issues of “nationalism and terror and not health”. The data back Rao’s assertion of misplaced priorities. In 2017, terrorism claimed the lives of 766 Indians,…

Total Civil Disobedience and Strike Begins in Sudan

Total Civil Disobedience and Strike Begins in Sudan

Millions of people in Sudan have joined a general strike called by Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), shutting down the centres of cities across the country despite a wave of arrests and intimidation. The SPA, which led the protests that overthrew former president Omar al-Bashir in April, has been demanding that the Transitional Military Council that…

Whither Nehru’s Dreams after Seven Decades of Indian Democracy

Whither Nehru’s Dreams after Seven Decades of Indian Democracy

Letter to Editor Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in his address to Aligarh Muslim University on 24th January, 1948, hoped, “I wish to say that, in spite of everything, I have a firm faith in India’s future. . . . Although many of my old dreams have been shattered by recent events, yet the basic objective still…

Is Amit Shah Seeking to Push NRC Across India?
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Is Amit Shah Seeking to Push NRC Across India?

Throughout the 2019 election campaign, Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah made it a point to announce that if his party is re-elected, it will ensure passage of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill. The Bill allows refugees belonging to virtually all religions except Islam to acquire citizenship in India. At the same time, he coupled…

The ‘Liberal’ Education Envisaged by the Draft NEP Has No Role for Dissent

The ‘Liberal’ Education Envisaged by the Draft NEP Has No Role for Dissent

The draft National Education Policy (2019) is right in emphasising what it calls “liberal” higher education but the manner in which it redefines the term robs it of its very essence. The increased privatisation of higher education, and the handing over of its vision, provision and delivery largely to private hands are features that have…

May Day 2003

May Day 2003

Text of a speech given by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the May Day rally held in Revolution Square on May 1, 2003 (Note from Editors: Speech has been edited by us for reasons of space.) Distinguished guests, Dear fellow Cubans: Our heroic people have struggled for 44 years…

They Cannot Stop Us. We Will Live and Triumph.

They Cannot Stop Us. We Will Live and Triumph.

The Trump administration’s hostility toward our country seems to have no end. Yesterday (June 4, 2019), the US Treasury Department added to sanctions announced April 17, and the activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, the prohibition of “people to people” cultural and educational trips, plus other restrictions on travel and transportation services, remittances,…

Congress Socialist Party’s Separation from the Congress (1946–48)

Congress Socialist Party’s Separation from the Congress (1946–48)

Right from the outset, the role of the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) within the Indian National Congress (INC) was a debatable one. However on the eve of independence the relationship between the two became incompatable on several issues. For this reason both parties decided to part ways. The present paper deals with rightist–socialist relations alongwith…

AIFRTE Condemns Threats to the Life and Liberty of Dr. Ram Puniyani

AIFRTE Condemns Threats to the Life and Liberty of Dr. Ram Puniyani

Press Statement by Presidium, AIFRTE All India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE) unequivocally condemns the dastardly threats to the life and liberty of noted academic and former Professor of IIT Mumbai, and a leading figure in the movement for defence of civil liberties, Dr. Ram Puniyani. The articles, lectures and books of Dr. Puniyani,…