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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…
Sandeep Pandey, Anandi Pandey At New Delhi’s Jamia Millia University if one visits the library it may appear as if a pitched battle was fought here. Almost all glasses have been broken by tear gas shells or stun grenades and furniture has been vandalised. And this was in response to some peaceful protests outside…
Harsh Mander A hundred years have passed since a battle was launched for the soul of this ancient land. At stake was the country we would together build after the British left our shores. This was the time when Mahatma Gandhi returned from South Africa to join India’s freedom struggle. In his leadership…
Siddharth Varadarajan Let us set aside the anger and revulsion, disbelief, helplessness and perhaps even fear that many of you would have felt over Sunday night’s events at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and let us also postpone the question of who those masked thugs were that beat up students and faculty, and destroyed public property…
Jahnavi Sen The Narendra Modi government wants to know all about us—where we and our parents were born, where we live, what we do, details of our family members, our mobile numbers and so on. For a country of more than 133 crore people, that is a massive (and massively expensive) exercise. But the…
Press Release: Ham Bharat ke Log For the last one week, Uttar Pradesh is under a reign of terror. Uttar Pradesh government is employing unlawful and lethal tactics to harass and intimidate the citizens that are protesting against Citizenship Amendment Act (“CAA”) and National Register of Citizens (“NRC”). The authorities are brazenly targeting Muslims,…
Prem Shankar Jha On December 22, India reached a crossroad in its tortured journey towards nationhood. For the first time in more than five years—and 17 years, if we count his time as chief minister of Gujarat—Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a step back from a policy that he had previously committed himself to….
Dilip Simeon I write this primarily for the young protestors of today, as well as those who might be confused by the government’s (and the Sangh Parivar’s) propaganda. It is necessary to see how ill-informed, illogical and deceitful this propaganda is, because it is being propagated by responsible persons bent upon creating more tension…
Samrat Chakrabarti It began simply and without fuss. On the night that Jamia Millia Islamia was attacked, ten women walked out of their homes and onto the road next door that connects Delhi with Uttar Pradesh with a resolve not to move, come what may. These women who describe themselves as jahil and…
Chandrasekhar Azad Ravan “Jai Bhim! This is a bigger fight. CAA and NRC will break this country and we are standing with this nation. This fight is not just of the Muslims, this is a fight for everyone, and we will not let it weaken. I’m surrendering to the government, but I say this,…
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