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The Kisan Mukti March has captured the headlines of even the national mainstream media due to the overwhelming participation of farmers from all over the country in the rally, especially due to the participation of a large section of the farmers from the BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The issue of … Read more
Participating in the campaign trail of Chhattisgarh assembly election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi trained his guns at ‘Urban Naxals’, accusing them of living ‘luxurious lives’, riding luxury cars and instigating violence in Bastar. ‘Urban Naxal’ is a term used to demonise dissent by the RSS-led Hindutva fascists. Mr Modi was speaking at Jagdalpur, 450 km … Read more
The brutal killing of a tigress, Avni, by a sharpshooter illegally hired for the job by the Maharashtra government, showed how hollow is the Indian state’s commitment towards saving wildlife in general and conserving tigers in particular. The tigress Avni, codenamed T1, was shot by Asgar Ali, son of sharpshooter Nawab Shafat Ali, on 2 … Read more
The year 2018 has been a year of embarrassment for the ‘great’ Indian democratic state machinery. Though undermining the democratic ethos isn’t something new for India’s so-called democracy. The Indian state didn’t maintain a modern democratic relationship with its citizens from its very inception. The Constitution wasn’t adopted through any plebiscite or public debate, rather … Read more
When Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi delivered a speech on the occasion of Vijayadashami at the RSS headquarters on 18 October, urging the RSS Shakhas to work as a firewall against child trafficking, especially the trafficking of the girl child, he created an uproar in the opposition camp. The opponents of the Modi regime and the … Read more
The Indian state apparatus, including its much hailed “model” justice-delivery system, once again exposed its sheer Brahmanical fascist and Islamophobic character when it forcefully deported seven Rohingya Muslims, who were lodged in Silchar Jail of Assam since 2012. With a Supreme Court bench headed by the newly appointed Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, who … Read more
While the Narendra Modi-led BJP government and the entire Sangh conglomerate is busy beating the drums of jingoism and xenophobia by magnifying the skirmishes between the Indian and Pakistani military personnel at the Line of Control in Jammu & Kashmir at a crucial time when three BJP-ruled states- Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are going … Read more
When the Supreme Court bench led by the outgoing CJI, Dipak Misra, gave a verdict decriminalising the colonial era Section 377 of the IPC, which criminalised homosexuality, the liberal democrats, the non-conservative elites and upper-middle class city dwellers welcomed the move and hailed the Supreme Court. They even overlooked the allegations that four senior-most judges … Read more
The talk of the town is dissent – the right to dissent and an undeclared emergency reigning in India’s political landscape, as the Modi regime has unleashed state repression on political dissenters, human rights activists, advocates and intellectuals who’ve refused obeisance towards it. Using a corporate media-sponsored paranoia over “Urban Naxals”, the Modi regime is … Read more
It’s more than a week since the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested three Sanatan Sanstha members, ardent Hindutva fanatics, and also recovered huge cache of explosives from the trio. These men, Vaibhav Raut (40), Sharad Kalaskar (25) and Sudhanwa Gondhalekar (39) were arrested following raids in Palghar district and Pune, and they were remanded to … Read more
With the death of the Indian liberal’s favourite Hindutva eye candy – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, there will be an incessant barrage of condolences flowing and eulogies published across the political spectrum to showcase the man in the brightest shades possible and his contribution to Indian politics will also be magnified manifold. It’s usually what happens … Read more
On the 72nd Independence Day, 15th August 2018, we, the people of the country, again experienced a refurbished repeat telecast of the same show that’s going on for the last seven decades, forcefully making each Indian believe that they are “independent” and “free”, despite being knocked down by severe poverty, starvation, lack of health care, … Read more
The issue of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam leaving out four million people from its final draft released on 30 July 2018 has created a nationwide stir as the Modi regime and the RSS have converted the issue of exclusion of these people as a Hindu vs Muslim narrative and created a paranoia … Read more
When the elites and urban middle-class of India, the upper-caste privileged section of the society, was glued to the TV watching the theatrics performed during the no-confidence motion, either appraising Narendra Modi or Rahul Gandhi for their performance, Akbar Khan (28), a Mewati Muslim from Mewat district of Haryana, was lynched by the RSS-sponsored cow … Read more
Recently the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) decided to set-up Shariat or Islamic religious law courts throughout India to settle the civil litigations bypassing the already over-burdened courts and many Muslim clerics and Islamist politicians started garnering support for such a move by presenting Dar-ul Qaza, i.e. Muslim Personal Courts ruled according to … Read more
When Ram Madhav declared that the BJP will end its opportunist marriage with the PDP in Kashmir, ending their three-year-long coalition government, the message that the ordinary Kashmiri people and the democratic anti-fascist people of India read on the wall said that the Narendra Modi-led Hindutva fascist regime will carry out severe massacres in Kashmir … Read more
In its World Fact Book 2017, the CIA called the VHP and the Bajrang Dal “militant religious” organisations, causing an uproar in the Hindutva fascist camp. The VHP has threatened a global protest against the US secret service agency unless the remarks are withdrawn from the report. Many BJP leaders are even threatening to sue … Read more
Several BJP-ruled states are witnessing a strong wave of farmers’ agitation against the anti-farmer policies of the Modi government. The 10-day-long farmers’ strike campaign from 1 to 10 June, called by the All India Kisan Mahasangh, an outfit of 130 farmers’ organisation that calls itself apolitical, is organised at village levels and is ensuring that … Read more
The AIADMK is paying the price of its pro-Hindutva and pro-Hindi stance more than ever since it carried out the brutal massacre of 13 protesters in Thoothukudi, shot by the Tamil Nadu Police’s snipers, trained by the Zionist Israeli regime. While the police and the district collector, obeying the order of the AIADMK’s ruling E. … Read more
In principle, when examining any historical theory or philosophy, the following issues are brought in question: The theme of the theory? Whether the theory is applicable in the present era or not? But the case of Marxism, for bourgeois world, is different where the orders of questions are not only changed when the theme is often … Read more