PRAGOTI

Brief overview of the 'Telangana Turmoil' and demands for the separate statehood 

 A brief overview of the run-up to the Assembly Elections in Maharashtra.

 In an article written for Monthly Review,Prof.Utsa Patnaik traces the origins of Food crisis,laying bare the long tern factors giving rise to the problem.

A look at the different interpretations and positions over the recent protests in Iran.

The question of the money deposited in the swiss banks needs to be seen as a part of the totality of the neoliberal economic policies promoting financial deregulation. An article by Prof.C.P.Chandrasekhar which appeared in the Frontline does that succinctly.

A call for wider debate on the perils and prospects of Third Front.

A Cover Story by Frontline on Real Issues Facing People for General Elections 2009.

''With Palestine accepting the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction, Israel should realise there is a price to pay for committing war crimes.''writes Siddharth Varadarajan in The Hindu

This essay by American Physicist Alan Sokal was first delivered as a lecture in Socialist Scholars Conference,  New York,30 March,1997.Later on it was published in EPW-Issune No.16,1998. This essay puts a strong case for the 'Universality of Science and 'Reason' when these concepts are under attack from Postmodernists and Cultural Relativists.For the left which is fighting against the caste-religion-superstition and struggling for a 'rational' world the 'scientific reason' is an effective ideological weapon.

An Interview discussing the issues of urbanisation and urban poor.