God on Shoulders: Lumpen Proletariats and the Political Agenda of Kanwar Yatra
by Navneet Sharma and AnamicaMove your body, Move your bumBhole bam, bhole bam, Bhole bam —A popular song emanating from blaring DJs in Kanwar YatraEvery year people in and around Delhi and in the...
View ArticleThe return of the strongman in Sri Lanka
The announcement in Colombo on Sunday (August 11, 2019) by former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa that his brother, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, will be his party SLPP's presidential candidate in the...
View ArticleHoly Cow on Indian Political Chessboard
by Ram PuniyaniLynching alone has not been the only fallout of making the Holy cow as central to the agenda of the Hindu nationalist BJP and its co-travellers towards Hindu Rashtra. In the dreaded...
View ArticleArticle 35A Is Dead: Long Live Article 35A
Few “democracies” worldwide can quite match the amoral nimbleness of Indian “mainstream” politics.What was decried less than an hour ago can find blasé approval within the hour, replete with a brazen...
View ArticleNew India's ‘sanitised' concentration camps
by Mustafa KhanThe acerbic tweet of PM Narendra Modi from France and the meeting of G-7 is indicative of what he has made of the Kashmir Valley. What man has made of man! “Leaders from Opposition who...
View ArticleAbrogation of Article 370: Blatant Subversion of Democracy and Federalism
by Vijay KumarThe abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution and the promulgation of the Presidential Order dated August 5, 2019 superseding all previous Presidential Orders extending the provisions...
View ArticleIndia's Colossal Blunder in Kashmir
by Ayesha RayIn a stunningly dangerous, undemocratic and secretive move, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government repealed Articles 370 and 35a of the Indian Constitution using a...
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Restore Nehruvian Economic Policies
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKThe BJP Government had been casting covetous glances on the RBI reserve fund for quite some time and the RBI was resisting it. It was mainly on this issue that the former RBI Governor...
View ArticleNormalcy
Landlines are up.Normalcy is on the way.Soon other things will follow,As they learn to obey.Schools are open too.The children may not be there,But no normalcy can be lastingWithout an element of...
View ArticleNarmada Movement Demands Need Wide Support
COMMUNICATIONOn September 2 Medha Patkar and nine persons affected by the submergence of the Sardar Sarovar Dam ended their nine-day fast after receiving assurances from the Madhya Pradesh Government...
View ArticleSocial Governance among Gurjars by the Gurjars in Rajasthan
by Mahi PalIntroductionIn Rajasthan, after the reservation movement, the Gurjar caste became a household name across the country. There were reasons for that in terms of their poverty and unemployment....
View ArticleKashmir Issue and India-Pakistan Relations
by B. VivekanandanAs the Kashmir issue has been made a flash-point of India-Pakistan relationship, which has stimulated a voluntary offer from the US President Donald Trump to become a mediator of it,...
View ArticleMajoritarian Politics will Doom Democracy in India
by Mustafa KhanTo protect democracy in India it is necessary to prepare for a long drawn out war of which the context of 2019 election in West Bengal is an example of a battle only. However the NCP...
View ArticleWhat Makes Srinagar the World's New ‘Forbidden City'
Addressing the National Urban Development Summit in Gurgaon recently, Minister of State Rao Inderjit Singh lamented that China has been able to grow faster than India, which is “handicapped” being a...
View ArticleFreedom of the Press in the Age of Internet
MEDIAA major television channel owned by the country's second biggest news conglomerate has announced it is launching a campaign to expose foreign agencies working in India, such as the British...
View ArticleAll's Okay in the Valley!
MUSINGSWhy were several prominent parliamen-tarians from the Opposition political parties denied entry into the Kashmir Valley? So that they don't get to hear the human cries, those appeals to be set...
View ArticleDragging Armed Forces into Political Dragnet
by M.P. NathanaelPerhaps for the first time in the history of election campaigning in our country, the success of the security forces in various operations against terrorists and even Pakistani...
View ArticleWhat is Happening in my Beloved Country?
Recently there was disturbing news that the seven accused in rioting which led to the lynching of Subodh Kumar Singh in Buland-shahr—the policeman who was also investi-gating Mohammad Akhlaq's...
View ArticleKashmir developments triggered by Trump-Imran meet?
by Mahendra VedCutting through the maze of triumphal justification and angry opposition to the structural, legal, constitutional and political changes pertaining to Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, there is...
View ArticleThe Big Five on Kashmir
No Indian Prime Minister would ever have visited the host country of an international summit to which he was invited within the week twice—one to attend the conference and a previous one just four days...
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