by Sandeep Pandey Are we any cleaner than before Narendra Modi and all the people who wanted to be photographed with the broom took to sweeping? What happened to the garbage which they cleaned? Where was it disposed? Most of the photographs of people with the broom did not show any garbage. This implies they…

Socialist Party (India) has been formed to fight the neo-liberal onslaught on the Indian economy, polity and culture and to establish an socialist order. Democratic Socialism came into focus all over the world due to two events. After the disintegration of Soviet Russia the communist parties in many European countries transformed themselves into democratic parties…

By Sandeep Pandey Some 160 families live in a slum opposite the ‘Bhavishya Nidhi Bhawan’ office in Vibhuti Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow. The consist of mostly a scheduled caste community which makes stone items and a muslim community which makes traditional Indian percussion instrument ‘dholak’. In 2009 the Governor was supposed to come and inaugurate…

By Sandeep Pandey Shanti devi is a stone cutter belonging to scheduled caste community. She lives in a village called Meerpur Sudihamau of Barabanki district. She was visiting her brother Gabbar in Lucknow in June 2014 with her entire family. Gabbar lives in a slum opposite Bhavishya Nidhi Bhawan and Seema Shashastra Bal campus in…

11 अक्‍तूबर 2014 आज सुबह वयोवद्ध समाजवादी नेता कैप्‍टन अब्‍बास अली का अलीगढ के एक अस्‍पताल में देहांत हो गयाा 96 साल के कैप्‍टन अब्‍बास अली समाजवादी आंदोलन की अंतिम कडियों में थेा उनका निधन समाजवादी आंदोलन की अपूरणीय क्षति हैा वे भारत के स्‍वतंत्रता आंदोलन के ऐसे सिपाही थे जिन्‍हें सुभाषचंद्र बोस की आजाद…