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Volume 48, No. 1 to 52 (Year 2015-16)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Vol. 48, No. 1, Jul 12 - 18, 2015
Contents
Unity and Disunity
Comment: More on Emergency
Note: Adieu Praful -Biswajit Roy
Note: Praful Bidwai Is No More -TNI adds
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Marx On Trial: Marx on Colonialism -Anindya Sen
Nuclear Power Means Catastrophe: Why Grassroots People’s Movements Oppose Nuclear Power -Praful Bidwai
Caste Consciousness: ‘This is a Village’ -Krishna Kumar
20th KIFF: Arab Cinema -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 2, Jul 19 - 25, 2015
Contents
Democracy with Dignity
Comment: Heat Waves, Bad Monsoons...
Note: Obituarists lack Far-sight -S K M
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
World In View: Bitter Truth -S R
The Truth Committee Report: Greek Debt and its Odious Nature -Ilias Bantekas
In Search Of Peace And Order: Of Balance and Harmony -Sudip Bhattacharyya
Kodaikanal Calling: Dumping Mercury -Colin Todhunter
IFFI 2014: Goa Film Festival -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 3, Jul 26 - Aug 1, 2015
Contents
Never-Ending Hypocrisy
Comment: ‘‘Where is Humanity?’’
Note: Cocktail of Religion and State -Sankara Narayanan
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Religious Intolerance: What to Do? -Saral Sarkar
Whither Social Movements?: Revolution Here and Now -Soumitra Ghose
Emergency Revisited: 40 Years After Emergency -Barun Das Gupta
20th KIFF: Journey to West -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
Unjustified Incarceration: A Letter to CJI
Letter
 
Vol. 48, No. 4, Aug 2 - 8, 2015
Contents
Masses in Peril
Comment: ‘‘Nine-Dash-Line’’
Note: Tackling Climate Change -J Q
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
The Greek Tragedy: It is Just the Opening Act -Sajai Jose
Euro Is Not Viable: The Greek People are an Example -Samir Amin
Bhopal–1984: A Despicable Genocide -Gobinda Krishna Nanda
Blame Game: Darjeeling Landslide -Soumitra Ghosh
Betrayal Buried: Emergency and Sangh Parivar -Sankara Narayanan
Industrial Relations Bill 2015: The Meaning of Labour Code -Sharit Bhowmik
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 5, Aug 9 - 15, 2015
Contents
In Search of Reservation
Comment: Memon Hanged
Note: The Poverty Puzzle -I Satya Sundaram
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Interview With Arun Ferreira: The Colours of the Cage
Looking Back: The Matgarha ‘Encounter’ -Hemendra Narayan
Political Appointments: Creating Regimented Minds -Irfan Engineer
Crimes Against Humanity: Killing the Mourners -Jeffrey St Clair
A Case Against Ilaiah: Whether God is a Democract or Not -Ambrose Pinto
South TNCs: Trends in FDI -Kanga Raja
Liberation Theology: Pope and People -Joao Pedro Stedile
 
