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Sexual Assaults against Children: When will this Brutality End? 22 Apr 2013 | 03:24 pm
There are no words to describe the utter horror evoked by the sadistic rape of a 5 year old girl in Gandhi Nagar, Delhi. A chilling reminder of the brutal gang-rape in December, the feeling does not a...
A Tale of Two Elections 11 Mar 2013 | 03:41 pm
The magnificent victory of the CPI(M)-led Left Front in Tripura - winning 50 out of the 60 seats – and the success of the LF candidate in the Nalhati by-election in West Bengal has been interpreted as...
Payback in Patriarchal Coin 8 Feb 2013 | 11:37 am
The hundreds of young women and men and school children who thronged India Gate and Jantar Mantar in Delhi from mid-December last year have been punished yet again by a government that they believed w...
The Need for Unity of the Progressive, Democratic and Left Forces 28 Jan 2013 | 03:31 pm
"What we need in India today is a popular counter-offensive against the neoliberal establishment, which has now decided to attack the working people to buttress its rule. This obviously requires the u...
Towards a New Path for Social Revolution 17 Jan 2013 | 10:58 pm
The initiative taken by the SFI-JNU to bring five Left political organizations on the same platform is an impressive one. For the renewal of the progressive and democratic movement, it is important th...
Retribution is not Justice for Victims 10 Jan 2013 | 10:22 am
Rape can be said to be woven into the fabric of India’s nationhood. During the creation of India and Pakistan, an estimated 100,000 women and girls were abducted, raped, and often killed; but no perso...
Left is the Only Hope for the Country: Ashok Mitra in conversation with Prasenjit Bose 1 Jan 2013 | 01:28 pm
This is a slightly edited reproduction of a conversation between Ashok Mitra, well known economist and former finance minister of West Bengal (1977-1987) and Prasenjit Bose, leftwing activist and Prag...
What these Young Students Want 25 Dec 2012 | 10:24 am
Ayesha Kidwai writes a first person account of the protests led by students and gender activists at India Gate on December 23rd 2012 against the Delhi Gang Rape and Repression of protestors by the Del...
Beyond Author and Authorship 20 Nov 2012 | 12:21 pm
The recent comments by noted play writer, actor and theatrist Girish Karnad on V.S. Naipaul have generated the ‘needed’ debate rather controversy. I am calling it ‘debate’ and not controversy due to s...
Khapitalism Today 15 Nov 2012 | 12:27 pm
One cannot isolate the Khap Panchayats and their ways in Haryana from the phase of capitalism that pervades the state today.And neither can one disregard the resistance that is coming from women, oppr...
