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…]
Save Lives, Socialize Big Pharma 
History: An Ocean without Shores 
Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 – Monetising that which sustains life 
Channi is dishonest and Kejriwal an honest man? 
Urgent Need to Raise Budget Allocations for Health Sector 
Thank Goodness Ilan Pappe is no Longer Alone on the Barricades Booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine: To give or not to give? 
CPSE disinvestment- Valuation approach flawed, Imprudent to ignore R&D effort in CPSEs at the cost of self-reliance 
The Ukraine Riddle & the War of Words 
Neoliberalism, Stress, and Sex 
A Very Long War – From Vietnam to Afghanistan with Detours Along the Way 
Palestine: Between a Rising Tide and Apartheid – Environmental Justice 
Subhash Chandra Bose: Memoirs of the North East India 
Ethnocracy invading India’s democracy 
Identifying Six Most Urgent Priorities of India in Exceptionally Difficult and Uncertain Times 
When Virtual Reality is the Actual Reality 
One Billion Dollars Per Day—This is what the top 10 billionaires of USA have been adding to their wealth in pandemic times 
Auguries of Ruin 
The Lamp – Lit For What? 
Red is the new alert for Prime Minister? 
How Israel’s ‘Facebook Law’ Plans to Control All Palestinian Content Online 
Dominance by Billionaires Leads India’s Highway to Record Levels of Inequality 
Obituary: Eminent Computer Scientist-Teacher Prof M. Radhakrishna 
Humanity at “Doom’s Doorstep” Says Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 
Economics With A Human Face—Young Writer Makes A Mark With His First Book 
Morocco Drives a War in Western Sahara for Its Phosphates 
Setback to India’s Covid Genome Sequencing Efforts- 5 Labs Shut- A cause for concern 
Song of the Himalayas 
First Amendment to the Indian Constitution: Is Nehru a hero or a villain? 
Unshackle the youth to realize a Republic 
Punjab Election and the farmers 
A United Voice For A Referendum For Eelam Tamils 
Guantánamo’s Forever Elusive Endgame – Will We “Celebrate” Its 30th Anniversary? 
77 And The Drums Of War 
Blinken delays US response to Russia 
“Havana Syndrome” – CIA Rules Out Foreign Power Involvement 
Hate is normal in India today, thanks to social media Rapidly growing economic inequalities in India 
After a Year of Biden, Why Do We Still Have Trump’s Foreign Policy? 
The Smearing of Emma Watson 
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