After Mamata Banerjee’s win in the elections in Bengal, a spate of celebratory articles has appeared all over the liberal media saying such things like Bengal rejects communal politics, rejects politics of hate, rejects Hindutva, etc. On the basis of the election, Shoaib Danyal shows his on-ground journalistic skills by discovering that ‘Bengal is, as famously described by political scientist[Read More…]
On my first day as a professor of critical writing in a ‘premier’ university, I decided to conduct an experiment in the classroom. I walked in and told the students that ‘today’s class will focus on critical thinking because one logically and chronologically has to think critically first and only then proceed to write critically.’ Saying that, I wrote ‘cultural[Read More…]
For a very long time now, we have been hearing people declare that we should do things ‘according to our national characteristics’. From Bankim Chatterjee to Partha Chatterjee, the chatter has not changed much. There are two kinds of people who make this argument at present: the patriots and the great intellectuals who make tours of other countries. While using[Read More…]
The NIA probe in the Bhima Koregaon case has revealed that mass mobilization of militant Dalit and Muslim forces is happening against the government. ‘According to NIA, the documents seized from (Rona) Wilson mentioned that Dalits and Muslims must come together to build a major anti-fascist front in the Indian subcontinent as soon as possible.’ These documents are evidence against[Read More…]
I have been following Kangana Ranaut with a mixture of fascination and admiration ever since she showed the extraordinary courage of taking on the bigwigs in Bollywood by attacking the source of their power—nepotism. Beginning from Koffee With Karan where she famously called Karan Johar the ‘flag bearer of nepotism’, she has been relentless in her attack. She must have[Read More…]
I was born a bania, a savarna or upper-caste, and that is why I was born a bad person. Let me explain. I am part of that minority for whom the benefits of the caste system far outweigh the costs (if there are any costs at all except for making me lazy, stupid, selfish, and arrogant by making everything in[Read More…]
America has two lessons for India right now, one for the government and one for the people – 1) The government should not ally with a falling power (America) against a rising power (China), notwithstanding India’s racist outlook towards the Chinese and its disgustingly servile love for the white of colour. 2) Protests can and must happen despite coronavirus. In[Read More…]
It has so come to pass that we only impart religion to our little bundles of joy while abandoning them almost exclusively to the not-so-innocent hands of schools for their ‘secular’ education. While there has always been a debate about how much state propaganda is really thrust down the throat of malleable minds at an early age to destroy their[Read More…]
CO-Written by Akshat Jain & Divij Oberoi In the great ancient tradition of our country (bharat ki mahan aur pracheen sanskriti), we have yet again decided to start a witch-hunt against the members of a minority community. While this kind of witch hunting had become confined to villages due to the evil machinations of secular-rationalists, it is now being restarted[Read More…]
There is no such thing as Islamophobia. There is only anti-Islamism. A Hindu, Christian, or secular liberal does not have a mental illness that makes them afraid of Muslims, they are against Islam as a political ideology and value system. The same is true of homophobia which is really just a cover for anti-homosexualism, which is the political assertion of[Read More…]
“We Shall Overcome”: How the youth of Darjeeling responded during COVID-19 
One Man as a Whole Generation: The Unfinished War of Zakaria Zubeidi 
How AUKUS May Damage NATO 
Who Represents Afghanistan: Genuine Activists vs ‘Native Informants’ 
Duterte’s Last Dirty Trick: Eluding the International Criminal Court 
What does the 24 September – Global Climate Strike Mean to Farmers, Workers & Peasants of India 
One Year on Since the Farm Laws – India’s Farmers’ Struggle Set to Intensify 
U.S. Militarism’s Toxic Impact on Climate Policy 
Patriarchy: The Struggle Continues 
Simple Processing Reforms Can Ensure Healthier Food 
Church And The Question Of Narcotic Jihad 
Opposition Unity: Will they, won’t they? 
California wildfires threaten millennia-old giant sequoias 
Avoiding Real Change: The Myth of Green Capitalism 
Bad Business: World Bank and China, A Rigging Scandal 
Our Government Cares for General Motors, Ford, not our Pedestrians 
A new model of refugee housing is needed for better integration 
The Hangman’s Noose 
Mike Willacy’s Rogue Forces 
World Car Free Day 
Encroaching a wetland in the name of rejuvenation! Sukhatal Lake restoration project tells the story 
Changes Needed in Panchayati Raj and Decentralized Administration 
Power and Glory in Times of Disease and Death 
A Questionable ‘Suicide’ In Rule Of Law 
Book on Bebo released on her birthday in Chandigarh 
How Corporations Won the War on Terror 
5 Urgent Steps Needed to Vaccinate the World and End This Pandemic 
UK’s decision to consider vaccinated Indians as ‘unvaccinated’ stinks of apartheid, lacks scientific merit 
Tribute to Gananath Patro 
Kids cannot go without food, migrants say 
Massive, Illegal Expulsion of Migrants from U.S.A 
The Right to Clean Air in Jakarta 
Let Chocolates Fall from the Sky 
Confronted by pandemic, this farmer ditched chemicals, took to WhatsApp 
Germany’s New Neo-Nazis: The Reichsbürger 
How About ‘Taking a Knee’ Against USA’s Infamously Greater Racist Homicide in Other Peoples Countries 
Beyond the tipping point 
From Popovers to Popunders: The Kind of Decarbonization That Can Succeed 
Will global charter help accelerate action on NCDs to prevent untimely deaths? 
Beijing condemns military pact between the US, Britain and Australia 
This year there was international outrage when a frail 84-year-old Jesuit priest with Parkinson’s disease, Stan Swamy, died after being held in an Indian jail in inhumane conditions, on flimsy charges. When he was eventually moved to hospital, he tested positive for Covid and went on to suffer a cardiac arrest. He had devotedly served the poor and defended their[Read More…]
