CPM
Whispers of a Witch-hunt
Dhirendra K. Jha
With searchlights out for ‘bourgeois tendencies’ within the party, the CPM drives one of its own leaders to his death.
India This Week
Karat Gives in to Detractors; Cheek for a Cheek; Proving Their Track Record; Desperate Buddha Vibes; No Centre-State Harmony in Kashmir Song
Karat versus Yechury
Partners once, rivals now. There is a deep split within the CPM that threatens to surface if the party loses Bengal.
India This Week
Done In by the Chinese; Shaken by 26/11, Industry Worries about Security; Simmering Seven in the North-east; and Hindi Lesson for Raj from Tamil Nadu
‘No Compromise on Leading Rebellions’
CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat on the difficulties his party faces in the 2011 West Bengal Assembly election, the threat from Maoists and his error in allowing the UPA government to negotiate a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency in November 2007.
India This Week
The Brothers Reddy and Their Swaraj; CPM Stops in its Tracks; US Bars Indian Spooks; MNS-Azmi Fracas; and By-Poll Mayhem for CPM
More Marxist Than Thou
If you think Prakash Karat would be lying low after his party’s recent rout, think again. He’s back at the helm with a grand plan for change
India This Week
CPM’s war against the media; A big blow to Naxals; University for the disabled; BJP’s Facebook face-off; and DMK’s poll booty for terrorists
The Loneliness of Buddhadeb
Can Bengal’s poet-playwright Chief Minister pull out of his current depression in time for the looming Assembly elections?
Wails Within Wails
Though fighting oppression in West Bengal, Maoists are busy oppressing their own cadres in Jharkhand. Dissent is not an option in their ideology
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