The Narendra Modi government has brought a peculiar trend in India – celebrating the idea of “national unity” by spreading divisiveness; talking about the unity of the country by actually dividing the people of the country into sectarian lines. It’s the first government of India, which overtly, and quite unapologetically, identifies the unity of India … Read more
The interest of New Delhi in resolving the Kashmir issue, which is essentially an issue of a forceful military occupation over a people who wants freedom for themselves, is as much that a wolf has in eating grass. The recent appointment of former IB chief Dineshwar Sharma as the interlocutor of New Delhi in Kashmir … Read more
The BJP is facing the heat of anti-incumbency wave in Gujarat, a state it has ruled for 22 long years and whose “model of development” is used extensively by Narendra Modi to build his “pro-development” image and sweep elections in one after another state. There is a clear sign of mass discontent against the saffron … Read more
Amit Shah finally broke his conspicuous silence on the issue of a sudden surge in the turnover of his son Jay Shah’s firm Temple Enterprise, which increased 16,000 times from Rs 50,000 to Rs 800m in just one year, coincidentally soon after Narendra Modi became the prime minister. Shah spoke briefly at a forum of … 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
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
Narendra Modi, during his tenure as Gujarat chief minister and a contender as BJP’s prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 general election, often criticised the UPA II government led by Dr Manmohan Singh, for being a too big government with 70 ministers providing minimum governance. When Modi assumed office in May 2014, he started with … 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
After a brief lull, following a communal carnage in Basirhat area of North 24 Paragana district, West Bengal is again going to get into another bigger communal turmoil, as Mamata Banerjee, in her attempt to covertly shower blessings on the electoral fortune of the BJP in the state, took a communally biased decision to bar … 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
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
Ever since the BJP managed to stitch up a coalition government with Nitish Kumar in Bihar, the Modi government and its toady corporate media has plunged into intense campaigning against the LDF government in Kerala led by the ailing parliamentary opportunist CPI(M), with an intention to impose president’s rule in the state and thereby seize … Read more
Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen faced the wrath of Salafist goons of AIMIM at the Aurangabad Airport, where she was bullied and forced to leave the town after she came there to spend a holiday with a plan to visit the historical sites of Ajanta and Ellora caves. Under the leadership of the Aurangabad Central … Read more
Even after the nationwide outrage over the Hindutva-incensed mob lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri district of Uttar Pradesh in 2015 and over the series of such the brutal lynchings, up to that of Pehlu Khan in Alwar district of Rajasthan by the VHP affiliated goons, the mob violence against the Muslims and Dalits isn’t … Read more
The BJP, in connivance with other fraternal Hindutva fascist organisations, started a nationwide witch hunt against Muslims by alleging that the members of the minority community celebrated the victory of Pakistan in the ICC Champion’s Cup. Fake videos like these were used by the IT Cell of the BJP to instigate vitriol against the Muslims … Read more
Ever since Burhan Wani was gunned down by the Indian Army in the Kashmir one year ago, the valley never returned to what New Delhi and its toady media houses call – “normalcy”, and adding much to the anxiety of the Modi regime and its puppet Mehbooba Mufti regime, the Kashmiri men and women valourously … Read more
The social fabric of the country, especially the communal harmony that existed in other parts of India than communally turbulent cow-belt, has been ripped off by the Hindutva regime in the last three years. The “holy cow” issue is used every now and then to threaten the Muslims, Dalits, Tribals and Christian population of the … Read more
From Mandir Wahin Banayenge Until Now The political situation prevailing at present in India can be attributed largely to the demolition of the Babri Masjid by thousands of karsevaks on 6 December 1992, when Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti captained a mob of incensed karsevaks to the site of the Babri … Read more
Swarajya, a right-wing extremist portal that is managed by fascist toady journalists of the Modi regime like Swapan Dasgupta, started a slander-driven campaign against the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, by twisting facts and words to build up a Hindutva case against her. The libellous and extremely malicious campaign launched by the right-wing foreign … Read more
The coastal town of Bhadrak, Odisha, burned in a pyre of a communal riot following a state-sponsored rampage by the Bajrang Dal goons in the town on 6 April. Under the leadership of the RSS led units, mainly Bajrang Dal hooligans, many houses, temples, mosques and shops were gutted by the mob. The riots are … Read more