UP Prepares for Change
As Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections draw to a close, a wind of change seems to be blowing through the state. Initially it was thought that because of farmers movement the…
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Finally BJP Forced To Focus On People’s Issues
In the middle of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections the Bhartiya Janta Party published a full front page advertisement a day before and on the day of polling for fourth…
Assault on the idea of education
The Sangh Parivar claims to be a cultural organization. Core supporters of its ideology are upper caste and/or the educated elite. Quite naturally it gives importance to education. It is…
The problem of stray cattle in Uttar Pradesh
The problem of stray cattle is so severe in Uttar Pradesh that the new Chief Secretary in his first press conference asked the District Magistrates to run a special drive…
Subject Surveillance to Democratic Norms and Full Transparency
by Venkatesh Narayanan and Sandeep Pandey The issue is not privacy - it has never been. Millenials of all stripes today willingly sign-off most of their personal life fully…
Fitting Tribute To General Rawat Would Be To Resolve The Naga Issue
On 4 December, 2021, six civilians, all coal miners, were killed by Indian Army in Mon district of Nagaland. Home Minister Amit Shah claimed in Parliament that the vehicle carrying…
The Problem of Unemployment
An advertisement of Bhartiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh proclaims, ‘Educated woman is our resolve, She is an alternative for golden future.’ However, an educated woman Shikha Pal is…
COVID lockdowns offer an opportunity to reorient our idea of education
by Sandeep Pandey, Seema Muniz and Gopal Krishna Verma Some people are disheartened with the disruption in children’s education due to the menace of Covid and the successive lockdowns. While…
Two Ideas of Nationalism
by Chaitanya Pandey and Sandeep Pandey India today is witness to two contesting ideas of nationalism. There is an idea of nationalism which emerged from the freedom movement. This idea…
Corruption of Police Devastates Human Lives
by Advocate Mohammad Shoaib and Sandeep Pandey That corruption is rampant in police department is a common experience. However, there is another form of corruption which devastates lives of individuals…
When The Health System Became The Cause Of Death
Written by Bobby Ramakant and Sandeep Pandey Well known Hindustani classical singer Padma Vibhushan Channulal Mishra, chosen as one of the proposers of Narendra Modi in Lok Sabha elections, lost…
What Is The Best Way Of Disposing Off A Dead Body?
Written by Abhay Jain and Sandeep Pandey As Covid consumes human life in a very conspicuous way we are confronted with additional problem of disposing off human corpses. Cremation grounds…
Plight of Palestinians in an Unequal Fight
Written by Anandi Pandey and Sandeep Pandey Without consulting anybody from the Arab population, which outnumbered the Jews by about ten times, the British made public their intent to create…
Covid Today, Vaccines Tomorrow
Written by Harshavardhan Purandare and Sandeep Pandey India has been advertised as ‘the country with a great future’ ever since we globalised in the ‘90s, but now this narrative of…
Wish Congress Had Displayed Some Imagination In Assam
Written by Sandeep Pandey and Divesh Ranjan In the recently concluded elections in Assam, it turns out that if the votes of Mahajot alliance led by Congress Party and the…
Change In Worldview Need Of Hour
Written by Poornima Bisineer and Sandeep Pandey As the second more virulent wave of coronavirus rages on, the urban areas seem to be more adversely affected compared to the rural…
For Politics of Hindutva There Is No Lockdown
Co-Written by Anandi Pandey, Lubna Sarwath and Sandeep Pandey A common question asked by upper caste people, who form the core support of Hindutva politics, when opposing the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled…
We Need More Hospitals, Not Temple or Mosques
Written by Bobby Ramakant and Sandeep Pandey As India runs a drive for vaccination against Covid the nature reminds us about our diminutiveness by an accompanying surge in Covid…
Farmer’s Movement At A Crucial Juncture
Written by Rahul Singh Rana and Sandeep Pandey The Farmers' protests are into their fourth month now. These protests started with people from Punjab and Haryana breaking barricades and heading…
A Tale of Two Monuments: Sabarmati Ashram and Narendra Modi stadium
Written by Harshvardhan Purandare and Sandeep Pandey Ahmedabad hosts a Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram, the iconic monument where values and foundation of Indian democracy evolved through decades of Freedom movement. Now…
The Predicament of Sangh Parivar
Written by Sandeep Pandey, Anandi Pandey and Kushagra Kumar In the midst of farmers’ struggle the government has celebrated the Chauri Chaura incident and glorified the families of freedom fighters…
The Cow Problem Of Cow Belt
Written by Sandeep Pandey and Kushagra Kumar Narendra Modi’s ascension to power brought a new phenomenon to India – cow vigilantism. Number of mob lynching incidents took place some resulting…
The Moral Strength Of Struggle And Service
Written by Sandeep Pandey, Simran Kaur and Harleen Sandhu The Bhartiya Janata Party and its historical ideological parent Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh have used religion in manipulating the sentiments of the…
Clever play of the narrative: Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion Of Religion Ordinance 2020
Written by Arundhati Dhuru, Sandeep Pandey, Kushagra Kumar The Uttar Pradesh government has brought in the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion Of Religion Ordinance 2020 which is being described as…
Will the government hold Big Polluters liable for air pollution, preventable diseases, and untimely deaths?
