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Comrade Govind Pansare: This Martyrdom shall Not be Wasted

March 10, 2015 JAISS Comments 1 comment

By Noor Zaheer, Vineet Tiwari and Sarang Upadhyay THE GREATEST COMMITMENT OF A MAN TO HIS CAUSE IS KNOWN BY HIS WILLINGNESS TO DIE FOR IT. – Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene A condolence meeting in the memory of martyred Comrade Govind Pansare veteran leader of Communist Party of India, was organized in Delhi on March 10. Comrade Pansare was shot in a dastardly act by some unknown killers on February 16 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. The memorial meeting, held at…

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Study of Collective Farmig under Kudumbashree Mission in Kerela

October 10, 2014 JAISS Comments 0 Comment

JAISS took up a study of assessment of collective farming programme under Kudumbashree Mission in Kerala in July 2012. The study will be finished by January, 2014. This study is in connection with the earlier study on marginal farmers and agrarian crisis. We concluded in our earlier study that more than 80 per cent of landed agricultural households have only marginal or small holding. With this small land holding, agriculture does not present a viable livelihood to them. This is…

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Turmoil in West Asia

August 9, 2014 JAISS Comments 0 Comment

By C. Adhikesavan Joshi Adhikari Institute for Social Sciences, New Delhi, organized seminar on the Current Development in West Asia – Turmoil, Genocide and Extremism on August 9, 2014 at Ajoy Bhavan, Headquarters of Communist Party of India. Eminent academicians including Prof. A K Pasha delivered lecture on the Development in Iraq, Prof. Bansidar Pradhan on Palestine Question and Turmoil in Gaza Strip, Atul Aneja on Temporary Solution in Asia and A K Ramakrishnan on the Current Situation in Egypt….

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Impact of Urdu Language on Local Dialects of Bihar: Social Implications

March 30, 2014 JAISS Comments 0 Comment

The JAISS organized a national seminar on “Impact of Urdu language on local dialects of Bihar: Social implications”, at D.S. College Katihar, Bihar. The Seminar was followed by a Mushaira. Vice-Chancellor of B.N. Mandal University, Prof. Mishra inaugurated the Seminar. The Principal of B.S. College chaired the inaugural session and Prof. Ajay Patnaik delivered the welcome address. The keynote speech was given by Prof. Haidari. Prof. S.N. Malakar, who was instrumental in organizing the Seminar in Katihar, introduced to the…

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Left Renaissance: Experiences from Latin America

March 22, 2014 JAISS Comments 0 Comment

The Joshi-Adhikari Institute of Social Sciences (JAISS) was proud to host two eminent economists and political scientists, Marta Harnecker and Prof. Michael Lebowitz, on 22nd March 2014 in Delhi at Ajoy Bhawan’s S. V. Ghate Hall. They spoke on the topic ‘Left Renaissance: Experiences from Latin America’. Marta Harnecker, from Chile, studied with Louis Althusser in Paris. After returning home she was forced into exile by the coup against Salvador Allende. She went to Cuba where she lived and worked…

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Fourth World Socialist Forum Conference

October 31, 2013 JAISS Comments 0 Comment

The Fourth World Socialist Forum Conference was organised by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Communist Party of China in Beijing. It was. The organisers of this conference invited Dr. Jaya Mehta and Com. Anil Rajimwale to participate and present papers in the seminars. Dr. Jaya Mehta presented a paper titled “Dynamics of Capitalism under Crisis: The Indian case” and Com. Anil Rajimwale’s paper was titled as “New situation and tasks of the communist parties. To download the paper click…

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Egypt: Recent Developments and their Implications

September 7, 2013 JAISS Comments 0 Comment

Dr. Qamar Agha, a known expert on West Asian issues, was invited to speak at a gathering organized by JAISS on Egypt. He outlined the historical reasons of today’s situation in Africa and Arab Countries. He discussed in detail about the links between ‘Politics of Oil, Democracy and Terrorism.’ He also emphasized upon the need to intervene in such issues of larger influence and appealed to all democratic and people centric forces to put pressure on Indian government to stop…

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A Weeklong Workshop on National and International Experiences of Cooperatives in Agriculture

March 24, 2013 JAISS Comments 0 Comment

JAISS organized a weeklong workshop from 18 March to 23 March 2013 on experiences of cooperatives in agriculture of various countries. Delegates from China, Cuba, Venezuela, Nepal, Tanzania, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Vietnam and India attended the workshop and made the deliberations. The key note address was given by noted economist Prof. Prabhat Patnaik. Prof. Utsa Patnaik, Shri S. P. Shukla, Dr. Sulbha Brahme, Prof. Ajay Patnaik, Prof. Subodh Malakar, Com. Sudhakar Reddy, Com. A. B. Bardhan, Com. D. Raja,…

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Venezuelan Election and Latin American Left

November 22, 2012 JAISS Comments 0 Comment

JAISS organized a talk by eminent Marxist thinker and writer Prof. Aijaz Ahmad on Latin American Left with a special focus on Venezuela. This meeting was kept in the context of landslide victory of Hugo Chavez in Venezuelan Elections. Venezuela, under the leadership of Chavez and in close collaboration with Cuba, rejuvenated the struggle for Socialism in Latin America. At the same time, the capitalist world, the imperialists of our time are afraid of growing popularity of this small country…

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Meeting of the Like-minded Institutes

October 28, 2012 JAISS Comments 0 Comment

A meeting of the like-minded institutes was held in Delhi on 28 October 2012. The institutes which participated were Joshi-Adhikari Institute (Delhi), Kedar Das Institute (Patna), NCBH and other Institutions (Chennai), NRR Centre and CR Foundation (Andhra Pradesh) and Achyuta Menon Foundation (Kerala). The purpose of the meeting was taking the work of these institutions forward, through better co-ordination and more effective functioning. Com. Amarjeet Kaur, Prof. Ajay Patnaik. Prof. S.N. Malakar, Dr. Jaya Mehta and Shri Vineet Tiwari attended…

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