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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
‘We are deeply concerned that Parliament should pass a law which appears to make a mockery of constitutional provisions and their interpretation by the Supreme Court’ – say the signatories.
NAPM expresses its solidarity with all these activists who are long standing members of human rights, civil liberties and mass organizations and have been working for the welfare and rights of the most disenfranchised people, including Adivasis, Dalits, workers, farmers, minorities and women.
High volatility in crop prices, coupled with the absence of APMCs, means that farmers usually have to sell their produce well below the MSP.
The India I grew up in, I loved was the one that was syncretic, tolerant, coloured with diversity of not just cultures but religions. It was the India that Ruskin Bond continues to highlight in his stories—full of humanitarian values and tolerance with a dollop of goodwill and humour.
Piketty shows that the richest 1 percent has concentrated such a phenomenal amount of tangible and intangible assets that a tax policy targeting the richest 1 percent, 2.5 percent, or even 10 percent would provide substantial means for breaking with neoliberalism.
Throughout his adult life, Martin Luther King Jr believed in striking down not only racial apartheid but class exploitation. That twin commitment was embodied in his final effort: the often-forgotten Poor People’s Campaign.
Letter from Khalid Saifi – an activist and one of the founders of the group, United Against Hate, who was arrested by Delhi police in February 2020 – to his family and friends.
Time Magazine in 1943 called him, “probably the most famous living Negro”; but progressives remember him for refusing to back down from the campaign against fascism and racism and standing up for international socialism even during the McCarthy era.
Mitti Satyagraha and Kisan Shaheed Smarak; Farmers block Delhi-Meerut expressway and Kundli–Manesar–Palwal expressway in Haryana for a day; Farmers gherao offices of FCI; Tikait in Gujarat; How Punjab is organising to keep protests alive during harvesting season.
Covid-19 ‘variants of concern’ have changed the game – and vaccines alone may not be enough; Interview: Indians shouldn’t believe the myth that the country’s Covid-19 mortality rate is low.
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