Vol. 48, No. 6, Aug 16 - 22, 2015
Contents
‘Resolution Friday’
Comment: Parliamentary Profligacy
Note: More on ‘Muluk’ -A B
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
‘Is God A Democrat?’: ‘‘To Question, or Not to Question’’
An Empirical Study: Alienation of Tribals -Partha Sen
Meaning Of ‘Make In India’: Modi in Bastar -Pratap
The Greek Tragedy: After the Surrender
Rejoinder: ‘‘Not Out of Greece’’ -C K Raju
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 7, Aug 23 - 29, 2015
Contents
Peace and Bread
Comment: Renminbi Falls
Note: One Year Later -C S
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Beyond Capialism: ‘‘The Fragment on Machines’’ -Paul Mason
Modi And Muslims: Why They are Terrorists -Irfan Engineer
Colour Of Money: Black & White -Ram Jethmalani
‘The Sixth Extinction’: Alarm Bells Ringing - Bharat Dogra
Dantewada Again: Yet another ‘Encounter’ -S B
Right To Question: Re-evaluting Indian History -Sudip Bhattacharya
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 8, Aug 30 - Sep 5, 2015
Contents
Modi in Motion
Comment: Limits of Social-Democracy
Note: Hunger Strike by Political Prisoners -CRPP
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Oedipus The King: ‘Greece : A Third World Country’ -Saral Sarkar
Soft Hindutva: It’s Cultural Aggression -Irfan Engineer
A Global Plan: Antibiotics don’t Work -Martin Khor
Pan Naga Council: Peace in Nagaland? -NISC
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 9, Sep 6 - 12, 2015
Contents
Continuing Conflict
Comment: Money Talks
Note: Parliament sans Parliamentarians -N S Venkataraman
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Price Of Uranium Mining: Uranium, Cancer and Jadugora -Pradip Dutt
State Vs Market: The Policy of Privatization -Subhonil Chaudhuri
Plight Of Tribals: Back from Mali Hills -Sudheer Patnaik
Political Prisoners In Bengal: Voices from Behind the Bars -Biswajit Roy
A Small Chernobyl?: China’s ‘Bhopal’ -L L
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 10, Sep 13 - 19, 2015
Contents
Plain Truth
Comment: Census Report 2011
Note: Are the Bloggers the Fodders? -Gautam Chaudhuri
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Who They Are?: Nuclear Power and Neocolonization -S P Udaykumar
An Unatural History: More on ‘The Sixth Extinction’ -M R Rajagopalan
The Core Issue: Labour and Wage -Surendra Pratap
Dalits : Sitting Ducks: Of Caste and DNA -Sankara Narayanan
2011 Census-I: Identity and Caste Identity -S R
2011 Census-II: Where are the Atheists? -Subhash Gatade
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 11, Sep 20 - 26, 2015
Contents
Refugees Matter
Comment: The Decline of Labour
Note: An Alternative in Health Care -Punyabrata Gun
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B D
Left, Right, Left: Who are Left after All? -Partha Sarathi
Panic In Dhaka: ‘‘This time it’s the Bloggers’’ -Nathan Vanderklippe
‘‘Black Monday’’: Will the Greek Bailout Work? -Kavaljit Singh
Chandni, Kalki....: Transgenders in India -Meghdeep Patnaik
Why So Many Mourners: Walking with the Dead -Irfan Engineer
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 12, Sep 27 - Oct 3, 2015
Contents
Crisis in Permanence
Comment: The Kurdish Question
Note: Weaving : An Endangered Occupation -Bharat Dogra
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Looking Back: Democratic Deficit -Vaskar Nandy
Between The Lines: Tagore, Inclusive Growth and Development -Debasish Paul
Unmasking The Emperor: RSS Calling the Shots -Dilip Simeon
An Open Letter: National Health Policy 2015
 
Vol. 48, No. 13, Oct 4 - 10, 2015
Contents
The Bose Files
Comment: The Most Persecuted
Note: ‘Roses’ are Rare -T Satya Sundaram
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Clean Energy: World Shifting Towards Renewable -Pradip Datta
Primum, Non Nocere: ‘‘Less Medicine, More Health’’ -Sthabir Dasgupta
Jaws Of Death: Sardar Sarovar Dam Work Unlawful -NAPM Press release on People’s Tribunal Verdict (abridged)
 
Autumn Number
2015
Vol. 48, No. 14 - 17, Oct 11 - Nov 7, 2015
 
 
 
 
Assia Djebar (1936-2015)-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
 
 
 
Revolution Revisited-Barun Das Gupta
 
 
Voices from the Inside Out-Subhendu Dasgupta
 
 
Marx’s ‘Confessions’-Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
 
The Bodo Massacres-Bhaskar Nandy
 
Of Religion and Marxism-Aloke Mukherjee
 
 
 
 
Rethinking Marxism-Peter Custers
 
 
 
Universalism in Medicine -Sisir K Majumdar
 
A Vision for India-Bibekananda Ray
 
 
Film Rhythms-Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
 
 
 
