Tag: Shaheen Bagh
One year of anti-CAA 2019 protests: Time for critical retrospection
Reading Time: 9 minutes It’s one year of the anti-CAA 2019 protests. It’s now time to retrospect the movement to build a stronger citizenship movement against NRC.
Why Shaheen Bagh activist Shehzad Ali joining the BJP is a hoax?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The news that Shaheen Bagh activist Shehzad Ali has joined the BJP is a hoax as the man was no way connected with the agitation against NRC.
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.
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?
Kashmiri couple’s arrest by Delhi Police’s Special Cell raises old doubts
Reading Time: 3 minutes The arrest of a Kashmiri couple from Delhi by the notorious Special Cell on terrorism charges fits the template that the Delhi Police uses to frame Muslims.
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.
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.
Jamia Millia Islamia students must integrate with labouring poor to sustain struggle
Reading Time: 4 minutes To sustain their struggle against the CAA, NPR, NRC, the Jamia Millia Islamia students must integrate with the bigger struggle of the working class.
‘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.
India’s 71st Republic Day: Two Republics clash with each other
Reading Time: 2 minutes The presence of Bolsonaro and Modi at India’s 71st Republic Day celebration will be countered by the Republic Day celebration by millions on the streets.
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
The Hindi cinema and the rich man’s visceral Islamophobia
Reading Time: 6 minutes The visit of Deepika Padukone to JNU to express solidarity or simpler acts by a few actors won’t change the fact that Bollywood is an Islamophobia vessel.
Women of Shaheen Bagh and Park Circus are writing a glorious chapter of anti-fascist struggle in India
Reading Time: 4 minutes The women of Shaheen Bagh and Park Circus have shown how resiliently women can trigger panic within the Hindutva fascist state and cause it severe ignominy.