The writer is a member of the CPM politburo and patron, AIDWA
October 14,2013 01:54:43 AM
We need to interrogate the politics and policies that fuel the increasing violence against women
July 18,2013 04:48:31 AM
The death of a young Dalit points to the persistence of casteist structures,and a politics that fattens on them
September 05,2012 02:49:53 AM
BJP and Congress might argue about allocations vs auctions,but both agree on the denationalisation of a vital natural resource
July 17,2012 01:07:00 AM
Government must bring the assisted reproductive technologies bill to Parliament. More stringent regulation could have saved lives
May 17,2012 03:26:28 AM
What stops the government from using good harvests to reduce,if not eliminate,hunger?
January 18,2012 02:54:29 AM
She may have used sex and threats to get her way,but her murder raises troubling questions about crime and political power
September 23,2011 02:58:23 AM
How many meals do you have to miss for the Planning Commission to consider you poor?
May 19,2011 00:41:32 AM
It is unlikely that a review exercise will to lead to the kind of reformed Left that its critics want.
July 19,2010 04:05:18 AM
The proposed legal amendments do not factor in the complex cruelties of honour crimes...
January 18,2010 02:50:22 AM
Recently,at Howrah station,a group of railway porters surrounded me to ask about the health of Comrade Jyoti Basu.
September 03,2009 03:14:26 AM
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is once again in the news,for the wrong reasons. Arbitrary changes in the guidelines...
October 25,2006 23:34:18 PM
The CPM wants to win representation in the state assembly in alliance with other Left parties
February 03,1998 00:00:00 AM
Although most political parties have only marginally increased the number of their women candidates in the forthcoming elections, the issue ...
August 01,1997 00:00:00 AM
The current session of Parliament has a special significance for women as there are two pending Bills which concern their rights. One is th...
