Tag: BJP
China’s strategic retreat from Galwan valley opens scope for a long-lasting peace
Reading Time: 4 minutes China’s strategic retreat from Galwan valley defuses the present Indo-China border tension and opens the gateway to peaceful resolution of issues.
Authoritarian populists and their politics – Part I
Reading Time: 9 minutes In this two-part article, I discuss the personality and politics of such leaders and the social context that provided the fertile ground for their rise.
The all-India coal mine strike must achieve success against Modi’s privatisation drive
Reading Time: 5 minutes Amid the hyper-nationalist Sinophobic cacophony peddled by the mainstream Indian press, the big news of a three-day-long all-India coal mine strike got concealed. Thousands of coal mine workers of Coal […]
Jeyaraj and Fenix’s custodial death: Can the CBI deliver justice?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Can a CBI investigation of Jeyaraj and Fenix’s custodial death deliver justice? Did any CBI investigation in such crimes reach to the realm of justice?
Justice for Jeyaraj and Fenix not possible until colonial-era police system exists
Reading Time: 8 minutes There can be no justice for Jeyaraj and Fenix who were killed in custody by the Tamil Nadu Police until the colonial-era police institution exists in India.
India-China conflict needs a peaceful solution, not a hysteric jingoistic reaction
Reading Time: 2 minutes India-China conflict doesn’t need hysteric hyper-nationalist chest thumping but a mature diplomatic efforts to de-escalate tensions and clear the bad air.
Why a Sino-Indian military face-off needs de-escalation, not chest-thumping?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Up in the Himalayas, there is a peculiar turn of events this week as the Sino-Indian military face-off in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan River valley has turned ugly on the night […]
COVID-19 pandemic in Delhi bared Kejriwal’s incompetence and nexus with the BJP
Reading Time: 3 minutes Arvind Kejriwal’s failure to curb the COVID-19 pandemic in Delhi exposed not only his government’s incompetence but his utmost surrender to the BJP and Modi
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.
Modi’s dirty politics choking West Bengal
Reading Time: 6 minutes Eyeing 2021 assembly elections, Modi’s dirty politics over West Bengal has increased manifold and is causing severe problems for the state and its people.
Modi’s Amphan relief package for Bengal to aid the BJP’s mission 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes Soon after his visit to the affected areas, Modi will announce an Amphan relief package for Bengal, although he will use it to win the 2021 assembly polls.
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?
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?
How COVID-19 outbreak in India is helping the Modi regime normalise a fascist rule?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Is the Modi regime using the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown to establish a fascist dictatorship on India, quite nakedly than ever? What’s the truth?
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.
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.
Due to whose fault COVID-19 in India becomes a festival?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Who should be blamed for turning COVID-19 in India into a festival? Modi, the people or the lame opposition? Who is the real culprit for such an ignominy?