Vision of an Alternative Foreign Policy
If Socialist Party (India) would have been in power it would have pursued a completely different foreign policy. It would have not wasted any more time in trying to prove…
Sandeep Pandey
Engage Pakistan in Dialogue, Address the political parties and civil society
We hope the hubris of Bhartiya Janata Party leadership related to Pakistan on Kashmir would be finally broken with the terrorist attack in Pahalgam. Starting from Narendra Modi’s 56 inch…
United States is the biggest Terrorist State
A Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil had been detained by the authorities in the United States as he had organised demonstrations in support of Palestine during the ongoing conflict between…
Israel Refuses to Learn from History
During the 7 October, 2023 attack by Hamas, 1195 Israelis were killed and 251 taken as hostages. There was worldwide condemnation of the ‘terrorist’ attack carried out by Hamas. In…
Anti-people Budget
In the budget presented for 2025-26 much hullabaloo has been made about the income tax exemption limit having been raised from Rs. 7 lakhs to Rs. 12 lakhs. Only the…
Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied
by Chaitanya Pandey, Shashank Singh and Sandeep Pandey In 2017 the Electoral Bond Scheme was introduced. In the name of making funding of political parties transparent, the information of purchaser…
Unique Way to Celebrate Republic Day
Most people would have celebrated the Republic day in the usual manner – unfurling of national flag, some speeches, raising of ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ and ‘Vande Matram’ slogans and…
34 SC families in IIT Kanpur without toilets in Open Defecation Free India
When Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur was set up in 1959, two villages were uprooted. The farmers were given meagre compensation for the standing crop. No compensation was given…
Is Jagjit Singh Dallewal Destined To Same Fate As G.D.Agrawal And Devki Nandan Sharma?
Bhartiya Janata Party governments don’t believe in intervening in a situation where somebody is on indefinite fast for some cause and saving their lives. 86 years old Professor Guru Das…
What Would the Future Religious Places Look Like?
At the airports one sees a ‘Prayer Room.’ It doesn’t say which religion it belongs to. One could go in and pray according to one’s religious practice. This is the…
Expel Israel from UN
by Sandeep Pandey and Saleem Khan To: Antonio GuterresSecretary General, United NationsNew York Dear Mr. Guterres, The genocide - the ongoing Holocaust in Gaza - and who stands in clear…
What is the solution to Manipur Imbroglio?
Statements of Mizoram CM Lalduhoma made some time back in the United States calling for unification of Kukis, unjustly divided under three different Governments of India, Myanmar and Bangladesh, under…
Appeal to not celebrate Diwali in deference to 18,000 Palestinian children killed
Last year 6 years old Madiha was a guest during Diwali at our home in Lucknow. Listening to the sound of fire crackers bursting outside she remarked, ‘It appears as…
Time Has Come To Deport The VIP From Varanasi
In 2014 the Manmohan Singh government enacted the The StreetVendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act. There is a provision under this Act that a Town Vending…
Manipur:For Meitei-Kuki Peace
The violence which shows no sign of abating in the ongoing Meitei-Kuki conflict in Manipur is a matter of concern. The alienation of the two communities and hatred generated for each…
India-Pakistan Peace And Friendship March Organised From Mansa To Atari-Wagha Border
The Socialist Party (India) recently organized a India Pakistan Peace and Friendship March during 9 to 14 August, 2024 from Mansa to Atari-Wagha border in Amritsar District. Since the Modi…
Reduction of Sleeper and General class coaches in Rail an anti-poor move
by Anandi Pandey and Sandeep Pandey Probably even the British, who introduced railways in India would not have done what the Bhartiya Janata Party government is doing. The number of…
Do we have to wait till the next conflict between another set of ethnic groups before Kuki-Meitei strife fades?
