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Mosques Falling Victim to Communal Hatred

UTTAR PRADESH is once again in the headlines and has become a serious subject of debate among politicians, intellectuals, journalists and YouTubers. The discussion, however, is not about development, the runaway rise in prices, the growing number of unemployed people, the rising crime rate, increasing violence against women, or the need to control crimes against Dalits because none of this seems to be happening. On the contrary, something or the other happens here every day that leaves people distressed and alarmed.

Maharashtra: Diverse Programmes for Gen-Z by SFI and DYFI

THE Gen-Z movement, which reverberated across the country and forced the Modi government to bow down, drew the attention not only of the entire nation but also of the world. The agitation at Jantar Mantar, which continued for one and a half months, reached every corner of the country. In cities like Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, and across the country, thousands of students and youth took to the streets in anger against the Modi-Shah regime.

J&K: Second Death Anniversary of Sitaram Yechury Commemorated

The Jammu and Kashmir state committee of the CPI(M) organised a function in Srinagar on August 30 to commemorate the second death anniversary of Sitaram Yechury. More than two hundred party activists and sympathisers participated in the programme and paid rich tributes to the memory of the great revolutionary, Marxist thinker and mass leader. The Party had given the call to commemorate the death anniversary of Yechury during the period from August 12, his birth anniversary, to September 12, his death anniversary.

Penguin’s Shenanigans

Penguin Random House is one of the largest publishers in the world. An imprint of PRH is publishing Sonia Gandhi’s memoir in the United States, with an initial print run of 100,000 copies. Penguin India, however, has refused to publish the memoir in India.

Serving the Powerful, Failing the Powerless

JUSTICE Deepak Gupta, a former judge of the Supreme Court, marked the eightieth anniversary of Independence by asking in print what few in his position have dared to ask; how free are we, the citizens of India? His answer in The Tribune was unsparing. The constitutional courts “have not shown the requisite sensitivity or strength”; the right to liberty “is violated with impunity, and the courts in many cases have become mute spectators”; and “the collegium system has failed.

Iran Reverses the Asymmetry

ON September 2, fragments from a US missile tore through the roof of a wedding celebration in Kuhestak, in Iran’s southern county of Sirik. Four people were killed, including a child, and 68 were wounded. The United States has made a custom of bombing weddings – in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and now Iran. When US Vice-President J D Vance was asked about the dead, he shrugged: ‘Things happen’. The sentence should be entered into the record of this war. Imperialism turns other people’s catastrophes into the passive voice.

Map Wars: the Victory of Equal Earth over an Unequal One

LAST week, on 4th September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another. It is an attempt to correct the view of the world that comes from the widely used world map based on the Mercator Projection, the work of Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century Flemish cartographer. The problem with the Mercator Map is well known; for example, it shows the island of Greenland as the same size as the African continent, even though Africa is 14 times the size of Greenland!

CPI(M) Denounces ED’s Move

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on September 9, 2026

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) denounces the move of the Enforcement Directorate asking the Kerala Police to register a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act, against former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, his daughter Veena and CPI(M) leader Mohd. Riyas.

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