Month: September 2021
What’s inside BJP’s Uttarakhand Muslim population growth and ‘land jihad’ bogey?
Reading Time: 6 minutes What’s the truth between the BJP government’s allegation of Muslim population growth and ‘land jihad’ in Uttarakhand? What’s the BJP’s agenda behind this bogey?
September 27th Bharat Bandh: farmers make Modi regime shudder
Reading Time: 5 minutes Prime Minister Narendra Modi suffers setback due to the immense success of the September 27th Bharat Bandh called by the farmers protesting his new farm laws.
Why Modi’s UNGA speech was full of hypocrisies and rhetoric?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s UNGA speech, especially his claim that India is the “mother of all democracies”, isn’t just hypocritic, it mocks his rule as well
As the US endorses Modi’s fascism, self-reliance in anti-fascism is the only rescue
Reading Time: 3 minutes As the US endorses Modi’s fascism, remains indifferent towards the human rights violations, self-reliance in anti-fascist struggle is the only way out now.
Modi lectures the UN while Assam Muslims killed with impunity by his BJP-ruled state
Reading Time: 4 minutes As Modi lectures the UN citing “state-sponsored terrorism” as a threat, his party’s government is unleashing terror in Assam and killing Muslims with impunity.
Fall of Dilip Ghosh and rise of Sukanta Majumdar in West Bengal BJP
Reading Time: 4 minutes What made Dilip Ghosh, the former BJP chief of West Bengal, fall from grace? Why did JP Nadda select Sukanta Majumdar to lead the BJP in West Bengal now?
Will Kerala and Maharashtra turn hotspots for COVID-19 third wave in India?
Reading Time: 4 minutes As the active case loads and new infections in Kerala and Maharashtra remain high, will these states turn into hotspots for the COVID-19 third wave in India?
Indian Railways’ privatisation blueprint in Modi’s CEA’s recommendations
Reading Time: 4 minutes Under the garb of closures and mergers, Indian Railways’ privatisation is advocated in CEA Sanjeev Sanyal-led panel’s recommendations to the Modi government.
Babul Supriyo joining the TMC exposed Mamata’s tryst with Hindutva fascists
Reading Time: 5 minutes As two-times BJP MP and an ardent Hindutva fascist Babul Supriyo joined the TMC, Mamata Bandopadhyay showed how hollow her claim to fight the BJP-RSS is.
National Unemployment Day on Modi’s purported birthday on September 17th
Reading Time: 3 minutes Indian unemployed youth celebrated National Unemployment Day on Modi’s purported birthday on September 17th 2021 to highlight their agony but did Modi notice?
Quad summit in the US and the futility of Cold War-era rivalry
Reading Time: 3 minutes The US is hosting the forthcoming Quad summit to up the ante against China in South China Sea and Indo-Pacific. But why such Cold War-era rivalry is futile now?
Can Modi’s Aligarh stint fool the Jats of western UP?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Can Modi and Yogi’s attempt to woo the Jat farmers of western Uttar Pradesh during their visit to Aligarh help the BJP in pacifying them before the polls?
AOC’s “tax the rich” campaign at Met Gala is ridiculous like the Democrats’ tax push
Reading Time: 3 minutes AOC’s “tax the rich” campaign at Met Gala is ridiculous like the Democrats’ tax push, which will spare the super-rich and only tax on high paycheque incomes.
Behind Yogi’s “abba jaan” jibe there is a desperation to cover up hunger deaths
Reading Time: 5 minutes Yogi’s “abba jaan” jibe has stirred a controversy over the communal overtone used by him. However, it’s more important to show his failure in curbing hunger.
Why after 50 years of his death Lin Biao terrorises the Chinese rulers?
Reading Time: 20 minutes Lin Biao, Mao Zedong’s designated successor, mysteriously died on September 13th 1971. But why? Did he die while fleeing after failing in a coup or was killed?
How Yogi’s Kolkata flyover ad gaffe exposed Indian media’s editorial bankruptcy?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Yogi Adityanath’s ad in The Indian Express using a Kolkata flyover’s photo to show Uttar Pradesh’s development stirred a controversy after the paper apologised.
I-T surveys of NewsClick and Newslaundry new act of bullying the free press
Reading Time: 3 minutes The recent I-T surveys of NewsClick and Newslaundry are new act of bullying the free press by the Modi regime and the BJP to ensure there is zero criticism.
Disruption in learning and dropouts: how online learning performed in 500 days?
Reading Time: 4 minutes For 500 days, schools are closed in India. How has this closure of schools affected the children? Either their learning is disrupted or dropouts have increased.
Can the SP-BSP defeat the BJP in UP by appeasing the upper castes?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Can the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party defeat the BJP in Uttar Pradesh by appeasing the upper castes? Can they retain their Dalit, OBC vote bank?
After 45 years of his death, Mao Zedong haunts Xi Jinping’s ilk
Reading Time: 5 minutes After 45 years of Mao Zedong’s death and establishment of capitalism in China, the growing mass resentment against the anti-Mao ruling clique is troubling Xi.