Channi is dishonest and Kejriwal an honest man?
On 20 January, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi a dishonest man, and emphasized that Channi should not be viewed as a common man.…
Dr Prem Singh
Satya Pal Malik’s protest to the government: Was it a socialist attitude?
Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik's stand has not softened even after the government withdrew three controversial agri-laws. Speaking at a social function in Haryana's Charkhi Dadri town on January 2,…
Land Acquisition Ordinance: Government-Corporate nexus against people and democracy
(This article was written in January 2015 and published in Mainstream Weekly. The article is released again in the view of the ongoing farmers movement, and the frequent land acquisitions…
Sinha’s Writing: An Alternative Vision of Socialism
The aim of consumerism, which the rulers of these [socialist] economies had promoted, when they aspired to surpass the United States in the standard of life, conceived in terms of…
A farewell note for Professor Yogesh Tyagi
A new vice chancellor has been appointed in Delhi University (DU) after a wait of six months. Prof. Yogesh Singh will conduct the affairs of DU from the vice…
Captain Should Play a Higher Role Than High Command
I do not generally opine on the internal affairs of any political party. Hence, I have no comments on the machinations of leadership change in Punjab and the strength or…
Jallianwala Bagh: Erasing the Spirit of Sacrifice
The beautification/renovation of Jallianwala Bagh Memorial done by the central government through a Gujarat-based private company has come under criticism. It was inaugurated by the Prime Minister on 28th August.…
Understanding the Spirit of Quit India Movement
(This comment was written last year to mark 78th anniversary of the Quit India Movement. The same is re-issued for your reading on the 79th anniversary of that great movement…
Pandemic: Implications of RSS statement
The Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) tasted the allure of partial power during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government. It has now experienced seven years of complete power under the leadership of…
Corporate India in Mirror of the Pandemic
Bare truth When the Prime Minister imposed a sudden lockdown in the country last year on the night of 24-25 March, the heart-wrenching scenes of the exodus of migrant laborers…
No Bharat Ratna for Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, Please!!
Twenty third March is the birth anniversary of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia. In the events organized to mark this occasion demands are often made to the government for posthumous conferment…
Farmers’ Movement: Time to Introspect
Two achievements of the ongoing peasant movement in opposition to the three agricultural laws which have transformed this movement into nothing sort of exemplary are: carving out a space for…
Let the farmers lead the movement
1 Each system has its own underlying dynamics which propel it forwards and also aid in its preservation and perpetuation. In India, the advancement of neo-liberalist/finance capitalist system through privatization/corporatization,…
Is the farmers scared of the prime minister?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been continuously attacking the opposition regarding the ongoing farmers’ movement at the borders of the capital. He has constantly made accusations that the opposition is…
So that India does not become a hypocritical nation!
Since the beginning of the farmers' agitation against the three new agri-laws, there has been a series of allegations and counter-allegations between the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and…
Farmers’ Movement – An Itching Quandary for the Central Government
The farmer is the provider of food (Anndata) to the world, but in today's system, he often has a craving for grains. People thrive in towns and cities using his…
Bihar Election: An example of elegance of democracy
Most exit polls, conducted after the final phase of the Bihar assembly elections, have shown the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) led Grand Alliance (Mahagathbandhan) ahead of the ruling National Democratic…
National Education Policy 2020: A Fall into the Abyss of Neo-colonization
In the new National Education Policy 2020 (hereinafter NEP), there has been a quantum leap towards neo-colonization of Indian education via privatization to further corporatization of education. There is a…
Raghuvansh Babu : A committed socialist in times of neo-liberalism
It is an undeniable fact that today's corporate India is intoxicated with the idea the digital. It is constantly on the fast-track to transform all into the digital, and as…
New Education Policy: Duties Before Implementation
A friend of mine requested that I must contribute my suggestions sought by the government for the preparation of the New Education Policy (NEP). He reminded me about my…
Can India be a secular republic without being socialist?
