Month: April 2020
Refund on flight ticket cancellation: How Vistara duped 14 migrant workers ignoring DGCA rules
Reading Time: 5 minutes By not refunding the fare for flight ticket cancellation during lockdown, an airlines like Vistara is causing severe trouble to poor migrant workers.
Adieu, Irrfan Khan – the lone real artist of Bollywood!
Reading Time: 3 minutes The untimely death of Irrfan Khan, one of the most versatile and talented actors of our time, is a big loss for the Indian cinema.
Distancing bodies, shifting minds: The ambivalence of ‘being together’ during COVID-19
Reading Time: 4 minutes An effort to map the individual physical and psychological transformations that the world is undergoing during the lockdown period due to COVID-19.
How to strengthen the anti-CAA movements in the post-COVID-19 world?
Reading Time: 4 minutes To make the anti-CAA agitations sustainable, an organisational architecture should be constructed to give an intellectual articulatory edge to the protests.
Naqvi’s “heaven for Muslims” is actually worse than hell
Reading Time: 4 minutes Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi called India a “heaven for Muslims” opposing the OIC’s allegation of sponsoring Islamophobia, which became a joke of the town recently.
Arnab Goswami’s howling over freedom of speech got irony a heart attack
Reading Time: 5 minutes Arnab Goswami is howling over an attack on his freedom of speech and got a respite from the Supreme Court too. But can irony stand this man’s theatrics?
FIR spree in Kashmir a dastardly effort to bully valley scribes
Reading Time: 3 minutes The random filing of police cases against the scribes of Kashmir is a frantic attempt by the Modi regime to bully and suppress whatever is left uncensored.
COVID-19, fictitious capital and financial crisis
Reading Time: 7 minutes The COVID-19 isn’t the cause of the quagmire in which capitalism is in at the moment. The pandemic only triggered what was inevitable. An in-depth analysis.
How COVID-19 outbreak in India is helping the Modi regime normalise a fascist rule?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Is the Modi regime using the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown to establish a fascist dictatorship on India, quite nakedly than ever? What’s the truth?
At the time of hunger, FCI’s surplus rice is converted to ethanol to make alcohol-based hand sanitisers
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Modi regime’s decision that the FCI’s surplus rice is converted to ethanol to make alcohol-based hand sanitisers is absolutely anti-poor and disastrous.
Why just rescue students from Kota but not migrant workers?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Yogi Adityanath regime could allocate 250 buses to rescue 7,500 students from Kota but his government and the BJP ignored the plight of migrant workers.
Why Modi’s revocation of ban on used ventilator import threatens public health?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ignoring the threats it pose to patients, the Modi regime revoked the ban on used ventilator import to appease the US-based corporates and earn commission.
COVID-19 mirror shows the reflection of a moribund parasitic capitalism
Reading Time: 5 minutes The COVID-19 isn’t merely a pandemic but also a mirror in which we can see the reflection of the moribund capitalist society trying to get back on its feet.
Farmers’ suffering due to lockdown intensify in UP due to lack of wheat MSP
Reading Time: 4 minutes In Uttar Pradesh the middle, small and marginal farmers’ suffering due to lockdown intensified as they don’t get MSP for wheat from private buyers.
Islamophobic propaganda over COVID-19 outbreak got a new dimension
Reading Time: 3 minutes Though the BJP is withdrawing the Tablighi Jamaat narrative from its armoury, the assault on the Muslims and their voices continue through brutal repression
Fact check: Were the migrant workers’ sufferings unavoidable?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Why the migrant workers are suffering? Why they have to walk hundreds of miles or starve? Does India has no resource to provide them relief? What facts say?
Rearview: How pandemics have reshaped human society in history
Reading Time: 4 minutes The history of the human society is one of pandemics as well. Deadly pandemics like COVID-19 striked human beings since centuries and reshaped the society.
The Coronavirus outbreak and the middle class of Indian subcontinent
Reading Time: 7 minutes The middle class of the Indian subcontinent will suffer the worst due to the Coronavirus outbreak as a dark future of economic uncertainties awaits them.
Extension of the 21-day lockdown and an imminent food crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes The extension of the 21-day lockdown in India must be done judiciously as there is a need to complete Rabi harvesting and prevent a major food crisis.
Hydroxychloroquine saga: More than Modi’s servility, there are important questions to be raised
Reading Time: 5 minutes Though there is a lot of kerfuffle over Modi allowing the export of hydroxychloroquine due to Trump’s diktat, there is a lack of in-depth study of the drug.