Vol. 48, No. 18, Nov 8 - 14, 2015
Contents
Ominous Signs
Comment: Cut in REPO
Note: Cry of Federalism -A B
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Continuing Caste Discrimination: Champions of Merit and Black Lies -Sankara Narayanan
Review Article: Grammar of Political Economy -Anirban Biswas
183,359 Hibakushas Still: Hiroshima and Nagashaki–70 Years Later -Katsuhiro Asagiri
The Idea Of Empire: The Age of Imperialism -Howard Zinn
Letters
Vol. 48, No. 19, Nov 15 - 21, 2015
Contents
Bumpy Road to Paris
Comment: Privatising Forests
Note: Chattisgarh's Undeclared War -A Correspondent
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Walking On Two Legs?: Neoliberalism, Hindutva and Revolutionary Movement -Subhash Gatade
Historical Background: Nagaland Revisited -NISC
‘No’ To Tariff Hike: Challenging CESC -Biswajit Roy
Rong People: Lepchas are Vanishing -Gautam Kumar Das
 
Vol. 48, No. 20, Nov 22 - 28, 2015
Contents
Halting Saffron March
Comment: Tolerating ‘Intolerance’
Note: Inclusive Growth? -I Satya Sundaram
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
South Asian Tragedy: The Rise of Religious Right -Subhash Gatade
‘Constitution And Beyond’: Ambedkar and the State -Ayan Guha
Moscow Is Asserting: Bipolar World Again? -Farooque Chowdhury
Climate Change: Urgent Survival Issues -Bharat Dogra
Statement: No to ‘Corridor’ -Press Release, NAPM (Bihar)
Targeting Africa: Resisting ‘Monsanto Law’ -Heidi Chow
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 21, Nov 29 - Dec 5, 2015
Contents
Panic in Paris
Comment: ‘‘Viva la Cuba’’
Note: Focus on Skill Exports -Bharat Jhunjhunwala
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Looking Back: Yechuri’s ‘Idea of India’ and Communalism–I -Badruddin Umar
Myth And Reality: The Holy Cow -Subhendu Sarkar
Marking September 13: Prisons and Political Prisoners -SAR Geelani, Amit Bhattacharya & Rona Wilson
Media And Vested Interests: Irrelevance, thy Name is Indian Elite! -Sankara Narayanan
 
Vol. 48, No. 22, Dec 6 - 12, 2015
Contents
Intolerance Everywhere
Comment: Indian Panorama
Note: Education in ‘Kosali’ -Saket Sreebhushan Sahu
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Looking Back: Yechuri’s ‘Idea of India’ and Communalism–II -Badruddin Umar
For Whom The Bell Tolls?: Scrapping Non-NET Fellowship -Ayan Guha
India–EU FTA: Time for a Fundamental Rethink? -Kavaljit Singh
Protest Against Sahitya Akademi: Returning Translation Prize -Chamal Lal
70 Years Later: The Call of History -Le Yucheng
Letters -Mukul Dube, A V Sakhitdharan
 
Vol. 48, No. 23, Dec 13 - 19, 2015
Contents
A Sense of Uncertainty
Comment: Cross Border Migration
Note: Climate Talks, Sans Solutions -J R
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
‘The Rich And The Facts’: Inequality : A Political Agenda -Omar Rashid Chowdhury
Mortgaging Civil Libterties: The Gujarat Control of Terror and Organised Crime Bill, 2015 -Rohit Prajapati & Trupti Shah
Sufism vs Militant Islam: ‘Colonialism and the Call to Jihad in British India'
21st Century Spiritualism: Media, Modernity and Guru-faith -Dhruv Ramnath
The CSE Report: Captain America and Climate Crisis -Farooque Chowdhury
Letters -A B, I Mallikarjuna Sharma, Dhrubajyoti Ghosh
 
Vol. 48, No. 24, Dec 20 - 26, 2015
Contents
What it Means to be Leftist
Comment: International Human Rights Day
Note: Criminal Justice System -Battini Rao
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Taking A Stand What is the RSS? -Madhu Limaye
Land And People : 1894 TO 2015: From Colonial Rulers to Corporate Masters -S G Vombatkere
Way To Hell: Of ‘Paris’ and Double Standards -Neha Dabhade & Irfan Engineer
Bengal’s Eliot: ‘Samar Sen : Poetry & Frontier’ -Bibekananda Ray
Letter -NAPM, Hyderabad
 
