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Volume 49, No. 1 to 52 (Year 2016-17)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Vol. 49, No. 1, Jul 10 - 16, 2016
Contents
Weak But Not Tire
Comment: Obama to Latin America
Note: Focus on Small Farmers -Bharat Dogra
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Revisiting ‘Rosa’: Bernsteinian Hatchet and the Indian ‘Left’ -Siddhartha Kumar Lahiri
Agrarian Transition: Naxalite Movement and the Peasant Question -Arup Baisya
A Rs 2.8 Lakh Crore Business: Of Dying Technology and Obsolete Reactors -Prabir Purakayastha
Water Crisis: Hyderabad has No Water -Mayank Ale
Vishnu Sahai Commission Report: Truth is Still Unknown -Neha Dabhade
 
Vol. 49, No. 2, Jul 17 - 23, 2016
Contents
The Other Side of the River
Comment: Justice and Injustice
Note: Undeclared Emergency -Pushkar Raj
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Caste vs. Religion: Why Caste Politics Failed in Bengal -Ayan Guha
The Legacy of 1974 Strike: Railway Strike: Present and Past -Asis Ranjan Sengupta
‘Tibet Unconquered’: The Tibet Question Revisited -Pranjali Bandhu
Free-Market Fundamentalism: ‘‘Neo-liberalism Oversold’’? -Neha Dabhade
 
Vol. 49, No. 3, Jul 24 - 30, 2016
Contents
Britain’s Iraq War
Comment: Women and Nationalism
Note: Beyond Referendum -Bharat Dogra
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
The Logic Of Neo-Liberalism: Same Bottle, But More Bitter -T G Jacob
50 Years Later: Why ‘Cultural Revolution’ Defeated -Harsh Thakor
‘End The Double Sentence’: No Tolerance to Misogyny at SRFTI -Nisha Biswas
 
Vol. 49, No. 4, Jul 31 - Aug 6, 2016
Contents
Kashmir on Boil
Comment: Preaching ‘‘Free Trade’’?
Note: Gurmeet Singh or ‘‘Satnam’’ (1952-2016) -Asis Ranjan Sengupta
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Violence And Non-Violence: Marx to Mao -Rustam Singh
Tea And Death: Plight of Plantation Workers -Vaskar Nandy
Multinationals Are Coming: Cuban Agriculture at Risk? -Ming Chun Tang
Campaign Against Accidents: Of Safety and Safety Consciousness -Bharat Dogra
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 5, Aug 7 - 13, 2016
Contents
Gujarat Crisis
Comment: It's Business as Usual
Note: Mahasweta Devi: The Life Immortal 1926-2016] -Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
To Rebel Is Justified: Mahasweta Devi: Voice of Subaltern -Vivek Kumar Srivastava
Review: Illegal Mining: Greed and Dust in Goa -Soumya Guhathakurta
Cow Vigilantism: ‘Communal Fascism Will Not Pass’ -NSI
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 6, Aug 14 - 20, 2016
Contents
More on Gujarat
Comment: Back to Da Nang
Note: The Police Fired 200 Bullets -Jadumani Mahanand
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Gaging Freedom Of Speech: Looking into ‘‘Look Out Circular’’ -P Arun
Mahasweta Devi-I: A Mixed Bag of Admiration and Disappointment -Sumanta Banerjee
Mahasweta Devi-II: Voice of the Oppressed -Debabrata Panda
Rejoinder: Savarkar, Bhagat Singh and ..... -Chaman Lal
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 7, Aug 21 - 28, 2016
Contents
Reaching Beyond Tokenism?
Comment: Emergency: Then and Now
Note: Whither Kashmir? -A B
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
An Anachronism?: Islamic Banking in India -Subhash Gatade
Race And Rights: Why America Needs a Truth Commission -Todd Landman
Climate Change: South Asian Drama -Bharat Dogra
Corruption Unlimited: Prashant Bhushan Speaks Out
Serving The Poor?: Microfinance: the New Subprime -Caroline Schuster
Letter
 
