‘Shaheen Bagh and Mumbai Bagh, Sister Fields’: New Poems for Our Times
Excerpts from ‘Song of a Rebel and Other Selected Poems’ by Bina Sarkar Ellias.
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US-Funded Belarusian Regime-Change Activist Arrested on Plane had Joined Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, fought in Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the US government’s media apparatus.
Mr. Modi May Continue to Rule, But Can He Govern?
Narendra Modi has burnt every bridge, antagonised every peer and decapacitated every institution which could have helped him cross the troubled waters he now has to negotiate.
Bengal Elections and Beyond: the BJP Can Be Defeated but the RSS Project Remains
The RSS knows that capturing the hearts and minds of the young is a generational task and is ready to wait for another two elections for the BJP to capture the state in Bengal.
How Bengali Civil Society Stood Up Against the BJP
From a people’s campaign on ‘No Vote To BJP’ to a music video by a galaxy of artists against the party’s ‘ideology of hatred’, the civil society in Bengal had a powerful impact in the recent polls.
Mahavir Narwal: Remembering a Brave Father’s Fearless Crusade for His Daughter’s Freedom – Two Articles
Narwal sahib deserved to live. To see his daughter free. Not on bail. Free. With apologies from the Indian state. Plus: “The Law Sees ‘Terror’ in Blocked Road, Not Patients Gasping for Oxygen”.
Breaking the Thermometer
Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, the bunch of integrity-free incompetents Mr Modi has gathered around him as his ministers – all need to go. And immediately, in order for the country to launch the mammoth operation of recovery and repair needed for our survival.
‘Lest We Forget’: Why India Must Remember Its Present Horror
When the age of reason returns, the people responsible should be held to account for the biblical scale of suffering they have inflicted on a people who trusted them.
The Global Spread of Fascism Is as Real as the Spread of COVID-19
The beast is struggling against its chains in Germany. It has bared its fangs in Washington, D.C. It has shed blood in the Philippines and India. Let us not repeat the mistake of the democracies of the early 20th century of hesitating to call that beast by its name.
Why Satyajit Ray’s ‘Sadgati’ Gets the Hindutvawadi’s Goat
Even though a full 40 years have passed since its release, this wiry little film continues to hit the religious fanatic hard between the eyes today.