Tag: NRC
Dissent in the times of COVID-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes The human race is stunned by the unprecedented rage of a virus. Moreover, the rightwing governments are utilising the opportunity to curb democratic rights.
Why Shaheen Bagh protest shouldn’t capitulate to Coronavirus panic?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Shaheen Bagh protest can’t capitulate to the panic-mongering over Coronavirus outbreak and Modi’s stunts because there is a bigger question in stake.
The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, and Kejriwal’s war against Shaheen Bagh
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, invoked by Kejriwal to overthrow the Shaheen Bagh movement was used by the British colonial rulers to aid Hindu nationalism
The Delhi Police’s nexus with Hindutva is the new normal
Reading Time: 6 minutes Why the Islamophobic Delhi Police’s nexus with Hindutva fascism is no more surprising to even the staunch Nehruvian liberal who denied it until yesterday?
Attempt to shift the Shaheen Bagh protest rejected on the first day
Reading Time: 3 minutes The valiant women rejected the attempt to shift the Shaheen Bagh protest on the first day of meeting with interlocutors appointed by the Supreme Court.
Shifting the Shaheen Bagh protest site: When roads become important than people
Reading Time: 3 minutes Shifting the Shaheen Bagh protest site is the biggest concern of the Supreme Court because a road is blocked. The human beings are expendable, a road isn’t.
Nellie Massacre of 1983: More relevant than ever today
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s important to understand what led to the 1983 Nellie massacre to intensify the struggle against the perpetrators of India’s largest anti-Muslim pogrom.
The Shaheen Bagh protesters must evade the trap laid by Amit Shah
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Shaheen Bagh protesters must tread their course very carefully as Amit Shah, by dangling the bait of “appointment”, is luring them to trap laid by him.
Delhi Police attacked the Jamia protesters, injured the democratic conscience
Reading Time: 3 minutes Delhi Police attacked the Jamia protesters with batons and chemical weapons, hit women’s private parts yet the “conscience” of many sleeps even now
Union home ministry’s NRC refusal doesn’t bring the curtain down on the episode
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Union home ministry’s NRC refusal through a reply to the Parliament doesn’t imply that the threat is over. The Modi regime didn’t retreat, it’s waiting.