India’s Forever Wars and Forever Warriors
Pre-conditions now exist for a positive turn to the India-China bilateral relationship. But whether it will lead to peace and stability in short and medium term depends on a number of factors.
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Justice P.B. Sawant: Obituary; Article: ‘How Much of a Democracy Is India, Really?’
On February 15, 91-year-old Justice PB Sawant breathed his last. In an article written some days before his death, he wrote: In every “democracy” where there is capitalist economic system, there is no democracy at all.
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Modi Blocks Farmers from Entering Delhi While Their Protest Expands Across India
Farmers are uniting and protesting as never before in India. They are ignoring the caste, religious, and class boundaries that normally divide them. Prime Minister Modi planned to encircle the farmers. But the farmers are now encircling his government.
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Stop Targeting India’s Youth and Environmental Activists
Press Statement: Young environmental activists, that the country should be proud of, are the latest victims of the Centre’s continuing efforts to deligitimise the ongoing farmers protest and the nationwide solidarity it has generated. We demand that Disha Ravi be immediately released.
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Karnataka Anti-slaughter Law Neither Protects Cows, Nor the Poor Who Tend to Them
Except for stoking communalism, such laws will only reduce dwindling bovine populations, as farmers have nowhere to go to sell their older cows and buffaloes, thus reducing their ability to rear them.
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How Gandhi Discarded Reactionary Prejudices to Embrace More Egalitarian Positions
In each of the domanins of race, caste, and gender, Gandhi, over the course of his life, discarded the reactionary prejudices he once held to embrace more egalitarian positions.
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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s Iconic Speech at Jama Masjid, 23 October 1947
Transcript of the speech delivered by Maulana Azad to a congregation of Muslims at Jama Masjid shortly after India attained independence.
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The Kisans Are Right: Their Land Is at Stake – Part 3
The model the Modi Government is seeking to impose on Indian agriculture is similar to that imposed on Mexican agriculture since the onset of IMF-dictated ‘reforms’ in the 1980s.
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The BJP Government’s Goebbelsian Campaign Against the Farmers’ Agitation
The fighting spirit of the farmers has kept the agitation alive through the past two months. The farmers on the ground at the Delhi siege and those supporting them from the villages assert that this will see their struggle through all the machinations of the propagators of the “Big Lie”.
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The Shame of Fortress Delhi
The metaphoric Fortress Delhi crept up on us over years, but the physical Fortress Delhi has been achieved in days.
