India Wage Report of ILO: Some Hits, Many Misses
The ILO report estimates that the real average daily wages in India almost doubled between 1993–94 and 2011–12 but fails to mention that the Indian GDP quadrupled between 1991...
Malayali Greed has Come Home to Roost: Unprecedented Flood Devastation is Man-Made
It is no time for a blame game. And yet it may be not be inappropriate to do a reality check. The agonising experience has put the fear of...
Quoting Vajpayee to Bring Modi to Heel: When Insaniat with Pakistan Could Not Deliver
Told by Nehru when young that he will become PM one day, Vajpayee never looked far for a role model. Vajpayee wept “like a child” at Nehru’s death, says...
Human Rights Justice: Methods of Testimonial Therapy to Generate Human Rights Movement – II
In the second and final part of the research article, Amit, our Editor-at-Large (Europe) examines the methods of Testimonial Therapy (TT) to generate the human rights movement. He tells...
Sunny Rain-N-Snow: An Olio of Poetry for Pleasure
Bhaskaranand reviews the poetry of U Atreya Sharma and critiques his book Sunny Rain-n-Snow, exclusively for Different Truths. Sunny Rain-n-Snow is a beautiful folio of sixty-three poems well-wrought by U...
India is the Second Most Unequal Country, Globally
New World Wealth, a Johannesburg-based company, published a report where it claimed that India is the second-most unequal country in the world, with millionaires controlling 54 percent of the...
Marxist Scholars are Giving Big Focus on Environment
Marx and Engels were well aware of the wider, environmental aspects of human “conquest” over nature. And Marxists today have a good deal to say about the environment. An...
Marxism is More Relevant Now: Every Country Has to Find Its Own Path to Socialism
Marx revealed exactly how exploitation of labour and capital accumulation occur under capitalism. Marxism rejects all dogma and its development as a living and creative methodology didn’t end with...