It is the same women who raised hell over Nirbhaya’s rape and murder during UPA rule; the same ones who speak out of turn in matters that remotely do not concern them, the same ones who keep talking about gender justice. Sushma Swaraj, Smriti Irani, Nirmala Seetharaman, Shaina NC, Meenaxi Lekhi, Kirron Kher…the whole lot of them. Afisa and the[Read More…]
BJP’s true assessment of its Gujarat victory was best surmised by Dr Shashi Tharoor while talking to India Today. Commenting on the victory speech of PM Modi, he said “the speech was not celebratory but defensive” – a sharp departure from past victory celebrations. The PM has no particular reason to celebrate. Although BJP won the election, his party[Read More…]
“Mamta and Anita, Dalit sisters of Iroli Gurjar village in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh wait in the district courts for their kin, and a Pastor, to be released on bail. The Pastor and five others were beaten up on 4th December when a mob entered Mamta’s house where a prayer was in progress, and stopped the prayers for the[Read More…]
The UP CM Adityanath says criminals will be killed, that no power in the world can stop building of a temple at Ayodhya even though there is an established judicial process to try and sentence criminals and the Ram temple issue is sub-judice. Aadhar is being forced down the throats of citizens despite SC orders to the contrary. The RSS[Read More…]
At the silver jubilee celebrations of the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta (Advocates) Parishad in Hyderabad, RSS chief Bhagwat cited the abuse of power during emergency as an example of immorality in our law and demanded that entire system be based on the ethos of the society rather than, assumably, jurisprudence alone. But while citing the 1975 emergency to elicit immorality[Read More…]
After Nitish Kumar abandoned the Mahaghatbandhan to form a government with the BJP in Bihar, someone aptly coined a new term for him: ‘Khursi Kumar’. He has fooled no one with his rhetoric of having ended the alliance on the isssue of corruption; the people have long learnt to smell a political rat. As pointed out by political analysts[Read More…]
Presently, there is not a single state in Central, North-West and North India where complete rule of law as required by the Constitution prevails. A greater part of the nation is ravaged by criminals operating under the guise of ‘saving ‘Indian culture’, unleashing violence against the citizenry, blatantly violating Constitutional rights and guarantees. The writ of cultural vigilante groups even[Read More…]
There is no doubt the government of India has attempted to prohibit through the backdoor, beef consumption across the country through new rules made under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. The rules per se do not explicitly ban cattle slaughter or beef consumption, but they ban the sale and purchase of cattle for slaughter in cattle markets,[Read More…]
Even as the rest of the population continues to stagger and reel under the blow that demonetization has delivered to them, almost all Dalits and Adivasis in the country have been hit enormously in varying degrees, with the hardest HIT being the rural ones, reducing them to a worse state than they already were in, struggling to survive for want of[Read More…]
Now, falling in line with political expediency is being pushed as ‘patriotism’, so it appears from RSS spokesman Ram Madhav’s statement ‘patience of people queuing up outside ATMs and banks is a test of their patriotism. Whereas, one supposes that the criminality that led to the death of 30 people so far should be excused in the name of ‘nationalism’![Read More…]
It is not surprising that the recent protests by dalits, especially the vigorous one in Ahmedabad following the Una incident in which four dalits were mercilessly beaten for skinning dead cows have evoked global attention: this is the first time in living memory that dalits have spontaeneously come together in large numbers to protest an atrocity committed over performing a[Read More…]
When we breathe Everyday Racism, do we qualify to Question the Racial Brutality on George Floyd? 
Risks of Banking Brotherhood Between India and China 
Shanti Swaroop Bauddh – A True inheritor of Baba Saheb’s Cultural Revolution 
Death of two girls in Tamilnadu brick industry 
Impact of the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 on Adivasi People 
The Convention of Mikhail Bakunin and Legacy 
Ode to China 
The Aftermath of Cyclone Amphan in Sundarbans 
Our Tryst With Mortality 
14 Year Old Christian Boy Lynched In Odisha 
What can we learn from the responses in the Western world to George Floyd’s killing 
People’s Manifesto for India’s Future 
An Open Letter to Foreign Minister Abdul Momin 
Lockdown, Printing Notes & Demand 
Venezuela, Minneapolis, Iran, Europe – Trump’s Last Gasps of Collapsing World Control – Or is it? 
Reading Gandhi on the occasion of the World Environment Day 
The Last Stand of Sundari 
Sundarbans after Cyclone Amphan 
Palestine is gone! Gone! راحت فلسطين 
A survivor’s tale: “Two weeks since Amphan. No sign of electricity”. 
Palestine Must Be Heard 
Female Subjugation In Modern Days: Hegemony By Consent 
Interview with a COVID-19 survivor 
Minamata Pieta 
The Worst Affect of Bank Charges on Working Class 
The Pandemic and the Fear of the ‘Other’ 
A Time To Recover, Renew, Restore, Refresh 
Students’ Arrests amidst COVID-19 and the Lockdown : Issues worth Pondering 
It’s Cruel and it’s Mean – Ugliest Thing You Ever Have Seen 
Limits of Intersectionality and Global Significance of #BlackLivesMatter Movements 
Signing Petitions to Save the Wild 
The Baghjan Blowout: The Disastrous Oil Spill in Upper Assam and its Impacts 
The Lore of Self- Reliant India 
Right-wing Populism and the Future of Left-wing Politics 
Anti-Communism Is A Fundamentalist Religion, Now Followed By Billions 
Unbecoming: A Woman’s Journey to the Future 
Odisha: The cabinet decisions at the time of Corona, a red carpet for companies 
Which America Will Be Ours After the Pandemic? 
Too Much Bull Excrement!! Once Upon a Time in America 
Today, the Republic of India faces its gravest moment since it was born seventy years ago. What has hit the second most populous nation in the world – just in the last few months itself – is nothing short of a crisis of Biblical proportions. An untreatable viral epidemic, a debilitating lockdown, a collapsed economy, hunger stalking every corner of[Read More…]
