Sitaram Yechury Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Ring out the old” has been immortalised mainly due to recollecting one line at this time of the year “Ring out the old, Ring in the new”. In assessing the transition from 1995 to 1996, however the subsequent lines oft
Sitaram Yechury There is considerable attention and anticipation regarding the forthcoming parliament session where the United Front government will place its first budget before he country. Various reports suggest that hectic pre-budget exercises are going on in the finance and other concerned
Sitaram Yechury Dr. Manmohan Singh is being paraded as the Congress spokesman on the electronic media. In a spotless while kurta-pyjama and quoting Iqbal he doles out statistics to give the impression that the past five years of economic reforms has created a el dorado in India. Many of us
Sitaram Yechury True to their class nature, major national dailies reacted to the CPI(M) manifesto in a characteristic anti-communist manner. The virulence of the attack can be seen by the bombastic editorials the editors have chosen to give. Pathology of states the Indian Express, while Times
Sitaram Yechury The fiftieth anniversary of the victory over fascism is being celebrated when the socialist Soviet Union is no longer there. This is an irony, a tragedy of history. But just as fascism was also a tragedy that was corrected, overcome by history, by the onward march of human
Sitaram Yechury “Ringing out the old and ringing in the new” has customarily signified the ushering in of yet another new year. Last year this time the gongs were clear and loud. They revebreted the echoes of the previous couple of years. “Socialism is dead”, “the
Sitaram Yechury The recent exhibition of second world war time photographs organised jointly by the Russian and other embassies of the former USSR drove home more eloquently than any literary effort, the greatest saga of courage and sacrifice of the 20th century. The photographs at the same
Sitaram Yechury A five member central committee delegation visited the People’s Republic of China for 10 days from June 10 at the invitation of the International Liaison department (ILD) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The delegation consisted of Sitaram Yechury,
Sitaram Yechury In these columns in the preceding weeks we have seen the effects of Narasimha Rao’s new economic policies both on the people and the country. To summarise the conclusions : These policies are on the one hand further squeezing the vast millions of working Indian people