Tag: RSS
Why the NEP 2020 will deprive the poor of education?
Reading Time: 9 minutes The NEP 2020 has been planned meticulously to deprive the poor students of the right to education, not just higher education but also school education.
New National Education Policy 2020: The robot-making education system must be resisted
Reading Time: 6 minutes The National Education Policy 2020 aims at turning education into a robot-making system for big corporate houses. This must be resisted by the students.
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 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?
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?
The Delhi anti-Muslim pogrom exposed many fascism-enablers closeted Sanghis
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Delhi anti-Muslim pogrom has not only shown the grotesque Indian state’s open subscription to Hindutva fascism but also exposed many closeted Sanghis.
Meghalaya riots between the Khasis and non-tribals caused by BJP’s CAA push
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Meghalaya riots between the Khasis and non-tribals is an eye-opener on how the BJP’s CAA push is fuelling fratricide in the entire northeast of India.
Why West Bengal is prone to experience an anti-Muslim pogrom after Delhi?
Reading Time: 8 minutes After Delhi’s anti-Muslim pogrom, why the RSS and BJP will turn towards West Bengal now? The 2021 assembly elections are near and the BJP needs blood to win
Did Amit Shah fail to play his role during Delhi’s anti-Muslim pogrom? No, he didn’t
Reading Time: 4 minutes There are allegations against Amit Shah for failing to play his role during the Delhi anti-Muslim pogrom. Did he actually fail? Or did he do his ‘job’ well?
Delhi’s anti-Muslim pogrom must not be labelled as riot or clash
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s a heinous thing that Delhi’s anti-Muslim pogrom is shown as an incidence of clash between pro and anti-CAA protesters. It’s a pogrom nothing else.
Understanding the state-sponsored anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi
Reading Time: 4 minutes The state-sponsored anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi is launched with a vicious motive. This is an attempt to enslave the poor Muslim masses and please Trump.
Communal violence in northeastern Delhi’s Jaffrabad: Modi’s frantic attempt to regain the streets
Reading Time: 3 minutes The communal violence in northeastern Delhi’s Jaffrabad is a frantic attempt by Modi’s Hindutva fascist regime to regain the control of the city’s streets.