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HAS MODI FINALLY MET HIS MATCH IN INDIA’S FARMERS?
Ravinder Kaur
The government’s hopes of turning India into the world’s workshop for global corporations are being strongly resisted
Read more…FARM LAWS: PUBLIC PERCEPTION IS IN FAVOR OF FARMERS, CENTRE CANNOT BE IN DENIAL
The farmers’ movement has reached a stage where it no longer deals with the sectional interests of farmers alone but has deeply affected all sections of Indian society.
Read more…EDITORIAL 1: SUPREME JOKE
Vinod Mubayi
Medieval courts used to have a court jester who was allowed to lampoon the nobility or even poke fun at the ruling monarch as a way of blowing off steam; his antics were permitted ostensibly on the grounds that what he said was a joke and not to be taken seriously thereby allowing the targets of his barbs to save face. The Indian legal and judicial system does not seem to be able to display a comparable liberality towards comedians. The Attorney General has sanctioned prosecution of the comedian Kunal Kamra for daring to label the Supreme Court of India a Supreme Joke.
Read more…EDITORIAL 2: BIHAR ELECTION – LESSONS FOR THE LEFT
Vinod Mubayi
After disappointing performances in the past several years, the recently concluded state elections in Bihar provided a partial resurgence of the Left led by the CPI(ML) Liberation group that won 12 of the 19 seats it was allotted by the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Coalition or MGB) of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Congress, and the Left.
Read more…ARTICLE 32: RIGHTS FOR ALL OR FOR A FAVOURED FEW?
M. Sridhar Acharyulu
When the law becomes a weapon of oppression rather than an equalising force, democracy is in danger. Article 32 deals with the ‘Right to Constitutional Remedies’, and affirms the right of an individual to move the Supreme Court (SC) by appropriate proceedings for the enforcement of the rights conferred in Part III of the constitution.
Read more…INDIA’S HUNGER PANGS
EPW Editorial
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2020, which ranks India 94 among 107 nations, has once again brought to the fore the government’s failure to provide adequate food to a substantial segment of the population despite rising stocks of cereals.
Read more…DILLI CHALO MARCH HAS SHATTERED THE MIASMA OF HINDUTVA’S POWER AND ARROGANCE
Amandeep Sandhu
THE PROTESTORS on the #DilliChalo march are motivated by Fundamental Rights as enshrined in the Constitution, Article 19. Namely, freedom of speech and expression; freedom to assemble peacefully and without arms; freedom to move freely throughout the territory of India. They sought to reach the capital of the nation.
Read more…THE ASSASSIN STATE KEEPS ON KILLING – DOES ANYONE CARE?
Vinod Mubayi
The latest victim of the Assassin State’s long list of terror killings stretching back many decades is an Iranian physicist, Dr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Read more…SAFEGUARDING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
Madan Bhimrao Lokur
In recent times, the right to speech, expression and the right to protest have been constantly undermined. An attack on these rights runs contrary to the spirit of civilised democracy. We need to exercise these rights within the Constitution’s conditions and the government is duty-bound to provide these conditions.
Read more…CPI(M) DISAGREES WITH PROPOSAL TO GO SOFT ON TMC
Shubhadeep Choudhury
Left Front convener Biman Bose on Sunday said the CPI-ML (Liberation) stance of treating the BJP as enemy number one in West Bengal was not acceptable to CPI-M.
Read more…PAKISTAN: ANATOMY OF A POLITICAL MOMENT
Sarah Eleazar and Sher Ali Khan
What kind of freedom is this?
You are deaf to our voices.
What KIND of freedom IS this?
Our young men keep getting killed.
What KIND of freedom IS this?
– ‘Da Sang Azadi Da’ by Shaukat Aziz
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