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Subodh Varma In case you have been wondering why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been so silent of late, not uttering a word about the CAA/NRC protests and police killings or the continuing horror in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University or the stream of numbers showing how the economy is in shambles, here is the…
Amitava Bandyopadhyay The process of preparation of the National Register of Citizens or NRC may declare a true citizen an illegal immigrant or fail to detect a non-citizen. Erroneously classifying a bona fide citizen as illegal immigrant is called ‘false positive’ and failure to identify a non-citizen is called ‘false negative’. While false negatives…
Abdul Alim Jafri, Chandni Doulatramani and Ruchika Goswamy Shaheen Bagh in Allahabad via Kanpur Inspired by the resilient women of New Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, whose month-long resistance against the CAA and NRC is making waves, large groups of women began a sit-in protest at Mansoor Ali Park of Roshan Bagh in Uttar Pradesh’s…
Syed Ubaidur Rahman Today, as the shadow of eviction confronts the anti-CAA protests that have rocked the Capital’s Shaheen Bagh locality for one month, it is important to note how these protests have contributed to the nation so far. The protests—wherever they have taken place in the country—have had a profound impact on the…
Prem Panicker It was the Bharatiya Janata Party’s New Year gift for a bigoted base that did the party proud in the 2019 general election. It turned out to be the inflection point, the wedge driven deep into the subcutaneous fissures in society that cracked the country wide open—and look where we are now….
Constitutional Conduct Group A group of 106 former senior bureaucrats with the government of India have organised themselves as the Constitutional Conduct Group. Most of them were IAS, and include IPS, IRS, IFS officials. They include top former Secretaries, DGPs and even RAW officials. The signatories include former National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon; former…
Tarique Anwar A record crowd of over 50,000 people gathered at the protest site at Shaheen Bagh in Jamia nagar locality in Southeast Delhi on Sunday, January 12 evening to extend solidarity to protesting women, who have been staging a ‘dharna’ (sit-in) at Kalindi Kunj-Noida highway for the past 28 days—protesting against the CAA–NPR–NRC….
C.J. Polychroniou interviews Noam Chomsky C.J. Polychroniou (CJP): Noam, the US assassination of Iran’s Quds Force commander Qassim Suleimani has reaffirmed Washington’s long-held obsession with Tehran and its clerical regime, which goes all the way back to the late 1970s. What is the conflict between US and Iran all about, and does the…
C.P. Chandrasekhar In the Revised Estimates for 2018–19 reported in Budget 2019, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had hugely inflated figures on Central revenues and expenditures in 2018–19. This was one of many signals that it was faced with a fiscal crisis it did not want to reveal. Matters have only worsened since…
The Wire Staff “We have practically lost Kashmir,” former Union home minister P. Chidambaram said about the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government’s Kashmir policy in an interview to The Wire. Appearing on the National Security Conversations show hosted by Happymon Jacob, the senior Congress leader argued that by carrying out fundamental changes in…
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