‘Pushback’ at Gunpoint – the Hindutva-BJP Project of Manufacturing Statelessness
The BJP’s win in West Bengal opens up a huge section of the border with Bangladesh to expand these extra-judicial operations targeting Bengali-speaking Muslims.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
India’s Uniform Civil Code Promises Equality, Delivers Surveillance
Seventy-five years after the Constitution came into force, India’s first uniform civil code laws have emerged—but as instruments of Hindutva rather than gender justice. Weaponised to stigmatise Muslims and expand state surveillance, they betray the constitutional vision of equity.
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Capitalism | India | Online Blog | Socialism
Why India’s Doctors Leave for Foreign Shores While Cuba’s Serve Their Poorest
India’s medical education system prepares a workforce that learns early to value personal profit over their patient’s well-being.
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Living in the Shadow of Jail, Torture: The Account of Two Muslims Acquitted of Terror
Over the past decade, a series of ‘terrorism’ cases have crumbled. The ‘terror innocents’ who walk free only face a life of unfreedom.
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The Plunder and Loot by Private Healthcare in India
Profits take priority over the wellbeing of patients, turning the sector into a business for wealth accumulation by any means, even unlawful and unethical.
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Pahalgam and After – The Singular Burden of Apology
Kashmiris and Muslims were the target of collective retribution in the midst of an outpouring of love, humanity and resistance following the terror attack.
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The Dark Clouds of 1935 Nuremberg Have Gathered Over Indian Skies
The exclusion and criminalisation of Muslim citizens through laws and state action are not as explicit as in Nazi Germany, but they violate the Constitution.
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How State-Backed Hindutva Rhetoric Is Fuelling the Ethnic Cleansing of Uttarakhand
India’s most populous hill state Uttarakhand is in unprecedented turmoil. It is the first State in India in which an influential and popular campaign for ethnic cleansing has gathered ominous momentum: a battle for the expulsion of all Muslims from the State.
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Who Lit the Fires in Nuh?
The Meo Muslims of Nuh shared tight bonds and socio-cultural life with Hindus for centuries. But lynchings and hate killings since 2017 have torn them apart.
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A New Dawn? Can India Reverse Its Staggering Inequality?
How long will India’s working people live with a policy regime that concentrates unimaginable levels of wealth in a few hands and leaves millions of people struggling for food, healthcare, decent schooling, work, and pensions when they age?
