WORLD capitalism has reached a cul-de-sac. The immense rise in income inequality in every country under the neo-liberal regime has brought about a stagnation of the system: since consumption out of a unit of income is higher for the poor than for the rich, the rise in income inequality means that the rise in demand does not keep pace with the rise in productive capacity, causing a slowdown in growth leading to stagnation and much higher...
THE most recent revelations about Microsoft’s deep ties with Israel’s war machine have once again laid bare the central role of U.S. Big Tech in enabling the genocide in Gaza. A joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call exposed how Israel’s Unit 8200 intelligence corps has been storing and processing audio recordings of every single Palestinian phone call on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform....
THE recent rationalisation of GST rates seems to be a sigh of relief to consumers as well as to producers after facing a tyranny of cumbersome tax regime for eight long years since the introduction of GST in 2017. Indirect taxes are generally insensitive to incomes and wealth of people and so a reduction in tax rate is equally beneficial to all because in absolute terms the amount of money saved for all units of goods and services are equal for all but the...
FORMER Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud’s recent interview with online portal Newslaundry turned out to contain some sensational and ominous revelations of his views. These have, naturally, created a stir seldom witnessed after former justices’ post-retirement thoughts. This is so because his statements not only reveal his real thinking but also add to a public discourse steadily being built up in recent times on one of the most incendiary...
THE recently concluded election to the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) has sent a clear and emphatic message: the people of the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) in Assam have rejected the communal, divisive, and opportunistic politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally, the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL). Against the backdrop of tall claims, hate campaigns, and extravagant promises like introduction of...
THE ‘Gaza Peace Plan’ unveiled by Washington bears all the hallmarks of a unilateral diktat rather than a genuine settlement. Far from being a genuine peace initiative, it is a unilateral move, choreographed as a spectacle by Trump, designed to divert attention from the seismic shifts occurring in world opinion on Palestine. Announced in fanfare alongside Israeli representatives, the proposal has already been denounced in much of the...
THE news of the sudden and unexpected death of Zubeen Garg in Singapore thundered through the people of Assam on a normal, busy afternoon on September 19, 2025. The bewildered people, without knowing why, started to crowd the streets of Assam. Normal life came to a standstill. People refused to believe that their beloved Zubeen Garg, the fearless artist of Assam, was dead. Zubeen Garg went to Singapore to perform in the North-East festival, and...
THE Israeli genocide of Palestinians has been going on for two years – a ‘live-streamed genocide’, as Amnesty International called it in April 2025 in its annual report. Thus far, Israel has murdered over 66,000 Palestinians – the overwhelming majority being civilians, and 20,000 of the dead being children (a Palestinian child has been killed every hour since October 2023). Two million Palestinians in...
ALL India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) strongly protests against the inhuman and brutal lynching of Aasif Babu Multani alias Sheru Susadiya who died on September 20, 2025, at Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur. He was lynched by a gang of cow vigilante criminals in the early hours of September 16, when he was transporting cattle purchased from Lambia Raila cattle market near Bhilwara in Rajasthan to his village in...
IN Kerala, there are no ‘migrant workers’ in the conventional sense; they are instead known as ’guest workers’. This framing itself reflects how the state perceives them. Nearly 35 lakh such workers are employed across Kerala, making the state their preferred destination. On the one hand, relatively high wages, steady demand for labour and safer working conditions attract them; on the other hand, unemployment, low wages and infrastructural deficits...
