Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Evaluating Indian Kings: Tipu Sultan
Tipu stands very tall in the scale of religious tolerance. The half-baked propaganda of the communal forces is trying to divide communities.
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Gandhi’s Enduring Legacy: Truth, Non-Violence, and Sangh Hypocrisy – 3 Articles
‘The Eternal Gandhi’: Amidst a Bid to Tarnish His Legacy, the Mahatma Endures. Also: ‘Now Is a Good Time to Be Concerned About the Truth and Non-Violence’; and ‘Decoding the RSS Hypocrisy of Respecting Gandhi’.
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Capitalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
When Courts Echo Majoritarianism, and Citizens Carry the Idea of India – 2 Articles
‘India’s Courts Are Echoing the Intolerance of its Ruling Party, its Affiliates, and State They Are Remaking in Their Image’: India’s criminal-justice system is inverting the presumption of innocence and Constitutional principles to align with the majoritarian ideology of the ruling BJP. Also: ‘Mohammad Deepak Kumar, Shaila Negi, and the Idea of India’.
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What Has Changed in the Constitution, and Why: Senior Advocate Dushyant Dave Explains
The lecture examines the erosion of constitutional morality, the weakening of parliamentary democracy and the growing centralisation of power in India’s political system.
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Capitalism | Economy | India | Online Blog
Budget 2026–27: Corporate Sops, Higher Individual Taxes, Weak Welfare, and Neglected Social Sectors – 5 Articles
‘India’s Budget 2026-2027 Overlooks Poor and Jobless, Instead Has Sops for Private Sector’; ‘Union Budget 2026-27: A Road to Nowhere’; ‘Union Government Is Still Taxing Individuals More Than Corporations’; ‘Budget 2026-27: Four Key Ministries That Shape Jobs, Health and Education in India’; ‘Budget 2026-27: If India Borrows More to Spend, Why Does it Deliver Less Welfare?’.
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Agriculture | Capitalism | Imperialism | India | Online Blog | USA
Indo-US Trade Deal Will Hurt Indian Agriculture – 4 Articles
‘What’s at Stake for Indian Agriculture in Trump’s Trade Deal?’; ‘US Trade Deal Will Destroy Farmers by Flooding India with American Farm Produce: SKM’; ‘India to Eliminate Tariffs on Industrial and “Vast Array” of Agricultural Goods: Jamieson Greer’; ‘Perils of Opening India’s Agricultural Market to United States Business’.
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Capitalism | Economy | India | Online Blog | Unemployment
The Retreating State and India’s Precarious Gig Economy – 3 Articles
The State Is Withdrawing from Protecting Unorganised Workers’; ‘“The Doorbell Is Not the Problem”: Why Government Regulation Is Necessary for the Gig Work Sector’; ‘What the State and Start-Up Ecosystem’s Celebration of India’s Gig Economy Tells Us About the Precarious Future of Work’.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
RSS and Bhagat Singh: From Derision to Appropriation
The RSS, which consciously kept aloof from the glorious freedom struggle, finds itself in a peculiar bind: it has to brandish itself as the sole repository of nationalism, but it lacks an authentic icon of freedom to call its own. To rid itself of this embarrassing lacuna, it resorts to appropriating figures like Bhagat Singh, who had nothing whatsoever to do with the ideology the Sangh espouses.
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Remembering Visionary Trade Unionist Shankar Guha Niyogi – 2 Articles
‘How the Murder of Trade Union Leader Shankar Guha Niyogi Hurt India’: He was killed in 1991 by thugs hired by businessmen angered that he had given workers self-respect and infused them with the spirit of equality. Also: ‘Remembering Visionary Trade Unionist Shankar Guha Niyogi: Labour’s Unfinished Struggle in Neoliberal India’.
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Population ‘Explosion’ to Low Fertility: India’s Demographic Anxieties Play Out on Women’s Bodies
Women continue to be treated as instruments to serve demographic goals rather than as individuals who have personal freedom.