The event of Bhoomi Poojanof of Ram-Mandir in Ayodhya on 5 August 2020 marks the beginning of the politico-social endorsement of majority communalism in the country. In the articles/news stories/editorials/party…
Understanding the Spirit of Quit India Movement
The 78th anniversary of the Quit India Movement, famously known as the August Revolution in the history of India's freedom movement, falls on August 9, 2020. The movement was inspired…
India towards a police-state?
(1) "Members of the police shall exercise their functions, powers and duties as impartial servants of the general public and the Government of the day. ... No member of the…
Can we talk less?
(1) It is a well-known truth about civilization that a person deeply immersed in philosophy, spirituality, religion, science, art, literature, other diverse disciplines of study, or even in independent study…
Corona Pandemic: Time for politicisation of labour consciousness
The country is one and a half months into the lockdown but the plight of the toiling labourers at the country-wide level continues unabated. Every day huge crowds of workers…
How did the alienation of Muslims stop? : Justice Sachar’s way
The second death anniversary of Justice Rajinder Sachar falls on 20 April 2020. On this solemn occasion as we remember him it is necessary to understand that his concerns about…
Corona Epidemic: Deep Foundation of Counter-revolution
1 By the end of the last decade of the twentieth century, the discussion in India on or about poverty by all mainstream political parties, forums and mediums had almost…
COVID-19: Four Suggestions
Just a few days after the outbreak and spread of COVID-19 in China, it became clear that the world economy will be badly hit due to this epidemic. Nearly three…
Delhi Elections: The shades of Communal Polarization
The voting-day (8 February 2020) for the Delhi Assembly elections has finally arrived. The BJP has continued its all-time strategy of communal polarization and Congress bashing in its election campaign.…
Political Narrative by the Ford Foundation progeny
Recently, I came across a news piece published in the 'Indian Express' in which Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had claimed that they have changed the narrative of politics. There…
The Anti-CAA/NRC/NPR Movement: Hope and Prospects
1. The government's decisions on the Kashmir-problem, the temple-mosque dispute, the Assam-problem (National Register of Citizens) and the Citizenship Amendment Act highlight four things: (1) That the decisions are motivated…
Call After Political Defeat!
1. The title of the article is not reflective of the defeat of politics that stands against the politics which imposes neo-imperialist slavery on the country. That defeat has already…
University Campus or Cantonment?
In the mid-seventies, when I came to Delhi University (DU) from a small village in Haryana, the deployment of police or private security guards either in the college or university…
Should Jewar International Airport be named after Gandhi?
Yesterday (1 October 2019) I had the opportunity to share a car ride with Virendra Kumar Barnwal who is the author of 'Hind Swaraj: Nav-Sabhyata Vimarsh'. We both were en…
Gandhian way of changing corporate politics
1. With the announcement of results of Lok Sabha elections of 2019, deep concerns were voiced by numerous comrades expressing anguish as to what would Narendra Modi's victory portend…
The quagmire of bust installation at University of Delhi
One important inference that can be drawn from the speeches of the 30th August 2019 rally of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), is that the recent bust controversy will…
The Spirit of Quit India Movement: Lohia’s Perception
August 9, 2019 is the 77th anniversary of the Quit India Movement, famously known as the August Revolution and an important milestone in the history of India's freedom movement. The…
Government’s Decision on Jammu and Kashmir: A Long Leap into Unconstitutionality
As per the decision the present day government took in the Parliament on 5 August 2019 the special status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir accorded under Article 370…
The Claimants of Sheila Dikshit’s Delhi!
