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Left side (lined): CPI(M) at crossroads in Bengal

Left side (lined): CPI(M) at crossroads in Bengal

What does the CPI(M) want in West Bengal? It's not clear from the party's recent actions whether it's concerned about defeating the BJP at all.
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Political review

BJP woos the Bhadralok voters of West Bengal as the battle moves south
Politics

BJP woos the Bhadralok voters of West Bengal as the battle moves south

As a desperate BJP woos Bhadralok voters of West Bengal to win the southern urban seats, it's to be seen which side the Islamophobic upper-caste...
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EC ban on Mamata: A blatant display of servility
Politics

EC ban on Mamata: A blatant display of servility

The EC ban on Mamata Bandopadhyay in West Bengal helped to unveil the highly partisan character of the poll body, which had so far supported...
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COVID-19 cases in West Bengal: Why Modi-Shah don’t care?
Politics

COVID-19 cases in West Bengal: Why Modi-Shah don’t care?

With an alarming situation all over India, why Modi and Shah aren't worried about increasing the COVID-19 cases in West Bengal through their reckless rallies?
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Why Amit Shah’s assurance on NRC to Gorkhas is based on sheer lies?
Politics

Why Amit Shah’s assurance on NRC to Gorkhas is based on sheer lies?

Despite Amit Shah’s assurance on NRC to Gorkhas, there will be no respite for the community once the exercise starts following the preparation of the...
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Poll violence in Coochbehar: BJP’s attempt to violently seize Bengal
Politics

Poll violence in Coochbehar: BJP’s attempt to violently seize Bengal

The poll violence in Coochbehar where the central police forces killed five shows that a gloomy future awaits West Bengal should the BJP win.
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Night curfew in Delhi, lockdown in Maharashtra: Islamophobia and anti-farmer initiatives unveiled
Politics

Night curfew in Delhi, lockdown in Maharashtra: Islamophobia and anti-farmer initiatives unveiled

Under the guise of night curfew in Delhi and lockdown in Maharashtra to curb COVID-19 pandemic, the farmers' movement and the Muslim community will be...
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Economic review

Extension of the 21-day lockdown and an imminent food crisis
Economy India

Extension of the 21-day lockdown and an imminent food crisis

The extension of the 21-day lockdown in India must be done judiciously as there is a need to complete Rabi harvesting and prevent a major...
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Inside Modi’s sham Rs 1.73 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package for poor
Economy

Inside Modi’s sham Rs 1.73 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package for poor

The COVID-19 economic relief package announced by Nirmala Sitharaman for the poor isn't just inadequate, it's farcical and a mockery of poor people's agony.
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Why Reliance and HDFC are having a good time during Coronavirus lockdown?
Economy India

Why Reliance and HDFC are having a good time during Coronavirus lockdown?

Why the markets were in a jubilant mood after Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared national lockdown? Why the shares of Reliance and HDFC are surging?
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Understanding the economic repercussions of Coronavirus in India
Economy India

Understanding the economic repercussions of Coronavirus in India

What will be the economic repercussions of Coronavirus in India? Who will suffer the most and who will profiteer from the agony of millions?
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SBI’s investment to save YES Bank sets dangerous precedence of corporate bail-out
Economy

SBI’s investment to save YES Bank sets dangerous precedence of corporate bail-out

The SBI's investment to save YES Bank sets a dangerous bail-out precedence where public money will be used to catapult corporate entities in crisis.
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Modi’s fake assertions won’t resolve India’s economic woes
Economy

Modi’s fake assertions won’t resolve India’s economic woes

Modi's fake assertion about India becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2024-25 ignoring the vexing alarm of the crisis-ridden economy will worsen things.
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Foreign affairs

Time to bid Goodbye to New York Times’s Imperialist Advocacy in Venezuela
Foreign Affairs

Time to bid Goodbye to New York Times’s Imperialist Advocacy in Venezuela

Why the New York Times shamelessly allowed Venezuelan fascist Juan Guaido to write an opinion piece on his plan to woo the army for a...
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Venezuela Must Resist US Imperialist Aggression
Foreign Affairs

