Month: April 2021
The recent surge in COVID-19 cases raises doubts on methods adopted hitherto
Reading Time: 3 minutes The recent surge in COVID-19 cases shows that the methods like lockdown, curfews and other clampdown on democratic rights didn’t help to stop the pandemic.
Myanmar coup: The Junta must go and Suu Kyi too
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Myanmar coup has unleashed gory atrocities against the civilians and the Junta must be overthrown by the people for true democracy.
Night curfew in Delhi, lockdown in Maharashtra: Islamophobia and anti-farmer initiatives unveiled
Reading Time: 3 minutes Under the guise of night curfew in Delhi and lockdown in Maharashtra to curb COVID-19 pandemic, the farmers’ movement and the Muslim community will be targeted in the long run
Chhattisgarh Maoist attack: Why the government dodges dialogue option?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Chhattisgarh Maoist attack has again placed the ongoing civil war in central and eastern India’s tribal belt at the front row of public discourse. The question is why the government is avoiding peace with the ultras?
NIA’s recent Maoist-related searches in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana indicates a bigger clampdown on critical voices
Reading Time: 4 minutes The NIA’s recent Maoist-related searches in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana indicates that the agency may be on a spree to clampdown on free and critical voices again.
New lockdown in Maharashtra will become catastrophic for the working class
Reading Time: 4 minutes As gloomy clouds of another lockdown in Maharashtra hovers over the state, the working class is awaiting another catastrophe like 2020.
Mounting sugarcane dues issue and the BJP’s complicity
Reading Time: 3 minutes While total sugarcane dues to farmers has reached Rs 229 billion in India, 60% of the amount is due to sugarcane farmers of BJP-ruled UP.
The “Rohingya infiltrators” bogey: The BJP’s old strategy in the 2021 assembly polls
Reading Time: 4 minutes Using the “Rohingya infiltrators” bogey to intensify xenophobia, the BJP is dehumanising the victims of one of the world’s goriest genocide.
Nandigram polls: Where Suvendu Adhikari becomes Bengal’s Kapil Mishra
Reading Time: 3 minutes Suvendu Adhikari’s vitriolic communal campaign in Nandigram made him the BJP’s new rabble-rouser of West Bengal like Kapil Mishra.
One year of the poverty and unemployment caused by COVID-19: Who is responsible?
Reading Time: 4 minutes One year after the COVID-19 lockdown, let’s ask a question. Who is responsible for the poverty and unemployment caused by COVID-19?