IT is ironical that on the 78th anniversary of the victory of the Indian people’s struggle against British imperialism, US imperialism is openly bullying India into obeying its diktat. But that, it ...

THE latest blitz of advertisements by the Election Commission (EC) is a textbook example of hypocrisy. In order to establish that Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls for the ...

IN the last one and half decades, West Bengal has borne witness to a chilling surge in gendered violence. From the shadowed alleys of Park Street to the sterile corridors of R G Kar Medical College ...

CONSIDERABLE time has gone by since the Air Accidents Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released its Preliminary Report (PR) on July 12 into the crash of Air India flight AI-171 a month earlier. The flurry ...

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the letter issued by the Delhi Police, which wrongly identifies Bengali language as ‘Bangladeshi language.’ This reflects a ...

THE Industrial Revolution which inaugurated industrial capitalism in the world had occurred in Britain in cotton textiles; but neither Britain nor other North European countries could grow any raw ...

KERALA has long stood as a frontrunner in Indian higher education. National quality assessment agencies like the NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) and the NIRF (National ...

IN recent decades, there has been a growing association between global investment and innovation. Nearly 20 per cent of global multinational enterprises (MNEs) are technology firms, and the sectors ...

THE General Strike on July 9 gave a glimpse of the anger of the workers and the toiling people against their worsening conditions imposed by the neoliberal policies aggressively pursued by the NDA ...

WHAT happened in Srinagar on July 13underlines the deep-seated anger and frustration in the Valley, when all major political leaders were placed under house arrest, and the elected chief minister, ...

THE World Bank has recently published a list of Gini coefficients for 61 countries relating in some cases to income distribution and in others to consumption expenditure distribution. In that list ...

IT was in December 2021 that we visited the tribal community in Kothattai village, Parangipettai taluk, Cuddalore district. Summing up the experience, an article titled “The Alchemy of Sir Becoming ...