Right - Different Truths

May 5, 2018
IPA Service
Ideology, Tribute

Marxism is the Only Potent Power for Change: Political Correlation of Forces Must Shift to Left

Marxism is not a dogma but a ‘creative science’. It is based on, amongst others, “a concrete analysis of concrete conditions”. Marxism is an approach to the analysis of...

May 5, 2018
Amit Singh
Cover Story, History & Culture, Human Rights

Diplomatic Struggle of India against Racial Apartheid[1] in South Africa and its Contemporary Hypocrisy on Human Rights

India since its Independence until the 1970s has played a central role in mobilising third world countries on the issue of Self-determination and racial equality. Amit, our Editor-at-Large (Europe)...

May 4, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
People, Rituals & Practices

Rustling Silks and Flamboyant Hues at Maharashtrian Weddings

Ruchira tells us about Marathi weddings, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Marathi weddings are middle-level affairs, a sharp contrast from the big fat Indian wedding projected...

May 3, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, World

A Socialist Vision Can be a Reality in Britain: Communists Will Back Corbyn to Make That Happen

In 2017, the majority of the world’s 150 biggest economic entities were giant capitalist corporations. The largest 25 were countries, headed by those — the US, Germany, Britain, France,...

May 3, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Job Record Will Decide Whether Modi Can Retain Power: Government Numbers Lack Credibility

Four years after Narendra Modi taking charge of India, with elections demanding answers, there is an urgency to place his jobs-record in the public domain. On that will depend...

May 3, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

BJP, Opposition Parties Brace for UP By-Elections

Opposition parties are working on a formula to field joint candidates against BJP in Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpor Assembly by-elections due on May 28. The by-elections have been...

May 3, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy

Agriculture Needs to be Freed from Shackles

Even as India successfully ended by degrees the despicable licence-cum-permit raj after the advent of industrial and trade policy reforms way back in 1991, the concurrent improvement on the...

May 2, 2018
IPA Service
Gender, Politics

Biplab Deb Insulting Diana Hayden no Surprise: Tripura CM Betrays Sangh View of Minorities

Biplab Deb is a product of this xenophobic tradition, which gives pride of place to religion over the constitutional rights of every citizen, irrespective of his or her faith. ...

May 2, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Mass Media

On Jey Day, Jigna Walks Free: Mumbai Scribes Take Reporting to the Underworld

The day came for journalist Jey Dey to get justice. Mafia don and Dawood eyesore Chhota ‘Chindi’ Rajan got convicted along with nine others, while another journalist, alleged femme...

May 2, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Whose May Day is it: Kaamdar or Naamdar?

If you shout Mayday-Mayday! Don’t be shy. It is May 1, international workers day, which traces its origins to the Haymarket locality of the Chicago of the 19th Century, and...

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