Entire Mainstream Media Spoke as BJP Spokesperson: Yogendra Yadav

NB: Never a truer word has been spoken about India’s mainstream media under the BJP/RSS government. The question is why? Fear and intimidation and blackmail in some cases, yes; but can everyone be bought or scared? Clearly not, as the independent YouTube channels have persisted in critical reporting. But if powerful corporate owners can force… Read More Entire Mainstream Media Spoke as BJP Spokesperson: Yogendra Yadav

Ex-Arunachal CM’s Explosive Suicide Note that the government refused to probe (2017)

NB: The systematic destruction of India’s criminal justice system is something that few bother to investigate. As a result we carry on as if nothing has happened. Mass carnage, rampant corruption, disappearance of witnesses, the mysterious death of a judge siting on a crucial case, death in custody of an 84 year old priest with… Read More Ex-Arunachal CM’s Explosive Suicide Note that the government refused to probe (2017)

Unsolicited thoughts from an elder citizen

Questions, observations, suggestions. The addressees should be able to recognise themselves अहंकार व्यक्ति के अज्ञान और मूर्खता का परिचायक  है : गीता (३ / २७) The spectacle is the guardian of sleep: Guy Debord Good is self-existent, evil is not. It is like a parasite living in and around good. It will die of itself when… Read More Unsolicited thoughts from an elder citizen

Seven Reasons Why Modi Has No Moral or Political Right to Head the Next Government

Narendra Modi and the BJP fought this election in only his name. The lack of majority, then, should come down to him. Ashutosh Bhardwaj One can call it a Surya-Tilak in Ayodhya. The rejection of temple politics, it’s a telegram from Uttar Pradesh to the Varanasi MP. The state that gifted him the Delhi throne… Read More Seven Reasons Why Modi Has No Moral or Political Right to Head the Next Government

अयोध्या में बीजेपी हार की ओर, अयोध्या मंडल में भी /All India Kisan Sabha VP elected from Sikar

Ravish Kumar अयोध्या में बीजेपी हार की ओर, अयोध्या मंडल में भी फैज़ाबाद संसदीय सीट का हिस्सा है अयोध्या। अयोध्या में ही मतदान काफी कम हुआ था। हमने पहले के वीडियो में इशारा किया था कि अयोध्या से बीजेपी हार सकती है। आगे इस वीडियो में देखिएगा। https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MM-He3Bl48 Today’s big winner from Sikar, #AIKS Vice… Read More अयोध्या में बीजेपी हार की ओर, अयोध्या मंडल में भी /All India Kisan Sabha VP elected from Sikar

Remembering Tiananmen Square: Defending Memory Amidst Repression  

@ Amnesty International On JUNE 4, 1989, hundreds – possibly thousands – of protesters peacefully calling for economic and social reforms were killed by troops around Tiananmen Square.  Today, in the face of an escalating crackdown on free expression by the Chinese government, the memory of what happened on Tiananmen Square teeters on the brink of… Read More Remembering Tiananmen Square: Defending Memory Amidst Repression  

Joe Biden’s Terrible Israel Policy Is Really About Getting in Bed With Saudi Arabia

Biden’s plan to cozy up to Arab dictators is right out of Donald Trump’s playbook — but even worse. Aída Chávez WHY DOES Joe Biden insist on pursuing a foreign policy of blind support of Israel’s war on Gaza? In addition to the moral calamity — on full display as Israel bombed Palestinian refugee camps in… Read More Joe Biden’s Terrible Israel Policy Is Really About Getting in Bed With Saudi Arabia

Death Valley Beckons

Death Valley in California is the hottest place in the world and the highest temperature recorded there is 54.4 degrees Celsius, exactly 1.5 degrees hotter than Mungeshpur’s Wednesday reading. The difference is that about three hundred people live the year round in Death Valley while Delhi’s National Capital Region is home to thirty million people.… Read More Death Valley Beckons

Leaflet by leaflet, a few aging activists fight India’s tide of bigotry

To respect God and to pretend to do that for votes are two different things: Vipin Kumar Tripathi Sameer Yasir One recent morning, Roop Rekha Verma, an 80-year-old peace activist and former university leader, walked through a north Indian neighborhood prone to sectarian strife and parked herself near a tea shop. From her sling bag,… Read More Leaflet by leaflet, a few aging activists fight India’s tide of bigotry