Vol. 48, No. 25, Dec 27, 2015 - Jan 2, 2016
Contents
Back from Bangkok
Comment: The Paris Pact
Note: They Also Serve -Nityananda Ghosh
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Company Raj Is Coming The Meaning of ‘Smart City’ -Dipankar Dey
Refugees Everywhere: The Long March -Saral Sarkar
Review: Voices from Chernobyl -N L
A Rare Tribe: Embracing Rapist’s Child -Sankara Narayanan
Why Not Green Deal?: Climate and ‘Development’ -Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Letter -Dhrubajyoti Ghosh
 
Vol. 48, No. 26, Jan 3 - 9, 2016
Contents
Politics of ‘Cleansing’
Comment: ‘‘Revolution of Tenderness’’
Note: Professor Asok Sen -A B
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Revolution Revisited: The ‘November’ Centenary is Coming -S R
Manu Kant’s Haiku: ‘Tihar awaits Modi Haters’ -Vijay Singh
Myth And Reality: ‘‘Muslims Against Partition’’ -Kuldeep Kumar
The Qatari Connection: Is Paris Burning? -Jacques-Marie Bourget
Lost Decade: Defining Dignity of Indigenous People -Sadhana
A Tribute: B D Sharma -NAPM
Letters -I Satya Sundaram, Medha Patkar, Dr Sunilam & others
 
Vol. 48, No. 27, Jan 10 - 16, 2016
Contents
To Transition or not to Transition?
Comment: Who are Madhesis?
Note: All this Servitude! -Sankara Narayanan
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Why Pakistan Failed: Bangladesh Wins Freedom -Farooque Chowdhury
Nuclear Power: Whipping a Dying Horse -Pradip Dutt
Letter -Parthasarathy Sen
 
Vol. 48, No. 28, Jan 17 - 23, 2016
Contents
Selling Utopia
Comment: Recalling Saibaba to Jail
Note: Why Mother Tongues? -Joga Singh
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -A B
Forsaken By His Own Government?: ‘‘Netaji Living Dangerously’’ -Kingshuk Nag
Review Article: Science and Technology in Colonial India -Anirban Biswas
Venezuela: ‘‘Not the Conclusion’’ -Farooque Chowdhury
Paris Gas: The ‘‘Historical’’ Agreement -Fabrice Nicolino
Letters -Saral Sarkar, I Mallikarjuna Sharma & others
 
Vol. 48, No. 29, Jan 24 - 30, 2016
Contents
For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Comment: Too Many Moneylenders
Note: Price of Procrastination -I Satya Sundaram
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -O T
Remembering Zhou: Relevance of a Pragmatist -Harsh Thakor
Cinema Is Visual Art : Ray and Reality in Films -Debasish Paul
Gender Equality: Of Uniform Civil Code and Integration -Irfan Engineer
More On B D Sharma: An Indefatigable Warrior -Vara Vara Rao
Letters -Chaman Lal, Madhu Agrawal & Subhash Chandra Agrawal
 
Vol. 48, No. 30, Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2016
Contents
A Case of an Institutional Murder
Comment: CPM’s Congress Crutch
Note: People’s Wishes in 2016 -Subhendu Das Gupta
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -S N
Myth And Reality: ‘November Revolution Revisited’ -Paresh Chattopadhyay
Money And Women: From Womb to Tomb -Vibhuti Patel
Hypocrisy And Inaccuracy: China vs the IMF - Jack Rasmus
Politics Of Religion: Bhagat Singh on Riots -Chaman Lal
21ST KIFF: Kolkata Film Festival -Abhjit Ghosh-Dastidar
Letters -Mukta Das, Mukul Dube
 
Vol. 48, No. 31, Feb 7 - 13, 2016
Contents
Leaving the Land
Comment: The Kamduni Judgement
Note: Police and Prosecution -A Correspondent
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Looking Back: Phule—the Social Reformer -Subhash Gatade
The Hidden Agenda: RSS, Freedom Movement and the Tricolour -Sankara Narayanan
Oxfam Report: 62 Billionaries vs 3.6 Billions -Farooque Chowdhury
War-Torn Yemen: Humanitarian Crisis Deepens -Kitty Stapp
IFFI: Indian Panorama -Abhjit Ghosh-Dastidar
Letter -Mukul Dube
 