Vol. 49, No. 8, Aug 28 - Sep 3, 2016
Contents
Modi’s ‘Tryst with Destiny’
Comment: Money they Spent
Note: Persecuting Christians -A B
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Third Sector: Of Self-Reliance and Sustainability -Dipankar Dey
Enough Is Enough: Moving towards Saffron Fascism? -S R
Appropriating Ambedkar: Nationalism and Ambedkar -Irfan Engineer
Unsung Anthropologists: Indian Anthropology and its Critics -Abhijit Guha
Hypocrisy And Perversity: The Gandhi Puzzle -T Vijayendra
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 9, Sep 4 - 10, 2016
Contents
Of Paradise and Hell
Comment: For the Elites, By the Elites
Note: Of Earthquake and Dam -Derram Kemera and Medha Patkar
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Missing Links: Globalisation, Labour and National Society -Swatahsiddha Sarkar
In Search Of Roots: Bangladesh–Behind the Blinds -Sandeep Banerjee
Report: Right to Land and Life -BAA
 
Vol. 49, No. 10, Sep 11 - 17, 2016
Contents
Making ‘Singur’ Count
Comment: India, China, USA
Note: Political Sufferers’ Pension -A B
News Wrap -A G D
Calcutta Notebook -B J
Anthropological Perspective: Land Acquisition in Kharagpur -Abhijit Guha
Degrees Of Separation: ‘How Balochistan Lost Independence’ -Tilak Devasher
US–Korea–Japan Axis: Possibility of Nuclear War -By a Correspondent
Review: Insights into Films -Anirban Biswas
Future Of Energy: Hyderabad is not Sustainable -Soujanya Mantravadi
Kairana Exodus: Criminals have no Religion -Rachel D’silva
War Horror In Iraq: What Chilkot didn’t Say -Martin Khor
‘Peace Haven’ And ‘Subramanyan’: Cinema Bengali -Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
 
Vol. 49, No. 11, Sep 18 - 24, 2016
Contents
Fire sans Smoke
Comment: No Judicial Scrutiny
Note: Pellet Guns are Lethal - Mukul Dube
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
More Of The Same: Left Words and Leftwards - Rana Bose
Aleppo Child And Beyond: War as Foreign Policy - Vivek Kumar Srivastava
The Question Of Interest Rate: ‘Children of a Lesser God’ - Asis Ranjan Sengupta
Review: Contesting Symbols and Stereotypes - Anirban Biswas
A Foretold Failure: Conflict Victims - Baher Kamal
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 12, Sep 25 - Oct 1, 2016
Contents
11 September–15 Years Later
Comment: Reasons to Rebel
Note: Child Abuse - Meghdeep Patnaik
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook: Build Small Towns, Not Villages - B J
Land Question Returns: Dalit Uprising and After - Subhash Gatade
Review: ‘Violence and Marxism, Marx to Mao’ - Asis Ranjan Sengupta
A Strange Phenomenon: Nobel Prize to Marx - Dan La Botz
‘Give And Take’ Opera: The Politics of Quid Pro Quo - Bibekananda Ray
It’s About Neo-Realism: 21st Century Italian Cinema - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
Letter
 
Autumn Number 2016
Frontier pays Tribute to Samar Sen on the year of his Birth Centenary
Vol. 49, No. 13-16, Oct 2 - 29, 2016
Contents
The Reluctant Hero - Partha Chatterjee
Samar Sen: Whom I Never Met - Vir Bharat Talwar
Remembering Samar Sen - Badruddin Umar
The Bengal Left and Samar Sen - Sandip Bandyopadhyay
Samar Sen - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Rebel with a Cause - Debabrata Panda
‘Now’ sans Samar Sen - Aloke Mukherjee
Legacy of Samar Sen - Farooque Chowdhury
A City Falls Apart - Samar Sen
Relevance of Samar Sen - Aloke Ranjan Dasgupta
Party Problematic in Revolution - Paresh Chattopadhyay
Leontief Prize Lecture - Amit Bhaduri
A Long Journey - An Interview With Ranganayakamma
Cinema and Human Existence - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
 
