Seven year old Aadhya spent the last two weeks of her life at a ‘state of the art’ private medical facility, her survival dependant on an artificial ventilator. Her brain had probably stopped functioning several days before she died, but we will never know for sure. While a young child suffered silently, for she had … Read more
People’s Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXXVII No. 49 December 08, 2013 JUST past midnight of November 30, India’s Mars Orbiter or Mangalyaan left earth’s gravitational pull for its ten-month long journey to Mars. This happened after a series of orbit raising manoeuvres undertaken … Read more
People’s Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXXNo. 48November 26, 2006 THE passing in the Senate of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal has been hailed by the Indian media as a big victory, without even a cursory mention that it is the identical Bill that Manmohan Singh in … Read more
People’s Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXXVII No. 44 November 03, 2013 THE NSA skeletons keep tumbling out of the cupboard. Not only were the Brazilian and Mexican Presidents Dilma Roussefs and Felipe Calderóns emails and phones hacked, NSA had targeted the French … Read more
People’s Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXXVII No. 41 October 13, 2013 THE internet governance is back in the news with Snowden’s NSA revelations and the US government’s blatant violations of its stewardship of the internet. Bruce Schneier, one of the leading cyber security experts … Read more
People’s Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXXNo. 34August 20, 2006 THE Israeli and the western media has built the myth that the attacks on Gaza and later on the Lebanese population are a response by Israel to their one soldier being kidnapped by the Hamas on … Read more
People’s Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXVIIINo. 30July 25, 2004 THE finance minister, P Chidambaram has proposed that the FDI caps for Insurance, Civil Aviation and Telecom be raised to 49 per cent for the first two and 74 per cent for the telecom sector. … Read more
People’s Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXIXNo. 26June 26, 2005 THE telecom scenario is currently seeing two policy changes that could mean worsening of the already poor rural teledensity figures. The gap between the urban and rural areas is widening rapidly; while teledensity is … Read more
People’s Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXIXNo. 09February 27, 2005 BEFORE the budget, there is the recurring refrain that the only way forward lies in lowering taxes and stimulating growth. If the neo-liberal economists are to be believed, the Left, in asking for higher … Read more
People’s Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXXVIII No. 06 February 09, 2014 THE decision of Arvind Kejriwal’s government in Delhi to have the accounts of the three distribution companies (discoms) subjected to a CAG audit has had immediate repercussions. The three discoms are moving the courts against … Read more