The Supreme Court ordered the political players to desist from playing religious or casteist cards during the elections a few weeks back. The aim of the order, according to various critical analysts is to place a barrier on the path of developing a caste and communal unity among the downtrodden and marginal communities, however, many … Read more
The General Secretary of the CPI(M-L) Red Star, K.N. Ramachandran suddenly went missing from the Howrah station, after he reached there on Sunday afternoon from Lucknow to participate in a series of political events to express solidarity with the on-going Bhangar land movement. He was abducted by men without uniform, who informed him that they … Read more
Famous Hollywood female actor Meryl Streep cried out and condemned the US president-elect Donald Trump for the latter’s mimicking of a disabled journalist during his rhetoric-filled election campaigns. She expressed her dismay at the growth of intolerance in the US following the ascension of Donald Trump. Outgoing US President Barack Obama seconded her. Obama, during … Read more
When the Friday afternoon prayers at the local mosques were over on 13th January in Srinagar, the Kashmiri youth poured down on the streets, in the Batamaloo area, raising their fists in protest against the brutal attack on the Muslims in Kathua of Jammu by a group of Hindutva militants allegedly linked with the ruling … Read more
Recently a team of five from the Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation, a Delhi based corporate and foreign capital funded institute, visited Jammu & Kashmir under the leadership of senior BJP leader and Modi detractor Yashwant Sinha and submitted the report on its observation to the Union Government and also disclosed the same to journalists … Read more
If a naïve person goes by the narratives of the mainstream corporate media of India, they will certainly believe in the cliché that the outcome of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections will have a severe repercussion on the BJP government at the centre and even more, it will create a roadblock for the BJP to … Read more
During an election rally in Shahjahanpur of Western Uttar Pradesh, RSS strong man and BJP stalwart Amit Shah fired sexist salvo against the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for their strong opposition to Narendra Modi’s demonetisation exercise. Shah said during his speech -”Have you seen the … Read more
The Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov (62) was shot dead by an off-duty Turkish policeman Mevlut Mert Altintas. This is already a news and apart from Russia, even many politicians in the West did condemn the murder, which was not an act of random terrorist attack on the diplomatic staff but a very well … Read more
As soon as the Syrian Arab Army advanced closer towards victory in its fierce battle against the Islamic State terrorists and their accomplices in Aleppo, the mainstream corporate media started amplified campaigns on behalf of the terrorists by alleging that the Syrian and Russian forces are targeting innocent civilians in the besieged city that became … Read more
Nationalism and patriotism must be on display in each and every cinema halls. Supreme Court has passed an order on 30th November that makes it compulsory for cinema hall owners to play the national anthem at the beginning of every screening and made it mandatory for all cinema goers to stand in attention until the … Read more
In a discussion with NDTV during the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Power Minister Pijush Goyal reiterated that the entire cabinet remained in dark regarding the demonetisation drive of the Modi government and Arun Jaitley, the finance minister, kept the entire exercise secret and caught them in surprise by this decision. This is the official version … Read more
Army deployed at several toll tax booths and on important corners of West Bengal on 1st of December, including areas close to the state secretariat, which the Chief Minister called an attempt by the Modi government to bully the democratically elected government of the state for the reluctance of Mamata Banerjee to give any respite to … Read more
In Ahmedabad city of Gujarat, the dreaded cow vigilantes associated with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad killed the driver of a car, Mohammad Ayyub, by thrashing him mercilessly. Ayyub’s fault was that he ferried calves in a car. The police in Narendra Modi’s home turf even denied that the Muslim youth was thrashed by the cow … Read more
(This article was first published in October 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) A year passed since the lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh, by a mob of cow … Read more
The far-right Hindu extremist group RSS and its mass organisation – the BJP is trying to fish in the murky waters of communally volatile Western Uttar Pradesh during the assembly bypolls for the Muzaffarnagar and Deoband constituencies, vacated due to the death of the MLAs. Rampal Singh Pundhir, a RSS Pracharak, is the candidate for … Read more
(This article was first published in August 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) Brexit finally happened, at least in the ballots. More than 51 per cent voters of Britain’s plebiscite … Read more
(This article was first published in August 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) The Delhi government led by the AAP and the Central government led by the BJP are hand-in-gloves … Read more
(This article was first published in February 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) Tragedy has entrenched the Modi government, quagmired in utmost crisis and attempting to do an image makeover before … Read more
(This article was first published in February 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) The barbaric attack on a Tanzanian female student and her friends in Soladevanahalli, Bangalore North Taluka, on the … Read more
(This article was first published in February 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) While the entire gamut of the media had been focused on the assault of the fascist saffron block … Read more