Over the past one year Manipur has been witness to Meitei-Kuki conflict like nowhere seen even among Hindu-Muslim communities. Even if you may have totally segregated Hindu and Muslim residential…
Congress and BSP Responsible for the return of Narendra Modi
by Divesh Ranjan and Sandeep Pandey There are celebrations in the opposition circles that Bhartiya Janata Party has not been able to reach the half way mark to form the…
Campus protests in USA and Europe are welcome signs of sensitizing education
Now Israel has killed over 34,700 Palestinians in its war on Gaza during the last seven months and taken seize of Rafah, the point from where Palestinians can go only…
Supreme Court needs to relook at the EVM-VVPAT Judgement
The Supreme Court in its judgement has backed the system of Electronic Voting Machine and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail that is used in India for conducting elections and simply…
A Satyagraha Against EVM And For Ballot Paper
As election fever rises and political parties get busy with campaigning, one issue which refuses to die even after elections have been declared is that of Electronic Voting Machine and…
Why Should The Government Be Involved In Religious Affairs?
by Ayush Bajpai, Vishnu Bandarupalli and Sandeep Pandey In the majority decision (4-3) in Abhiram Singh v. C.D. Commachen (Dead) By Legal Representatives, the Supreme Court stated that the ethos…
Hindu nationalism poses a threat to democratic politics in India and Nepal
by Dhruv Rana, Laabhesh Thapa and Sandeep Pandey In India, we can observe how nationalism is a political ideology that holds devotion to one's country as paramount to all other…
Among The Last Reputed Bastion Of Academic Freedom Falls
This is the seventh consecutive academic year when I would have gone as a visiting faculty member to the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad to teach an Elective course…
Palestinians Have Right To Self Defense, Not The Occupying Power Of Israel
by Venkatesh Narayanan and Sandeep Pandey After having pounded Gaza for over three months killing more than 26,000 Palestinians, during the course of which Israel also attacked Children’s hospitals and…
Need to Distinguish The Political Project of The Hindutva From Hinduism
A Ram temple consecration ceremony is scheduled in Ayodhya on 22 January. This temple is being built, after demolition of a mosque at the same place, in the name of…
Khaled Meshal: The most unlikely Gandhi fan
There was much hullabaloo about former Hamas chief Khaled Meshal addressing an online meeting in Kerala during the ongoing Israeli war on Palestine provoked by a Hamas attack on Israel…
Unrealized Aspirations: The Common School System & the Quest for Equitable Education in India
by Riya Jain, Sagar Sengar and Sandeep Pandey A Gujarat government Indian Administrative Service officer Dhaval Patel after visiting six primary schools in Chhota Udepur district among the tribal area…
One Other Reason Why Private Schools Must Be Nationalised
On 31 July, Class XI student Shreya Tiwari at Children’s Girls College in Azamgarh allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the 3rd floor of the school building. The college principal,…
Can an Award Chain the Conscience of an Individual?
A Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture has recommended making Sahitya Akademi award winners sign an undertaking that they would not return their awards at any stage to…
The Ideal of Education
by Ekitha Gangavath, Ayush Bajpai, Amit Singh and Sandeep Pandey Unfortunately, this theme gets people’s attention only when some students commit suicides. As public memory is short things relapse to…
I, the Citizen, (Not) the Sovereign
by Sandeep Pandey and Vishwas Bhamburkar The preamble to the Constitution begins with “We, the People”. Thus, the idea that the citizens are the sovereigns, should have been the…
Modi’s Speech in U.S. Congress: An Address Full of Contradictions
The sharp reaction to Wall Street Journal journalist Sabrina Siddiqui and the online harassment faced by her on asking a question of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent joint…
Vasant-Rajab Exemplary Of Communal Harmony In Gujarat
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi is known for his supreme sacrifice at a young age of 41 years in trying to stop communal violence in Kanpur in 1931, two days after…
Manipur: A people known for struggles against injustice are now fighting among themselves
Manipur has been known for more than just the existence of numerous insurgent groups. It is known for the bravery of its people, especially women, against the injustices of the…
Mafia Raj in Gujarat
Narendra Modi’s United States visit has made big news. In his seventh trip to that country as the Prime Minister he has been able to get himself invited as a…
Patriotic Criminals and Anti-National Criminals
Seven women wrestlers have filed First Information Report about sexual harassment by Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a six times Member of Parliament and president of the Wrestling Federation of India.…
It is time to Rediscover Our Democracy
by Harshavardhan Purandare and Sandeep Pandey Rahul Gandhi's expulsion has come at a politically convenient time for Modi government with general elections due one year from now . This time,…
Omnipresent Caste
by Sanjana Sree Manusanipalli and Sandeep Pandey The city is supposed to be the place where anyone can be anything they want to be. They say in a city like…
Case of institutional violence in SAARC University
South Asian University is a university set up in Delhi by member countries of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan and…
Why is Telangana blocking the entry of poor children into private schools?
by Sanjana Sree Manusanipalli and Sandeep Pandey The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act was enacted by the Union Government in 2009 and implemented in 2010. As…
Open letter to Yogi Adityanath: Why do your government and police feel insecure?
