Shaheen Bagh-Inspired Protests Spread Across the Country 
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Shaheen Bagh-Inspired Protests Spread Across the Country 

Abdul Alim Jafri, Chandni Doulatramani and Ruchika Goswamy   Shaheen Bagh in Allahabad via Kanpur   Inspired by the resilient women of New Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, whose month-long resistance against the CAA and NRC is making waves, large groups of women began a sit-in protest at Mansoor Ali Park of Roshan Bagh in Uttar Pradesh’s…

CAA–NRC Protests: Why Gandhi Would Have Been Proud of Today’s Youth
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CAA–NRC Protests: Why Gandhi Would Have Been Proud of Today’s Youth

Syed Ubaidur Rahman   Today, as the shadow of eviction confronts the anti-CAA protests that have rocked the Capital’s Shaheen Bagh locality for one month, it is important to note how these protests have contributed to the nation so far. The protests—wherever they have taken place in the country—have had a profound impact on the…

A Million Mutinies Tied Together by Humanity and Hope
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A Million Mutinies Tied Together by Humanity and Hope

Prem Panicker   It was the Bharatiya Janata Party’s New Year gift for a bigoted base that did the party proud in the 2019 general election. It turned out to be the inflection point, the wedge driven deep into the subcutaneous fissures in society that cracked the country wide open—and look where we are now….

An Open Letter to the Citizens of India
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An Open Letter to the Citizens of India

Constitutional Conduct Group   A group of 106 former senior bureaucrats with the government of India have organised themselves as the Constitutional Conduct Group. Most of them were IAS, and include IPS, IRS, IFS officials. They include top former Secretaries, DGPs and even RAW officials. The signatories include former National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon; former…

Shaheen Bagh: Thousands Say in One Voice—Nothing Less Than CAA Roll-Back
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Shaheen Bagh: Thousands Say in One Voice—Nothing Less Than CAA Roll-Back

Tarique Anwar   A record crowd of over 50,000 people gathered at the protest site at Shaheen Bagh in Jamia nagar locality in Southeast Delhi on Sunday, January 12 evening to extend solidarity to protesting women, who have been staging a ‘dharna’ (sit-in) at Kalindi Kunj-Noida highway for the past 28 days—protesting against the  CAA–NPR–NRC….

US Is a Rogue State and Suleimani’s Assassination Confirms It
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US Is a Rogue State and Suleimani’s Assassination Confirms It

  C.J. Polychroniou interviews Noam Chomsky   C.J. Polychroniou (CJP): Noam, the US assassination of Iran’s Quds Force commander Qassim Suleimani has reaffirmed Washington’s long-held obsession with Tehran and its clerical regime, which goes all the way back to the late 1970s. What is the conflict between US and Iran all about, and does the…

A Self-Made Fiscal Trap
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A Self-Made Fiscal Trap

C.P. Chandrasekhar   In the Revised Estimates for 2018–19 reported in Budget 2019, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had hugely inflated figures on Central revenues and expenditures in 2018–19. This was one of many signals that it was faced with a fiscal crisis it did not want to reveal. Matters have only worsened since…

Interview: ‘We Have Practically Lost Kashmir,’ Says P. Chidambaram
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Interview: ‘We Have Practically Lost Kashmir,’ Says P. Chidambaram

The Wire Staff   “We have practically lost Kashmir,” former Union home minister P. Chidambaram said about the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government’s Kashmir policy in an interview to The Wire.   Appearing on the National Security Conversations show hosted by Happymon Jacob, the senior Congress leader argued that by carrying out fundamental changes in…

How Many Millions did You Make for the Pennies You Gave to the Coolies

How Many Millions did You Make for the Pennies You Gave to the Coolies

Vijay Prashad   As we enter the new year, protests across the planet continue unabated; rising levels of discontent are manifest in both progressive and reactionary directions. The political character of the anger might whip across the spectrum of opinion and hope, but the underlying frustrations are similar. There is anger at the decades-long crisis…

For the First Time Since Independence, Muslims Have Come on the Streets
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For the First Time Since Independence, Muslims Have Come on the Streets

Nizam Pasha   Ironically, the unholy trinity of the National Register of Citizens-Citizenship (Amendment) Act-National Population Register, designed to place a question mark on the citizenship of Muslims in India, has had the unintended consequence of reaffirming their Indian identity.   Despite having chosen to stay in India after independence, weathering the rising tide of…