Ram Mandir at Ayodhya mainstreamed Hindutva in Indian polity
Ram Mandir construction wasn’t the real goal of the RSS behind its Ayodhya mission. The August 5th events reaffirmed that once again.
Hindutva fascism
Why the NEP 2020 will deprive the poor of education?
The NEP 2020 has been planned meticulously to deprive the poor students of the right to education, not just higher education but also school education.
New National Education Policy 2020: The robot-making education system must be resisted
The National Education Policy 2020 aims at turning education into a robot-making system for big corporate houses. This must be resisted by the students.
Authoritarian populists and their politics – Part I
In this two-part article, I discuss the personality and politics of such leaders and the social context that provided the fertile ground for their rise.
Justice for Jeyaraj and Fenix not possible until colonial-era police system exists
There can be no justice for Jeyaraj and Fenix who were killed in custody by the Tamil Nadu Police until the colonial-era police institution exists in India.
Deconstructing the triumphant decadence: Perforating the idea of nation and exequial of reason
The essence of an idea of nation lies with its imagination. The recent consistent onslaught on its idea is gravely frightening.
Indifference, when a pregnant woman is jailed under false charges, is a crime, dissent isn’t
If there is an ominous silence over the arrest of a pregnant woman like Safoora Zargar under false charges, then that’s a crime. Dissenting isn’t.
The class conflict and populist narrative in Modi’s India under COVID-19
In Modi’s India there has been a fundamental transformation in political discourse. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed class conflicts more acutely than ever.
Behind “Atmanirbhar Bharat” rhetoric is an attempt to tighten neo-colonial grip over India
Modi’s “Atmanirbhar Bharat” or self-reliant India isn’t a vision of a free, self-reliant economy but of becoming a neo-colonial cheap labour-based economy.
Modi’s proposed “bold reforms” prelude to a tyrannical corporate rule
Modi’s address to nation unveiled the forthcoming tyrannical corporate fascist rule that will ruin the lives and livelihood of the poor and undo democracy.
Not enraged but helpless: The subjugated working class in lockdown
The working class is subjugated and repressed by the Hindutva fascist state during the lockdown. But this won’t end them. They will return very soon.
PMCARES Fund and Aarogya Setu aiding Modi’s despotic hegemony
Modi’s PMCARES Fund and Aarogya Setu app have been severely criticised but that didn’t stop the prime minister from consolidating his tyrannical hegemony.
May Day – International Labour Day 2020 during COVID-19
The International Labour Day 2020 on May 1st, amid an unprecedented lockdown, is when one should look at the challenges posed to the Indian working class.
Naqvi’s “heaven for Muslims” is actually worse than hell
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi called India a “heaven for Muslims” opposing the OIC’s allegation of sponsoring Islamophobia, which became a joke of the town recently.
Arnab Goswami’s howling over freedom of speech got irony a heart attack
Arnab Goswami is howling over an attack on his freedom of speech and got a respite from the Supreme Court too. But can irony stand this man’s theatrics?
FIR spree in Kashmir a dastardly effort to bully valley scribes
The random filing of police cases against the scribes of Kashmir is a frantic attempt by the Modi regime to bully and suppress whatever is left uncensored.
How COVID-19 outbreak in India is helping the Modi regime normalise a fascist rule?
Is the Modi regime using the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown to establish a fascist dictatorship on India, quite nakedly than ever? What’s the truth?
Fake news alert: No, China didn’t give Pakistan masks made of underwears!
No, China didn’t send masks made of underwear to Pakistan as claimed in a video circulated on social media and publicised by the Indian mainstream media.
Why the NPR is inevitable despite a pause due to COVID-19 outbreak?
Though the MHA has postponed the NPR exercise due to COVID-19 outbreak, there is no reason to think it won’t happen, rather it’s needed more than ever now.
The march of the migrant workers towards no land
It’s a time when the privileged are saving their class self-isolating while poor people are struggling for two pieces of bread