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…]
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Together A Cry For Justice 
Vaccine Equity and G7 Summit: Solidarity Not Charity, Justice Not Denial of Human Rights 
The Larger Issues Underlying the Claim of Cairn Energy on Air India 
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Compensation for Covid victims- The government ought to revisit its plea before the apex court 
Vaccine Failings: The European Commission and AstraZeneca 
The 47th G 7 Meeting and reflections: the dirt is on the face and not on the mirror 
Vaccine Nationalism 
Tragedy Queen: Meena Kumari 
Student Movement in Pakistan 
Migrant women labourers hit by ban on sand mining 
Nutrition Labelling System : Visualised or Written? 
In the Passing Away of Ramesh Upadhyaya Hindi Literature Has Lost A Gem 
Obituary: Com. PS Hochimin 
‘Epic Failure of Humanity’: Global Displaced Population Hits All-Time High 
Geneva Summit: Leading from the front while dealing with media 
Why the Approval of That Alzheimer’s Drug Is So Disturbing 
Modest results of the meeting in Geneva 
Takeaways from Biden-Putin summit 
Vaccine Woes Worry India 
In Pandemic Times No One Should Be Made Homeless 
Supreme Court verdict turns to be the downfall of Khori 
IIT Gandhinagar: Crushing of Dissent by Hobby Group ‘Awaam’ 
Leader close to Indian consulate convicted for sex assault 
Threatening Writers In Gujarat 
Protests in Punjab on arrests of intellectuals and social activists 
Nizhal: In the Shadow of the Surreal 
USA’s Hypocritical Dealings with Taliban 
Budget 2021–22: Proposal for an Alternate, Pro-People Budget 
Mankind’s Struggle Against Zoonotic Diseases….a self fulfilling prophecy 
Impose Exit Tax on Fleeing Rich and Educated 
Distribute Vaccines Equitably, Ensure Food Security, Enhance Livelihood Opportunities 
Prepare for both dialogue and confrontation with U.S., says N. Korea’s leader Kim 
NATO declares China as global security challenge 
Remembering The Revolutionary Writer Ajmer Singh Aulakh 
Jharkhand and Lalkhand 
Justin Trudeau posturing for Israel 
America Is Stabbing Itself in the Back 
“Cow dung, cow urine didn’t work. Groundless argument. Tomorrow I will eat fish”. In mid-May this year, this simple Facebook post about the futility of bovine waste as a cure for Covid-19, was enough to get Kishorechandra Wangkhem, a journalist from Imphal, Manipur arrested for ‘sedition’ . The post upset members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party as it came[Read More…]
