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Ratheesh Pisharody The year 2020, brings with it many challenges for both the planet as well as the “Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic of India”. When we celebrate India’s “Republic Day” this year on the 26th of January, there should be an attempt do more than just take a day off from work and…
Samar Bagchi On 26th November 2019 Agence France-Presse reported from Paris that the scientists of United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) have predicted that if the global temperature rise has to be restricted to 1.5°C then the global emission of CO2 has to be reduced by 76% by 2030. Acknowledging the imminent ecological crisis endangering the…
Jean Drèze The future of Indian democracy depends a great deal on a revival of Dr. Ambedkar’s visionary conception of democracy. This vision also needs to be enlarged and updated in the light of recent experience. Revolutionary Democracy Dr. Ambedkar’s vision of democracy was closely related to his ideal of a “good society”. He…
Anil Nauriya (This essay was written in 2015, as a review of Nayantara Sahgal’s book, “Nehru’s India: Essays on the Maker of a Nation”. We are publishing an edited version of this essay, because it has become even more relevant today.) If one scans the political landscape of India in the 20th century for…
Irfan Habib (This is a abridged version of a lecture by Prof. Irfan Habib, delivered on December 28, 1994, organised by SAHMAT. It is as relevant today as it was then.) I deem it an honour indeed that I should be asked to speak on Mahatma Gandhi and the National Movement. It is a very…
Vijay Prashad As we enter the new year, protests across the planet continue unabated; rising levels of discontent are manifest in both progressive and reactionary directions. The political character of the anger might whip across the spectrum of opinion and hope, but the underlying frustrations are similar. There is anger at the decades-long crisis…
Subodh Varma India woke up on January 8, to witness the largest ever strike with an estimated 25 crore (250 million) workers, employees, farmers and rural labourers stopping work and hitting the streets to protest against the Modi government’s economic policies and divisive politics. Reports coming in from various states indicate that the…
Sandeep Pandey, Babloo Loitongbam & Meera Sanghamitra Thuingaleng Muivah, the supreme leader of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) says that Nagaland may be weaker in material sense but it is strong in politics. No wonder, the organisation which started off as an insurgent group was able to engage the Government of India in…
Sandeep Pandey Mahatma Gandhi’s spectacles are being used as an emblem for Government of India’s sanitation campaign Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA). Even though Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, the ideological parent of ruling Bhartiya Janata Party, abhors Gandhi’s ideology, yet Narendra Modi has decided to use Gandhi as a symbol for his drive for cleanliness. First, he…
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…
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