Hathras gangrape and the selective outrage of India’s mainstream
The Hathras gangrape and murder of a Dalit girl didn’t trigger an outrage in the upper-caste sections, exemplifying myriad dynamics of rape.
The Hathras gangrape and murder of a Dalit girl didn’t trigger an outrage in the upper-caste sections, exemplifying myriad dynamics of rape.
Is it right to merely blame Jyotiraditya Scindia for the Madhya Pradesh fiasco? Or is it the fault of the dynastic feudal hegemony that thrives in polity?
The Uttar Pradesh government led by Yogi Adityanath has waived off the farm loans in the state and the news has become a headline that all mainstream corporate media houses kept recycling to project the man, their corporate owners funded, as a messiah for the poor and the would-be Narendra Modi, aka Vikas Purush (development … Read more
(This article was first published in July 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) In a press conference held at New Delhi, the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told the reporters that 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