Karnataka: The Flip-Flops and Ping-Pong
All but one exit poll point to a hung assembly. Only the Today’s Chanakya poll puts the BJP in a majority: 120 seats. And the Axis-India Today poll places...
The Poinsettias: An Ode to Asifa
Two doctors, Barnali and Patrick, who studied in AFMC, Pune, many moons ago, corroborated to pen a soulful piece, a prose-poem by Patrick, and a poem by Barnali, as...
Trinamool Prefers Short Term Gains That May Hurt Later: Sweeping Victory in Panchayat Poll a Sham
At least 16 people have been killed, from Jalpaiguri to Midnapore and over 500 people injured. Where armed TMC mobs could not reach opposition candidates hiding for their lives,...
Revisiting the Bengali Renaissance through the Eyes of Tagore
Aseem critiques the Bengali Renaissance and the role that Tagore played in it, as Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. “I have become my own version of an optimist....
Marxism is the Only Potent Power for Change: Political Correlation of Forces Must Shift to Left
Marxism is not a dogma but a ‘creative science’. It is based on, amongst others, “a concrete analysis of concrete conditions”. Marxism is an approach to the analysis of...
Big Boost to Formation of Broad Anti-BJP Front: CPI to be Primed for Challenges Ahead
The CPI was the first left party to propose a common platform of left, secular and democratic forces to counter the communal forces at the national level. It is...
Both Communist Parties Must Jointly Work Out Road Map for Unification
CPI general secretary Sudhakar Reddy in his inaugural speech gave the right focus when he said that the Left needed more unity than in the past and it was...
CPI Party Leadership Must Focus More on Dalits and Youth
The CPI has been talking of broad-based unity of the anti-BJP forces including the Congress since the installation of the Narendra Modi Government at the centre in May 2014....
Fiscal 2019 on Chaotic Start with Cash Squeeze: One More Blow at Desperate Poll Moves of BJP
Highly disturbing for the immediate, and potentially damaging for the economy is the sudden outbreak of what is called “cash crunch” in several states, even the State Bank of...
Financial Frauds Continue Since Ages…
Financial frauds are perhaps as old as human civilisation. Tapati traces the antiquity of the swindle, as recorded in various ancient civilisations. Kautilya lists forty kinds of misappropriation of...