DURING the anti-colonial struggle, many activists in India got attracted to socialism by virtue of the fact that while the capitalist world was reeling under the Great Depression and mass unemployment ...

GAZA is at a flashpoint – a moment of reckoning when history convulses for the Palestinian people, yet equally charged with ...

The references in the LOCF draft syllabus also include books authored by BJP and RSS leaders, along with works by other right ...

THE Polit Bureau of the CPI (M) condemns the visit of Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich to India. He led an Israeli delegation to sign a bilateral investment agreement with the Indian ...

The central government led by the BJP has failed in dealing with this huge disaster. CPI (M) demands that it be declared a national calamity. Relief and rehabilitation measures must be undertaken on a ...

For nearly three decades – beginning with the Vajpayee government, to the Manmohan Singh government and then with ...

DONALD Trump’s foreign policy has left commentators in a real tizzy. His markedly differing positions with regard to Ukraine and Gaza, in the first case apparently pursuing peace, and in the second ...

The latest changes introduced by NCERT in the Class VII Social Science textbook have sparked widespread controversy. Earlier, there were three separate books for History, Geography, and Social and ...

WE observe a strange phenomenon everyday, so strange that its strangeness goes generally unnoticed. Government spokespersons from the prime minister downwards go on repeating ad nauseam that India is ...

A third of the over 4.45 lakh cases of registered crimes against women are of domestic violence. But have you heard even one word being spoken by even a single RSS or Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ...

THE results of the Tripura elections have revealed the unholy nexus between conservative tribal identity politics and the RSS led Sangh Parivar. The results show that the Indigenous Peoples Front of ...

FLOODING due to heavy rainfall in major urban centres, which used to be witnessed once in a while, has of late become commonplace, occurring almost annually. Citizens may have thought the situation ...