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The 15th Financial Commission has not only failed to address but has also aggravated the country’s increasing tendencies towards fiscal centralisation in its latest recommendations. It could lead to a potential financial crisis for the state governments.
Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has inspired fear within the Empire through both its struggle on the ground and its success in electoral politics as well as in providing welfare services to the people.
Sardar Ajit Singh, uncle of the more famous Indian hero Bhagat Singh, and who was honoured by Tilak as king of peasantry for his contributions to the farmers movement in Punjab, was born on 23 February 1881.
Transcript of the speech delivered by Maulana Azad to a congregation of Muslims at Jama Masjid shortly after India attained independence.
The draft National Land Reforms Policy recommended that states reduce land ceilings and distribute surplus agricultural land to the landless poor. However, several states have amended their land ceiling laws in favour of industry, six in the last three years alone.
In August 2020, following the Belarusian presidential election, the opposition has organised protests, calling for the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko. Nadezhda, a Belarusian journalist, provides an anti-imperialist overview for what is taking place.
Many people believe that Marx was obsessed only with class and had little appreciation of how issues of gender, racism and colonialism inter-related with class and the struggle for human emancipation. The author says that Marx’s writings have been misrepresented.
He and his fellow soldiers will be always remembered for their courage and sacrifice in refusing to fire on peaceful protesters offering non-violent resistance. Thereby a new and glorious chapter was added and a new dimension was given to the history of non-violent struggles against injustice.
The crisis of the pandemic, the economic crisis, the political crisis, and the ecological crisis all ultimately comprise a four-fold public health mega-crisis. An ancient principle of justice points to solutions for this mega-crisis of today.
A survey of reforms in health policies in India over the past two decades – actually a string of privatisation policies – indicates that we have moved away from and not towards Universal Health Coverage. What then needs to be done?
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