Category: Opinion
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Is the CAA really safeguarding the Hindus and non-Muslims from the NRC?
Reading Time: 12 minutes There is a misconception that the CAA will disenfranchise Muslims. Rather, it’s the NRC, which is made mandatory by the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2003.
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?
Amitabh Bachchan and the silence of the stars at the hour of fascism
Reading Time: 5 minutes Amitabh Bachchan is criticised for his silence on every crucial public issue during Narendra Modi’s tenure. But what else we expected from someone like him?
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.
No to segregation of Muslims, yes to a diverse and plural India that empowers to articulate dissent
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bisecting India through the contentious CAA and NRC by the BJP must be thwarted by upholding the pluralism and diversity that the Constitution celebrates.
Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, and the fall of India
Reading Time: 4 minutes The passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, marked the end of the “idea of India” which Nehru and the first generation of Indian leaders envisioned.
Hyderabad encounter: Unpopular opinion on a popular crime
Reading Time: 6 minutes The massive public support for the Hyderabad encounter and its glorification proved India is not marching towards but is in a dangerous mobocracy now.
Rahul Bajaj: Why BJP faces uncomfortable questions from its own?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Rahul Bajaj questioning Amit Shah over the reign of fear that rules India isn’t an act of rebellion but the annoyance of a section of capitalism with Modi.
The violence of silence: Kashmir and India
Reading Time: 5 minutes On 5 August 2019 the Indian government challenged the foundations of the Constitution, by large scale oppression and silencing of the voices from Kashmir.
Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict raises uncomfortable questions
Reading Time: 6 minutes The critical analysis of the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict brings up a lot of contradictions within the verdict and the gross denial of justice to Muslims