Vol. 49, No. 17, Oct 30 - Nov 5, 2016
Contents
An Exercise in Escapism
Comment: Mounting Inequality
Note: The Kashmir Imbroglio - Sudip Bhattacharyya
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook: Build Small Towns, Not Villages - B J
Bastar Today: Revolution fighting Counter-Revolution–I - Gautam Navlakha
A Revolutionary Soldier: Samar Sen –Champion of ‘Lost Causes’ - Sushil Khanna
‘‘Chinks In The Armour’’: Military Nationalism - Asis Ranjan Sengupta
‘A Forgotten Chapter’: Chittagong Uprising - Chaman Lal
Post 9/11: Trading-off Civil Liberties - P Arun
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 18, Nov 6 - 12, 2016
Contents
The Surgical Strike and After
Comment: 25 Years Later
Note: Mass Violence and State Apathy - P Arun
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook: Flowing River is Good Economics - B J
Abode Of Non-Peace: From Dream to Nightmare - Pranjali Bandhu
Bastar Today: Revolution fighting Counter-Revolution–II - Gautam Navlakha
‘Dark Act’: GM Mustard : An Assualt on Reasons - Tushar Chakraborty
Letter
 
Vol. 49, No. 19, Nov 13 - 19, 2016
Contents
‘Chairman Mao Returns’
Comment: Digital India
Note: Ramayana and Ramleela - Aurobindo Ghose
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
The Roots: Of Democracy and Terrorism - Debasish Paul
Review: Present Reality of the Indian Economy - Anirban Biswas
Whither Communal Harmony?: Resurrecting Deendayal Upadhyay - Shamsul Islam
Bashing Dalits: Ten Years After ‘Khairlanji’ - Santosh Rana
KIFF: Some Women Directors - Papia Roy
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 20, Nov 20 - 26, 2016
Contents
Yet Another ‘Encounter’
Comment: ‘Your turn will come’
Note: Socialism and Social Justice - B D
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Multi-Level Governance: Indian Federalism : Myth and Reality - Mahendra Prasad Singh
Crisis Begets Crisis: Changing Agrarian Scenario - Santosh Rana
Dangers Ahead: Nuclear Weapons in South Asia - Pratiksha Nair
Questioning The Obituary: Apathy for Bangla Bhasa - Sudip Bhattacharyya & Susmita Bhattacharya
Right To Dominate: WTO Ruling and America - D Ravi Kanth
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 21, Nov 27 - Dec 3, 2016
Contents
Trump Wins
Comment: Cash Chaos
Note: Demonetisation and After - A B
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Review Article: ‘Education under Globalisation’ - R Mukherjee
How To Reform UN: Emerging Survival Crisis - Bharat Dogra
The Cambodian Scenerio: Land Grabbing–Crime against Humanity - Richard J Rogers
Statement: Kashmir : Yesterday and Today - Statement from CDRO
Credit Bicycle: The New Subprime - Caroline Schuster
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 22, Dec 4 - 10, 2016
Contents
Defending the Indefensible
Comment: ‘‘Caste is not Rumour’’
Note: Fearful Silence - Salil Tripathi
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Terrorising People: Demonetisation Drama –A Political Strike - Asis Ranjan Sengupta
Point Of View: Was Bhagat Singh a Marxist?
War Dehumanises Everyone: Surgical Bombing in WW II - Paul Tritschler
Statement: DeMonetisation
Film: Magic and Reality - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
 
