Category: India
A complete critical review of the current affairs in India with focus on combating the narrative of main stream corporate media
What’s inside the India-China military standoff in eastern Ladakh?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The India-China military standoff in eastern Ladakh seriously jeopardises bilateral relations and peace, therefore, it must be resolved through dialogue now
The Amphan super-cyclone and the ravaged West Bengal
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Amphan super-cyclone has ravaged West Bengal at a time when the Coronavirus lockdown caused massive harm to the economy.
Can a loan package for the MSME sector from Sitharaman help at all?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Can the Modi regime’s Rs 3 trillion-worth loan package for the MSME sector help it survive and provide employment to the workers?
Why the corporate world isn’t truly happy with Modi’s Rs 20 trillion package?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Though Modi’s Rs 20 trillion-worth so-called “fiscal stimulus” package was all about selling India to corporates, why the latter aren’t quite happy now?
FM Sitharaman’s fifth tranche announcements expose there wasn’t any stimulus package
Reading Time: 9 minutes Nirmala Sitharaman’s fifth tranche announcements regarding the Rs 20 trillion “stimulus package” exposed there was no relief plan at the first place.
Part II: COVID-19, fictitious capital and financial crisis
Reading Time: 8 minutes The second part of the analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic, share buy back and fictitious capital: A capitalist effort to survive the financial crisis.
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?
Citizen journalist Soumo Mondal arrested by Kolkata Police for investigating PDS irregularities
Reading Time: 2 minutes For questioning and investigating allegations of PDS irregularities, Soumo Mondal, a contributor of People’s Review is arrested by the Kolkata Police.
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.
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.
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?
Why Reliance and HDFC are having a good time during Coronavirus lockdown?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why the markets were in a jubilant mood after Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared national lockdown? Why the shares of Reliance and HDFC are surging?
Understanding the economic repercussions of Coronavirus in India
Reading Time: 9 minutes What will be the economic repercussions of Coronavirus in India? Who will suffer the most and who will profiteer from the agony of millions?
Why Shaheen Bagh protest shouldn’t capitulate to Coronavirus panic?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Shaheen Bagh protest can’t capitulate to the panic-mongering over Coronavirus outbreak and Modi’s stunts because there is a bigger question in stake.
Modi’s address to the nation on Coronavirus is another PR gimmick
Reading Time: 5 minutes Modi’s address to the nation on Coronavirus was a cheap stunt to hijack publicity. It exemplifies the disarrayed state in which public healthcare is mired.
The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, and Kejriwal’s war against Shaheen Bagh
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, invoked by Kejriwal to overthrow the Shaheen Bagh movement was used by the British colonial rulers to aid Hindu nationalism