Tag: NRC
NPR and NRC in post-lockdown phase is a dire necessity for the Modi regime
Reading Time: 5 minutes The rollout of the NPR and NRC in post-lockdown phase is inevitable as the Modi regime will try to provide cheap labour pool to big corporate houses now.
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.
Caging Pinjra Tod activists exemplify Modi regime’s fear
Reading Time: 3 minutes The state repression exhibited by the arrest of two Pinjra Tod activists, Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal, exemplifies the Modi regime’s fear.
How to strengthen the anti-CAA movements in the post-COVID-19 world?
Reading Time: 4 minutes To make the anti-CAA agitations sustainable, an organisational architecture should be constructed to give an intellectual articulatory edge to the protests.
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.
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.
‘Kill one’s reputation, kill one’s cause’: BJP and the politics of character assassination
Reading Time: 5 minutes How the strategy of character assassination is adopted by the BJP to combat the challenge thrown by Shaheen Bagh.
Sharjeel Imam, Assam and the ferocious Hindutva fascist state
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Hindutva fascist state’s attack on Sharjeel Imam is despicable and sheer witch-hunting to bully Muslim voices. Imam’s views on Assam also lacks insight.
Beyond “identity” it’s crucial to see the NRC issue from the class perspective
Reading Time: 8 minutes As the anti-NRC struggles intensify, it’s time to see the issue from a class angle and politically equip the poor, who will be most-affected, to combat it.
Which BJP leaders will go to detention centres due to an honest NRC?
Reading Time: 6 minutes If there is an honest and impartial implementation of the NRC, which BJP leaders will end up in the detention centres? Well, there are a few of them.
Javadekar’s “Jinnah wali Azadi” ranting on Shaheen Bagh is old wine in a new bottle
Reading Time: 4 minutes Javadekar’s “Jinnah wali Azadi” ranting on Shaheen Bagh is another attempt by the Modi regime and the BJP to vilify the organic struggle of the Muslim women