Thomas Isaac

50th Anniversary of Emergency is being commemorated at a time of undeclared Emergency. Worse,contemporary one is based on communal majoritarianism and subservience to interests of a coterie of corporates. Which is worse, the declared Emergency or creeping undeclared Emergency?

Never liked Dhankhar’s attack on independent judiciary or his brazen partisanship while chairing Upper House.But the manner that he was unceremoniously shunted out doesn’t board well for parliamentary democracy. To who else are Prime Minister Modi sending messages to?

It is unprecedented! Crowds gathered to pay homage to the departed leader VS are so huge all along the NH, it has taken 8 hours to the funeral cortege to traverse the first 30 kms. It is a testimony of how much VS had endeared to the people of Kerala. Red salute Comrade.

Com. V.S. Achuthanandan was a rare breed of a leader: From the ranks of manual coir workers of Alleppey he rose to become the CM of Kerala. His was a lifelong struggle for social justice, labour rights and land reforms. He is one of the key architects of egalitarian Kerala.

“There is a little group called BRICS. It is going to fade out soon.”- says Trump. Then why does he keep on threatening BRICS?The reality is that Trump fears a day of reckoning is coming for US hegemonic power and BRICS may challenge US just as US overtook Britain in 1940s.

Emboldened by success of operation Maha elections,NDA has become bolder in Bihar. EC has come out with an open programme to manipulate the electoral rolls by mass deletion of minorities and opposition voters.Such brazen scuttling of democracy process has never happened before.

Kerala colleges celebrated World Youth Skill Day by launching the drive for registration in Kerala Global Skill Summit on August 29-30. Half a million students teachers, mentors, employers, skill agencies are expected to join the Summit off-line and on-line#KeralaSkillSummit

Kerala HC throws out temporary vice chancellors appointed by governor without recommendation of state govts. Mischiefs by governor is undermining the remarkable progress that Kerala varsities have been making in national rankings in recent period. No more governor chancellors.

Amit Shah trashes Kerala and unveils BJP’s ‘Vikasita Keralam’.For his information, Kerala is fast moving to the standard of upper middle income region while most states in India, particularly North Indian states under BJP, languish at LDC level. Advise them to learn from Kerala.

What a descend for India,from 114 in 2014 to 131 in 2025 in Global Gender Gap Index ranking under Modi regime. In economic participation gap, India is among the bottom five. Modi Bhakts can take some consolation- Our neighbour Pakistan is below us in overall global ranking!

RSS that had zero presence in Kerala universities attempts to take over them with the help Governor- Chancellor nominees in key posts.Student protests paralyse functioning of Kerala University. Governor has no constitutional privilege in varsities. Step down from Chancellorship.

25 crores of workers on strike is not a small number. But ruling classes and media by and large tried to belittle historic significance of the strike.Only politicalisation of the mass of workers can raise the challenge to its logical conclusion of scuttling the new labour codes.

The Governors are wrecking universities in Kerala. Shamelessly they cling on to power by refusing sanction to the legislative bills removing them from Chancellorship, a prerogative of the state. Now Kerala Uni Vice Chancellor suspends the Registrar and goes for a foreign jaunt.

Trump has railed against Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran,”a 100% communist lunatic”. We communists should feel little peeved with such a characterisation. Is MAGA so fragile to make Trump feel that “the country is really SCREWED” because of a popular challenge in a city!

India improves its SDG global ranking from 109 in 2024 to 99.But we are still below our neighbours like China(49), Bhutan (74),Nepal(85), Maldives(53),and Sri Lanka(93). Only Pakistan beats us having fallen to the rock bottom of 140th rank.Some consolation indeed!

Trump unilaterally withdraws from nuclear agreement with Iran. Then carries out an unprovoked attack on Iran’s nuclear sites flaunting international law. Trump’s excuse of Iran’s nuclear bomb is a lie which even his intelligence chief doesn’t buy. Best specimen of a rogue state.

Indian money in Swiss banks increases by 3 fold to scale ₹36700 crores in 2024. Didn’t someone promise to bring back to India the black money from foreign banks and deposit ₹15 lakhs each in account of every Indian? Isn’t he still the Prime Minister?

It is puzzling why GOI should set up a parallel “High Level Committee” headed by Home Secretary while an enquiry by “Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau”has already commenced as per international protocols.Why this hasty interference? Let AAIB complete its task independently.

Didn’t Trump say thar he deserved Nobel prize for peace?And some peace we are indeed witnessing. He tears up the existing nuclear deal with Iran and then proxies a war to compel Iran to sign a new deal, pushing the global economy further on the path of stagflation.

Israel is a rogue state. US connived with Israel in the preemptive strike even as it was engaging with Iran in peace talks. Zionist militarism’s brazen quest for regional hegemony is endangering global peace and economy. What a shame that India has chosen a neutral stance!