Category: India
A complete critical review of the current affairs in India with focus on combating the narrative of main stream corporate media
Whether the lockdown was necessary if it’s now relaxed so arbitrarily?
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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?
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?
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?
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
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?
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
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
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
The Delhi Police’s nexus with Hindutva is the new normal
Why the Islamophobic Delhi Police’s nexus with Hindutva fascism is no more surprising to even the staunch Nehruvian liberal who denied it until yesterday?
Scindia alone can’t be blamed for Madhya Pradesh fiasco but the culture of dynastic politics
Is it right to merely blame Jyotiraditya Scindia for the Madhya Pradesh fiasco? Or is it the fault of the dynastic feudal hegemony that thrives in polity?
Madhya Pradesh political crisis exemplified how ideological bankruptcy aids BJP
The Madhya Pradesh political crisis shows how the ideological bankruptcy of the Congress party keeps aiding the BJP’s poaching drive. Is Rajasthan next?
Kashmiri couple’s arrest by Delhi Police’s Special Cell raises old doubts
The arrest of a Kashmiri couple from Delhi by the notorious Special Cell on terrorism charges fits the template that the Delhi Police uses to frame Muslims.
Meghalaya riots between the Khasis and non-tribals caused by BJP’s CAA push
The Meghalaya riots between the Khasis and non-tribals is an eye-opener on how the BJP’s CAA push is fuelling fratricide in the entire northeast of India.
Rumour of rioting in Delhi isn’t a pun but a part of a nefarious scheme
The rumour of rioting that spread across Delhi and triggered massive panic was not merely done for pun. It’s a planned action done with an obnoxious agenda.
