‘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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If Assam, J&K-Style Delimitation Becomes the Norm, You Can Say Goodbye to Electoral Democracy
From the North–South divide and linguistic identity to electoral boundary manipulation and federal balance, Yogendra Yadav explores the challenges confronting Indian democracy. He says that the opposition’s fear is absolutely justified.
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The Journalist Who Asked Modi a Question
I met Helle Lyng Svendsen in Oslo. She was clear about what journalists ought to do. I was also struck by how open and accountable she had been, responding to even hostile questions thrown at her.
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The Shield of the Americas Exposed: Fascism’s New Face in the Americas
A counter revolution is consolidating itself in the Americas—firing drones and missiles at farmers and fishermen, plotting internal destabilization campaigns against insubordinate governments, and manufacturing lies and fever dreams about some bullshit they’re calling narcoterrorism.
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The Importance of Being Mohammad Deepak
In assuming a syncretic name while defending a Muslim man, Deepak Kumar affirmed the possibility of a dynamic, internally plural identity, sustained by a collective memory of interreligious sociability as intrinsic to the good life of a society.
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When Satire Shook the Regime: The Rise of the Cockroach Janata Party
‛Why a Question and Satire Unsettled Modi’: A Norwegian journalist’s question to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the viral rise of the “Cockroach Janata Party” shook his government’s tightly controlled political narrative last week. Also: ‛Cockroach Janta Party Memes Have Sent Everyone’s Antennae Tingling’.
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India’s Anti-Terror Law and the Punishment of the Unconvicted
The statistics released by the government paint a troubling picture. From 2019 to 2023, India arrested 10,440 individuals using its strictest anti-terror law, but only 335 were convicted. This number was shared by the Union Home Ministry itself during a session in Parliament in December 2025.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
The Supreme Court’s Refusal to Act Meaningfully on Hate Speeches – 2 Articles
‛Hate Speech Gets a New Safe Zone’: The Supreme Court’s April 29 judgment condemns coded incitement in theory while clearing its most powerful practitioners in practice, all the while calling it “judicial restraint”. Also: ‛Is SC’s “Existing Law” Argument on Hate Speech Enough?’.
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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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The War, the Indian State, and the Worker Citizen
The Indian media and social media seem to have been bewitched by some wicked magician who has made close to one billion people, the Indian working class, disappear from our minds and conscience. It is not only their pain, their exploitation that has become invisible but also their resistance to the injustice they suffer on a daily basis.
