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
Sitaram Yechury The BJP has embarked on yet another yatra. This time not one but four. The comparatively lukewarm response notwithstanding, these are an effort on its part to regain lost initiative. The developments in the last couple of months — the CPI(M)-sponsored no-confidence motion,
Sitaram Yechury The birth centenary of Mao Zedong is an appropriate occasion to recollect the gigantic impact of the Chinese revolution on world history. The significance of the event needs little repetition. The very nature and complexity of such a herculean effort makes it impossible to
Sitaram Yechury Chris Hani, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP) was assassinated on Saturday, April 10, 1993. This shockingly premature termination of a vibrant symbol of the South African people has robbed the liberation struggle movement of its tallest leaders and
Sitaram Yechury Mr. Advani’s articles (Indian Express December 27-28,1992) are a testament of contradictory eloquence. Duplicity and subterfuge characterise the painful attempt to whitewash the BJP’s criminal, violation of law, the shameful capitulation of the assurances that its
Sitaram Yechury Totally contradicting the much tom-tomed prognosis of the `death of communism’ by bourgeois ideologues and imperialist pen-pushers, the developments during the last two years, since the dismantling of the socialism in USSR in 1991, have tellingly vindicated the validity
Sitaram Yechury The recent wide ranging interview of the Russian Foreign Minister in The Hindustan Times must finally set in motion the long overdue need to work out a comprehensive strategy by the South Block to assess and meet the new post-cold war equations. That the absence of the Socialist
Sitaram Yechury NO single incident has destroyed the foundations of modern secular India as the wanton preplanned destruction of the Babri Masjid on December 6. The BJP-VHP-RSS-Bajrang Dal (in short SS – Saffron Shirts – the resemblance to Hitler’s infamous SS and Brown Shirts