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There is great concern about the increasingly hostile relationship between India and Pakistan. At the heart of the matter is the more than 70-year-old dispute that has led the two countries, born out of the partition of British India in 1947, to lay claim to and eventually divide, occupy, and dominate the people and land…
The class function of Hindutva is becoming clearer by the day. In the lee of Hindutva, the Modi government is embarking on a massive programme of privatisation of the public sector, and of attack on the working class. Such a programme could not have been launched under the “normal” circumstances of capitalist rule; it would…
The relationship between M.K. Gandhi (1869–1948) and Ram Manohar Lohia (1910–1967) was unique in many ways. One can perceive this as equilibrium of opposites. When Lohia came in direct contact with Gandhiji, he was merely twenty-three years old where as Gandhiji, with his vast wealth of experience and ideas, was already sixty four. First of…
India Cultural Forum On October 3, an FIR was lodged against the 49 celebrities for raising concern in late July over the growing incidents of mob lynching. The FIR was lodged under several sections of the Indian Penal Code, including sedition. This is despite the Supreme Court’s stance that sedition charges cannot be invoked for…
Want to blame something for differences in skin color, blame the sun. It’s all in the melanin. The concept of different races is a farce, largely concocted as “scientific racism” by an American physician before the Civil War, as noted in a fascinating special April 2018 issue of the National Geographic, “Black and White.” It…
A common criticism of left-wing politics is that activists always know what they are against, but struggle to articulate what they are for. After this week’s Labour Party conference in Brighton, this taunt can safely be retired. Labour delegates backed a range of radical policies including the introduction of a four-day week with no loss…
Courtesy: Sabrang India September 28, 2019 was the 112th birth anniversary of freedom fighter and iconic youth leader, Bhagat Singh. On this occasion, a book, ‘The Bhagat Singh Reader’, edited by professor Chaman Lal, was released at the Jawaharlal Nehru University on September 25. Professor Romila Thapar, professor emeritus of the university, sent this message…
Neeraj Jain The Madhya Pradesh Government recently conferred the prestigious National Mahatma Gandhi Award for 2018 to Lokayat. The award has been given in recognition of the exemplary work done by Lokayat in spreading the message and values of Mahatma Gandhi among the youth. As a part of this, the recepient institution is honoured with…
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research It is not sufficient to know that workers are exploited, or to demand higher wages within a capitalist system: it is necessary to have a framework to understand more deeply the injustices that we see in places like Foxconn factories, where long workdays and unsafe working conditions are the norm….
The following is the text of the Gandhi Peace Foundation Lecture 1995 delivered by Nikhil Chakravartty in New Delhi on January 30, 1995. It first appeared in Mainstream (October 3, 1998) after N.C.’s demise. I am deeply touched by having been asked to deliver this year’s Gandhi Peace Foundation Lecture. Nobody is more conscious than…
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