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Various arms of the state, including Indian embassies and Raj Bhavans, were deployed to turn the 100th episode of Narendra Modi’s radio show into an occasion for competitive sycophancy.
Raising taxes on the rich, whether through the corporate profit tax or through a wealth tax, should be the obvious way of raising resources to finance government expenditure. But both Biden administration and the Republicans leave out this alternative in the current debate on US debt ceiling.
Three poems, on the occasion of International Workers’ Day.
The mass uprising against French President Macron’s pension reforms has been historic. The undemocratic and repressive methods of the government have called into question the legitimacy of the Macron government and the French state. An interview with Sylvestre Jaffard about the dynamics.
In the context of Satya Pal Malik’s decision to reveal the “truth” about the Pulwama attack, the author discusses Malik’s decision to part ways with Modi – and says this is part of an old socialist ethos of immense ideological fluidity.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to be in central London for four days starting Friday to protest the government’s lack of action on the climate crisis. Extinction Rebellion (XR) has called it The Big One, and the idea is to surround parliament to demand ‘systemic change’.
In July 2022, Karnataka’s sanitation workers, known as pourakarmikas, went on strike, across the entire state, to demand that all their positions be turned into permanent government jobs. They won a significant victory.
Apart from small talk on conserving water, the prime minister had not a word to say about the open persecution of minorities in India.
We need to pay close attention to B R Ambedkar’s relentless life-long search for a spiritual path and a spiritual homeground for society, which went way beyond his efforts at transforming India.
Expressing concern over the expulsion of Rahul Gandhi from the parliament and his conviction in a defamation case, over a 1000 members of the civil society call upon the people of India to take all measures to save parliamentary democracy from the assault of the ruling party.
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