India’s doctors increasingly use pharmacological solutions to treat mental health issues, but that may be leading us down the wrong path
Dr Alok Bajpai Kanpur
OCTOBER 2017
A 100 years have passed since the world saw the first communist experiment in Russia. What has come to be known as the October Revolution changed the history of the world. Hardnews decided to critically looks back and invited Prakash Karat, Jairus Banaji, Sukumar Murlidhar and Amit Sengupta to write about the revolution and its place in Indian and global history
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As the gaze of the world shifts to the status of mental healthcare, Hardnews visits the only State-run half-way home in Delhi and looks at the status of treated mental patients across India
One hundred years after the October revolution, will the young India dare to fight the rise of fascism
Amit Sengupta
The Indian government is faced with a challenging task, that of job creation. Hardnews spoke to eminent economist Santosh Mehrotra on how the country can use existing policies to create millions of jobs.
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A hundred years after Red October, theory still lags behind in analysing and comprehending contemporary imperialism and capitalism and the changes they have wrought
Prakash Karat
Perhaps the principles that led the architects of the October Revolution have reasserted themselves with fresh relevance today
Sukumar Murlidharan
Unions are unequal in nature, Catalonia’s Independence leads to questions about how regions give more than they get
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