People's Democracy (newspaper)

People's Democracy is the weekly newspaper of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Prakash Karat, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member is the editor of the newspaper. The journal has six editions from New Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Agartala,[1] and Kochi.[2]

History

People's Democracy was founded in 1965 with Jyoti Basu as the founding editor. It had a circulation of about 25,000 copies in 2006.[3]

Former editors

Columns

Economic notes

This column discusses economic developments and issues in both the international and national arena. Authors who writes here include Prabhat Patnaik and C. P. Chandrashekhar.

Policy Matters

Authors include Archana Prasad.

Science and Development Issues

This section covers current technological developments with social impacts authored by Prabir Purkayastha, Raghu, and others.

Working Class Issues

Worker's movements, trade union activities and issues concerning the working class are detailed here.

International

International events and issues. Authors include Yohannan Chemerapally.

Other columns include Current Issues and Book Reviews.

gollark: Why? It would be bad and dystopian.
gollark: I imagine it could be done mostly automatically with sensors of some kind in the sewer and a way to infer who's in the relevant part of a house (phones maybe?).
gollark: Just write a program which receives a sorted list from the future and sends it to the past iff it contains all the elements you want and is sorted.
gollark: You could also do this with time travel if you have one of those always-consistent universes.
gollark: Great!

References
  1. PD Launches Agartala Edition On Anti-Fascist Day
  2. Kochi Edition Of People’s Democracy Launched
  3. CPM all set to reach market through People’s Democracy
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