Vol. 48, No. 32, Feb 14 - 20, 2016
Contents
And now ‘Smart Agriculture’
Comment: Intolerance and Investment
Note: Campaign Against Communalism -Bharat Dogra
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Beyond The Paris Agreement: The Battle for Atmospheric Space -Sagar Dhara
Review Article: Of Politics and Culture -Anirban Biswas
Forgotten People: Remembering Barak Language Martyrs -Gautam Kumar Das
Global Witness Report: Banks and Dirty Money -Stuart McWilliam
The Karlapat Story: Tribals Shot Dead -Prafulla Samantara
Letters -Dr Lakhan Singh, Subhash Chandra Agrawal, M D, Imran Admani, Hemant Kannaujia, Jeevan Kumar, Dr Babu Rao, Santosh Kumar, V Sai Prasad Sastry, Dr Lubna Sarwath,
 
Vol. 48, No. 33, Feb 21 - 27, 2016
Contents
Paper Tigers
Comment: Venezuela : Where to Next?
Note: Educational Scenario -Gautam Kumar Das
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Agenda Of Social Exclusion: Of Caste and Cruelty -Gail Omvedt
14th Finance Commission Report: Federalism and Division of Powers -M P Singh
Banal Instincts?: Crime and Capital Punishment -Irfan Engineer
Continuing Gaza Blockade : Plight of Palestinians -P C
Letter -D Raja & others
 
Vol. 48, No. 34, Feb 28 - Mar 5, 2016
Contents
Truce on Trial
Comment: Rohith to Kanhaiya
Note: Peanut to Padmashri -Saket Sreebhushan Sahu
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Beyond Party Politics: Invisible Social Movements -Sophia Reuss & Katrina Gibbs spoke with Satya Sagar
Continuing Social Exclusion: Death of a Research Scholar -Sankara Narayanan
ACC Jamul Settlement: Contract Workers Win -MKC
Public Hearing: Asserting Rights over the Sunderbans -SJSM
How To Dominate Food System?: Pushing GM Food Crops -Bharat Dogra
Letters -Parthasarathy Sen, Subash Chandra Agrawal & Mukul Dube
 
Vol. 48, No. 35, Mar 6 - 12, 2016
Contents
Union Budget 2016-17
Comment: More on Budget
Note: Awards and Awardees -Ramachandra M
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Modi Model: Appropriating a Dalit Icon -Sankara Narayanan
A Letter to VC, JNU: All this Phoney Nationalism! -Chaman Lal
Iron Heels: Nationalism and Pseudo-Nationalism -CRPP
Tolerating Intolerance: ‘‘The Right to Dissent’’ -L S
Misdirected Criticism: ‘‘CPM’s Congress Crutch’’ -Saral Sarkar
SC Verdict: GAIL Pipeline and Farmers -S N
 
Vol. 48, No. 36, Mar 13 - 19, 2016
Contents
‘Aadhaar’ Finally
Comment: March 8 and Irom Sharmila
Note: Mob Violence -Som Dutta Sharma
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
In Search Of Roots: Fundamentalism in India -S R
Review Article: Muslims Against Partition -Madhusudanpal Vedantatirtha
War On Tribals: The Siege of Chattisgarh -Asish Gupta & Chilaka Chandrashekhar
Looking Back: RIN Revolt and Kallol -Sandip Bandyopadhyay
Panahi & Audiard: Mumbai Film Festival -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
Which Side Are You On?: An Open Letter to the Students of JNU -Abhijit Guha
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 37, Mar 20 - 26, 2016
Contents
Patriotism and Sedition
Comment: Privatising Water
Note: The Fourth Revolution -R S
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -M R R
Theory And Practice: Reinventing Jotiba Phule -Bharat Patankar & Gail Omvedt
RSS Design: How to Co-opt Dalits -Neha Dabhade
JNU Event: The Battle for Cultural Space -Pramod Ranjan
Review: Empire of Cotton -M R Rajagopalan
 
Vol. 48, No. 38, Mar 27 - Apr 2, 2016
Contents
Nationalism and Hypocrisy
Comment: ‘Peace and War’
Note: JNU’s Experiment with PAP -Debarshi Das
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
‘‘The Idea Of India’’: Whose Idea of Which India? -S G Vombatkere
‘The Phoenix Moment’: Reinventing the Indian Left -Satya Sagar
Fascism With Facade Of Democracy: Nationalism sans Nation -Anand Teltumbde
Chasing The Mirage: FDI : Myths and Realities -Yilmax Akyüz
Letters -MM Parvez Lelin, FaisalMahmud, Vaskar Nandy, Saswati Ghosh, Nisha Biswas, Anil Kumar Saha
 
