Month: March 2020
Just a COVID-19 lockdown or a dress rehearsal for a fascist police state?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is the police violence against the people merely to maintain the lockdown or signals the dress rehearsal of an obnoxious agenda of the Modi regime?
Is Modi’s 21-day lockdown curbing COVID-19 outbreak or just killing the poor?
Reading Time: 3 minutes In view of the exodus of thousands of poor daily wage-earners from cities like Delhi, can one claim that Modi’s 21-day lockdown is a well-thought plan?
The mass exodus of poor from cities is not caused by the lockdown but Modi’s apathy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The mass exodus of millions of workers from metros to their native villages isn’t merely a result of the COVID19 outbreak but Modi regime’s sheer apathy.
Inside Modi’s sham Rs 1.73 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package for poor
Reading Time: 11 minutes The COVID-19 economic relief package announced by Nirmala Sitharaman for the poor isn’t just inadequate, it’s farcical and a mockery of poor people’s agony.
Dissent in the times of COVID-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes The human race is stunned by the unprecedented rage of a virus. Moreover, the rightwing governments are utilising the opportunity to curb democratic rights.
Why Reliance and HDFC are having a good time during Coronavirus lockdown?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why the markets were in a jubilant mood after Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared national lockdown? Why the shares of Reliance and HDFC are surging?
Understanding the economic repercussions of Coronavirus in India
Reading Time: 9 minutes What will be the economic repercussions of Coronavirus in India? Who will suffer the most and who will profiteer from the agony of millions?
Commemorating Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru in the times of Coronavirus
Reading Time: 3 minutes How would’ve Bhagat Singh and his comrades reacted in case of an epidemic like Coronavirus? What would’ve they done in such an hour of crisis?
Why Shaheen Bagh protest shouldn’t capitulate to Coronavirus panic?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Shaheen Bagh protest can’t capitulate to the panic-mongering over Coronavirus outbreak and Modi’s stunts because there is a bigger question in stake.
Janata Curfew: What is Modi’s obnoxious agenda behind it?
Reading Time: 6 minutes The “Janata Curfew” declared by Modi will help the BJP politically but will have severe economic repercussions on the poor who will lose a day’s food.
Modi’s address to the nation on Coronavirus is another PR gimmick
Reading Time: 5 minutes Modi’s address to the nation on Coronavirus was a cheap stunt to hijack publicity. It exemplifies the disarrayed state in which public healthcare is mired.
The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, and Kejriwal’s war against Shaheen Bagh
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, invoked by Kejriwal to overthrow the Shaheen Bagh movement was used by the British colonial rulers to aid Hindu nationalism
Who is spreading Coronavirus in India?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Who is spreading Coronavirus in India? Which class is responsible for the spread of Coronavirus and why would people pay for this class’s irresponsibility?
COVID-19: Is India ready to stop community transmission?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The COVID-19 is at the verge of reaching the community transmission stage in India. Can the Modi regime do enough to prevent its epidemic outbreak?
The Delhi Police’s nexus with Hindutva is the new normal
Reading Time: 6 minutes Why the Islamophobic Delhi Police’s nexus with Hindutva fascism is no more surprising to even the staunch Nehruvian liberal who denied it until yesterday?
Scindia alone can’t be blamed for Madhya Pradesh fiasco but the culture of dynastic politics
Reading Time: 5 minutes Is it right to merely blame Jyotiraditya Scindia for the Madhya Pradesh fiasco? Or is it the fault of the dynastic feudal hegemony that thrives in polity?
An open letter to paramilitary constable Sunaina Patel from a brother
Reading Time: 3 minutes The media showed Constable Sunaina Patel fighting Maoists in Bastar despite being eight-month-pregnant but none asked why she didn’t get maternity leave.
Madhya Pradesh political crisis exemplified how ideological bankruptcy aids BJP
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Madhya Pradesh political crisis shows how the ideological bankruptcy of the Congress party keeps aiding the BJP’s poaching drive. Is Rajasthan next?
SBI’s investment to save YES Bank sets dangerous precedence of corporate bail-out
Reading Time: 4 minutes The SBI’s investment to save YES Bank sets a dangerous bail-out precedence where public money will be used to catapult corporate entities in crisis.
Kashmiri couple’s arrest by Delhi Police’s Special Cell raises old doubts
Reading Time: 3 minutes The arrest of a Kashmiri couple from Delhi by the notorious Special Cell on terrorism charges fits the template that the Delhi Police uses to frame Muslims.