राम प्रसाद बिस्मिल यांच्या क्रांतीच्या कल्पनेमध्ये भगवीकरणास  थारा नाही
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राम प्रसाद बिस्मिल यांच्या क्रांतीच्या कल्पनेमध्ये भगवीकरणास थारा नाही

हर्षवर्धन त्रिपाठी आणि प्रबल सरण अग्रवाल [११ जून रोजी रामप्रसाद बिस्मिल यांच्या जन्मदिवसानिमित्त प्रकाशित]  रामप्रसाद बिस्मिल यांचे ‘सरफरोशी की तमन्ना’ हे गीत जनमानसामध्ये प्रसिद्ध  आहे. त्यांचे नाव ‘काकोरी कटाच्या’ घटनेमुळे जनतेच्या मनावर कोरले गेले आहे. धाडसी ट्रेन-लूटीच्या या घटनेने उत्तर भारतातील क्रांतिकारी चळवळीने दिशा बदलली. तथापि उजव्या विचारसरणीने बिस्मिल यांचे पुरेपूर भगवीकरण करण्याच्या प्रयत्न केला…

1,100 + Feminists Across Religion, Class, Caste, Ethnicity, Ability, Sexuality and Genders Issue Solidarity Statement
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1,100 + Feminists Across Religion, Class, Caste, Ethnicity, Ability, Sexuality and Genders Issue Solidarity Statement

Statement condemning the arrests and intimidation by the Delhi Police of citizens, especially Muslim women, who have spoken up against the unconstitutional moves of the Modi government.

Unemployment Pandemic
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Unemployment Pandemic

Capitalist crises are neither predictable nor do they stem from a single cause. Instead, at least as I see it, the possibility of a crisis is always there but the causes and triggers are all historical and therefore multiple and varied. Sometimes, crises in capitalism stem from difficulties in extracting more surplus from workers and…

Coronavirus Testing
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Coronavirus Testing

Sharon Kyle Coronavirus Testing In 2017, as the Trump administration transitioned into the White House, the Obama administration handed over the reins of power along with lots of advice and warnings. Among them was a warning about the dangers of pandemics. In fact, there was an entire Pandemic Response Team that was part of the…

Modinomics = Corporatonomics Part IV: Modi’s Budgets and the Social Sectors: Health
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Modinomics = Corporatonomics Part IV: Modi’s Budgets and the Social Sectors: Health

In the previous issues of Janata, we have analysed Modinomics and shown that the Modi Government, if it wants, can raise enough resources to increase its expenditures on the social sectors. Instead, it is giving away huge subsidies to the tune of several lakh crore rupees to the corporate houses. In this article, we specifically…

Searching for Glimpses of Nehru in a Parochial, Post-Nehruvian India

Searching for Glimpses of Nehru in a Parochial, Post-Nehruvian India

[May 27 is the death anniversay of Jawaharlal Nehru. This article is being published courtesy The Wire.] India was in my blood and there was much in her that instinctively thrilled me. And yet I approached her almost as an alien critic, full of dislike for the present as well as for many of the…

Students from 1,600 Cities Protest Climate Change
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Students from 1,600 Cities Protest Climate Change

Hundreds of thousands of students around the world walked out of their schools and colleges Friday in the latest in a series of strikes urging action to address the climate crisis. According to event organisers Fridays for Future, over 1664 cities across 125 countries registered strike actions, with more expected to report turnouts in the…

CO2 Levels Hit 415 PPM for First Time in 3 Million+ Years

CO2 Levels Hit 415 PPM for First Time in 3 Million+ Years

Atmospheric levels of carbon registered 415 parts per million over the weekend at one of the world’s key measuring stations, a concentration level researchers say has not existed in more than 3 million years—before the dawn of human history.   Taken at the Mauno Loa Observatory in Hawaii by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the…

Atomic Veterans Were Silenced for 50 Years. Now, They’re Talking

Atomic Veterans Were Silenced for 50 Years. Now, They’re Talking

Nearly everyone who’s seen it and lived to tell the tale describes it the same way: a horrifying, otherworldly thing of ghastly beauty that has haunted their life ever since. “The colors were beautiful,” remembers a man in Morgan Knibbe’s short documentary The Atomic Soldiers. “I hate to say that.” “It was completely daylight at midnight—brighter…

Atomic Veterans Were Silenced for 50 Years. Now, They’re Talking

Nearly everyone who’s seen it and lived to tell the tale describes it the same way: a horrifying, otherworldly thing of ghastly beauty that has haunted their life ever since. “The colors were beautiful,” remembers a man in Morgan Knibbe’s short documentary The Atomic Soldiers. “I hate to say that.” “It was completely daylight at midnight—brighter…