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Justice Rajindar Sachar, April 15, 2017 The results of the UP State Assembly elections have come as a shock to all parties including the pollsters. The appointment of Yogi Adityanath as the Chief Minister of UP is the worst outcome. I feel that it requires all political parties, the secular parties and the Leftists (I…
In the September 2000 issue of ‘In These Times’, Howard Zinn wrote this review of a book about the life of Karl Marx by Francis Wheen. On the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth, we present Zinn’s review in full, in which he discusses how “Marx predicted the world of today, with ever increasing concentrations of…
Very worrying trends have been reported recently from Himachal Pradesh that highly nutritious fruits are being diverted from direct consumption to the production of wine on a large scale. Such trends if left unchecked can easily spread to other parts of the country. First a leading newspaper Dainik Jagran reported that apples as well as…
Dr. Ambedkar Mahasabha honoured the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with Dalit Mitra or Friend of the Dalit award on the birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on 14 April 2018 in Lucknow. This is the same government which had arrested Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan, the founder of Bhim Army which runs over 300 education…
It appears Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted China–dictated China–India border. The ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) can argue that it has accepted what was de jure. What is hailed as a historic moment is actually an abject surrender to Beijing. It is practically a defeat. Had the Congress Party done so, it would have…
Currently there is propaganda from the BJP combine that the Congress is an anti-Hindu party. On every conceivable occasion, it states that Congress is insulting Hinduism. In the wake of the verdict of Mecca Masjid blast cases, as the accused got released, BJP spokespersons went hammer and tongs saying that Rahul Gandhi and Congress have…
Mrinal K Biswas At the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the party’s highest policy making body broke the embedded practice of echoing and approving anything coming from the top leaders sitting in Politburo or Central Committee, and forced an alteration in the draft political resolution of the Central Committee. The official…
Justice Rajindar Sachar, April 8, 2017 The Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar has suggested that he can act as a mediator in the pending Babri Masjid demolition case. The expression of concern is a little odd as it comes at the instance of an “inter-meddler”, and without the parties being present in Court. No…
Qurban Ali; Centre for Study of Society and Secularism The dominant discourse on nationalism in the country today has narrowed down to superficial parameters and litmus test of chanting of slogans like Vande Mataram and organising aggressive bike rallies by Hindu supremacists in Muslim majority areas as a show of strength and assertion of their…
Pannalal Surana Son of a great freedom fighter and first Chief Minister of the undivided State of Punjab, Bhimsen Sachar, Rajinder Sachar had imbibed the values of our national freedom struggle. He was deeply impressed by the thoughts of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia. While he was practicing at the bar, he also participated in organisational…
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