Vol. 49, No. 23, Dec 11 - 17, 2016
Contents
Castro and the Cuban Revolution
Comment: Castro’s Message
Note: Fidel–Life and Struggle - Farooque Chowdhury
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
People, Power And Party: Left Right Left... - Soumya Guhathakurta
Satidaaha Ghat: Burning Widows Alive
Killing Journalists: Daring to Report - Raksha Kumar
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 24, Dec 18 - 24, 2016
Contents
Black & White
Comment: The Grand Show
Note: Leading by Example - Mukul Dube
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Narmada Bachao Andolan: Thirty Years of Resistance and Reconstruction - S G Vombatkere
The Changing Perspective: Kurds in Post-War Syria - Joseph Daher
Plain Cartelism: The Meaning of Monsanto-Bayer Merger - Colin Todhunter
Beyond Montreal Meeting: Whither the Global Left? - Immanuel Wallerstein
Mihir Acharya: A Dreamer of Tomorrow - Asok Chattopadhyay
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 25, Dec 25 - 31, 2016
Contents
The Strategy of Inaction
Comment: Corporate Colonialism
Note: Wages through Banks - Arup Baisya
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Behind The Iron Curtain: Romain Rolland's Letters to Joseph Stalin (1935-1937) - Translated by Paresh Chattopadhyay
Right To Life: Gender Imbalance : the Bengal Scenario - Sampriti Mukherjee
Modi’s Emergency: Moving towards Dictatorship? - Santosh Rana
Kerala Killings: Back from Malappuram Jungles - CRPP
A Courier’s Reflection: A Glimpse of the Editor - Amitava Sengupta
Living Dangerously: ‘No’ to Nukes - Bharat Dogra
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 26, Jan 1 - 7, 2017
Contents
Year That Was
Comment: Gandhi—the Racist
Note: MST under Attack - A Correspondent
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Ten Years On: Revisiting Nandigram (1935-1937) - Sandip Bandyopadhyay
10 Years Later: ‘Singur Eviction’–a Marxist Retrospection - Sandeep Banerjee
A Directionless Radar?: ‘Much ado about Nothing’ - Tapas Piplai
Historical Perspective: Nation and Nationalism - Subhendu Sarkar
The First Mass Marriage: Chaitanyadev –the Social Reformer - Gautam Kumar Das
 
Vol. 49, No. 27, Jan 8 - 14, 2017
Contents
Peace & War
Comment: They run the World
Note: Note Ban may spell Catastrophe for the BJP - Prem Shankar Jha
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Digital Coercion: Demonetisation : What lies Beneath? - Aseem Shrivastava
Behind The ‘Black’ Curtain: ‘Demonetisation means Corporatisation - Aurobindo Ghose
Heading Towards Authoritarianism: Big Government and Poor Governance - Anup Sinha
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 28, Jan 15 - 21, 2017
Contents
Shifting Gear
Comment: Where to Now?
Note: ‘Black Magic’ - A B
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Farmers’ Issues: Class Struggle under Neocolonial Relations of Production - T G Jacob
Castro And Religion: ‘Face to Face with Fidel’ - Chaman Lal
Statement: Targeting Academics
KIFF 2016: Kolkata Film Festival - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar
Stigma And Lineage: The Surrogacy Regulation Bill 2016 - Subhadeep Tripathi & Abhijeet Mukherjee
 
Vol. 49, No. 29, Jan 22 - 28, 2017
Contents
Under Whip of Trump
Comment: Continuing Blockade
Note: Kashmir–death of Aspirations - Riyan Rashid
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Castro and Cuba : A Few Scattered Thoughts on Future Socialism - Anindya Sen
‘‘The End Of The World’’: ‘With an Enemy like Trump?’ - Noam Chomsky
It’s Carpet-Bombing: The Year of Lies - Mohan Guruswamy
An Insane Move: Demonetisation : Past, Present & Future - Bibekananda Ray
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 30, Jan 29 - Feb 4, 2017
Contents
Getting Rid of Workers
Comment: ‘Minority in their own Country’
Note: No Need to Fear - Javed Zaheer
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
‘‘Can The Subaltern Speak?’’: Interview in Santiago, Chile - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Movement Against Power Grid: Bhangar: ‘Nandigram’ in Reverse? - Nisha Biswas
Malignant Growth: Growth of What and for Whom ? - Anirban Biswas
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 31, Feb 5 - 11, 2017
Contents
Budget 2017-18
Comment: Bhangar: What is at Stake?
Note: 21st Century Socialism? - A I
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Board Room Drama: Is the Tata Empire Crumbling? - Tapas Piplai
Madness With A Plan: Monetary Manipulations as Fascist Instrument - T G Jacob
Towards Monopolisation: Behind the Hype of e-Commerce - Rahul Varman
Resurrecting Nazis Putin and Trump -Sankar Ray
Eisenstein: A Propaganda Filmmaker - Satyaki Dasgupta
 
