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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
If we believe in our Constitution’s epithet, “We, The People of India”, then, on Constitution Day, we should be taking affirmative steps to ensure that women, tribals and the poor who have been ignored all these years are now included in our national narrative.
“In several cases, the Court has refused to act in defence of citizens who have been victimised for their protest and dissent or for simply exercising their fundamental right of speech and expression.”
The acquisition of property through inheritance is contrary to the bourgeois justification for capitalist property, and so imposition of inheritance tax is perfectly justified. This is why most capitalist countries have high inheritance taxes.
The Centre is asking state-owned companies to buy back their shares, and dole out dividends to help the government raise funds to meet its deficit – policies which are hurting companies in the long run.
This, despite several Supreme Court observations on a person’s right to choice as elucidated in the Constitution; also: HC Overturns ‘Conversion Only for Marriage’ Judgment Yogi had Cited to Justify ‘Love Jihad’ Law.
What was earlier seen by some as an antidote to the BJP’s polarising politics seems to have gone on to another plane.
War: what is it good for? Apparently, in Washington’s world of think tanks, the answer is: the bottom line.
A combination of free-market primacy and culturally-led political-economic dogma, often pushed by small, well-financed private institutions, has paved the way for a slow but steady attack on all ethics, values and ideas that cannot be economised and traded.
The renowned economist discusses alternatives to financial liberalization, the future of welfare politics, development strategy, and contemporary models of economic growth.
Engels’ theoretical work was able to widen the battlefield for Marxism, entering terrains in which Marx did not get involved – or rather, in which he was nourished by the writings of his friend.
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