Written by Sandeep Pandey, Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant 16.7 lakh people died in India in 2019 because of air pollution accounting for 17·8% of the total deaths in the…
Habeas-Corpus-Free Bail Resistant Multi-Year Detentions For Activists Like Sudhir Dhawale For No Crime
Written by Surabhi Agarwal, Sandeep Pandey and Kushagra Kumar Sudhir Dhawale, a writer, poet, artist, perennial protestor and a Dalit leader, was arrested and jailed in mid-2018. He remains in…
Why should not government and people hold corporate abuses to account?
Written by Shobha Shukla, Bobby Ramakant and Sandeep Pandey Think about this: Should a government come up with laws to protect a corporation against liability lawsuits, or should it come…
Gautam Navlakha’s Dubious Distinction – Comparison With Hafiz Sayeed
Written by Priyanka Preet, Sandeep Pandey, Kushagra Kumar Gautam Navlakha is a famed author, civil rights activists, human rights activist, journalist, an Editorial Consultant at the Economic and Political Weekly,…
Surendra Gandling, Who used to get people acquitted in false cases has been implicated in one himself
Written by Nilkantha Mandal, Sandeep Pandey and Kushagra Kumar All his life he fought valiantly to defend the rights of the people belonging to marginalized sections of society who were…
Lubna Sarwath – A Compassionate Fighter All The Way
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey, Venkatesh Narayanan and Kushagra Kumar Dr. Lubna Sarwath is a fighter. In a survey conducted by the leading South Indian daily Deccan Chronicle the residents of…
Faisal Khan’s commitment to peace and harmony, and his unfortunate arrest
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey,Bobby Ramakantand & Kushagra Kumar 48 years old Faisal Khan has invested his entire life to strengthen communal harmony. With the intent to maintain and promote peace…
Political Abuse of Law and Order Machinery in Uttar Pradesh Results in a State of Anarchy
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey and Kushagra Kumar The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister has now on numerous occasions claimed that the state has been rid of criminals, who have either been…
Mahesh Raut Needs To Be Free
Co-Written by Surabhi Agarwal & Sandeep Pandey A compassionate human being, always popular among his friends and colleagues because of his friendly nature and human sensitivity, 33-year-old Mahesh Raut, champion…
Who is Arun Ferreira and why is he in Jail?
By Atul and Sandeep Pandey Arun Ferreira is a civil rights activist and human rights lawyer. He has been behind bars since June 6, 2018, when he was arrested in…
Digital Polarization and the Religion of Profit
by Sandeep Pandey and Shivi Saba What purpose does a religion serve? It serves you the meaning of living a life in the right way. Lately, the sentiment around the…
Time To Judge The Judgement
by Sandeep Pandey and Mohini Mullick When the only cause for elation, even a smile in the morning, is news of the release of an innocent detainee with the words…
Who Will Clean The Deep Rot of Indian Education System?
