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
Narendra Modi government announced a ₹10 trillion investment to revive the economy, out of which ₹7 trillion will be spent in building infrastructure, especially 83,677 km of roads and highways and ₹2.11 trillion to recapitalise the PSU banks. The road building will be done under a fanciful name of Bharat Mala and the PSU recapitalisation … Read more
During his maiden trip to Bihar after Nitish Kumar’s dramatic volte-face, Narendra Modi claimed that his government ensures that all schemes are implemented unlike the previous government’s schemes, which, according to Modi, were not implemented and the consecutive governments before Modi never fulfilled any promises made to the people. Narendra Modi was laying the foundation … 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
Karl Marx said, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” He gave names of his contemporaries, while we have Piyush Goyal, a prominent BJP leader and a crucial minister in the Modi government … Read more
Finally Narendra Modi accepted that the Indian economy is going through bad times during his tenure, though denying that his government is responsible for the major mismanagement of macroeconomic factors; rather as a truly devoted Sanghi prostelyser, Modi blamed the critics for being pessimists, of suffering the Shalya syndrome (a pessimist chariot driver of Mahabharata … Read more
Jay Amitbhai Shah, the son of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah, has sued the independent media outlet, The Wire, in a defamation case for publishing a detailed investigative report on how one of his companies called Temple Enterprises suddenly saw a 16,000 times increase in its turnover between 2015-16, after his political uncle … Read more
When Narendra Modi started his campaign for the prime minister’s position during the 2014 general election, he and the entire Hindutva camp trained their guns against the Congress Party’s first family, the Gandhis, whom they blamed for all woes afflicting India and also alleged that the family has siphoned-off immense wealth to foreign shores and … Read more
Modinomics is the new school of economics to which the Bhakts, the cheerleaders of Narendra Modi-led Hindutva fascist regime, subscribes to and they hail it as a powerful weapon to get rid of all the woes of the poor and take India to the plane of development that Modi promised during his 2014 election campaign. … Read more
Rare moments are always frame-worthy, especially if it’s a historic handshake between two of the most notorious Muslim-killers of our time. Narendra Modi met Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar government’s caretaker and defacto leader, during his Myanmar visit at Naypyitaw. Modi, accused of being the chief architect of the 2002 Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom, praised … 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
The cat is out of the bag; affirming the observations made by the critics, Narendra Modi government’s demonetisation exercise came out to be a futile one, as per the recent data released by the Reserve Bank of India, which says that nearly 99 percent of the demonetised currency notes of ₹1000 and ₹500 returned back … 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
Every year since 1947 the Indian people have been subjected to a Prime Minister’s speech on 15 August from the podium atop the Red Fort in Delhi. Religiously the common people listened to the speech each year to find for themselves the answers to the burning problems in their lives, i.e. the problem of bread … Read more
The Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi was attacked by the BJP goons, during his Gujarat tour, where we went to take stock of the flood situation that is prevailing in the BJP-ruled state. The Sangh workers threw stones at the car ferrying Rahul Gandhi and it injured his PSO. Rahul Gandhi and the entire opposition … Read more
The recent somersault in the politics of Bihar, following Nitish Kumar’s sudden return to the BJP’s lap, caused an upheaval throughout the country, forcing the mainstream media to junk every other news and stories to spend time in decoding the cryptic political back-channel processes that opened the doors to the former NDA ally and a … 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
Ramnath Kovind is the BJP’s trump card in the forthcoming Presidential election because of his Dalit identity, which will put the opposition in shambles as they would not be able to counter this move with any other Dalit candidate of the stature of Kovind. Their attempt to put up a savarna candidate against Kovind will … Read more