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Brinda Karat writes: Our Constitution, besieged at 75

Nov 25, 2024 | indianexpress.com | Brinda Karat

When on November 26, 1949, the President of the Constituent Assembly, Rajendra Prasad, moved the motion “that the constitution as settled by the constituent assembly be passed”, the records of that day note the “prolonged cheers” when it was adopted unanimously. Outside the assembly, it was the RSS that opposed the Constitution on grounds that it was not in tune with “Bharatiya” traditions based on religious texts such as the Manusmriti.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee: Man of letters who didn't care for frills of power

Aug 8, 2024 | telegraphindia.com | Brinda Karat

The red flag dips in his memory in every party office across India and in the chant— 'Comrade Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee amar rahe' Brinda Karat Published 09.08.24, 05:44 AM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee tries his hand at tennis at Netaji Indoor Stadium in 2005 The Telegraph In appearance, Buddhada, as he was known to his legions of admirers, was a quintessential Bengali bhadralok. In reality, he was far from that.
In her new book, Brinda Karat looks at the relationship between Hindutva, women, and hate speech

May 20, 2024 | scroll.in | Brinda Karat

Savarkar’s slogan of the “militarisation” of the “Hindu race” is reflected in the promotion of masculinity as a core feature of Hindutva, the creation of the macho man, the eternal warrior, whose very existence is dependent on aggression against the identified foe; whose every action must be imbued with the spirit of avenging “historical wrongs”; for whom every non-Hindu must be viewed as a potential enemy of the nation until the non-Hindu redeems himself by accepting the crimes of his...
AN EDUCATION FOR RITA

Apr 26, 2024 | observerbd.com | Brinda Karat

Brinda Karats memoir sets the Emergency in context, through the eyes of women, mill workers and others…In some ways, in India, the Emergency hangs like a ghoulish background tapestry in modern day living rooms listening in to conversations, extending a cold, smoking arm sometimes, laying it on a shoulder until the chills run down the spine. India will never get over its Emergency days, clearly, despite more potent and real dangers that might be in our midst today.
Brinda Karat: Communist with a bindi

Apr 4, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Brinda Karat |Smita Gupta |Khorshed Deboo |Palash Krishna Mehrotra

Set during the years from 1975 to 1985, the book vividly captures the period, bringing alive the remarkable journey of a young woman from a privileged but progressive background who joins the communist party in India. In her memoir, Brinda Karat, who is a Politburo member of the CPI(M), writes about her return to India to join the communist party with the firm belief that the revolution was imminent.
Who pays, who wins

Mar 22, 2024 | indianexpress.com | Brinda Karat

The Electoral Bonds Scheme has been exposed as a cosy arrangement for mutual benefit between India’s ruling party and business houses and protected from public scrutiny. After the Supreme Court’s historic though belated judgment scrapping the scheme, industry platforms representing many of the donors had the audacity to demand a reversal on the grounds that it would affect national interests and scare off business investments in India if names were revealed.
The formative years of a communist organiser | Joydip Ghosal

Mar 8, 2024 | mainstreamweekly.net | Brinda Karat

BOOK REVIEWAn Education for Rita A Memoir 1975-1985by Brinda KaratLeftword, January 2024(Paperback) ISBN 978-93-92018-21-3Brinda Karat, a former member of Rajya Sabha is one of the founders of All India Democratic Women’s Association. A member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India( Marxist) she penned down a memoir titled An Education for Rita, A Memoir 1975-1985. She dedicated the memoir to her comrades in the Kapda Mazdoor Lal Jhanda Union and Ashoka and Kalindi.
Congress bulldozed centuries-old homes to beautify Delhi in 1976. It was never reported

Jan 17, 2024 | flipboard.com | Brinda Karat

22 hours ago'I don't support violence, but the airline took advantage' On a Delhi-Goa IndiGo flight, there was a troubling incident where a passenger attacked the pilot due to a lengthy delay. Sanal Vij who was on the flight shared the story on his X account. While he doesn't condone violence, he pointed out …
Congress bulldozed centuries-old homes to beautify Delhi in 1976. It was never reported

Jan 17, 2024 | theprint.in | Brinda Karat

‘Turkman Gate’ became a sort of shorthand to refer to the terrible repression that was unleashed across Delhi on the poor. Industrial workers, domestic workers, street vendors, manual labourers, daily wagers — anybody living in the targeted jhuggi colonies found their dwellings, their meagre belongings, bulldozed. They were given slips that told them where they were to be relocated.
An Education for Rita

Jan 15, 2024 | mayday.leftword.com | Brinda Karat

August 1975. The Emergency is barely two months old. A group of communists meet at night in a small room in Kamla Nagar in north Delhi. They sit on the floor around a flickering oil lamp. Thirteen of them are men, workers from the Birla Cotton Textile Mill. One is a woman. She has given up an airline job in London, and dreams of drama school, to come back to India to join the communist party. With arrest a real possibility, she is asked to take on a new name.