Tanmoy Ibrahim
Behind “Atmanirbhar Bharat” rhetoric is an attempt to tighten neo-colonial grip over India
Reading Time: 3 minutes Modi’s “Atmanirbhar Bharat” or self-reliant India isn’t a vision of a free, self-reliant economy but of becoming a neo-colonial cheap labour-based economy.
Modi’s proposed “bold reforms” prelude to a tyrannical corporate rule
Reading Time: 5 minutes Modi’s address to nation unveiled the forthcoming tyrannical corporate fascist rule that will ruin the lives and livelihood of the poor and undo democracy.
The BJP’s assault on labour rights exposes real intention behind COVID-19 lockdown
Reading Time: 6 minutes The cat was peeping out of the bag for long, but with the the BJP’s assault on labour rights under the garb of fighting COVID-19 menace brought it out.
Whether the lockdown was necessary if it’s now relaxed so arbitrarily?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Whether the lockdown was necessary if it didn’t flatten the curve and is now relaxed when the number of COVID-19 patients is rising? What about testing?
PMCARES Fund and Aarogya Setu aiding Modi’s despotic hegemony
Reading Time: 4 minutes Modi’s PMCARES Fund and Aarogya Setu app have been severely criticised but that didn’t stop the prime minister from consolidating his tyrannical hegemony.
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?
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.
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
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.
The Tablighi Jamaat fiasco helping Indian state to officially peddle Islamophobia
Reading Time: 5 minutes The cacophony over the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in New Delhi has provided an ample opportunity for the Modi regime to smoke-screen its failures.
Why the NPR is inevitable despite a pause due to COVID-19 outbreak?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Though the MHA has postponed the NPR exercise due to COVID-19 outbreak, there is no reason to think it won’t happen, rather it’s needed more than ever now.
Nizamuddin Markaz: How Modi’s stooges communalised COVID-19 outbreak to shift focus
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Nizamuddin Markaz congregation controversy has given an opportunity to the Modi regime to distract the people from its failures in fighting COVID-19.
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.