"History is repeating itself in West Bengal, with Maoists, the Trinamool and the Congress doing what they had done in the late 60's and early 70's. And it will not be history repeating itself, first time as a tragedy, the second time as a farce. This time around, it will be a much bigger tragedy." Prabir Purkayastha writes in Newsclick.
The people of West Bengal should ensure the defeat of the aims of incumbent union railway minister for riding a violent tiger - that had mauled to death nearly 200 innocent civilians on a serene night near Sardiha two months ago.A blog post.
A blog post expressing frustration at the political developments in the Republic of Nepal, as its Realpolitik driven political class still struggles to formulate a Constitution despite the deadline of two years for the Constituent Assembly passing by.
Underneath the veneer of ''Maoism'' we are witnessing a particularly vicious form of ''identity politics'', writes eminent Marxist intellectual, Prabhat Patnaik
Another blog post on the Sardiha Rail tragedy and the hypocritical response by the Maoists.
When I wrote my first reaction to the Sardiha incident, I was tremendously angry and indignant. More than a 100 people, my fellow citizenry were killed in a tragic rail accident that was obviously a result of sabotage. I immediately attributed the act of sabotage to the PCPA - the mass organisation of the Maoists in the three districts of West Bengal, based on news reports that posters of the PCPA were found in the area. A valid criticism, I have received, has told me that I should do more due diligence before jumping the gun and putting blame over the PCPA/Maoists, for that would skew opinion against the PCPA/Maoists. That is a very fair point, but I stand by my theory. There are various reasons. This post addresses most of them.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” - Joseph Goebbels (Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945).
Students affiliated to the Students Federation of India at the Jawaharlal Nehru University write an open letter to Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram on the eve of his visit to the university to speak on the issue of addressing the Maoist challenge in the country.
The following is the SFI's position on the recent incidents of violence in JNU
Some thoughts after the Maoists murder 75 CRPF jawans in Dantewada.