Founding Editor: Daya Varma (1929-2015)
Editors: Vinod Mubayi (New York) and Raza Mir (New Jersey).
Editorial Board: Ram Puniyani and Irfan Engineer (Mumbai); Pervez Hoodbhoy (Islamabad); Dolores Chew (Montreal); Vamsi Vakulabharanam (Amherst); Ajay Bhardwaj (Vancouver).
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ELECTIONS 2014: RISE OF AAM AADMI MEANS IT IS NO LONGER CONGRESS VS. BJP
Vinod Mubayi
A few months ago, when talk of the 2014 elections began to dictate discussion of Indian polity, it was the Congress-dominated UPA vs. the BJP-dominated NDA that were posed as the alternatives. The sudden entry of the Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party, borrowing the term “Aam AAdmi first used by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, has changed this discourse considerably. Read more…
AAP’S PAN INDIAN ELECTORAL AMBITION: BEGINNING OF THE END OF AAM AADMI DREAMS?
Biawajit Roy
The trailblazing success of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi polls and its proliferating impact in rest of the country have triggered a feel good factor for the party and like-minded people. With the general election round the corner, now they have a pan-Indian political ambition. Read more…
THE EMERGING LEFT IN THE “EMERGING” WORLD
Jayati Ghosh
It is a great honor and privilege for me to be invited to deliver this lecture in the Ralph Miliband series on the future of the Left. Ralph Miliband was not just an outstanding social scientist and innovative Marxist thinker, but also a beacon to progressive people across the world. Read more…
THE DISAPPEARING LEFT IN THE “EMERGING” INDIA
Daya Varma
The article “The Emerging Left in the Emerging World” by Jayati Ghosh presents a frank and penetrating analysis of the present and the future of the left. However, Ghosh is an eminent Indian political economist and one could have expected her to deal in somewhat greater detail with the condition of “the emerging left” in India. Perhaps her reluctance to do so is because she belongs to the left fraternity and does not wish to confront what is most dear or of most concern to her. Read more…
CPM DETECTS IDENTITY BETWEEN AAP AND COMMUNIST PROGRAM
Daya Varma
In a further blow to the history of the Indian communist movement, Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPM] found identity between the programs of the recently formed AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) and the Communist Party. Read more…
LETTER: AAM AADAMI PARTY (AAP) CAPTURES PEOPLE’S IMAGINATION
Dear Editors
I have just returned from a short family visit to India. I have come back with a remarkable sense that for the first time, after a long while, there is an “Indian Spring” in the making. All my friends and contacts who were turning into old cynical hacks saying their usual refrain of nothing-ever-changes-in-politics-of-India, seem rejuvenated. They are joining in AAP bandwagon. Read more…
MODI’S CASTE AND HINDUTVA POLITICAL STRATEGIES
Ram Puniyani
As Narendra Modi was close to being nominated the Prime Ministerial candidate, another Modi, Sushil Modi, flaunted Modi’s backward caste origins. Recently (Jan 2014) in a public rally in Delhi, Narendra Modi himself brandished his caste while speaking at a public rally. Read more…
INDIAN SCIENTISTS INVENT INSULIN PILLS FOR DIABETICS
Kounteya Sinha
LONDON: In a big breakthrough, Indian scientists have done what medical science has been trying to achieve since 1930 – an insulin pill for diabetics. Read more…
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