Jan Adhikar Rally and After:

On March 30, Patna's historic Gandhi Maidan was witness to one of the biggest people’s assemblies of recent times. The occasion was the “Jan Adhikar Rally” called by the Bihar

Massacre Masterminds Escape Justice

13 years after the brutal massacre of landless poor by the Ranveer Sena at Laxmanpur Bathe in Jehanabad, Bihar, the Additional District and Sessions Court of Patna sentenced 16 Ranveer

A Bill to Kill Higher Education

The union cabinet has given the green signal to Kapil Sibal to table the Foreign Educational Institution (Regulation of Entry and Operation) Bill, 2010, in the Parliament. Part of Sibal’s

Food Security Farce

India has a shameful track record of tackling hunger: worse even than some of the poorest countries in the world. According to the UN’s Global Hunger Index 2009, which ranked

Not Cricket:

Put a Stop to IPL's Corrupt Corporate Carnival "What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?" – that is how Trinidadian Marxist and noted cricket writer C L R

UPA’s Anti-Farmer Offensive

(In the backdrop of severe agrarian crisis and growing peasant assertion, a national Peasant Conference is to be held at Patna on 10 May, the anniversary of the First Indian

AICCTU’s MAY DAY CALL

CHECK PRICE RISE! FOOD FOR ALL! JOBS FOR ALL ! Rights and Dignity to Workers and Toiling Peasants ! Monthly wages of Rs. 11,000 and Social Security to all unorganized workers ! The

The Hurt Locker:

Cinematic Adventurism Set in American Imperial Adventurism This year's Academy Awards in California, true to its Hollywood roots, presented with an ample amount of scripted suspense and feigned emotion a classic

Green Hunt’s Grim Toll Rises

The Maoist ambush of Central Reserve Police Force )CRPF( jawans on April 6 in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh which claimed the lives of 74 jawans is yet another tragic and terrible