Finally Narendra Modi accepted that the Indian economy is going through bad times during his tenure, though denying that his government is responsible for the major mismanagement of macroeconomic factors; rather as a truly devoted Sanghi prostelyser, Modi blamed the critics for being pessimists, of suffering the Shalya syndrome (a pessimist chariot driver of Mahabharata … Read more
Jay Amitbhai Shah, the son of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah, has sued the independent media outlet, The Wire, in a defamation case for publishing a detailed investigative report on how one of his companies called Temple Enterprises suddenly saw a 16,000 times increase in its turnover between 2015-16, after his political uncle … Read more
When Narendra Modi started his campaign for the prime minister’s position during the 2014 general election, he and the entire Hindutva camp trained their guns against the Congress Party’s first family, the Gandhis, whom they blamed for all woes afflicting India and also alleged that the family has siphoned-off immense wealth to foreign shores and … Read more
Modinomics is the new school of economics to which the Bhakts, the cheerleaders of Narendra Modi-led Hindutva fascist regime, subscribes to and they hail it as a powerful weapon to get rid of all the woes of the poor and take India to the plane of development that Modi promised during his 2014 election campaign. … Read more
Exiled Bangladeshi author, Taslima Nasreen exposed her hypocrisy more than once when it came to condemning Hindutva terror, which is slaughtering the minority community members and those who are expressing their dissent against the Modi regime of India. Ventriloquising on behalf of the RSS-led Sangh Parivar, the Modi government and all Hindutva venom spitters, Taslima … Read more
Rare moments are always frame-worthy, especially if it’s a historic handshake between two of the most notorious Muslim-killers of our time. Narendra Modi met Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar government’s caretaker and defacto leader, during his Myanmar visit at Naypyitaw. Modi, accused of being the chief architect of the 2002 Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom, praised … Read more
Firebrand anti-establishment journalist and social activist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead on the evening of 5 September outside her home in Bengaluru. Seven bullets were fired targeting her, of which three hit her and killed her on the spot. The assailants shot her from point-blank range and the modus operandi of this murder matches with … Read more
South Asia is experiencing one of the most barbaric genocides in the recent history as the notorious Myanmar Army is massacring the Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine province of the country with utmost impunity after a brief lull in its violent campaign for some time. A series of militant attacks on the Myanmar Military and … Read more
When the national news bulletins have started pushing the stories of mob lynching and gory atrocities committed by the RSS-backed Gau Rakshaks (cow vigilante stormtroopers) to the oblivion as these lynchings become the norm, a unique incident in BJP-ruled Maharashtra’s Pune city brought a small but a very effective change in the hitherto existing and … Read more
The cat is out of the bag; affirming the observations made by the critics, Narendra Modi government’s demonetisation exercise came out to be a futile one, as per the recent data released by the Reserve Bank of India, which says that nearly 99 percent of the demonetised currency notes of ₹1000 and ₹500 returned back … Read more
A five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court banned the instant triple talaq, a rarely practised form of divorce by a small section of Sunni Muslims, after delivering a split 395-page long verdict. According to the Supreme Court’s verdict, the concept of Talaq-e-biddat or instant triple talaq, where a husband can divorce his wife instantly by … Read more
The national media is now filled with the cliches about how the powerful and the rich in India can get away with justice using their influence, following the uproar created by the recent incident in Chandigarh, where the Haryana BJP President Subhash Barala’s son Vikas Barala tried to allegedly kidnap a girl driving home. The … Read more
The recent somersault in the politics of Bihar, following Nitish Kumar’s sudden return to the BJP’s lap, caused an upheaval throughout the country, forcing the mainstream media to junk every other news and stories to spend time in decoding the cryptic political back-channel processes that opened the doors to the former NDA ally and a … Read more
The farmers unrest in central and western India caused by the police firing on the agitating farmers of Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh on 6 June, in which five agitating farmers were killed on the spot and one farmer succumbed later to baton charge wounds, has erected a serious challenge for the BJP government led by … Read more
From Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin, from Marine Le Pen to Norbert Hofer, from Nigel Farage to Narendra Modi, the most powerful world leaders are talking about a new world order, and of course, it is not a socialist and egalitarian world order that they are promoting, but a more reactionary and more fascist world … Read more
The Bhim Sena was called a “Naxalite outfit” and anti-national force by the BJP government and its ally, the yellow press, soon after it started leading the Dalits of Shabbirpur village of Western Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district against the violence and rampage of the upper-caste Thakur men and the Brahminical Uttar Pradesh administration. The Bhim … Read more
Recently an audio tape of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Zakir Musa surfaced on social media, where the militant leader called the Kashmir struggle, a struggle for establishing a Sharia-based Islamic kingdom, and also threatened the moderate separatist umbrella organisation Hurriyat Conference leaders with death and beheading if they don’t stop referring Kashmir as a “political problem” … Read more
On 19 April, the Supreme Court ordered a trial court in Lucknow to not drop the names of the high-profile accused like Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti and the Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh from the charge sheet that the CBI has filed earlier on the Babri Masjid demolition … Read more
After the Maoist attack on 24 April took the lives of 24 CRPF men in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, the corporate media is continuously firing salvo on the Maoists for using violence against the men in uniform, who are called the son of the poor, and for “misguiding” the poor and “stalling the development work” … Read more
Donald Trump’s rhetoric against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has turned more militant than any of his predecessors and being a lunatic fascist, he is serious in jeopardising the world security in more ways than one. Trump’s cacophony against the DPR Korea is blended with excessive misinformation, lies, and deceitful propaganda that … Read more