Tag: current affairs – India

Blocking justice for Dalit Christians and Muslims / All India Christian Council condemns move to use FCRA to take away Christian properties meant for the development of marginalised people

The ruling tightens the government’s narrative of SC identity as tied to ‘Indic’ religions. Bharat Bhushan The recent Supreme Court ruling that Dalits who convert to religions other than Hinduism, Sikhism, or Buddhism lose their Scheduled Caste (SC) status should have sent shockwaves across India’s socio-political landscape. However, its significance seems to have been lost in the… Read More Blocking justice for Dalit Christians and Muslims / All India Christian Council condemns move to use FCRA to take away Christian properties meant for the development of marginalised people

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A grey silence

Governments that mutely line up behind the US as it prosecutes a sinister, illegal war that threatens to destroy their citizens’ ability to cook and eat aren’t rational actors, they are lemmings… Narendra Modi and his partymen are attracted to Israel’s fanatical, anti-Muslim Zionism because it has achieved the disenfranchisement and apartheid that Hindutva aspires… Read More A grey silence

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Limits of spectacle: Modi’s foreign policy contradictions exposed

Under Modi, India has chosen dependence as a strategic choice. But from Nehru to Manmohan Singh, India displayed a fiercely independent foreign policy and autonomy. Bharat Bhushan As Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s global image erodes, he cannot as easily dodge accountability for domestic governance as he did earlier by projecting his larger-than-life capers on the world stage.… Read More Limits of spectacle: Modi’s foreign policy contradictions exposed

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Can propaganda on Iran allowing Indian ships hide Modi government’s failure to secure gas supply?

Shoaib Daniyal India had no role to play in starting the Iran war. But outside of the Gulf states, it is one of the countries most affected. Indians are seeing widespread shortages of cooking gas given India is highly dependent on the supply from West Asia and the country has almost no storage capacity. Faced with rising public anger over… Read More Can propaganda on Iran allowing Indian ships hide Modi government’s failure to secure gas supply?

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‘Bit of treachery’: US attack on IRIS Dena undermines Indian security ties

Defence analyst says torpedo strike is a ‘humiliation’ for Modi’s government that disregarded a US defence partner Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Dubai and Aanya Wipulasena in Colombo The distress call came in to Sri Lanka’s maritime rescue coordination centre just after 5am. The ship in trouble, they determined, was well within Sri Lanka’s obligation for rescue, being… Read More ‘Bit of treachery’: US attack on IRIS Dena undermines Indian security ties

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SNDT University cancels lecture by feminist historian Uma Chakravarti

NB: India’s current ruling establishment does not even have the courage to say, “we will not let you speak becuase we do not like your ideas.” They resort instead to phrasemongering about ‘technical reasons’. Indian democracy is being strangled before our eyes. DS The Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University in Mumbai has cancelled its 16th Neera… Read More SNDT University cancels lecture by feminist historian Uma Chakravarti

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Indian peasants and workers’ unions to hold nationwide protest on March 10 over West Asia conflict

Farmers’ groups and trade unions have called for nationwide protests on March 10, linking the ongoing tensions in West Asia with concerns over India’s economic ties with the United States. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), along with a joint platform of central trade unions (CTUs) and several sectoral federations and associations, announced that demonstrations will… Read More Indian peasants and workers’ unions to hold nationwide protest on March 10 over West Asia conflict

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India’s strategic autonomy faces its acid test in West Asia / ये विषगुरू ने अमेरिका से इजाजत मांगी ही क्यों

NB: The BJP/RSS rulers shout from the rooftops about their ‘deshbhakti’ (nation-worship); and the iron will of their leaders. But their foreign policy – unlike Nehruvian non-alignment – has always been guided by a hatred of socialism coupled with pro-Western alliances. They supported the American imperialist aggression in Vietnam as a ‘dharm-yuddha‘ or holy war.… Read More India’s strategic autonomy faces its acid test in West Asia / ये विषगुरू ने अमेरिका से इजाजत मांगी ही क्यों

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The Banal Acts of a Nation That Citizens Have Grown to Fear / ‘You are making me an outsider’: Bishop’s College principal questions EC roll revision

What lakhs of citizens of India are undergoing with SIR is, to borrow from the political theorist Hannah Arendt, “fearsome, word-and-thought-defying.” Suraj Gogoi Sitting at the edge of the Arabian Sea, I, like many others who were gathered on the warm afternoon at the Kozhikode Literature Festival on January 24, 2026, had the good fortune… Read More The Banal Acts of a Nation That Citizens Have Grown to Fear / ‘You are making me an outsider’: Bishop’s College principal questions EC roll revision

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Domination and chaos: India’s radical conservatism

By Dilip Simeon Ideology is the most devilish variation of the lie: Hannah Arendt To speak of reaction is to counterpose it with progress. This terminology is not helpful. Stable issues of political life, such as legitimate authority, justice, transparent government, clarity on the means vs ends problem; along with issues of character such as… Read More Domination and chaos: India’s radical conservatism

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