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On the occasion of Narendra Modi’s 70th birthday, Twitter users took upon themselves to remind the prime minister of the growing joblessness and acute economic crisis that the country is facing.
Niyogi and CMSS can offer intellectual and practical ideas on how to counter the normalisation of Hindutva discourse.
Bhagat Singh – who the Hindu Right tends to project as an antidote to the Congress and Gandhi – not only had close relations with Congress leaders, never paid allegiance to Hinduism, but also actually valued non-violence.
This is what the former CM of Tamil Nadu wrote while welcoming Dr Ambedkar’s decision to convert to Buddhism.
There are uncanny parallels between the Italy of the 1920s and the India of the 2020s.
The success of right wing forces to increase their clout through the Ram Temple campaign may prompt them to go in this direction, which is detrimental to the progress and development of the country.
The Adivasis were staging a peaceful sit-in protest demanding rights over forest land and resources.
The Modi Government is cornering public funds via PM CARES while robbing states of GST share; at the same time, it is proposing to amend the FCRA to make it more difficult for activist organisations like Amnesty International to access foreign funding.
UP police to probe each Hindu-Muslim marriage for ‘love-jehad’; UP primarily using NSA against those accused of cow slaughter; UP setting up a new special force that can search and arrest without a warrant; when the release of an innocent detainee after months in jail is cause for elation, then democracy is staring at its nadir.
With the Modi government unwilling to convene the Parliament while taking several far-reaching and controversial decisions, concerned citizens got together to convene a Janta Parliament. A summary of the suggestions made in its concluding session.
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