-The Hindu The State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has called for a sustained month-long CAMPAign across West Bengal in August to highlight its demand for the incorporation in the Centre’s proposed Food Security Bill provision for a universalised public distribution system that ensures a monthly allocation of at least 35 kg of foodgrains per family at the rate of Rs. 2 per kg. Demands like remunerative prices to...
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Corporate funding to parties be channelled through Election Commission: Sitaram Yechuri
-PTI NAGPUR: Calling for corporate funding to political parties be stopped forthwith, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechuri today said instead the money should be donated to the Election Commission which can use it to help the candidates in their poll CAMPAigns. "The EC can help the candidates by providing them vehicles, fuel, drivers and also publish their posters and provide printed election material. This way all the candidates of respective parties...
More »Barun Biswas: An unsung hero-Prithvijit Mitra
-The Times of India It was a rainy July evening ten years ago. A motley group of villagers from Sutia gathered at the local market to protest the spate of rapes that had left the area terrorized. They were angry but terrified of reprisal. And they did not know if anyone would join the fight. Speaking in hushed tones, they distributed leaflets asking people to join the protest. Some took the...
More »Guwahati molestation: Scribe offers to quit till cleared of charges
-PTI Private news channel scribe Gaurav Jyoti Neog, blamed by RTI activist Akhil Gogoi for allegedly instigating the molestation of a girl in Guwahati, on Sunday requested the management of the channel to relieve him of his duties till he was cleared of the charges. "There are allegations levelled against me that I orchestrated the molestation on the girl on GS Road on the night on July 9. I strongly deny and...
More »Fallacious perceptions of development–a tribal view from Jharkhand-Richard Toppo
-Kafila.org Almost a century ago, Katherine Mayo published a book titled ‘Mother India’ that criticized the Indian way of living, and Rudyard Kipling spoke of the ‘White Man’s Burden’. These writings reflected the colonial perspective that what colonizers did was in the best interest of the colonized people. Consequently, most well-meaning citizens of colonial powers were alienated from the horrible plight of the colonized. Purpose well served – unopposed exploitation. Years later,...
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