There is a lot of talk lately on the RSS head Mohan Bhagwat’s three-day-long session with toady journalists and Hindutva cheerleader intellectuals to build-up a strong PR campaign before the onset of the 2019 general election, in which Narendra Modi will have to face extreme anti-incumbency waves due to the anti-people policies executed and pursued … Read more
On 19 September the Batla House encounter turned 10 years while a case related to the alleged “encounter”, in which two Muslim youth and one policeman were killed, still hangs like a sword of Damocles over the head of those who were arrested in relation to the case from the spot and elsewhere later. There … Read more
Menstruation is an integral and normal part of human life, indeed of human existence. However, for long menstruation has been a taboo for the society often associated with behavioural restrictions. Anything related to menstruation is found difficult to discuss debate and demonstrate. Often, people have misconceptions and myths surrounding the menstruation, which need to be … Read more
The 10 September Bharat Bandh or all-India general strike, more or less achieved success throughout the country, despite few sabotages from within and outside. The rapid increase in fuel prices and the utmost failure of the Modi regime in delivering on promises of development to one and many, fuelled the popular support for a Bharat … Read more
The World Hindu Congress was organised from 7 to 9 September 2018 at Chicago, where RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat and Indian Vice President, a veteran Sangh propagandist, Venkaiah Naidu participated as key speakers. Hindutva hate mongers and rabble-rousers like the notorious Zionist Israeli agent Tapan Ghosh, the CIA stooge Indian corporate tycoons, the Hindutva poster-boy … Read more
The recent incident of gangrape and murder of a 9-year-old in Boniyar, Uri, gloats in front of the people as an ugly reminder of how sexual violence against Kashmiri women isn’t monopolised by the Indian occupation forces only but also by the dominant patriarchal-feudal social order of Kashmir, which many would sweep under the carpet … Read more
When the Supreme Court bench led by the outgoing CJI, Dipak Misra, gave a verdict decriminalising the colonial era Section 377 of the IPC, which criminalised homosexuality, the liberal democrats, the non-conservative elites and upper-middle class city dwellers welcomed the move and hailed the Supreme Court. They even overlooked the allegations that four senior-most judges … Read more
Ever since the Pune Police arrested five activist-intellectuals: Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Sudha Bhardwaj and Varavara Rao, and accused them of being “Urban Naxals” conspiring against the Modi regime, the term -“Urban Naxal”- suddenly became a popular political identity from slur, used so far by demagogues of the ruling Hindutva fascist bloc to … Read more
The anti-fascist, left, democratic and progressive forces of India and abroad strongly condemned simultaneous raid at nine locations by the Pune Police and the subsequent arrest of five renowned civil rights activists on falsified terrorism charges as an attempt by the Modi regime to establish a reign of terror, like the emergency imposed by Indira … Read more
The Parliament Street of New Delhi became crimson on 5 September 2018, as a rally of more than 200,000 workers and peasants marched towards the parliament raising their just demands, opposing the anti-people, pro-corporate and predatory policies of the Hindutva fascist Narendra Modi regime. Though the Mazdoor-Kisan Sangharsh rally was organised by the parliamentary opportunist … Read more
The arrest of Sanjiv Bhatt, an ex-IPS officer who has been a vocal critic of Narendra Modi and his regime, once again showed the crisis in which the Modi regime is deeply immersed and its inability to continuously hoodwink people with communal diatribe, xenophobic tirade or cacophony of “development”, to cover-up its heinous deeds. Sanjiv … Read more
A student was arrested by the Tamil Nadu Police following a complaint lodged against her by the state BJP chief Tamilisai Soundararajan. What was her crime? She used her freedom of expression to call a spade – a spade. She called the Hindutva fascist Modi regime a “fascist” government and for that crime, she was … Read more
The “Urban Naxal” threat just got a new lease of life outside the Twitter timeline of flop film director and certified Modi bootlicker Vivek Agnihotri on Tuesday, 28 August, when the Pune Police conducted simultaneous raids at nine locations targeting prominent human rights, Dalit and Adivasi activists and left-leaning intellectuals. Homes of Vernon Gonsalves – … Read more
The talk of the town is dissent – the right to dissent and an undeclared emergency reigning in India’s political landscape, as the Modi regime has unleashed state repression on political dissenters, human rights activists, advocates and intellectuals who’ve refused obeisance towards it. Using a corporate media-sponsored paranoia over “Urban Naxals”, the Modi regime is … Read more