Eco & Pol Notes Archive
24 Oct 2018
Army Personnel Attempts to Defeat Justice and Righteous Aspirations of Citizens
In 1980 the central govern-ment had imposed the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act.1958 (AFSPA) in Manipur in the name of […]
24 Oct 2018
Hunger Deaths are the Stark Reality of the Modern India
Our India is supposed to be a modern country which attained its ‘independence’ from the British colonial rule of exploitation […]
10 Aug 2018
Minimum Support Prices Betrayal of Farmers
The Central Government announced the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for major crops on July 4 and is claiming it to […]
10 Aug 2018
India Tops the List of Countries Most Dangerous for Women
The survey asked the respondents which five of the 193 United Nations member states they thought were most dangerous for […]
10 Jun 2018
Science in the Service of Capital
In capitalist society, said Karl Marx, science becomes “a productive force distinct from labour and pressed into the service of […]
10 Jun 2018
A.F.S.P.A must be Abrogated
The roots of this AFSPA are in the British colonial ordinance of Armed forces special powers, which was promulgated in […]
20 May 2018
Onslaught on the Rights of Dalit and Other Oppressed People
The March 20th, 2018 Judgment of the Supreme Court Bench of Justice A. K. Goel and U.U. Lalit in a […]
20 May 2018
Real Problems must be addressed to bring Peace in Kashmir
Kashmir continues to be on fire. There is an ‘elected‘ government here. But the Central armed forces, protected by special […]
20 May 2018
Forest Policy – 2018 Grabbing Forest Lands for Private Capital
When the government announces a new policy one would expect a revision on the basis of failures of old policy […]
20 May 2018
National Health Policy – Promoting Profit Driven Private Sector
The danger of moving towards insurance based health services neglecting the public primary services is already evident. The government spending […]
17 Apr 2018
BJP Rule in UP Shatters the Myth of Democracy and Rule of Law
However the experience of the people of several parts of India for all these 70 years suggest that there is […]
18 Feb 2018
Assam Oppose Communalisation of Citizenship
The tag of “foreigners” attached to a section of people who migrated to Assam decades back continues to be a […]