Respected Yogi Maharaj, We were to take out a padyatra during 24-27 December, 2022 from Varanasi to Manduri, Azamgarh in support of a farmers’ movement going on at Manduri since…
Crony Capitalism System Protected
In last five years Rs. 10,09,510 crores taken as loans by various companies from banks in India has been declared as Non Performing Assets, an euphemism for writing them off.…
Narendra Modi’s new found love for Tamil
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) or the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) have long argued for ‘Hindu-Hindi-Hindustan’, which into recent years has translated into a crisper English expression: ‘One Nation-One Religion-One…
Difference between release of Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts and Bilkis Bano case convicts
Supreme Court has released six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. This was bound to happen as earlier A.G. Perarivalan was released in the same case, setting a precedent.…
Airport in Azamgarh – Development or Destruction?
by Rajeev Yadav, Arundhati Dhuru and Sandeep Pandey Azamgarh is a lively district of eastern Uttar Pradesh. Because of the entrepreneurial nature of people here Azamgarh is described as Kerala…
Amit Shah Should Resign
It turns out that the Home Ministry actually gave permission for remission of sentence of 11 rape and murder convicts in the case of Bilkis Bano in Gujarat. It flies…
Iran: A Movement For Democracy
by Harleen Sandhu and Sandeep Pandey After Mahsa Amini, 22 years old woman, was held by morality police in Iran for violating the Islamic Hijab code and she died within…
A struggle for dignity of women
A padyatra (foot march) was to be taken out between 26 September and 4 October, 2022 from Randhikpur village in Dahod district of Gujarat to Ahmedabad to apologise to Bilkis…
Gandhi’s Way the Only Way for India
A Muslim youth was beaten recently when he tried to witness the famous Garbha performance during the Hindu religious 9 days festival of Navratri in Gujarat. There was a time…
Apologising to Bilkis Bano
It is a matter of shame for us as a society that Bilkis Bano's rapists have been released by a District level committee of Gujarat Government. Some people in the…
Divided We Fall, Bharat Jodo !
by Harshavardhan Purandare and Sandeep Pandey The Congress party declared Bharat Chhodo (Quit India) movement against the British regime in 1942. The Congress party is now launching a movement Bharat…
Is it enough to fly the Tricolour to prove one’s patriotism?
The Bhartiya Janata Party government has issued a diktat – that every house should fly the national flag on this independence day when India is celebrating 75th year of independence.…
When Accused Become Innocent And Innocent Are Made Accused
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathu Ram Godse. There are some people subscribing to Hindutva ideology who idolize Godse. Various leaders, activists associated with the Hindutva ideology from time to…
Bulldozing the Constitution!
by Naveen Tewari and Sandeep Pandey A recent full front page of the advertisement by a Bhartiya Janata Party government declares, 'House is not just a word. It is a…
Agnipath: Path of Militarisation of Society?
by Harshavardhan Purandare and Sandeep Pandey Narendra Modi government just doesn’t seem to learn from its past mistakes. From demonetisation to Farmers’ laws with decision on Kashmir, Citizenship Amendment Act…
Yasin Malik Could Have Been The Muivah Of Kashmir
The judgement of Supreme Court releasing A.G. Perarivalan, convicted in the case of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, has been widely hailed as upholding the human rights of prisoners. Yet, Yasin Malik,…
Religious issues cover up the governance failure in UP
by Sandeep Pandey and Arundhati Dhuru Uttar Pradesh’s Director General of Police Mukul Goel has been removed from his post for disregarding government work and not taking interest in departmental…
ECI would do well to count 100% VVPAT slips
by Sandeep Pandey, Vikrant Singh, Pawan Singh and Devesh Patel Even though Yogi Adityanath is now back as Chief Minister, the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election results can at best…
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