Vol. 49, No. 32, Feb 12 - 18, 2017
Contents
Things Are Changing Fast
Comment: Manipulating Truth
Note: ‘‘Mandela of Puerto Rico’’ - A I
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Beyond Bull Fight: Behind Jallikattu - Mainak Mouli Panja
A–M–P: The Marxian versus ‘Marxism’ - Sankar Ray
Media Dictatorship: Castro and ‘Repression’ against Intellectuals - Ignacio Ramonet
The Dialectic Of History: Fidel: the Symbol of Emancipation - Farooque Chowdhury
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 33, Feb 19 - 25, 2017
Contents
Blind Alley
Comment: ‘Mission 2016-17’
Note: Prodyot Banerjee (1943-2016) - Ismail Chaudhury
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Showcase Of Billionaires: Slumdog Republic - Satya Sagar
GSR 2017: The Bourgeois Democracy: Threat from Within - Farooque Chowdhury
Moving Towards Calamity: The New Right is Hindu Right - Shamsul Islam
Fascism In Action: Fight for a Human Society
Contention For Hegemony: Japan, China, America - Mohan Guruswamy
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 34, Feb 26 - Mar 4, 2017
Contents
Existence and Resistance define Kashmir
Comment: Trump’s Politics of Exclusion
Note: The Spirit of 21 February - Farooque Chowdhury
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Past, Present and Future: Communal Politics and West Bengal - Asis Ranjan Sengupta
Anupam Mishra: The ‘A Radical Indigenous’ - Shriya Mohan
Ominous Signs: To be an Atheist or not to Be! - Chaman Lal
Least Power, Most Responsibility: Vidyasagar Revisited -Tapas Piplai
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 35, Mar 5 - 11, 2017
Contents
The Past is Prologue
Comment: Chauvinism Worldwide
Note: The Road to 2019 - Mohan Guruswamy
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
An Anniversary: Chant of the Masked People–I - Nirmalangshu Mukherjee
Bicycle Bicentenary Year 2017: Bicycle and Women’s Liberation - T Vijayendra
Timetable For Catastrophe: ‘‘Extinctions: No Comebacks’’ - M A Haque
Voices From The Inside Out: The Child Leader of Bhangar - Biswajit Roy
Figures For Fun: Modi’s Muslim Bashing - Shamsul Islam
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 36, Mar 12 - 18, 2017
Contents
Defending Freedom
Comment: The Battle for Campus
Note: Pellet Guns are Lethal - Riyan Rashid
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Polemics: Ambdekar: the New found Messiah - Anindya Sen
Ambedkar under scrutiny - Comment from Dr Hiren Gohain
An Anniversary: Chant of the Masked People–II - Nirmalangshu Mukherjee
Appreciation After Demise: Two Deaths -Raman Swamy
Delhi: A City without Government? - Mohan Guruswamy
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 37, Mar 19 - 25, 2017
Contents
The Saffron Surge?
Comment: Cuba’s Medical Internationalism
Note: Hospitals are Abattoirs - A B
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Operation Thunderbolt: ‘‘It’s Time for the South-West Monsoon’’ - Vara Vara Rao
The Caste Factor: Terrorising Jaloor Dalits - Sardara Singh Mahil
A Silent Genocide: Attapadi Tribals facing Extinction -Susaman Chowdhury
Crisis Of Identity: The Shame List - Sankara Narayanan
Shankar Guha Niyogi: A Subaltern Salute - Sandip Bandyopadhyay
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 38, Mar 26 - Apr 1, 2017
Contents
Inauguration of Authoritarianism
Comment: America and North Korea
Note: Raghab Bandyopadhyay (1946-2017) - Jogia Bandyopadhyay
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Aspects Of Women’s Liberation: Social Movement and Women’s Question - Arup Baisya
Rohith’s Unfinished Agenda: Radhika Vemula on Bhim Auto - Subhash Gatade
Behind Bars–I: The Saibaba Judgement
Behind Bars–II: The Irrational Conviction
To Rebel Is Justified: Beyond Bhangar - S R
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 39, Apr 2 - 8, 2017
Contents
Recommendations for Relief?
Comment: Bad Weather
Note: Hate Killings in America - ICW
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Bose And INA: Rewriting History - Shamsul Islam
The Maruti Story: Before and after Manesar - G Sampath
Letter From America: People of Power - Ann Robertso & Bill Leumer
As A Poet, Or A Journalist?: Samar Sen beyond 100 Years!
Triple Talaq: Islamic Divorce - Murad Ali Baig
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 40, Apr 9 - 15, 2017
Contents
With an Enemy like Modi
Comment: 'Kutubdia’ is Gone
Note: Mavelikkara Maoist Trial - Toby Hutony
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Polarisation And Power: People in Politics - Pradeep Nair & Sandeep Sharma
Namasudra History Congress: From Chandals to Namasudras - A K Biswas
Surveillance: Curbing Press Freedom - Farooque Chowdhury
4–1 Score Line: 3 Losses and 2 Wins - Raman Swamy
Srilata Swaminathan: Voice of the Voiceless - Rakhee Roy Talukdar
Serving Multinationals: America behind Demonetisation - V Subrahmanyam
 
