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The need to recognise that it is not enough to discuss the Stalin regime, USSR, or China as failed socialisms but as some of the world

I am writing to you as a concerned citizen of India, and I am writing about the release of 11 men on remission by the government of Gujarat on August 15, 2022. These men were convicted and jailed in the ghastly case of gang rape of the young and pregnant Bilkis Bano and two others and the murder of her family members in the riots that took place in Gujarat in 2002.

Professor Abhijit Sen, former member of the Planning Commission, talks about the evolution of agricultural market reforms in India. He situates agricultural markets within the context of the agrarian crisis and provides a broad history of the policy shifts that have taken place to counter it.

We may cry or mope and petition the powers that be. We may even succeed in finding a kind-hearted judge who would cancel the shocking release of 11 men convicted for the gang rape of Bilkis Bano. The men murdered Bano

A tribute to Dr P M Bhargava (22nd Feb 1928 to 1st Aug 2017) - public intellectual, biologist, institution builder, administrator, crusader for scientific temper, and a connoisseur of art on his 5th death anniversary