The BJP’s campaign of intimidation and violence against opposition parties has intensified across Tripura ahead of the November 28 elections to 21 urban local bodies. CPI(M) candidates, leaders and supporters have faced repeated attacks, threats and obstruction while attempting to exercise their democratic right to file nominations.

AN elderly man, his hands trembling not in fear but in anguish, desperately held the arm of an agitated youth, entreating him with quiet dignity: “Please don’t destroy the books. Come here, have a look at them.” Indifferent to this humane appeal, the youth and his cohort brazenly tore down the display counter, hurling volumes into the dust of the road. These were not merely texts of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, but literary masterpieces of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, trampled underfoot in the dirt.

THE Sitaram Yechury Foundation (SYF), set up in memory of the late charismatic Communist leader, General Secretary of the CPI(M), parliamentarian and public intellectual Comrade Sitaram Yechury, is a not-for-profit charitable public Trust with the objectives of: initiating educational and public awareness on democracy and civil rights; agenda building in society for realization of constitutional provisions, including that to constitute India into a “socialist secular democratic republic” as adumbrated in the very preamble of the Constitution of India; sett

THE INDIA Bloc’s campaign to defend voting rights and democratic institutions reached a significant moment in New Delhi on October 31 and November 1, 2026, with a symbolic public impeachment of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar followed by a massive rally at Ramlila Maidan. The two programmes formed part of a coordinated political campaign, with the first placing the charges against the CEC before a public forum and the second taking the demand for accountability to the streets.

Eminent historian Prof. Romila Thapar delivered the Second Sitaram Yechury Memorial Lecture on “Historiography and Early Indian History” on 25 October at Harkishan Singh Surjeet Bhawan, New Delhi. The hall was packed with an audience attending the lecture.