An average Indian news consumer knows that there is a good pious man, who is a good friend of Narendra Modi and he visited India with a 130-member-strong entourage to sell a basketful of stuff to his friends here and to build up a strong tie between his government and that of Narendra Modi’s. The … Read more
On 12 January, four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court called a press conference to fire a salvo against the present Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, accusing him of arbitrarily handling the Supreme Court’s daily affairs and allocating the hearing of the crucial cases to selective benches without any rational or consultation with other … Read more
Abdul Basheer was brutally lynched to death by Hindutva mercenaries in Mangalore not because he had any role to play in the murder of the Hindutva fascist Deepak Rao, the Bajrang Dal goon killed recently in a spat but simply because he was a Muslim. The religious identity that has been the cause of several … Read more
West Bengal is experiencing a paradigm shift in its political theatre as the BJP and the Mamata Banerjee-led ruling Trinamool Congress entered into a cut-throat competition to outdo each other in playing the game of communal polarisation. The state that was once called the oasis of secularism in a country that is ravaged by communal … 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
Recently, Lalu Prasad Yadav was convicted by a special CBI court of Jharkhand in one of the cases of the Fodder Scam and he’s now thrown behind the bars for three and half years, for the second time since he was convicted in the same scam in October 2013. Since this verdict, the political amphitheatre … Read more
After a brief lull, the Modi regime is going to face large-scale mass discontent and parliamentary opposition in the coming days as Indian GDP growth rate is going to fall to 6.5 per cent for the Financial Year (FY) 2017-18, as per the recent data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. This … Read more
By filing a police complaint against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the BJP-led communal fascist government of Assam showed the intolerance towards dissent that the Hindutva camp and its lackey bureaucracy suffers from. Even meek criticism from a fellow right-wing politician is considered as a threat to the Hindutva empire by the rulers and … Read more
The much-awaited and much-discussed Gujarat assembly election 2017 results are out and as anticipated by the majority of the democratic and progressive camp, the BJP, once more, won the election by using the age-old Hindutva strategy to polarise the voters to sweep the polls. The BJP has won 99 seats out of 182 in the … Read more
When Shambhulal Raigar brutally lynched Mohammad Afrazul Shaikh and then burned him in Rajsamand of Rajasthan, a few hours drive from Jaipur, he was sure that this act will make him a celebrity; he knew, from his accurate understanding of the undergoing trends of the Indian politics that he will be absolved of all his … Read more
The Congress was pronounced dead post-2014 rise of Narendra Modi, the fascist tyrant who is set to rule India, along with his coterie of RSS-trained hardcore Hindutva fascists for decades to come. The resurrection of the Congress Party and the glorification of its present and past leaders, especially of the new party chief – Rahul … Read more
Then came Ayodhya. After India was ripped apart and ravaged by a dastardly communal carnage and a large-scale displacement of people on communal lines during the partition, the Ram Janmabhoomi controversy suddenly resurrected, after dying a peaceful death in the 19th century when the Nirmohi Akhara, promoted and funded by British colonial rulers, started a … Read more
The most popular literary festival of India, the Times Lit Fest will be organised this December in Mumbai, where, along with literary and cultural personalities, RSS’ favourite Yoga-Guru-turned-FMCG-businessman Baba Ramdev is invited as a prominent guest. This decision by India’s largest corporate media conglomerate has taken aback a lot of distinguished writers and literary personalities. … Read more
The BJP’s endeavour to Talibanise India on the path shown by the CIA-funded Salafist terror group in Afghanistan, is showing visible signs of progress as in the past 10 days incidents of death threats, issuance of bounty for beheading individuals and the firman of chopping-off fingers or breaking arms of dissidents have been issued by … Read more
A nationwide ruckus is created over the screening of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 190-crore movie, Padmavati, by a little-known organisation –the Shri Rajput Karni Sena, which is a feudal warlord organisation of the upper-caste Rajput community’s arch-reactionary section. The Shri Rajput Karni Sena and other Kshatriya-Rajput organisations affiliated with the BJP and the RSS in North … Read more
Demonetisation and GST roll-out hit the Indian trade and commerce, especially small and middle-scale traders, industrialists and the broad masses of workers and farmers adversely and created an economic catastrophe from which the Indian economy shows no sign of recovery even now. At a time when the economy is crisis-ridden, the workers and farmers are … 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
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 forthcoming Gujarat Assembly Election has turned on the political heat in the state and the country’s mainstream media is focusing on the battle-of-words between the incumbent BJP and the opposition Congress, which is trying hard to seize control of the state after nearly two decades of banging head against the wall. Within this cacophony, … 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