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
The cold-blooded murder of Naushad and Mustaqeem, two extremely poor Muslim youth, by the Aligarh Police in Harduaganj of Aligarh on 20 September has created a nationwide stir. The police had earlier called a local news channel to record what it called the ambush, which later boomeranged against it as the clips clearly show how … Read more
The killing spree with which the Uttar Pradesh Police has unleashed a reign of terror in the state with the patronage of Yogi Adityanath-led Hindutva fascist regime, faced the heat when the police killed an upper-caste Hindu man who hails from a family that had supported the BJP since years. The killing of Apple executive … Read more
A recent spree of mob violence against the Hindi-speaking North Indian migrant labours in North Gujarat has forced thousands of poor workers into exodus. Dalit and lower-caste workers from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand are targeted by upper-caste mobsters after a migrant labour was accused of brutally raping a 14-month-old toddler in North … Read more
Once again another platoon of farmers, distressed, angry and agitated, reached the outskirts of New Delhi, raising their fists in opposition to the government’s indifference towards them, and these very unarmed farmers, walking or riding tractors, were brutally assaulted by the Delhi Police and the Rapid Action Force to ensure no disturbance is caused by … 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
On 20 September 2018, West Bengal Police was called by the administration of the Daribhit High School, located in Islampur subdivision of West Bengal’s North Dinajpur district. The police were called to control students who were protesting against the unavailability of adequate teachers in the school, however, the police, as alleged by the local residents … Read more
There is a lot of talk lately on the RSS head Mohan Bhagwat’s three-day-long session with toady journalists and Hindutva cheerleader intellectuals to build-up a strong PR campaign before the onset of the 2019 general election, in which Narendra Modi will have to face extreme anti-incumbency waves due to the anti-people policies executed and pursued … Read more
The World Hindu Congress was organised from 7 to 9 September 2018 at Chicago, where RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat and Indian Vice President, a veteran Sangh propagandist, Venkaiah Naidu participated as key speakers. Hindutva hate mongers and rabble-rousers like the notorious Zionist Israeli agent Tapan Ghosh, the CIA stooge Indian corporate tycoons, the Hindutva poster-boy … 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
Ever since the Pune Police arrested five activist-intellectuals: Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Sudha Bhardwaj and Varavara Rao, and accused them of being “Urban Naxals” conspiring against the Modi regime, the term -“Urban Naxal”- suddenly became a popular political identity from slur, used so far by demagogues of the ruling Hindutva fascist bloc to … Read more
The anti-fascist, left, democratic and progressive forces of India and abroad strongly condemned simultaneous raid at nine locations by the Pune Police and the subsequent arrest of five renowned civil rights activists on falsified terrorism charges as an attempt by the Modi regime to establish a reign of terror, like the emergency imposed by Indira … Read more
The Parliament Street of New Delhi became crimson on 5 September 2018, as a rally of more than 200,000 workers and peasants marched towards the parliament raising their just demands, opposing the anti-people, pro-corporate and predatory policies of the Hindutva fascist Narendra Modi regime. Though the Mazdoor-Kisan Sangharsh rally was organised by the parliamentary opportunist … Read more
The arrest of Sanjiv Bhatt, an ex-IPS officer who has been a vocal critic of Narendra Modi and his regime, once again showed the crisis in which the Modi regime is deeply immersed and its inability to continuously hoodwink people with communal diatribe, xenophobic tirade or cacophony of “development”, to cover-up its heinous deeds. Sanjiv … Read more
A student was arrested by the Tamil Nadu Police following a complaint lodged against her by the state BJP chief Tamilisai Soundararajan. What was her crime? She used her freedom of expression to call a spade – a spade. She called the Hindutva fascist Modi regime a “fascist” government and for that crime, she was … Read more
The “Urban Naxal” threat just got a new lease of life outside the Twitter timeline of flop film director and certified Modi bootlicker Vivek Agnihotri on Tuesday, 28 August, when the Pune Police conducted simultaneous raids at nine locations targeting prominent human rights, Dalit and Adivasi activists and left-leaning intellectuals. Homes of Vernon Gonsalves – … 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
Parts of Kashmir erupted in protests after a rumour about the scrapping of Article 35A of the Indian Constitution by the Supreme Court was spread in the valley, which resulted into massive stone pelting by the Kashmiri youth on Monday, 27 August. A spontaneous shutdown was observed in Srinagar and Anantnag district of South Kashmir, … Read more
The Trinamool Congress is accused of helping the BJP to grow in West Bengal, a state that remained aloof from communal politics until 2014, by providing it with the opposition space, which the ruling party and its cadres swearing allegiance to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee have proved to be correct on multiple occasions. A recent … Read more
The Home Ministry has recently cancelled the security clearance for Al Jazeera English channel, which the Islamophobic RSS-led Hindutva fascist camp has long considered their ideological enemy for portraying the hapless situation of the Muslim community in India. Though the Al Jazeera channel is funded by the reactionary ruling clique of Qatar, which is playing … Read more