I see lots and lots of children going back to school after the lockdown, but there's little joy on their faces; instead looks of stress and tension cloud their otherwise smiling young visages. "What's happening?" I ask a youngster walking along with his mother.

"He's got his exams today," says his mother.

Yesterday was Palm Sunday; when many years ago, men and women lined the streets of Jerusalem, waving palm leaves and shouting ‘hosanna’, as Jesus rode in on a donkey. It was five days before he would be crucified on the cross; a few days before he would stare down at the people around the cross, and maybe think, “Wasn’t that man waving a palm leaf gladly at me, last week?” or, “Wasn’t that the man I healed from leprosy?”

         ……….The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion: he has given it to them to protect the helpless………

                                                                              …… Sri Ramakrishna.

                      As I hear about the deaths due to bombings in Ukraine my heart goes out to the suffering families and yet I know there is more to compassion than it just being an armchair discussion and I will try to bring this out with a few little stories below:

It’s time the veto was vetoed!

Where else but in the United Nations do you have a few nations with power to tell the world that black is white? That’s exactly what the veto does. Instead of having a democratic equality a veto gives power to a huge bully to tell others he is right, despite all the nations wasting time and effort to say what is being done is wrong.

D. Ayyappan

The CPI (M) was formed at the Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of India held in Calcutta from October 31 to November 7, 1964.  The CPI (M) has emerged as the leading Left force in India ever since its formation.   The party has been growing rapidly since 1964.  The membership of the Party, which was 118,683 at the time of its formation, has grown to more than a million now. The Party has sought to apply Marxism-Leninism to Indian conditions and to work out the strategy and tactics for a people's democratic revolution, which can change the lives of the people of India.