Venezuela Must Resist US Imperialist Aggression

As the US imperialism's threat of aggression is transforming into attempts of military aggression Venezuela must fight till the end to save its sovereignty.
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China Arrests Student Leader for Celebrating Mao Zedong’s Birthday
Foreign Affairs

China Arrests Student Leader for Celebrating Mao Zedong’s Birthday

The Chinese government has arrested a Marxist student leader from Peking University for attempting to celebrate 125th birth anniversary of Mao Zedong.
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Yellow Vest Protest in France – A Popular Uprising or a Fascist Riot?
Foreign Affairs

Yellow Vest Protest in France – A Popular Uprising or a Fascist Riot?

France is on fire as a large contingent of disgruntled protesters are rampaging on the streets and protesting against the pro-rich, pro-corporate policies of President...
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Chinese Rulers’  Mao Paranoia Gets Intense With Revival of Red-Dissent
Foreign Affairs

Chinese Rulers’ Mao Paranoia Gets Intense With Revival of Red-Dissent

There is a new wind of dissent blowing within China, which is seriously causing gargantuan trouble to the ruling elites of the Chinese Communist Party,...
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Murder of Jamal Khashoggi & Power Struggle Between Saudi Arabia & Turkey
Foreign Affairs

Murder of Jamal Khashoggi & Power Struggle Between Saudi Arabia & Turkey

The brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul caused a severe trouble for the Saudi royal family...
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Inside India

Hathras gangrape and the selective outrage of India’s mainstream
Women

Hathras gangrape and the selective outrage of India’s mainstream

The Hathras gangrape and murder of a Dalit girl didn't trigger an outrage in the upper-caste sections, exemplifying myriad dynamics of rape.
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What forced the BJP to drop CAA 2019 campaign during Durga Puja in Bengal?
India Politics

What forced the BJP to drop CAA 2019 campaign during Durga Puja in Bengal?

After much hullabaloo over the issue, what made the West Bengal BJP to drop CAA 2019 campaign during the Durga Puja to woo Hindu voters?
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Inside Modi’s two anti-farmer agriculture bills: A trap to rob farmers and people
India Politics

Inside Modi’s two anti-farmer agriculture bills: A trap to rob farmers and people

What are the salient features of Modi's two anti-farmer agriculture bills? We analysed the anti-poor provisions of these bills.
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Birendra Chattopadhyay: A poet in a centenary year
Society

Birendra Chattopadhyay: A poet in a centenary year

September 2nd is gone with the wind and a birth centenary year of a renowned Bengali poet has passed by in the corona-ruled lockdown times....
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No, CAA 2019 won’t disenfranchise anyone, CAA 2003 will
India Politics

No, CAA 2019 won’t disenfranchise anyone, CAA 2003 will

77% respondents of a survey think CAA 2019 will disenfranchise them, but they, ironically, don't know about CAA 2003, the actual culprit.
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How India-China border tension is helping Modi defuse discontent?
India Politics

How India-China border tension is helping Modi defuse discontent?

A war with China at the behest of the US and the Quad will be beneficial for Modi to defuse public anger against the ongoing...
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Minorities


Editorial & Op-eds

The oppressive silence of the COVID-19 pandemic
Opinion

The oppressive silence of the COVID-19 pandemic

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...
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Business as before?
Opinion

Business as before?

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”?
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Assam flood: An issue no one talks about
Opinion

Assam flood: An issue no one talks about

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
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The class conflict and populist narrative in Modi’s India under COVID-19
Opinion

The class conflict and populist narrative in Modi’s India under COVID-19

In Modi's India there has been a fundamental transformation in political discourse. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed class conflicts more acutely than ever.
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Celebrating the new Indian citizen
Opinion

Celebrating the new Indian citizen

The Indian citizen is remoulded and turned into a non-chalant, "apolitical", obedient and uncritical lot, which cheers the supreme leader and hails tyranny.
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“Self-reliant India” is an old wine in an old bottle, relabelled as new
Editorial

“Self-reliant India” is an old wine in an old bottle, relabelled as new

"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,...
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More than fiction


Media review