The CPI (ML) Patan Committee held a Sankalp Sabha at SagunaPatan on 4 May on the occasion of the martyrdom anniversary of labour leader Com Jagdev Sharma.
Jagdev Sharma was known
-- Awadhesh
Kishori Amonkar is no more (1932-2017). Her demise at the age of 84 cannot be termed unexpected, after a life lived full and devoted to the practice of music.
(This tribute to Comrade Srilata by Kumudini Pati first appeared in Mainstream.)
Srilata Swaminathan was not only a comrade, with whom I worked for almost ten long years in the women’s
-- Kavita Krishnan
(This article first appeared on 31 March, 2017 on Kafila.online)
It’s been twenty years since the assassin’s bullets took Chandu away from us, at 4 pm on 31 March
Comrade Ramesh Chandra Pandey
CPI (ML) senior leader Ramesh Chandra Pandey (affectionately known as Baba) passed away on 11 April 2017 at the age of 77. He was born in Lohar
Com. Prayag Vishwakarma
Comrade Prayag Vishwakarma breathed his last at 12.30 in the night of 18 April at the age of 50. Com Prayag joined the Party after his matriculation in
Comrade Srilata Swaminathan
(29.04.1944 - 05.02.2017)
Veteran CPIML leader Comrade Srilata Swaminathan passed away in Udaipur (Rajasthan) in the early morning of 5 February. She was 74. Comrade Srilata had suffered a
CPI(ML) Darbhanga District Committee member Com. Ram Bahadur Das passed away on 19 January 2017 due to blood cancer. He was a resident of Dharora village in Benipur block. A
Eminent economist, Marxist intellectual, political and social activist Dr. Sulabha Brahme passed away after a brief illness at her residence on December 2, 2016. She was 84 years old. She
Flags flew at half mast in all CPI(ML) offices all over the country to pay respects to Fidel Castro Ruz, the iconic leader of the Cuban revolution and towering figure
-- Anju Barkataki
An avalanche seemed to have burst on the streets of Guwahati. For three consecutive days from the 7th of November, wave upon wave of people kept flowing night
-- Loknath Goswami, General Secretary, Sadou Assam Jansanskritik Parishad
That golden voice that gave a distinct identity to the entire North East, and sang “Ami ek jajabor” (I’m a wanderer), has
‘When 70 people in every 100 are still poor – put your hands on your heart, and tell me, is the country really free?’
People poet Adam Gondvi, who penned the
(Soon after Bhupen Hazarika’s demise, Assam suffered another painful loss. Harendranath Barthakur pays tribute to Dr. Indira Goswami.)
The unconquered storyteller of the contemporary Assamese literature, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, (Dr. Indira
Liberation condoles the untimely passing away of J Sri Raman, journalist and leading campaigner against nuclear weapons and communal violence.
J Sri Raman was a lifelong peace activist in the sub-continent,