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Why the 1974 All-India Railway Strike Is Relevant Even Today As the political establishment continues to devise anti-labour policies, the 47th anniversary of this historic strike should remind India that battles are still to be fought. Protestors stop trains during All-India Railway Strike of 1974. Photo: Facebook/Dssrmu Chennai. Rights08/May/2021 On May 8, 1974, 1.7 million employees of the Indian Railways formally began a strike that lasted for 20 days. Led by trade union leader George Fernandes, the strike was called to demand a need-based minimum wage, social security, such as food, the ...

Down The 'NITR Lane': Jyotishman Mudiar Narrates SHARE 2 Jyotishman Mudiar, of the Department of Civil Engineering, class of 2015, chronicles a timeless journey at NIT Rourkela, moulding him for the larger world in this guest column.  It has been almost 5 years since I graduated as a Civil Engineer from NIT Rourkela. To mention this has been an honour ever since. I still carry a part of NIT Rourkela deep inside my heart, although academically I have switched streams. Both as an alumnus of NIT Rourkela as well as a student of history now, I often look back at my 4 years of under-graduati...