Month: February 2020
Modi regime’s privatisation drive aims to jeopardise India’s future
Reading Time: 5 minutes Putting SAIL, LIC, BSNL, Air India, Indian Railways, etc, on sale, the Modi regime’s privatisation drive is taking Indian economy towards a catastrophe.
Jamia Millia Islamia students must integrate with labouring poor to sustain struggle
Reading Time: 4 minutes To sustain their struggle against the CAA, NPR, NRC, the Jamia Millia Islamia students must integrate with the bigger struggle of the working class.
Delhi Assembly election: Euphoria and lessons
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Delhi Assembly election 2020 result stirred euphoria after the AAP defeated the BJP. There are many sides of this election. But what’s there to learn?
Delhi Police attacked the Jamia protesters, injured the democratic conscience
Reading Time: 3 minutes Delhi Police attacked the Jamia protesters with batons and chemical weapons, hit women’s private parts yet the “conscience” of many sleeps even now
Allegation of sexual assault on Gargi College students exhibits danger of fascism
Reading Time: 4 minutes The allegation of sexual assault on Gargi College students on 6 February 2020 shows that the Hindutva fascist rape brigade is rampaging with impunity.
Why Modi slapped PSA on the Abdullahs and Mufti?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why Modi slapped PSA on the Abdullahs and Mufti? To understand the real reasons one must go beyond the official narratives and see the long-term perspective
Delhi Assembly election 2020 exit polls and the problems of secular politics
Reading Time: 4 minutes Delhi Assembly election 2020 exit poll results predict the coming back of the AAP. But does this means the victory of secularism against BJP’s communalism?
US Consul General David Ranz pays tribute to RSS paramilitary’s 1st chief
Reading Time: 4 minutes Calls raised for envoy to India David J Ranz’s resignation after perceived endorsement of Hindutva fascism’s global fountainhead RSS by him.
ABVP-SFS clash in Panjab University brought to the forefront the left’s ideological conflict
Reading Time: 10 minutes ABVP-SFS clash in Panjab University brought to open the ideological conflict within the left over the effective strategy of combatting Hindutva fascism.
Union home ministry’s NRC refusal doesn’t bring the curtain down on the episode
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Union home ministry’s NRC refusal through a reply to the Parliament doesn’t imply that the threat is over. The Modi regime didn’t retreat, it’s waiting.
Chhapaak film review: What’s‘adored’ in rhetoric and a detestation beyond surface polemics
Reading Time: 3 minutes A common viewer’s very common yet critical review of Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak. The film on a very important topic still misses some factors.
‘Kill one’s reputation, kill one’s cause’: BJP and the politics of character assassination
Reading Time: 5 minutes How the strategy of character assassination is adopted by the BJP to combat the challenge thrown by Shaheen Bagh.
Sharjeel Imam, Assam and the ferocious Hindutva fascist state
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Hindutva fascist state’s attack on Sharjeel Imam is despicable and sheer witch-hunting to bully Muslim voices. Imam’s views on Assam also lacks insight.
Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union Budget 2020-21 speech didn’t mention “unemployment”
Reading Time: 3 minutes Did you know that in Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union Budget 2020-21 speech, the term “unemployment” has been cunningly dropped and not used even for once?