Founding Editor: Daya Varma (1929-2015)
Editors: Vinod Mubayi (New York) and Raza Mir (New Jersey).
Editorial Board: Ram Puniyani and Irfan Engineer (Mumbai); Pervez Hoodbhoy (Islamabad); Dolores Chew (Montreal); Vamsi Vakulabharanam (Amherst); Ajay Bhardwaj (Vancouver).
Circulation/website: Feroz Mehdi (On behalf of Alternatives, Montreal).
CPM SHOULD LEARN FROM LATE PC JOSHI AND NOT FROM MULAYAM SINGH YADAV
Daya Varma and Vinod Mubayi
The Communist Party of India (CPM) is the life-line of the communist movement in India. There are other communist parties too, like CPI, but there is no apparent political and ideological reason for their existence; they reflect the decay and not the rejuvenation of the communist movement. The only radically different trend and, indeed, the greatest vulgarization of Marxism is represented by the Maoist movement, which is neither Maoist nor a movement but seems to get undue attention on the part of the media because of its violent nature. Read more…
NUCLEAR AGREEMENT WITH IRAN: A Positive Step for Peace
Vinod Mubayi
Haan! Talkhi-e-ayyam abhi aur badhegi
Haan! Ahl-e-sitam mashq-e-sitam karte rahenge
Manzoor ye talkhi, ye sitam hum ko gawaara
Dam hai to mudava-e-alam karte rahenge
(The poisons of the age will grow further/Tyrants will continue their tyranny/I acknowledge this poison and the tyranny/As long as I live I will try to keep on remedying them) – excerpt from Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s “Lauh-e-Qalam” (Tablet and Pen) Read more…
MULAYAM SINGH YADAV’S ANTI-PAKISTAN, ANTI-CHINA SECULARISM
Daya Varma
At a grand rally on October 29, at Azamagarh in Samajwadi Party (SP)-ruled state of Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav, the leader of SP flayed Narendra Modi for his divisive politics and Gujarat pogrom. But he did more. Read more…
TEJPAL AND MODI
Jawed Naqvi
LET’S not get distracted. Tehelka’s editor Tarun Tejpal used his position of power to force himself on a junior colleague who was his daughter’s age.
He contests the charge of rape but he did confess in a letter of apology to an error of judgement in seeking ‘liaison’ with the woman in question. Read more…
SWAMI AGNIVESH ON SCIENTISTS VISITING TIRUPATI
Press Statement by Swami Agnivesh President World Council of Arya Samaj Scientists visiting Tirupati Read more…
CBI DIRECTOR COMPARES RAPE WITH GAMBLING
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Ranjit Sinha is reported (The Hindu, October 13, 2013) to have made the following statement: Read more…
THE TRUTH OF SOMNATH TEMPLE-HOW WAS IT BUILT: NEHRU HAD NO ROLE
Ram Punyani
The claim that the Somnath reconstruction was done as per the decision of the Nehru cabinet. is a total lie. Since the public memory is too short anything propagated repeatedly starts sounding like being true, Contrary to what is being propagated a little peep into the recent history will show us that Indian Government had nothing to do with the reconstruction of Somnath temple. Read more…
MODI’S-ABUSING HISTORY FOR POLITICAL MILEAGE
Ram Puniyani
The politics of Modi’s parent organization RSS is based on distortion of history, medieval history in particular. To begin with the projection of kings through the prism of religion, to demonize Muslim kings based on distortions and falsehoods of History, and then in turn spreading hatred against Muslims of today has been the foundation on which RSS built it up. Taking the same method to further lower levels currently Narendra Modi is trampling, distorting the facts of history to project his ideology. In the last week, October 2013, he addressed two meetings and gave one interview which showed the levels to which he can fall to score the political mileage. Read more…
NARENDRA MODI NEEDS AN ELEMENTARY COURSE IN HISTORY
(Daya Varma. Based on a news item in the Hindu of November 11, 2013)
While inaugurating a hospital on November 10, Modi said that the founding patriarch of his Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), Syama Prasad Mukherjee was a “proud son of Gujarat”. Modi credited him for setting up the “India house in London” and added that Mukherjee “was considered the Guru of Indian revolutionaries” and “died in 1930”. Read more…
NEPAL ELECTIONS
Vinod Mubayi and Daya Varma
The results of the Nepali elections have demonstrated that the Nepali Maoists who gained a significant plurality in the 2008 elections and emerged as the largest party in Parliament with their leader Prachanda becoming Prime Minister, are now in a significant decline. Read more…
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