Vol. 49, No. 41, Apr 16 - 22, 2017
Contents
The Dalai Factor
Comment: It’s Racism
Note: Yogi’s Thoughts - Raman Swamy
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Pakistan Divided: Bangladesh–March 1971 - Farooque Chowdhury
The ‘Invisible’ Numbers: Demonetisation–Voices from the Inside Out - Smarajit Jana
Hard Facts: ‘Behind the Saffron Surge’ - Sandeep Banerjee
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 42, Apr 23 - 29, 2017
Contents
‘Resist Now or Regret it Later’
Comment: Ram, Ravana and Hanuman
Note: Recalling Lohia - Bharat Dogra
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Communications as Ideology - Samir Amin
Of Shiv Sena and Violence - Tanmoy Ibrahim
POSCO Victory: Why No One is Celebrating? - Subhash Gatade
Empowering Women?: UCC–a Political Tool? - APSC
The Finance Bill: Grabbing Power by Subterfuge - Raman Swamy
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 43, Apr 30 - May 6, 2017
Contents
Left’s Survival Woes
Comment: Fat Tax and Junk Food
Note: Pension for All - Bharat Dogra
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Continuing Genocide: Syria : America makes it Worse - Farooque Chowdhury
The Forgotten Communists: CPI Party Building in North Bengal - Sankar Ray
The Future Of Milk: Beyond ‘White Revolution’ - T Vijayendra
Different Strokes: The Case of Chicken - Mohan Guruswamy
Alarm Bells: Attacks on Wetlands
Film: ‘Chorus’ of the Proletariat - Satyaki Dasgupra
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 44, May 7 - 13, 2017
Contents
The Struggle Continues
Comment: GST — a Monster Baby
Note: Modi and Ambedkar - A B
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Re-searching Identity: For a World without Borders - Partha Sarathi
The Myth of Holi Cow: The Blasphemy of Beef - Asis Ranjan Sengupta
Exclude, Alienate, Oppress: Talk Bhima or Bhim, Walk Manu - Subhash Gatade
Birla-Sahara Payoff Case: Corruption Unlimited - Prashant Bhushan
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 45, May 14 - 20, 2017
Contents
Line of Murder
Comment: ‘Sukma’ is a Symptom
Note: Yogi’s Saffron Revolution - Raman Swamy
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
‘Naxalbari 50’: Remembering my Old Comrades - Sumanta Banerjee
The Untold Story: ‘Shivaji - Hindu King in Islamic India’ - Murad Ali Baig
Modern Day Freedom Fighters: Worship Cow, Despise Humanity! - Subhash Gatade
David vs Goliath: A Battle against the Demise of Privacy - P Arun
The Otherside of the River: Tamil Nadu Boiling - Sandeep Banerjee
‘Ignorance is Bliss’: Rule of Law - CDRO
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 46, May 21 - 27, 2017
Contents
Three Years of Modi’s Rule
Comment: Wanted: Affordable Medicines
Note: Gold – the new Currency - Raman Swamy
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
‘Naxalbari 50’: Unfinished Revolution - Santosh Rana
Limits of Democracy: The Minority Question - Arup Baisya
A Technological Hoax: KKNPP in Trouble Again - V T Padmanabhan & Sankar Ray