Delhi is the ancient city of India. The city’s history bears testimony to settlements and also to ruins. This order of settling and deserting of the city has been going…
Official Language Vs Social Justice
(The language-question is again under discussion spotlight after the publication of the draft of National Education Policy (NEP) 2018. In the context, l recollect the day when of one of…
The Inheritance of the Congress Socialist Party
At the time of the establishment of the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) on May 17, 1934 in Patna, under the chairmanship of the patriarch of the Indian Socialist Movement, Acharya…
The Anti-Congress Narrative : Identifying Truth and Falsehood
Narendra Modi, during the campaigning for 2014 Lok Sabha elections, had specifically emphasized two things : First, nothing has happened in the country during the Congress rule of the last…
Narendra Modi : Investigating Eligibility
Narendra Modi has been a recipient of consistent acceptance and support from various corners/ sources which favours his eligibility as the Prime Minister. Although after five years of being Prime…
Prem Singh – Remembering Justice Sachar on his first death anniversary
Justice Sachar, His Report and Muslims Today (20 April 2019) is the first death anniversary of Justice Rajindar Sachar - a socialist visionary, a Justice par excellence, a true secular…
Prem Singh- Jallianwala Bagh: Hundred Years of Sacrifice
Today, on April 13, 2019, is the hundredth year of Jallianwala Bagh massacre. It was the day of Baisakhi festival. Thousands of male, female and children had come to Amritsar…
Lok Sabha Elections 2019 : A Perspective for Opposition Unity (2)
The contemporaneity of present day politics in India, as far as both the government and the opposition is concerned, is characterized by an absence of any real difference of policy…
And now, it’s Lohia’s turn!
23rd March is Dr. Rammanohar Lohia's birthday. But it is said that he did not want people to celebrate the day because it was on this day that the revolutionaries…
The Claimants of Sheila Dikshit’s Delhi!
Delhi is the ancient city of India. The city’s history bears testimony to settlements and also to ruins. This order of settling and deserting of the city has been going…
Patriotism of Cowardice and Enslaved Mind
1. The modern industrial civilization has witnessed two World Wars. The researchers of war have yet not been able to estimate the magnitude of casualties/deaths – both military and civilian…
Rafale Deal: The question is not of BJP vs. Congress, but Modi government vs. Indian nation
The mystery on the Rafale Aircraft Deal is standing right there even after the deal has been moving around the governments and their leaders of India and France, various governmental…
Two Phenomena of ‘Modi Era’ : Virtual World and Unabated Communal-Caste Conflicts
First phenomenon : Prime Minister Narendra Modi's team has succeeded in projecting the political debate from the ground on to the virtual world. The political and intellectual class has…
Issue of contractual-teaching at Delhi University
University of Delhi is replete with ad-hoc teachers as it presently employs around five thousand teachers who work in the ad-hoc capacity. Year after year, a hire and fire policy…
10% Reservation to Economically Weak Sections in General Category : Socialist Party’s Perspective
Mr. Kotha Prabhakar Reddy, Member Parliament, on 8th January 2019, seek a reply from Government of India, Ministry of Scial Justice and Empowerment to the question (No. 4475) on 'Reservation…
Citizenship Bill: One more step of BJP towards the contempt of Constitution
By passing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 in the Lok Sabha the Narendra Modi government at the Center has taken up another step towards the contempt of the Constitution. The…
A ‘capital’ transformation : Delhi as a symbol of corporate politics advertisement
It would have been more pertinent and meaningful if this piece had been written by a journalist friend. Actually, I had waited for some time hoping that one or another…
AgustaWestland chopper deal is a dead snake in neck of the country
The Socialist Party believes that the Modi government has brought the issue of AgustaWestland chopper deal as a rebuttal of the Rafale aircraft deal, and not to fight corruption. The…
Under the yoke of neo-imperialism : A fake war of patriotism and treason
1 Civil life in India, especially during the last two decades, has been afflicted by the twin war cry of patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and treason (rashtradroh). The three pillars of the…
The Crisis, the Solutions and the Intelligentsia
The present government has opened almost all areas - from education to defense- for intervention by foreign capital. The loot of the country's resources and labor is closely associated with…
India Faces Unprecedented Challenge: Opposition Unity Is The Need Of The Hour
Political Resolution -Socialist Party (India) National Executive Committee Meeting, Delhi The Indian Constitution is passing through the crisis of a serious threat from the ruling establishment of the country. The…
National Register of Citizens in Assam: Need for Responsibility, Caution and Restraint
The problem of presence of illegal Bangladeshi nationals in Assam is quite complex and old. When the students movement against the Bangladeshi infiltration in Assam held in the eighties, they…
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