Co-Written by Peehu Pardeshi and Sandeep Pandey It is unusual for a bright young scholar like Amrendra Narayan, with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from Mississippi State University, preceded and…
Solution To India’s China Problem: A Free Tibet
Co-Written by Tenzin Tsundue and Sandeep Pandey India has a cancerous wound around its Himalayan neck and this has been literally a pain in the neck ever since India's humiliating…
Rona Wilson: Who Worked For Release Of Political Prisoners Is Now A Victim
Co-Written by Atul and Sandeep Pandey Rona Wilson is a prison rights activist who has been in jail since April 2018 and denied bail several times. The Pune Police raided…
How students may be selected for IITs without any entrance examination in the time of pandemic and beyond
In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic threat a raging debate is going on at present regarding the holding of the Joint Entrance Examination Mains, the preliminary examination required to be…
UP Government Exposes Its Insecurity
One would wonder why after such a show of triumphalism at the foundation laying ceremony of grand Ram temple on 5th August in Ayodhya the Uttar Pradesh government would…
People’s Manifesto on Social Justice and Human Rights
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey, Shreekumar, Shiva Shankar, R. Ramachandran, Lubna Sarwath, Mansee Bal Bhargava and Rajeev Yadav Equality, Liberty and Justice lay the foundation of Indian Constitution for the citizens…
Such A Temple Would Not Have Been Acceptable To Ram And Should Not Be Acceptable To A Common Hindu
Co-Written by Arundhati Dhuru and Sandeep Pandey Ram has been described as Maryada Purushottam, the most virtuous among men. He left his kingdom merely because he didn't want to hurt…
Hope from the field – Amicable Hindu Muslim Collaboration
Co-Written by Supriya Joshi, Vishal Kumar and Sandeep Pandey India is one the most religiously and ethnically diverse nations of the world. It has a syncretic culture and people have…
Narendra Modi has no right to lay the foundation of Ram temple
In 2018, Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand, earlier known as Professor Guru Das Agrawal when he used to teach at Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, wrote four letters to the…
Chardham Highway project and the environmental destruction of the Himalayas
Co-Written by Surabhi Agarwal, Lubna Sarwath and Sandeep Pandey Disregarding Ravi Chopra’s Recommendations on the Chardham Project Will Destroy the Already Fragile and Threatened Ecology of the Himalayan Region The…
When Minimum is interpreted as Maximum
Co-Written by Anurag Singh and Sandeep Pandey Atma-nirbhar (self-reliant) India must perform on several fronts in order to vindicate itself on its adopted path in the current economic crisis coupled…
The arrest and harassment of Sudha Bharadwaj – A People’s Advocate
Co-Written by Atul and Sandeep Pandey Professor Sudha Bharadwaj has been in jail since August 2018. She was taken into police custody on 26 August 2018 on suspicion of being…
A Caged Journey to Home
Co-Written by Shivangini Piplani and Sandeep Pandey 'Madam, Jhooth nahi bolenge, '1500 pada hai, hum 75 aadmi ek truck me aae the (Madam, I'll not lie, we came back in…
Only Political Vendetta Can Explain Varavara Rao’s Incarceration
Co-Written by Surabhi Agarwal and Sandeep Pandey The renowned Telugu poet and political activist Varavara Rao has been in police custody since 18 November 2018. The charges against him are:…
Akhil Gogoi: A peasant leader jailed for supporting the poor and oppressed
Co-Written by Atul and Sandeep Pandey Akhil Gogoi-a peasant leader and Right to Information activist from Assam has been in jail since December 2019. His crime is that he exercised…
When Will We Have Equitable Access To Fruits Of Development?
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey and Kushagra Kumar One of the writers of this article is reminded of an incident, when he was teaching at Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar which…
The Purpose of Making Nagaland Governor’s Letter to CM Public?
The Governor of Nagaland R.N. Ravi has written a scathing letter to Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio alleging complete collapse of law and order and unwillingness of the elected government to…
The law of Sedition: Endangering the very idea of an inclusive Democracy
Co-Written by Atul and Sandeep Pandey British left India in August 1947 but left many of their draconian laws here as a colonial legacy. Section 124A of the Indian Penal…
Fixing Responsibility For Deaths Unrelated To Coronavirus During The Crisis
Co-Written by by Simran Kaur, Vasundhra Kaul, Varsha Sharma and Sandeep Pandey While the entire world faced the threat of the coronavirus, India was witness to a peculiar phenomenon. Hundreds…
The Supreme Court shirked its constitutional and moral responsibility during the Pandemic
Co-Written by Atul and Sandeep Pandey The COVID 19 lockdown in India has witnessed an unfathomable scale of internal migration, displacement, tragedies, and human sufferings not seen since the time…
And Hope and History Rhyme
Co-Written by Gary Frase and Sandeep Pandey In United States and India today dark, demonic spirits seem to be gaining power. The murder of George Floyd by a policeman on…
Bharat Gandhi Victim of Politics or Extortion in Nagaland
Bharat Gandhi alias Vishwatma is author of number of books including 'Rediscovering Democracy.' His booklet 'Bring Votership, Remove Poverty,' has been published seven times. He is the leader of Voters…
India and Nepal Now! Practical Solution To Border Disputes
Co-Written by Abhay Jain and Sandeep Pandey Unable to resolve its border disputes with Pakistan and China, India has now managed to create a dispute with Nepal in the process…
Treatment In Private Hospital On Public Money Possible But No Relief If Private Transport Used
CO-Written by Surabhi Agarwal, Shobha Shukla, Bobby Ramakant and Sandeep Pandey It is becoming increasingly obvious that the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic over the last 3 months has…
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