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As millions suffer due to heat wave and children are struggling to breath amid pollution, the Modi regime donated 170,000 hectares of forest to Adani group.
Selfies and photographs are harmless unless there is a craze to get into a frame with a fascist despot who is accused of abetting massacres and lynchings.
On 19 September the Batla House encounter turned 10 years while a case related to the alleged “encounter”, in which two Muslim youth and one policeman were killed, still hangs like a sword of Damocles over the head of those who were arrested in relation to the case from the spot and elsewhere later. There … Read more
A massive movement of South Delhi residents and environmentalists have stalled the Modi regime’s plan to axe more than 17,000 trees in the very city that is choking due to severe air pollution and a deficit of nearly 900,000 trees according to a finding of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). The Delhi High Court … Read more
The Narendra Modi-led BJP government has done many stints since coming to power and almost all of the BJP-ruled states have followed the suit to match the pace of their New Delhi-based mentor. From granting cabinet minister status to Sadhus, a sect of Hindu religious leaders, by the Madhya Pradesh government to the building of … Read more
Few weeks ago, the issue of carcass meat sourced from the garbage dumps of Kolkata and suburbs has captured the public discourse due to the extensive media coverage the issue has got and the amount of terror it could spread down the spine of the people of Kolkata and other cities of West Bengal. The … Read more
The gruesome murder of a young man named Ankit Saxena by a group of Islamist fanatics in front of several onlookers at the heart of the national capital city New Delhi, shows how nefariously the religious fanaticism has crept into the veins of the society and is working with full force to divide the people … Read more
According to the panic-struck old mother of Bilal Kawa, her son is the recent victim of the Indian security agencies, who have framed thousands of Kashmiri men, women and children in fabricated cases of terrorism to grill them and then let them languish all their lives within the four walls of the prisons. Bilal Kawa … Read more
Narendra Modi’s three and half years of governance has not only taken the country to the verge of a major economic catastrophe and unleashed the terror of cow vigilante groups associated with the RSS, the fountainhead of Hindutva fascism, but it has also breathed a fresh lease of life in the political satire and comedy … Read more
Whenever there is an occasion of joy and fun for the rich, the poor are forced to suffer and face the music. As 10 matches of the FIFA Under 17 World Cup will be played in Calcutta’s Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, popularly known as the Salt Lake Stadium, the poor slum dwellers of the vicinity … 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
Gurmeet Ram Rahim ‘Insaan’, the self-styled godman, whom even Narendra Modi saluted to woo voters during the Haryana assembly election, now stands convicted of rape and is awaiting punishment from a CBI special court in Panchkula, Haryana. More than 100,000 supporters of the convicted god man are on rampage opposing the verdict of the court … Read more
Death of 30 children within 48 hours in BRD Hospital, the largest state-run hospital in Gorakhpur, can be called nothing less than a systematic murder because the BRD Hospital administration and the Health Department of the Uttar Pradesh government deliberately showed a lacklustre attitude in paying back the dues to the oxygen supplier, who withdrew … Read more
The entire Tamil mainstream corporate media is busy covering the protests and outrage across Tamil Nadu and in the capital city Chennai against the Jallikattu ban. The national mainstream corporate media is not lagging behind as well. GBs of data and tonnes of newsprint later the story is still making rounds with Chief Minister O. … Read more
(This article was first published in July 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) On 3rd July 2016, the Pandey residency in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, received a telephone call from London, a … 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) 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 August 2015 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 fields of Bihar were crimsoned since centuries with the blood of the poor and downtrodden peasants, mostly … Read more