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When Indian government, British intelligence and the CIA joined hands to spy on communists in Kerala

August 14, 2025 11:41 am

Newly declassified British government documents cast important light on the complex system of cooperation and competition that characterised Western intelligence interactions with India during the Cold War

V S Achuthanandan -- Communist, mass leader, icon

July 22, 2025 11:59 am

As CM, the biggest allegation against V S was that he behaved more like the Opposition leader. The jibe was about the mass agitations he led – such as against encroachment in the tourist paradise of Munnar or the fast he underwent demanding a ban on the deadly pesticide endosulfan

Jane Lazarre, writer who redefined motherhood, dies at 81: Three books to remember her by

July 24, 2025 2:21 pm

A white Jewish woman and the daughter of Communist intellectuals, she was also the mother of two Black sons, which gave her a unique insight into the socio-political issues plaguing USA.

At home with Irfan Habib: The History Keeper

January 25, 2025 3:29 pm

He was 19 when the Republic was born. In the 75 years since then, as the nation grappled with new identities and aspirations, Irfan Habib spent years uncovering India’s complex history, helping generations to make sense of their present.

Biplab Kumar Deb blames Congress veteran Samir Ranjan Barman for Communists' rise to power in Tripura

April 01, 2024 4:56 pm

Biplab Kumar Deb addressed a Lok Sabha poll campaign rally at Nalchar in Tripura's Sepahijala district.

When Gorbachev lifted the iron curtain, western businesses rushed in

August 31, 2022 1:16 pm

Beginning in the early 1990s, American brands flocked into Moscow and St. Petersburg, finding an enormous market of eager consumers weary of Soviet-era shortages, and establishing a base from which to launch operations in the region.

Duh

June 17, 2021 8:07 am

There is now research to show that the rich get richer. It is another exercise in obviousness

Whittled down to 2 seats, CPI reiterates demand for 'Communist reunification'

May 29, 2019 10:07 pm

In the election results announced last week, the CPI, which once boasted of 29 seats at the height of its undivided organisation in 1962, has been diminished to just two seats in the current Lok Sabha.

Trapped in a t-shirt

December 21, 2018 8:19 pm

Che Guevara’s image is marketed by the system he sought to overthrow.

A different kind of secularist

June 08, 2015 12:27 am

Mujeeb Rizvi was a scholar-teacher who fought the pundits and the bigots

COMMUNIST VIDEOS

Somnath Chatterjee will be remembered for always being above party politics

June 22, 2020 6:19 pm

The best example of his non-partisan behaviour is, of course, from 2008 during the Indo-US nuclear deal. Read more: https://bit.ly/2vES2Tu

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