Sitaram Yechury The so-called Action Taken Report (ATR) placed by the government on the JPC’s recommendations regarding the bank/securities scam is a shameless defence of the culprits who perpetrated the worst ever fraud in independent India. The Janakiraman Committee had estimated a loss
Sitaram Yechury The seventy seventh anniversary of the Great October Revolution is being observed three years after the disintegration of the USSR and the dismantling of the socialist system. These three years have been those of intense ideological bombardment by the forces of reaction. In the
Sitaram Yechury The first ever visit by an Israeli foreign minister, and in this case a former Prime Minister, marks a significant shift in India’s foreign policy. Over the last couple of years India has been showing signs of retracting from its earlier foreign policy positions when it
Sitaram Yechury The BJP/RSS/VHP/Bajrang Dal etc. (Saffron Shirts-or SS- for short; the resemblance to Hitlers’ Brown shirts and infamous SS is more than coincidental) continues to defend its criminal destruction of the Babri Masjid. In the process it has mastered the technique of
Sitaram Yechury The process of disinvestment of the public sector is the gigantic fraud committed on the Indian people. Together with the loss suffered due to the bank scam, this amount of money would have ensured that our country need not have gone to the IMF or to any external creditor to
Sitaram Yechury The BJP-RSS-VHP-Bajrang Dal (Saffron Shirts – S.S. for short: the resemblance to the Hitler’s infamous S.S. and Brown Shirts is more than coincidental) not only continues to brazenly defend the wanton destruction of the Babri Masjid but is in fact justifying it as a
Sitaram Yechury Many find it strange, at times amusing, that Marxists, confirmed atheists, are quoting religious personalities and scriptures to expose the pseudo-Hindu character of the Saffron Brigade today. The advocates of fascistic pseudo-Hinduism embarrassed by such exposure, take refuse
Sitaram Yechury THE Government of India has released what it calls a discussion paper titled “Economic Reforms — two years after and the tasks ahead”. As the title suggests this is an exercise aimed at justifying the reforms undertaken so far and unveiling the
Sitaram Yechury The December 6 destruction of the Babri Masjid and the subsequent developments constitute a qualitative change in contemporary Indian politics. These developments represent an assault on the very foundations of modern, secular and democratic India that was established following
Sitaram Yechury The long overdue general elections for a Constitutional National Assembly in Cambodia have finally concluded. Conducted and supervised by the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) through the week beginning 23rd of May, these elections saw a record turn-out of nearly 90