Tag: Hindutva fascism
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Modi’s proposed “bold reforms” prelude to a tyrannical corporate rule
Reading Time: 5 minutes Modi’s address to nation unveiled the forthcoming tyrannical corporate fascist rule that will ruin the lives and livelihood of the poor and undo democracy.
Not enraged but helpless: The subjugated working class in lockdown
Reading Time: 4 minutes The working class is subjugated and repressed by the Hindutva fascist state during the lockdown. But this won’t end them. They will return very soon.
PMCARES Fund and Aarogya Setu aiding Modi’s despotic hegemony
Reading Time: 4 minutes Modi’s PMCARES Fund and Aarogya Setu app have been severely criticised but that didn’t stop the prime minister from consolidating his tyrannical hegemony.
May Day – International Labour Day 2020 during COVID-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes The International Labour Day 2020 on May 1st, amid an unprecedented lockdown, is when one should look at the challenges posed to the Indian working class.
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?
FIR spree in Kashmir a dastardly effort to bully valley scribes
Reading Time: 3 minutes The random filing of police cases against the scribes of Kashmir is a frantic attempt by the Modi regime to bully and suppress whatever is left uncensored.
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?
Fake news alert: No, China didn’t give Pakistan masks made of underwears!
Reading Time: 5 minutes No, China didn’t send masks made of underwear to Pakistan as claimed in a video circulated on social media and publicised by the Indian mainstream media.
Why the NPR is inevitable despite a pause due to COVID-19 outbreak?
Reading Time: 7 minutes 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.
The march of the migrant workers towards no land
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s a time when the privileged are saving their class self-isolating while poor people are struggling for two pieces of bread
Nizamuddin Markaz: How Modi’s stooges communalised COVID-19 outbreak to shift focus
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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?
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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?
Commemorating Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru in the times of Coronavirus
Reading Time: 3 minutes How would’ve Bhagat Singh and his comrades reacted in case of an epidemic like Coronavirus? What would’ve they done in such an hour of crisis?