TWO YEARS OF MODI’S GOVERNMENT Two years ago when Modi swept the Parliamentary Elections, the Corporate Sector, especially big ones went agog – their enthusiasm and hopes were unbounded. They went on to imagine a free rein to expand in the way it likes. The young generation went dancing on the streets and dreamt of […]
नवउदारवादी शिकंजे में आजादी और गांधी
नवउदारवादी शिकंजे में आजादी और गांधी प्रेम सिंह आरएसएस ने आजादी के संघर्ष में हिस्सा नहीं लिया; और वह गांधी की हत्या के लिए जिम्मेदार है – ये दो तथ्य नए नहीं हैं। आजादी के बाद से आरएसएस के खिलाफ इन्हें अनेक बार दोहराया जा चुका है। आरएसएस आजादी के संघर्ष में हिस्सेदारी का दावा […]
कांग्रेस सोशलिस्ट पार्टी की विरासत
प्रेम सिंह | भारतीय समाजवादी आंदोलन के पितामह आचार्य नरेंद्रदेव की अध्यक्षता में कांग्रेस सोशलिस्ट पार्टी (सीएसपी) के गठन (17 मई 1934, पटना) के समय दो लक्ष्य स्पष्ट थे: देश की आजादी हासिल करने और समाजवादी व्यवस्था कायम करने की दिशा में संगठित प्रयासों को तेज करना।
The inheritance of the Congress Socialist Party
The inheritance of the Congress Socialist Party Prem Singh At the time of the establishment of the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) on 17th May 1934, in Patna, under the chairmanship of the patriarch of the Indian Socialist Movement, Acharya Narendra Deva, two goals were clear : to achieve the Independence of the country and to […]
Implications of IIT Fee Hike
The Indian Institutes of Technology Council headed by the Minister of Human Resources Development Smriti Irani, based on a recommendation by its standing committee, has decided to increase the undergraduate fees from Rs. 90,000 to Rs. 2 lakhs per year. This now makes IIT education costlier than some of the private engineering colleges. Although this […]
How Can Cricket Determine Our Nationalism?
HOW CAN CRICKET DETERMINE OUR NATIONALISM? The defeat of India by West Indies in the T-20 World Cup triggered a controversy at National Institute of Technology at Srinagar between Kashmiri and non-Kashmiri students. Some Kashmiri students have been alleged to have raised anti-India slogans and burst firecrackers upon India’s defeat. The Kashmiri students allege that […]
Systematically Dismantling the Academic Credibility of Our Institutions
Associate Professor Shreya Bhattacharji is the latest target of the Sangh Parivar. She was suspended from the Central University of Jharkhand by the Vice Chancellor Nand Kumar Yadav for having invited retired Professor M.N. Panini of the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University to a CUJ’s event […]
The Idea of Nation
Dear Bhuvnesh, I appreciate your concern for nation but again I would say it is an artificial concept. Just like some people believe in God and have faith in religion you believe in nation. Your faith is as blind as somebody’s is in God. I too am concerned about soldiers dying on border but unlike […]
Why Richa Singh Must Continue to Hold Fort
As the news poured in of Kanhaiya Kumar walking out of prison free and delivering an electrifying speech on Jawaharlal Nehru Univerisity campus in Delhi, another President of a Students’ Union, Richa Singh at Allahabad University, the first woman to hold this office in University’s history, became the target of the Sangh Parivar. After her […]
Most Indians Would Be Considered Anti-National
MOST INDIANS WOULD BE CONSIDERED ANTI-NATIONAL Lately, a number of people have been described as anti-national by the Hindutva lobby. The most shocking is their definition of anybody who worships ‘demons’ from Hindu mythology is also an anti-national. The mythological figures belong to a distant past when the concept of nation state was not there. […]