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 47, May 28 - Jun 3, 2017
Contents
‘Belt and Road Initiative’
Comment: Rigged Elections
Note: When Bombs don’t Work - Raman Swamy
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
‘Transfer of Power’ in Perspective: Behind Britain’s Decolonisation - Amar Kant
The Tawang Controversy: China and Arunachal Pradesh - Mohan Guruswamy
‘Naxalbari 50’: Rambles Recollect - Dipanjan Rai Chowdhuri
An Anniversary: Remembering Phule - By a Correspondent
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 48, Jun 4 - 10, 2017
Contents
50 Years Later
Comment: Costs of Cow Protection
Note: Not just blind Justice - Raman Swamy
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Historical Background: The ‘Great’ Leap of Hindutva - I - Badruddin Umar
Cultural Exchanges & Pluralism: Calendar System : How to Measure Time - Tapas Piplai
Discovering Luit’: ‘‘Namami Brahmaputra’’ - Pankaz K Sharma
Binay Ghosh: Yet another Centenary - Asok Chattopadhyay
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 49, Jun 11 - 17, 2017
Contents
Cattle as Reason
Comment: And now GST Trauma
Note: ‘The Dead Cannot Speak’ - A B
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Historical Background: The ‘Great’ Leap of Hindutva - II - Badruddin Umar
Naxalbari 50’: The Historic May 25, 1967 - Farooque Chowdhury
OBOR: ‘‘One Belt, One Road and One Trap’’ - Mohan Guruswamy
Review: An Attempt Got Lost - Sandeep Bandyopadhyay
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 50, Jun 18 - 24, 2017
Contents
Let Farmers Die
Comment: Diplomatic Faux Pas?
Note: Voices from behind the Bars - NPRD
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Naxalbari 50’: ‘India Waits’ - Jan Myrdal
Health for All: Health Care as a Commodity - Jayanta Bhattacharya
Beyond the Military: India’s Cyber Vulnerability - S G Vombatkere
OBOR: Behind the Scene - Aurobindo Ghose
Letters
 
Vol. 49, No. 51, Jun 25 - Jul 1, 2017
Contents
Spectre of ‘Gorkhaland’
Comment: Struggle for Minimum Wages
Note: Not Just Criminal Conspiracy - Raman Swamy
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
Naxalbari 50’: Bhoomaiah, Kishta Goud, Bhabani Da and Sumanta - Varavara Rao
Sardar Sarovar Dam: The Final Challenge - Rahul Banerjee
One-Party Democracy: Whither Bangladesh? - Sarwar Jahan Chowdhury
Protecting Commons: Adivasis – the Knowledge-Keepers - Soma K P & Richa Audichya
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Vol. 49, No. 52, Jul 2 - 8, 2017
Contents
Rights & Wrongs
Comment: India Vs Bharat
Note: Naxalbari : Achievements and Challenges - P Varalakshmi
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - B J
'Naxalbari 50’: ‘Comrades and Companions’ - Ramchandra Guha
Goebbelism Sells: Politics of Conspiracy – RSS Style - Shamsul Islam
An Enigmatic Place: Economy and Democracy - Tapas Piplai
Food for Thought: Plebeian Democracy in India - Harasankar Adhikari
Vyapam and Jio: Scams — Old and New - Asis Ranjan Sengupta
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