No ‘International Conspiracy’ Against Vishwaguru
Neither is India a superpower economically or militarily nor is it on the road to becoming one against whom ‘conspiracies’ are hatched to destabilise it.
Displacement in Delhi: In the Capital, This Is How Farmers are Treated
The vegetable fields of farmers living next to the Yamuna river, who ploughed the floodplains adjoining the Yamuna in Delhi for generations, are only the latest casualties in the effort to make Delhi a ‘world class’ city where the riverfront is real estate up for grabs.
Dismantling the Cult of Churchill
Review of book, ‘Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes’, by Tariq Ali: There is a great disconnect between Churchill’s popular image and the larger context of his life and times. Ali’s book very much illuminates the former with the latter.
Junaid, Junaid and a Country That Looks Away
For so many young Indian Muslims today, social media feeds have begun looking like a visitors’ diary outside a busy graveyard.
‘Institutional Murder’: IIT-Bombay Dalit Student Victim of Anti-Reservationist Bias
National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), Gujarat, in a statement, has called the recent suicide of Darshan Solanki, a Dalit student of IIT, Bombay, as another “institutional murder” resulting from “crass caste discrimination” prevailing in India’s elite educational institutes.
Amrit Udyan Controversy: BJP’s Renaming Sprees Will Leave India with Crippling Amnesia
Changing the name of Mughal Gardens reflects the unwarranted inferiority complex of the present-day moguls and their parochial chauvinism.
Subhas Chandra Bose, Meghnad Saha and the Birth of the National Planning Commission
Although Netaji was not around when independent India embarked on its five-year plans in the 1950s, it is obvious that the work of the Planning Committee he co-founded had been the pathfinder.
Fifty Years of Chipko Movement Clear Pathways For Other Struggles to Save Ecosystems, and Life
This year, 2023 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the historic Chipko Movement, in which vilagers were involved in protecting trees in natural forests from being axed by contractors or government agencies, in the bargain asserting more local rights over forests.
An Abiding Need: Ten Reasons Why Gandhi Still Matters
Thoughts on the Mahatma’s 75th death anniversary.
Bhagwat’s New Spin on Caste Will Not Stem the Rebellion Against Texts That Insult the Shudras
The RSS/BJP intellectuals tell us today that texts like Ramcharitmanas are mirrors of our civilisation. Then where do the Shudras, Dalits, Adivasis and women exist, except for occasional humiliation?