Vol. 48, No. 39, Apr 3 - 9, 2016
Contents
Targeting the Middle Class
Comment: Jungle Raj
Note: Narada News -A B
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -R S
Khruschev’s ‘‘Secret Speech’’: ‘‘Khrushchev Lied’’ -Madhusudanpal Vedantatirtha
Wait Till 2022: PM Modi, and the Farmers -Sankara Narayanan
Review Article: Ashok Mitra’s ‘Calcutta Diary’ -Anirban Biswas
Interview: Bangladesh Liberation War -Garga Chatterjee interviews Bangladesh's Former Second Lieutenant A Qayyum Khan
Letters -Lateef Mohammed Khan, I Mallikarjuna Sharma
 
Vol. 48, No. 40, Apr 10 - 16, 2016
Contents
Living with Terror
Comment: No Vacancy
Note: Saheed Hospital -Asish Kumar Kundu
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
In Search Of Roots: Political Economy of Rape -Debasish Paul
Rationality And Tradition: Holy Temples And Unholy Women -Neha Dabhade
Review Article: People’s History of England -Anirban Biswas
‘NANO’ Marxists: An Open Letter to Prabodh Panda -Sankar Ray
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 41, Apr 17 - 23, 2016
Contents
Queer Movement
Comment: ‘No’ to Fast Foods
Note: They then came for... -Subhash Gatade
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Global Warming And Global Inequality: Capitalism’s Tipping and Tilting Points -Sagar Dhara
Review: In Search of Freedom -Chaman Lal
To Rebel Is Justified: 1971 Uprising in Bangladesh -Farooque Chowdhury
Report: Save Sunderbans -NAPM
46TH IFFI: Goa Film Festival -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
Exposing Corruption?: Truth Behind Sting -Ankush Vats
 
Vol. 48, No. 42, Apr 24 - 30, 2016
Contents
The Naga Imbroglio
Comment: Whither Rural Economy?
Note: After the Euphoria -Bharat Dogra
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -M D
Digital Racism: ‘Aadhaar’ Promotes US Interests-I
Property And Power: Panama Papers -Farooque Chowdhury
Shadow Of ‘Davos’?: The Attack on ‘Subsidies’
Past And Present: Changing Sunderbans -Gautam Kumar Das
Glimpses Into A Nationalist: Azad and Secularism -Irfan Engineer
Commune Councils: Revolution in Rojava -Paul Z Simons
Letters -G N Saibaba, Mukul Dube
 
Vol. 48, No. 43, May 1 - 7, 2016
Contents
‘May First’ as Reason
Comment: Bashing Labour
Note: More on Narada News -A B
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook B J
‘Many Meanings Of Azaadi’: Today, we Students are the Opposition -Anirban Bhattacharya
Digital Racism: ‘Aadhaar’ Promotes US Interests-II
The Tip Of An Iceberg: Fukushima : The First Cancers Emerge -Oliver Tickell
Review Article: Marx on Globalisation -Anup Sinha
Left Unity: Talking Turkey? -Bharat Dogra
 
