Question of Knowledge and Praxis
Co-Written by Vidushi Prajapati, Ekta Tomar and Sandeep Pandey What is the obligation of an academic community, especially in a law school, when sanitation workers on campus who have been…
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Draconian Lockdown in Kashmir fails the Standard of Reasonableness and Proportionality
Co-Written by Atul and Sandeep Pandey This is a matter of concern because the current policies of Goverment of India have pulverised the polity in Jammu and Kashmir and the…
Where Is ‘Vande Bharat’ For Migrant Workers In Transit?
Co-Written by Vijaya Ramachandran and Sandeep Pandey Lockdown in the wake of coronavirus threat has seriously affected the livelihood options for the migrant workers and daily wage earners. While the…
Private Sector Should Be Asked To Work Not For Profit For 3 Years
Co-Written by Arundhati Dhuru and Sandeep Pandey All the narratives of a progressing nation, Rajiv Gandhi's 'marching into the 21st century,' Atal Behari Vajpayee's 'shining India,' A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's 'providing…
Government Taking Advantage of Lockdown to Arrest Dissenters is Deeply Immoral
Co-Written by Surabhi Agarwal, Sandeep Pandey and Shreekumar At a time when there can be no mass mobilisations or street protests, and when so many people are distressed, anxious and…
Gandhi’s talisman is best guiding light to reform public health
Dr Sandeep Pandey, Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant Mahatma Gandhi's talisman is perhaps the best guiding light to reform the public health system in the wake of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)…
New Political and Economic Models Needed
Co-Written by I.D. Khajuria and Sandeep Pandey As the humans stayed inside for close to a month and a half since the announcement of lockdown in the wake of coronavirus…
Is private health ‘industry’ a big hurdle to contain COVID-19?
Co-Written by Bobby Ramakant, Shobha Shukla and Sandeep Pandey Along with measures to cut the chain of transmission of corona virus (such as lockdown, social distancing, masks), it is indeed…
Need for immediate nationalisation of health services
Co-Written by Bobby Ramakant, Surabhi Agarwal and Sandeep Pandey Ram Shankar met with a fatal hit-and-run accident in rural area of Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh on 16 April, 2020…
A Government Waging War Against Its Own People
The Bhartiya Janata Party led government in India has a penchant for doing things in a 'surgical strike' manner, a much publicised military operation they carried out against Pakistan. Prime…
If Agriculture Were To Be The Most Remunerative Activity
Co-Written by Varsha Sharma and Sandeep Pandey The coronavirus crisis lockdown has made one thing very clear that food is the single most important thing that human beings need. Life…
Lockdown – Worst Nightmare For The Poor
Co-Written by Praveen Srivastava, Anand Mathew, Joseph Nitilal and Sandeep Pandey With lockdown extended and little relaxation in some essential services, the plights of poor are not going to reduce…
Seeds of a More Equal, Equitable and Environment Friendly Society In Coronavirus Threat Lockdown
The coronavirus threat has forced governments to impose a disruptive change in our life styles, which may seem very inconvenient and irritating to us in the present circumstances, but it…
When Muslim Women Became My Saviour
Before the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act, National Register of Citizens and National Population Register dharna at Ghata Ghar was symbolically withdrawn on 23 March morning, I happened to visit the dharna…
In The Name Of Coronavirus | Sandeep Pandey
The President of India Ram Nath Kovind has written an article on coronavirus reminding us that we are merely biological organisms, dependent on other organisms for survival and that humankind’s…
Convert Detention Centres Into Schools or Hospitals
The Prime Minister had declared from the Ram Lila ground before the Delhi elections that there are no detention centres in the country in the context of nation wide anti-Citizenship…
Perceived Roles Of Hinduism And Islam Reversed
On January 26, Republic Day, 2020, while protests simmered against Citizenship Amendment Act and National Regiser of citizens throughout India, a dozen North American cities also witnessed historic protests. Indian…
Political Identity of J &K Usurped by Rightist Politics
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey and Rajendran Narayanan The decision on 5th August, 2019 to abrogate Articles 370 and 35A and division and downgrading of State of J&K into two Union…
Whither Educational Institutions?
