Dhrupadi Ghosh
Charlie Hebdo, hate speech and the freedom of speech from an artist’s lens
Reading Time: 3 minutes Charlie Hebdo and other critics of Islam would use their art to demonise Muslims but never speak against French imperialism. Why?
Indifference, when a pregnant woman is jailed under false charges, is a crime, dissent isn’t
Reading Time: 4 minutes If there is an ominous silence over the arrest of a pregnant woman like Safoora Zargar under false charges, then that’s a crime. Dissenting isn’t.
Caging Pinjra Tod activists exemplify Modi regime’s fear
Reading Time: 3 minutes The state repression exhibited by the arrest of two Pinjra Tod activists, Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal, exemplifies the Modi regime’s fear.
Not enraged but helpless: The subjugated working class in lockdown
Reading Time: 4 minutes The working class is subjugated and repressed by the Hindutva fascist state during the lockdown. But this won’t end them. They will return very soon.
The march of the migrant workers towards no land
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s a time when the privileged are saving their class self-isolating while poor people are struggling for two pieces of bread
Understanding the state-sponsored anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi
Reading Time: 4 minutes The state-sponsored anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi is launched with a vicious motive. This is an attempt to enslave the poor Muslim masses and please Trump.
Alleged custody killing in Sinthee Police Station and TMC’s similarity with BJP
Reading Time: 4 minutes The death of Rajesh Kumar Shaw in Sinthee Police Station, Kolkata, due to custodial torture, exhibited, once more, the similarity between BJP and TMC.
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.
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.
The Hindi cinema and the rich man’s visceral Islamophobia
Reading Time: 6 minutes The visit of Deepika Padukone to JNU to express solidarity or simpler acts by a few actors won’t change the fact that Bollywood is an Islamophobia vessel.
Can the LGBTQ rainbow flag and status quo movements defeat Hindutva fascism?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Can the LGBTQ community’s participation in the save Constitution movement promise any real and liberating solution for its persecuted members?
The secret allies of Hindutva fascism enabling the sclerotic regime of Modi
Reading Time: 3 minutes Who are Hindutva fascism’s secret allies? Only those liberal democrats who are fascism enablers? Or those social-democrats as well who betray the workers?
The Muslim identity eradication by Brahminical agents of capital must be combatted
Reading Time: 5 minutes Through their attempts to eradicate the Muslim identity, the Brahminical lackeys of big corporates are trying to weaken resistance by dividing the masses.
The working class’s movements against fascism must ally with the anti-NRC/CAA movements
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s a dire need at present to link the mass struggles against the CAA and NRC with the working class’s movements against fascism and neo-liberal economy.
In a fractured time, Jamia Millia Islamia students fight Hindutva fascism
Reading Time: 6 minutes Even though they are bruised, injured and bleeding profusely, the Jamia Millia Islamia students are fighting against the Hindutva fascist rule of Modi.