Category: Opinion
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Andolanjivis: The last man standing
Reading Time: 7 minutes Modi used the terms Andolanjivi and Parajibi in galore during a speech to demean the role of people’s movements against autrocracy,
When fascism comes to visit you
Reading Time: 6 minutes Is India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, still a democracy or has crossed the Rubicon and has become a full-fledged fascist state? If the developments over the last six years […]
Budget 2021 epitomises Hindutva quackery in India
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Union Budget 2021-22 is nothing but a Hindutva quackery on an ailing Indian economy, pushing it to the extreme of a pernicious realm.
The normalisation of “Hindutva shock therapy” for the consolidation of capitalism in India
Reading Time: 3 minutes Modi has been working on the normalisation of “Hindutva shock therapy” for the consolidation of capitalism in India to benefit his big donors
Many tales of corporate control over agriculture
Reading Time: 4 minutes The experiences of corporate control over agriculture globally show how farmers are ruined and the corporations enrich through such policies.
Indian Muslims: The quest of a better representation in politics and blunders
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite housing the world’s second-largest Muslim population, India has a very skewed ratio of the community’s share in politics and power.
200 Years of Frederick Engels and the question of “Authority”
Reading Time: 6 minutes As Frederick Engels turned 200 on November 28th 2020, we turn to his views on “authority” in the context of working class’s quest for power.
Killing the host, the BJP-AIMIM style
Reading Time: 9 minutes Has the AIMIM got the space that the BJP-led Hindutva politics has created through bullying and marginalising the Muslim community.
Paris attack: Why would Muslims apologise for terrorist acts across the world?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Soon after a French middle-school history teacher was killed in the Conflans Sainte-Honorine suburb of Paris, allegedly by an Islamist bigot, a global Islamophobic outcry began, accompanied by the demand […]
Why the NEP 2020 will deprive the poor of education?
Reading Time: 9 minutes The NEP 2020 has been planned meticulously to deprive the poor students of the right to education, not just higher education but also school education.
NEP 2020: 10 uncomfortable questions that should be asked
Reading Time: 4 minutes The NEP 2020 is neither inclusive nor progressive. Ten questions are asked on this policy, which no one would like to answer. Read them here.
Deconstructing the triumphant decadence: Perforating the idea of nation and exequial of reason
Reading Time: 4 minutes The essence of an idea of nation lies with its imagination. The recent consistent onslaught on its idea is gravely frightening.
Flaws of personalised diplomacy of narcissist leaders
Reading Time: 5 minutes This comment article critiques how authoritarian narcissist personality of a populist leader and his style of governance impacts the nation. All is well when everything goes well. Victory is easy even when governance is failing the people continually.
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.
The oppressive silence of the COVID-19 pandemic
Reading Time: 4 minutes The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the hypocrisy and the inhuman side of the privileged Indian society, which is happy to close doors on the working class.
Business as before?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The big question in the era of COVID-19 pandemic for Indians is: Can we afford governments that go on and on with “business as before”?
Assam flood: An issue no one talks about
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Brahmaputra has already started flooding. It’s just May. While Assam looks at a precarious future, the so-called “national” press is mum over its plight
The class conflict and populist narrative in Modi’s India under COVID-19
Reading Time: 5 minutes In Modi’s India there has been a fundamental transformation in political discourse. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed class conflicts more acutely than ever.
Celebrating the new Indian citizen
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Indian citizen is remoulded and turned into a non-chalant, “apolitical”, obedient and uncritical lot, which cheers the supreme leader and hails tyranny.
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.