Tag: Congress
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 […]
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?
Scindia alone can’t be blamed for Madhya Pradesh fiasco but the culture of dynastic politics
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Madhya Pradesh political crisis shows how the ideological bankruptcy of the Congress party keeps aiding the BJP’s poaching drive. Is Rajasthan next?
Why Modi slapped PSA on the Abdullahs and Mufti?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why Modi slapped PSA on the Abdullahs and Mufti? To understand the real reasons one must go beyond the official narratives and see the long-term perspective
Delhi Assembly election 2020 exit polls and the problems of secular politics
Reading Time: 4 minutes Delhi Assembly election 2020 exit poll results predict the coming back of the AAP. But does this means the victory of secularism against BJP’s communalism?
Muslims asserting their identity in Modi-fied India is in itself an act of defiance
Reading Time: 4 minutes Muslims asserting their identity during the nationwide protests against the NRC and the CAA isn’t any extremist act but an act of resistance against fascism
Jharkhand assembly election results shouldn’t be considered BJP’s end
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Jharkhand assembly election results shouldn’t be considered a final seal on the fate of the BJP in Jharkhand. Victory for the tribals is still far away.
CAB 2019 shouldn’t make us forget NPR and NRC threats
Reading Time: 9 minutes The CAB 2019 is an attack on the minorities of India but the agitation against it should not let us overlook the threat of NPR looming large followed by NRC
Babri Masjid demolition: Lessons we must not forget
Reading Time: 3 minutes Babri Masjid demolition on 6 December 1992 was the single biggest terror attack against Indian secularism by the RSS aided by the Congress party and others.
Game of government formation in Maharashtra isn’t over but at the next stage
Reading Time: 7 minutes The drama over government formation in Maharashtra didn’t get over with the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance coming to power, it just entered the next stage.
President’s Rule in Maharashtra is going to help BJP poach MLAs
Reading Time: 3 minutes The President’s rule is imposed on Maharashtra to help the BJP with ample amount of time to poach rival Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena MLAs.
Whoever forms government in Maharashtra, secularism will lose
Reading Time: 3 minutes Whoever may form a government in Maharashtra due to the separation between the BJP and Shiv Sena, the people’s cause and rights are at the receiving end.
Ayodhya verdict showed what’s Modi-fied India
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Ayodhya verdict shattered the last vestige of faith in the judiciary that a few Muslims had, and showed them their real situation in Modified India.
Haryana and Maharashtra election results proved BJP’s vulnerability to some extent
Reading Time: 4 minutes Haryana and Maharashtra assembly election results prove that despite rigging election results, the BJP isn’t in a comfort zone anywhere in India.
BJP to win Haryana and Maharashtra assembly elections due to opposition’s bankruptcy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The opinion and exit polls of the Haryana and Maharashtra assembly elections showed a massive victory waiting for the BJP. Why did the Congress participate?
Why Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee when we’ve Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Why one would need economists like Abhijit Banerjee when they can boast of characters like Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman to fix an ailing economy?
The tragedy of Indian politics is the absence of a credible opposition
Reading Time: 6 minutes The hallow of invincibility around Modi is not because he is invincible but because the lacklustre attitude of the opposition has provided him an edge.
Chidambaram’s ordeal is an irony in Modi-fied India that’s carrying forward his legacy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Chidambaram rolled out the ball to turn India into a corporate colony and waged war against the tribal people for mining corporations. Now irony got him.
The UAPA Amendment feeds to the BJP’s desire to curtail the leftover democratic rights of critics
Reading Time: 8 minutes With the passage of the UAPA Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha, the Modi regime is all set to curtail the leftover democratic rights of the people.