Advancing People's Stuggles In Defence of secular Democracy volume-II
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Price: Rs. 190. "The power of the pen, and of the spoken word, preceded Shri Yechury's advent in the Rajya Sabha. His regular columns in newspapers, and his other writings, invariably shed new light on the issues of the day. His commitment to the values he holds dear is expressive of the core principles of Indian polity and our Constitution..." Hamid Ansar i; Vice-President of India and Chairman, Rajya Sabha (2007-2017) "The effectiveness of Left politics depends on work done on two quite different fronts -the efforts of public education and mobilization at the grass roots and the efforts of influencing legislation and policy in Parliament. The speeches by Sitaram Yechury that have been collected in this volume are a fine example of the latter. They address the most topical questions in India of the last dozen years, ranging from foreign policy and political economy to the vital issues that confront our society and politics: democratic governance, freedom of speech, religion and secularism, discrimination of castes and tribes, the fate of higher education...and they do so with a forceful sense of urgency, a bold willingness to be critical of the failures and misdeeds of successive governments, and an admirable concern for the working people of our country who have faced increasing oppression and deprivation through this decade or more of Yechury's excellent parliamentary interventions on their behalf. There was a time in our nation's political life when Mr. Yechury's humane political stances were shared by many others. But their numbers are rapidly shrinking and that is why his is a voice that particularly deserves to be heard and heeded." Akeel Bilgrami , Sidney Morgenbesser Professor o