Let’s Hope For A Better 2024
On the anvil of a NewYear, let us recognize two glaring things of this world of ours. While we are enveloped by the dark clouds of war, hatred, hegemony, religious…
Dr Aurobindo Ghose
Spare the JPC road and spoil the Adani child- Need for regulating conglomerates and monopoly control
Two recent exposures of the Gautam Adani conglomerate, have inflicted sufficient market punishment on it. One by the Hindenburgh short seller’s accusation of “brazen stock market manipulation and accounting…
Remembering Shanti Bhushan
Tributes to respected Shanti Bhushan-ji, a tall lawyer, great teacher and humble leader ! Instrumental in dethroning Indira Gandhi, gathering of forces for the post-Emergency Janata Party and bringing AAP…
Question of Release of All Political Prisoners – Urgent need for another 1977-like PUCLDR National Convention on Political Prisoners
PART I A Poem symptomatic of the Theme of Political Prisoners Let me invert the structure of this article a bit. I have referred to some of the poems in…
Remembering Soli Sorabjee
Eminent jurist Soli Sorabjee passed away yesterday of covid. My respect and tributes to the great man. I always like to narrate an anecdote about him. He defended me and…
Appropriating Tagore as a Hindu Nationalist: Chancellor Modi’s Pre-Election Address to Visva-Bharati
Visva - Bharati University founded in 1921 just completed a hundred years. Located at the Abode of Peace, Shantiniketan, it has however seen much disturbance and violence between the civil…
Rabindranath Tagore’s “Viswa Bharati” university exposed to the saffron peril
In 1940, a year before he died, Rabindranath Tagore placed a letter in Mahatma Gandhi’s hand. The letter said: “Visva-Bharati is like a vessel which is carrying the cargo of…
Revive Basanta Utsab And Poush Mela At Visva Bharati, Shantiniketan
This is a scene from Basanta Utsab ( spring festival) song- and-dance programme at Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan, a couple of years back. The VC of the University, Bidyut Chakrabarty, called it…
Remembering Swami Agnivesh
Very sad to have lost Swami Agnivesh. My respectful salute and Shraddhanjali to my human rights co-fighter and colleague. Deepest condolences to his friends and associates.Remember the innumerable occasions when…
“At Ayodhya, On Unity in Diversity of 300 Ramayanas, PM Modi Bows before Scholar A. K. Ramanujan”
While listening to PM Modi at Ayodhya, over TV the other day, dilating confidently on the theme of "unity in diversity" ( including a BIG LIE) with regard to the…
When Two Elderly Women Met At Shaheen Bagh
Co-Written by AurobindoGhose and Gurjeet Kaur Picture of two Elderly Women at ShaheenBagh, is worth thousand words: Divided by Class and privilege but United by Compassion and Patriotism The moment…
CAA: Tit for Tat
The niggardly standard of Indian diplomacy with respect to three of its neighbouring countries : Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, is getting exposed. First, the CAB wrongly accused these countries of…
Time For A Unified Protest
Martin Neimoller's confessional poem of how he, a Protestant pastor, did not care or ignored the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany , and how they arrested or persecuted…
India is not quite yet a Hindu Rashtra: 70th Constitution Day
In January 2018, four top Supreme Court Judges in a surprise move, held a press conference declaring that " Democracy is at stake, and we have a debt to the…
Say No To Bharat Ratna For Savarkar
Savarkar petitioned the British Govt from Andaman Cellular Jail seeking pardon and promising loyalty to the Govt if released, says Justice Markendaya Katju. The Congress has thrown further light that…
“Where is Najeeb?”: Spirited Protest At Jantar Mantar
It was a very spirited anti-Fascist protest meeting on "Where is Najeeb?" at Jantar Mantar yesterday afternoon, organised by the peaceful resistance movement of United against Hate. The main speakers…
Shocking! Press Club of India Refuses To Show Film And Photographs On Kashmir
I was present at this amazing, historical Press Conference at Press Club of India today afternoon, by a team just back from its Kashmir visit from August 9 to 13…
Remember Emergency but do not forget to identify and resist the present Undeclared Emergency
Emergency was declared by PM Indira Gandhi this day 44 years back when the citizen's fundamental rights of life, liberty and expression were abrogated. Thousands were jailed, Press freedom was…
Thoughts on 6th December BLACK DAY, When the Babri Masjid was Demolished
My tentative thoughts on the likely political scenario unravelling itself. Today is the BLACK DAY when the saffron forces consisting of RSS/BJP/Shiv Sena/ VHP /Bajrang Dal etc. demolished the Babri…
Sushma Vs Trolls Points to Rift Within BJP Before 2019 Polls
There is more to external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj’s apparently graceful response to the Twitter trolling she has faced over her ministry’s issuance of a passport to an inter-faith couple than meets the eye.…
Protest Against Mob Lynchings And The Role Of Civil Society In Breaking The Silence
A fifteen-year old boy was lynched to death in a train by a mob, when he was returning home with his relatives, on the evening of Thursday, 22nd June after…
There Is More To It Than Meets The Eye: India’s Boycott of The Recently Concluded OBOR Summit
It is ten days since the One Belt One Road (OBOR) Summit called and hosted by China at Beijing from May 14 to 15, 2017, concluded. Significantly, India did not…
Retrenchment In The Telegraph
On 7th February,2017 with only 2 hours notice, of about 740 workers, journalists and reporters of Ananda Bazar Patrika group of newspapers of Kolkata were retrenched. This was first reported…
A Unique Ramlila
We need to remind ourselves that a unique Ramlila, is being staged since 1972, at Bakshi Ka Talab, about 20 km from Lucknow, where lead characters like Rama, Lakshman and…
Remembering B.P Mandal & V.P Singh
Today is 25th August, the day a champion of the rights of the oppressed , Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal was born 98 years back. Today, he will be remembered for his…
Jignesh Mevani: A Leader Is Born
Very successful press conference at the Press Club of India, New Delhi by Jignesh Mevani, lawyer and Dalit activist from Gujarat. Very good attendance. Lot of questioning by journos' almost…
Fable For Our Times: The Lion Of Gujarat Is Silent
According to the Gujarat CID, a lion killed Najabhai Ahir's cow in Bediya village. Najabhai informed Balu Sarvaiya of Mota village on the morning of July 11, 2016 to come…
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