Vol. 48, No. 44, May 8 - 14, 2016
Contents
Fighting for False Solutions
Comment: Penalising JNU Students
Note: ‘Climate’ and Farmers -Bharat Dogra
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook B J
Shadow Of Hitlerite Germary?: Fascism and the BJP -Subhendu Sarkar
Some Questions: Whither Left? -Arup Baisya
Bhim Yatra: Hole to Hell -Subhash Gatade
Continuing Conflict: An Open Letter to the Chief Justice of India
Looking Back: Libya War, Empire’s Worst Mistake -Farooque Chowdhury
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 45, May 15 - 21, 2016
Contents
What they Stand For
Comment: Poll Violence
Note: Is Sunderbans Subsiding? -Gautam Kumar Das
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook Shoummo
‘Unexplored Marx’: The Socialist Vision of Rosa Luxemburg -Charubrata Ray
Letter From Ecuador: At Ground 0–All is Not Well -Sandeep Banerjee
Interview: Tolerance and Intolerance -Interview with Prof Irfan Habib and Prof Sushil Chaudhury By Sankar Kumar Biswas & Biswajit Roy
No Job Safety: They are killed by Accidents -Bharat Dogra
Monsanto–Syngenta Merger: What’s in a Name? -Carmelo Ruiz
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 46, May 22- 28, 2016
Contents
The Strategy of Inaction
Comment: JU Again
Note: ‘Against Omniscience...’ -Asis Ranjan Sengupta
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Myth Of Micro-Credit: Refreshing Yunus Memory -Omar Tarek Chowdhury
An Ideal Blueprint: The Original Black Panther Party Model -Colin Jenkins
Adivasis Of Sunderbans: Going Back to the Roots -Papia Roy
Film: Shankhachil -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
 
Vol. 48, No. 47, May 29- Jun 4, 2016
Contents
The Verdict
Comment: Racing to the Bottom
Note: Do Not Rest in Peace, Jisha -Shehla Rashid
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Shadow Boxing: Headlines, Sidelines, Bottom Lines -S G Vombatkere
‘‘Marx Renaissance’’: Marx in the Contemporary Political Scenario -Marcello Musto: Interviewed by Sankar Ray and Nityananda Ghosh
The Crisis Today: ‘Peak Oil’ Returns -T Vijayendra
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 48, Jun 5 - 11, 2016
Contents
Remembering Naxalbari
Comment: War Refugees
Note: Environment: A Survival Issue Now -Bharat Dogra
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
A Feminist Perspective: Of Patriarchy and Left Radicals -Nisha Biswas
Two Petitions: Bhagat Singh, V D Savarkar, Hind and Hindutva
Point Of View: In Defence of Savarkar -I Mallikarjuna Sharma
A Real Bomb: Indian War of Independence 1857
The Great Capitalist Climacteric: ‘‘Capitalism’s War on the Earth’’ -Omar Rashid Chowdhury
Conflict Unavoidable?: JNU: the Way Ahead -Pramod Yadava
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 49, Jun 12 - 18, 2016
Contents
Dead in Status Quo
Comment: No Job, No Security
Note: The Outsiders -Gautam Kumar Das
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
President Obama: The Race for the Imperial Legacy -James Petras
Deceptive Identities: White Collar Jobs -Debasish Paul
Time Is Running Out: Hiroshima, Fukushima and Kurosawa -Sandeep Banerjee
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 50, Jun 19 - 25, 2016
Contents
Alive in Antagonism
Comment: NOTA means Boycott
Note: Fanaticism and Terrorism -Bharat Dogra
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Power, Party, People: Three Dichotomies of the Left -Partha Sarathi
After The Deluge: Why Left Failed -Arup Baisya
What Is Happening In DK?: Targeting Soni Sori -Jogi
Chandabhandas: Naming of Sunderbans -Gautam Kumar Das
Food Revolution: Venezuela shows the Way -Nick Dearden
Letters
 
Vol. 48, No. 51, Jun 26 - Jul 2, 2016
Contents
Defending the Indefensible
Comment: Myths and Realities
Note: Kerala: Beyond Euphoria -C K Viswanath
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Talking Left, Walking Right: Meaning of Bengal Verdict -Barun Das Gupta
Left In Coma: TMC Wins -Badruddin Umar
BRICS And Empire: Imperialism’s Junior Partners -Patrick Bond
A Complete Person: Universalism in Tagore -Sumita Bhattacharya & Sudip Bhattacharya
Letter
 
Vol. 48, No. 52, Jul 3 - 9, 2016
Contents
41 Years Later
Comment: One Berta, One Niyogi
Note: Rising Sea-Level -Bharat Dogra
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Society Sans Medicine: Poverty as a Disease -Daya Ram Varma
Polemics: ‘Crowds and Party’ -Paresh Chattopadhyay
Bangladeshi Panorama: Who are the Minorities? -Badruddin Umar
A Case Of Urban Argiculture: East Kolkata Wetlands Face Danger -A letter to the Environment Minister from Sudeshna Ghosh
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