The second round of the PM Internship Scheme has received lacklustre response, even as India’s young population looks to improve employability. Under one-third candidates have so far accepted the 71,458 offers. If the Centre really means business, it must consider increasing stipends and putting on offer meaningful and quality roles.
CPI(M) will never pass the test of VS Achuthanandan’s ideological purity
VS Achuthanandan, the last long marcher of Indian Communism, has moved on at 101. The party he co-founded and leaves behind would never pass the test of his ideological purity. But, as Marx said, philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.