GOVERNMENT officials never tire of repeating that India is currently the fastest growing major economy in the world.

THE joint cadre meeting of CPI(M) and CPI held on April 9 at Exhibition Grounds in Hyderabad was a huge success. Red flags of both parties filled the venue, and the cadres were brimming with enthusiasm.The air was filled with chants of ‘Idhi Saayudha Porata Gadda! Yerra Jenda Adda’ (This is a land of armed struggle! An abode of red flags).

MANY have argued that all history is contemporary history, and that it is always written by the victors. What is happening today is nothing new or surprising: When India was ruled by the English, it is they who dictated the narrative. When India became independent, the subsequent decades saw an ascendancy of the Congress, and as a consequence, the syllabi of history was tailored to suit their interests.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on April 16THE ghastly killing of Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf while in police custody and in front of the media shows that Uttar Pradesh has become a completely lawless state.The manner in which two men were murdered in the presence of heavy police escort points towards official connivance.

IN 2018, during the previous tenure of the BJP-led government, minister of state for the ministry of human resources development (now renamed education ministry) Satya Pal Singh told parliament, no less, that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was “scientifically wrong,” since humans have always existed on earth as humans, and since “nobody saw an ape turn into a man.” He also said school and college curricula should be suitably changed. The minister was lambasted by scientists and in the press, but remained unfazed and repeated similar statements over time.