The legendary Godfrey Hodgson, author of essential books and reports on the US, a journalist with The Observer and then The Sunday Times Insight Team when they were in their prime, and in later life the head of the fellowships programme at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, has died,… Read More Godfrey Hodgson: a legendary author who predicted America’s unravelling
‘Should powerful people and institutions show an inability to tolerate rebuke or criticism, we would be reduced to a country of incarcerated artists and flourishing lapdogs’… About his tweets against the apex court, Kamra felt the suggestion that they could shake the foundations of the most powerful court in the world is an “over-estimation of… Read More ‘No defence for jokes’ — Kunal Kamra offers no apology to SC in reply to contempt notice
With Kisans, Against Repression Join Citizens March in Support of Farmers’ Movement 3rd February, 12 noon Mandi House to Jantar Mantar Repeal the Anti-farmer Laws! No to Company Raj! Release Farmers and Student-Youth arrested by Police Stop Intimidating Journalists with FIR’s and False cases organised by: AICCTU, AIPWA, AISA,AISF, ANHAD, CYSS, DSF, DSU, DYFI, JNUSU, JSM, KYS, MSF, NFIW,… Read More Citizens March in Support of Farmers' Movement -3rd February, 12 noon
The inspiring documentary, “Writing with Fire,” premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the impact Dalit women in the Uttar Pradesh state of India have had reporting for “Khabar Lahariya,” a newspaper and website. The journalists, who are in the lowest caste in India, have been working for nearly two decades, despite being told what… Read More In "Writing With Fire," reporters from India's lowest caste defy the patriarchy to seek justice
Curtains came down on the first phase of the farmers’ agitation amid a growing perception that the events of January 26 in Delhi were a ‘conspiracy’ to malign and delegitimise the movement. It has now entered a second phase where it will be potentially less tractable. Following its ham-handed playbook, the Narendra Modi government tried to criminalise… Read More Bharat Bhushan: Farmers' agitation against three new laws acquires an anti-BJP edge
The logic of the state’s political strategy is to find any pretext for social division and state repression. The immediate elite reactions to the unruly and shameful scenes in the wake of the farmers’ protest in India’s capital, especially at the Red Fort, were two-fold. The first was to feign shock and horror, and to… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: The real darkness on horizon
NB: After the violent events on Republic Day, the central and UP governments have launched a massive drive to arrest farmer leaders and push out the gatherings at the Ghazipur border. Six journalists and a Congress MP have been charged with sedition. The Chief Minister of Delhi has claimed that police are framing people, whilst the… Read More Popular resistance to undeclared Emergency// Ghazipur Border: Rakesh Tikait के लिए यूपी -हरियाणा से रातों रात आ गए किसान
Nine days ago, Alexey Navalny returned to Russia – and changed the country’s politics forever. The opposition leader had been in Germany since August 2020, recovering from what is now internationally recognised as an assassination attempt by the Kremlin (which President Vladimir Putin denies). But while there, he was far from idle. In December, he… Read More Thomas Rowley: How Alexey Navalny changed Russian politics forever
BJP Planted “Stooge” Deep Sidhu To Create Chaos In Tractor Rally… At a press conference, AAP spokesperson Raghav Chadha, while questioning the connection between Sidhu and BJP, showed several photos purportedly of the actor with various BJP leaders. “The BJP planted their stooge Deep Sidhu to create chaos in farmers’ tractor parade,” Mr Chadha said….… Read More AAP Statement on Chaos In Tractor Rally
It was the grown-ups’ turn for presents. Tradition was to do a swap-or-steal gift exchange. I watched as my brother-in-law, a usually mild-mannered man, picked a gift and then shook it at the camera in our direction, a taunting glint in his eye. I looked closer. Whoever had wrapped it had meticulously taped a $2020… Read More Shrestha Singh: I’m A First-Generation Indian American Woman. I Married Into A Family Of Trump Supporters
