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21. 09. 2020
The Spy and the Kingdom
By Suchetana ChattopadhyayMore often than not the more well-known spies are the ones notorious for having betrayed the country they ostensibly serve, i.e. double agents, primarily those that bet
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वाम विमर्श
सुलगता कश्मीर, सिकुड़ता लोकतंत्र
मो. यूसुफ़ तार ...
read moreStudio Safdar presents Our Space — A series of conversations around theatre spaces created by theatre persons.
The creator of Seagull Studio Theatre Guwahati ...
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History of the Communist Movement in India
The Present Volume tells the story of the early years of the communist movement in India.
The Communist movement in India was a product of the radical impetus coming out of the national lib...
Though delayed, justice has finally been done to the man.
After years of prevarication, the Bharatiya Janata Party has at last publicly and explicitly owned up Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as i...
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath have focused the world's attention on Islamic fundamentalism. We are being told that what we are witnessing today is a 'clash of civi...
Foot Soldier of the Constitution
Who is Teesta Setalvad?
For the Hindu Right, she is a dangerous impediment to India's onward march to 'glory'. This is the story of the real Teesta – inheritor of the best and most prog...
In May 2019, the party of the Hindu Right, Bharatiya Janata Party, under Narendra Modi, won a spectacular electoral victory.
The victory seemed to defy common sense – why did conversation...
एक सजग और प्रतिबद्ध रचनाकार के रूप में प्रेमचंद न सिर्फ कहानियां और उपन्या...
कोरोना वायरस ने हमारे जीवन में जिस तरह की उथल-पुथल मचाई है, उसे हिंदी के अनेक...
India is battling for its very soul.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is the most powerful organisation in India today; complete with a private army of its own, unquestionably obeying ...
This free ebook is meant to introduce readers to one of the most strikingly original Marxist thinkers of Latin America, José Carlos Mariátegui. The book contains three essays by Mariátegui: Ethi...
What was the role of the Hindutva forces in the struggle against the British?
What links did Gandhiji's killer Nathuram Godse have with the RSS?
How did the political arm of the RSS...
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but neve...
This is not a story of death. It is a story of life. The luminous life of Safdar Hashmi, extraordinary in all its ordinariness.
On New Year’s Day in 1989, Jana Natya Manch – Janam – t...
Vijay Prashad, V.I. Lenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky
"The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and armonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction...
Though delayed, justice has finally been done to the man.
After years of prevarication, the Bharatiya Janata Party has at last publicly and explicitly owned up Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as i...
THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL AFTER LENIN
If there was anyone issue that captured the essence of the Stalin-Trotsky struggle in the 1920s, it was the fight over the theory of building socialism in one country. This theory, expressly disavo...
India is battling for its very soul.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is the most powerful organisation in India today; complete with a private army of its own, unquestionably obeying ...
This volume examines the characteristics and viability of small producers in different agro-ecological regions of India, locating them in the broader context of the capitalist develo...
The Babri Masjid Question, 1528-2003
The Babri Masjid Question, 1528-2003: 'A Matter of National Honour' is a compilation by A.G. Noorani, in two volumes, of primary source material on various aspects of the Ramjanmabhumi-Bab...
The Kashmir Dispute 1947-2012 traces the complex history of this long-standing issue, and the political discontent and dissent surrounding it – relating especially to the question of the...
The Babri Masjid Question, 1528–2003
The Babri Masjid Question, 1528-2003: 'A Matter of National Honour' is a compilation by A.G. Noorani, in two volumes, of primary source material on various aspects of the Ramjanmabhumi-Bab...
The Kashmir Dispute 1947-2012 is a book in two volumes which traces the complex history of the long-standing dispute, and the political discontent and dissent surrounding it relating espec...
The visceral hatred directed against Gandhi and the denigration of everything he stood for need to be recounted if we are to understand the political nature of that dastardly act. This book attempt...
Destruction of the Babri Masjid
Destruction of the Babri Masjid: A National Dishonour is a sequel to The Babri Masjid Question 1528–2003: 'A Matter of National Honour', published in 2003 in two volumes – a compilation by A. G...
