Looking Past the Government Narrative Around the G20 Summit
The Indian government has shown clearest intent to milk the G20 Summit for all it is worth for purposes of domestic propaganda in the upcoming election.
Indian Farmers Interest has Been Surrendered to the US to Ensure G20 Success
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced on Sept 8, on the sidelines of the G-20 summit, that India had agreed to reduce tariffs on certain U.S. products, including chickpeas, lentils, almonds, walnuts, apples, frozen chicken-turkey-duck, and several other agricultural products.
Mahatma Gandhi and INDIA’s Decision to Boycott Hate Spewing TV Anchors – 2 Articles
In 1926, Gandhi had given a call for boycott of newspapers spreading hate: “India would lose nothing if 90 per cent of the papers were to cease today,” Gandhi had said then; Also: “When Journalism Becomes the Flagbearer of Hate, Can the Resistance to It Be Anything but Political?”
India or Bharat? In 2016, Modi Govt Told Supreme Court Name Change Not Warranted
‘There is no change in circumstances to consider any change in Article 1 of the Constitution of India,’ it had said.
The Manipur Crisis in Numbers: Four Months of Unending Violence
Over the course of a harrowing four months in India’s sensitive border state of Manipur, the once-coexisting communities of Meitei and Kuki have descended into a state of irreparable enmity. The violence erupted on May 3 and continues.
Kindling the Fire of Agniveers: Germany’s Past India’s Future?
The Agnipath scheme introduced by the Union government for army recruitment on contractual basis is a catastrophe that would inevitably lead to militarisation of India. The fear looms large that after the end of contractual service these youths with arms training would be susceptible to exploitation by paramilitaries.
UP Bus Conductor Mohit Yadav’s Fate Shows How Acts of Fraternity are Criminalised in Today’s India
He was fired from his job for stopping the vehicle to allow two Muslim passengers to pray. In India today, even an act of friendship and fraternity towards Muslims has become an act of deviance and a crime. This is far from the spirit foreseen by the founders of our constitutional republic.
God’s Republics: Two-nation Theory and Two-state Solution
Pakistan failed to develop into a bourgeois nation state, and Israel has no intention of becoming one.
On Teachers’ Day: Remembering Those Teachers Who Taught Students Independence, and Got Penalised
This Teachers’ Day, we must remember the teachers who have been suspended, penalised, arrested, jailed, or forced to quit for being independent and teaching students this independence.
Udayanidhi Stalin’s Critique of Sanatana Dharma – Two Articles
Udayanidhi Stalin’s statement that he’s prepared to furnish the writings of Periyar and Ambedkar to defend his comments on sanatana dharma indicates the larger context of radical, anti-caste critiques of religion in India, then and now. Also: “The BJP May Defend ‘Sanatan Dharma’, But Can’t Define What it Means”.