Educational Institutions are meant to be places of learning and authorities managing them are expected to provide a liberal space where diversity of ideas can exist. Of course, this ideal…
Jammu Kashmir Continues to be A Ministry of Fear
Co-Written by Rajendran Narayanan and Sandeep Pandey “Jab har saans mein bandook dikhe toh baccha kaise bekhauf rahe?” (How can a child be fearless when she sees a gun in…
In Spite Of Severe Repression People Are United In Protests
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey and Anandi Pandey At New Delhi's Jamia Millia University if one visits the library it may appear as if a pitched battle was fought here. Almost…
Build Peace And Friendship On The Foundation Of Kartarpur
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey and Arundhati Dhuru It was heartening to hear Narendra Modi praise Imran Khan for facilitating the opening of 4.7 km corridor so that Sikh pilgrims from…
Does The Appeal For Peace And Harmony Apply To Hindutva Brigade As Well For Future?
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey, Yugal Kishore Shashtri and Lubna Sarwath With the exception of few, every leader of political or social importance is making an appeal to the common people…
Haste And Brinkmanship Inadvisable In Reaching A Naga Accord
By Sandeep, Babloo Loitongbam and Meera Sanghamitra Thuingaleng Muivah, the supreme leader of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) says that Nagaland may be weaker in material sense but…
After Kashmir Is Indian Government Ready To Go Back On Promise To Nagaland?
by Sandeep Pandey and Meera Sanghamitra The Nagas claim that their leader Phizo never signed any instrument of accession with India like the other 562 princely states and Nagaland or…
Gandhi’s Idea of Cleanliness And Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
Mahatma Gandhi’s spectacles are being used as an emblem for Government of India’s sanitation campaign Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Even though Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangha, the ideological parent of ruling Bhartiya Janata…
Is The Country Headed Towards A One Party System?
A National Alliance of People's Movements delegation was detained at Srinagar airport on the morning of 4th October, 2019 by the District administration of Badgam and then sent back to…
Why is IIM Ahmedabad ignoring the caste reality of India?
by Anurag Bhaskar and Sandeep Pandey The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) is considered to be one of the most reputed academic institutes of the country. IIMs are the most…
Gandhi’s Views on Environment And Modern Concept of Development
In Mahatma Gandhi’s lifetime climate change or threat to environment was not yet a perceived problem. Therefore it is no surprise that there is no explicit mention of it in…
India, Pakistan, Kashmir: Taking the war option off the table
by Zia Mian, Abdul H. Nayyar, Sandeep Pandey, M. V. Ramana On September 27, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan will address the…
Indians Need To Place Themselves In Position Of Kashmiris To Understand Their Travails
When the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah was absent in Parliament on the day when the state’s fate was being decided on 5 August, 2019, the…
Gandhian Model of Economy And Industry And The Post Globalisation Scenario
On 20th August, 2019 Indian Express e-paper carried an unusual advertisement by the Northern India Textiles Mills Association about Indian Spinning Industry facing a huge crisis. The spinning mills are…
Gandhi’s Contribution To Communal Harmony
It is well known that Mahatma Gandhi began his meetings with a all faith prayer - reciting portions from various religious texts. Gandhi was a firm believer in the idea…
The Sell-Off Government
The Standing Committee on Defence, 2017-18 of the Sixteenth Lok Sabha highlights the idea of Buy Indian-IDDM (Indigenously Designed Developed and Manufactured). The Committee expressed concern over the import content…
Scrutinizing The Legal Challenges To Abrogation Of J & K’s Special Status
In an unprecedented move to fulfill its manifestoed promises, the Central Government has, through a Presidential Order, rendered Article 370 of the Indian Constitution inoperative ipso facto. While the frenzy…
A Betrayal of People
Co-Written by Rahul Pandey and Sandeep Pandey In a single stroke of decisions, the Indian government has revoked Articles 370 and 35A, bifurcated J&K into J&K and Ladakh, and reduced…
Magsaysay Award for Ravish Kumar Is A Victory for Truth
There could not have been a better choice than Ravish Kumar for this year’s Magsaysay Award. Ravish has demonstrated exemplary courage in questioning the sectarian, communal, jingoistic and irrational politics…
Vow In The Name of The Soil of This Country Not to Let It Down
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey and Sanjay Singh A fact to which the press, and by extension the public, did not pay much attention was when Narendra Modi, serving Chief Minister…
Private Interest Masquerading As Policy Critique
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey and Praveen Srivastava Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, Professor of Education Economics at University College London and President of City Montessori School Lucknow has critiqued the New Education…
Question of Muslim Political Representation
Co-Written by Basant Rawat, Kausharali Saiyed & Sandeep Pandey Indian Muslims are a deprived community with very low participation in the functioning of the world's largest parliamentary democracy. This despite…
Indian Railways Facing The Scare Of Privitisation
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey and B. Ramakrishna Raju It appears that finally it is here. Soon after Union Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal said in a press conference that there…
A People’s Peace Initiative In Kashmir
Sanjay Tula and his wife Tula Sanjay are products of Jayaprakash Narayan’s total revolution movement in the ‘70s. They live in Mehsana, Gujarat and run a small organization called Vishwagram…
Glorious Tradition of Sacrifices
The freedom struggle of this country has witnessed a band of youth inspired by a zeal willing to put their lives at stake. Number of them were arrested, tried in…
Why Is The Country Which Was Agitated On Martyrdom Of Soldiers, Silent On Saints Dying For Ganga?
