The oppressive silence of the COVID-19 pandemic
Reading Time: 4 minutes The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the hypocrisy and the inhuman side of the privileged Indian society, which is happy to close doors on the working class.
What’s inside the India-China military standoff in eastern Ladakh?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The India-China military standoff in eastern Ladakh seriously jeopardises bilateral relations and peace, therefore, it must be resolved through dialogue now
PmeVidya: A platform to disown a larger section of students
Reading Time: 4 minutes The PMeVidya online education programme is launched by the Modi regime for school students. But which class of students can avail online education in India?
Business as before?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The big question in the era of COVID-19 pandemic for Indians is: Can we afford governments that go on and on with “business as before”?
Assam flood: An issue no one talks about
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Brahmaputra has already started flooding. It’s just May. While Assam looks at a precarious future, the so-called “national” press is mum over its plight
The class conflict and populist narrative in Modi’s India under COVID-19
Reading Time: 5 minutes In Modi’s India there has been a fundamental transformation in political discourse. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed class conflicts more acutely than ever.
Capitalism: An overrated failure story
Reading Time: 7 minutes Why attempts made by governments of different countries, including India’s, to revive capitalism with a stimulus during COVID-19 isn’t feasible at all?
Modi’s Amphan relief package for Bengal to aid the BJP’s mission 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes Soon after his visit to the affected areas, Modi will announce an Amphan relief package for Bengal, although he will use it to win the 2021 assembly polls.
The Amphan super-cyclone and the ravaged West Bengal
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Amphan super-cyclone has ravaged West Bengal at a time when the Coronavirus lockdown caused massive harm to the economy.
Can a loan package for the MSME sector from Sitharaman help at all?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Can the Modi regime’s Rs 3 trillion-worth loan package for the MSME sector help it survive and provide employment to the workers?
Why does Trump say that China is responsible for spreading Coronavirus?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Why does Trump say that China is responsible for spreading Coronavirus when all evidence proves otherwise? What should Beijing do to stop Trump and the US?
Why the corporate world isn’t truly happy with Modi’s Rs 20 trillion package?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Though Modi’s Rs 20 trillion-worth so-called “fiscal stimulus” package was all about selling India to corporates, why the latter aren’t quite happy now?
FM Sitharaman’s fifth tranche announcements expose there wasn’t any stimulus package
Reading Time: 9 minutes Nirmala Sitharaman’s fifth tranche announcements regarding the Rs 20 trillion “stimulus package” exposed there was no relief plan at the first place.
Capitalism and class struggle in the era of Coronavirus
Reading Time: 5 minutes The importance of class struggle against the capital’s unbridled attack on working class was never felt as much it’s felt now, during the era of Coronavirus
Sitharaman’s fourth tranche unveiled the long-pending anti-people reforms
Reading Time: 7 minutes After beating around the bush, Nirmala Sitharaman’s fourth tranche of announcements revealed how the Modi regime is selling India to big mining giants.
Third tranche of Sitharaman’s COVID-19 package announcements poses threat to farm sector
Reading Time: 7 minutes The third tranche of Sitharaman’s COVID-19 package announcements not only avoided fiscal stimulus but also jeopardised India’s food security.
Sitharaman’s second set of announcements have no clear solution as well
Reading Time: 7 minutes Like her first set of announcements, Sitharaman’s second set of announcements regarding the much-hyped fiscal stimulus package was also utterly hollow.
Celebrating the new Indian citizen
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Indian citizen is remoulded and turned into a non-chalant, “apolitical”, obedient and uncritical lot, which cheers the supreme leader and hails tyranny.
Sitharaman’s announcements on day one peddled liquidity as fiscal stimulus to dupe people
Reading Time: 7 minutes Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcements, on the first day of the many days she will announce details of Modi’s Rs 20 billion-worth package, were simply hollow.
“Self-reliant India” is an old wine in an old bottle, relabelled as new
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Self-reliant India” is a rhetoric. An old wine in an old bottle but with a new label. This demagogy won’t rescue the country from crisis, but a plan will.