In 2011 Swami Nigmanand died on the 115th day of his fast against illegal mining in Haridwar. Matri Sadan, the ashram with which he was associated alleges that he was…
Chest Thumping And War Mongering Must Give Way To Trust, Peace And Friendship
I went to participate in a candle light homage paying event at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's statue organised by about 200 dalit students on Hazratganj main crossing in Lucknow on 16…
India Under Narendra Modi
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey and Rahul Pandey Narendra Modi's ascension to power was accompanied with jubilation and expectation. His supporters were expecting an end to era of corruption and initiation…
Now A Young Ascetic From Kerala Stakes His Life For Ganga
Professor G.D. Agrawal, formerly of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and known as Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand since 2011, died on 11 October, 2018 on the 112th day of his…
Narendra Modi Is Actually The Accidental PM
Anupam Kher's film 'Accidental Prime Minister' has targeted Dr. Manmohan Singh who served for two terms and may be again acceptable for the job if his party regains power. But…
Morari Bapu A Different Creed
A saint is one who can give some inner peace by his/her voice. This will happen only when s(he) will talk about love and harmony. Morari Bapu is one saint…
Central Government Ensnares Itself In Northeast and Kashmir
First the Bhartiya Janata Party led government in Delhi was very enthusiastic about conducting the National Register of Citizens exercise in Assam on the premise that this process will identify…
Fasting Saints Could Become A Curse For Politics Of Hindutva
Former Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Professor Guru Das Agrawal, who became an ascetic in 2011 at the age of 79 years and came to be known as Swami Gyan…
Death of Prof. Guru Das Agrawal: A State Sponsored Killing
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey, Lubna Sarwath and Gurumoorthy M. Whether it was a slightly high dose of Potassium at the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences at Rishikesh which ultimately…
Guru Das Agrawal: Sacrifice At The Altar Of Development
Co-Written by Medha Patkar and Sandeep Pandey The legendary Professor Guru Das Agrawal, who got promoted from a Lecturer directly to Professor at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology at…
If Maoist Violence Is Illegitimate How Is Hindutva Violence And State Violence Justified?
Co-Written By Swami Agnivesh and Sandeep Pandey There was major police action against Sudha Bhardwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Varvara Rao, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira on 28 August, 2018. Before this…
Why is the Central Government Silent on Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand’s Fast?
86 years old Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand is on a fast unto death since 22 June, 2018 in Haridwar demanding a law for conservation of river Ganga but the Central…
Why Does RSS-BJP Not Like These Hindu Monks?
86 years old Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand sat on an indefinite fast in Haridwar on 22 June, 2018 to demand making a law on conservation of river Ganga. Nobody came…
What Option Is There Before India And Pakistan But For Friendship And Peace?
The India Pakistan Friendship and Peace March from Ahmedabad to Nada Bet during 19 to 29 June, 2018 concluded successfully even though Ahmedabad Police detained the marchers for about 3…
Possibility Of Global Nuclear Disarmament?
Co-Written by Sandeep Pandey and Bobby Ramakant (Written on the occasion of India Pakistan Friendship and Peace March, 19 to 30 June, 2018, Ahmedabad to Nada Bet) After a hiatus…
Why Do Soldiers Still Keep Dying At India Pakistan Border?
In 1947 India was divided by the foreign rulers by playing a game of divide and rule to which the religious fundamentalists fell prey. India and Pakistan since then have…
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