Tag: current affairs – India

P. Sainath: Farmers win on many fronts, media fails on all / रवि आजाद BKU HARYANA | Kisan Ekta Morcha

The edits invariably ended on the appeal: but do not withdraw these laws, they’re really good. Did any of these publications once tell their readers – on the standoff between farmers and corporates – that Mukesh Ambani’s personal wealth of 84.5 billion dollars was closing in fast on the GSDP of the state of Punjab… Read More P. Sainath: Farmers win on many fronts, media fails on all / रवि आजाद BKU HARYANA | Kisan Ekta Morcha

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Farm laws repealed – Huge victory for India's agricultural population after a year-long non-violent struggle, and hundreds of lives lost

NB: This is the first major setback for the corporate gangsters running India’s people and its democracy into the ground with their greed and arrogance. Perhaps the Supreme Court will reflect on why they did not take direct notice of the government making uniform laws for the whole country on what is a state subject.… Read More Farm laws repealed – Huge victory for India's agricultural population after a year-long non-violent struggle, and hundreds of lives lost

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Bharat Bhushan: Incentivising pliant bureaucrats at the helm

Despite a Supreme Court ruling forbidding further extensions in service to the Director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Narendra Modi government has gone ahead and given a second one year extension to Sanjay Mishra. For this an ordinance was promulgated barely four days before Mishra was to demit office and two weeks before Parliament’s… Read More Bharat Bhushan: Incentivising pliant bureaucrats at the helm

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SC restrains Tripura Police from arresting 2 lawyers, journalist booked under UAPA

The plea said that “if the quest for truth and reporting thereof itself is criminalized then the victim in the process is the idea of justice” and that “such circumstances strike at the very foundations of a participative democratic society as it curbs the ‘free flow of information and ideas’… The Supreme Court Wednesday asked… Read More SC restrains Tripura Police from arresting 2 lawyers, journalist booked under UAPA

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Salman Khurshid: Standing against those who divide

My recent book, Sunrise over Ayodhya: Nationhood in Our Times, is over 300 pages long. Throughout the book, I have sought to support and endorse the Ayodhya judgment, despite many of my legal colleagues having doubted its legal correctness, acknowledged and praised the philosophy of Hinduism, underscored the humanist dimensions of Sanatan Dharma. The thrust… Read More Salman Khurshid: Standing against those who divide

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Bharat Bhushan: Frontier of warfare? Wrong to securitise civil society discourse

NB: A timely comment on a sinister speech. The NSA is telling us that civil society itself is a war zone. This is not surprising, as the militarisation of civil society is precisely the goal as well as modus operandi of totalitarian politics. This is nothing new. It was evident in the Nazi and Fascist… Read More Bharat Bhushan: Frontier of warfare? Wrong to securitise civil society discourse

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'Rafale Papers': the 'bogus invoices' used to help French firm clinch sale of jets to India / BJP accuses Opposition of benefiting from kickbacks

Mediapart is today publishing the alleged false invoices that enabled French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation to pay at least 7.5 million euros in secret commissions to a middleman to help secure the sale of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft to India. Yet despite the existence of these documents, the Indian federal police has decided not to pursue the… Read More 'Rafale Papers': the 'bogus invoices' used to help French firm clinch sale of jets to India / BJP accuses Opposition of benefiting from kickbacks

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Sonali Ranade: Modi Is on a Civilisational Mission – Please Excuse a Few Grand Lies

NB: A perceptive analysis. The focus on Modi, however, is appropriate only in an immediate sense. It should not detract from the cultivated sense of victimhood and ideologically manipulated ‘History’ that underpins the doctrine of the RSS, the BJP’s parent organisation. The concept of the nation-state as a homeland for a homogenously defined ‘majority’ was… Read More Sonali Ranade: Modi Is on a Civilisational Mission – Please Excuse a Few Grand Lies

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Avay Shukla: SPEAK UP! THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU ANYWAY

Anyone with even an iota of intelligence and an understanding of our dysfunctional legal eco-system knows that there is something deeply problematic and rotten with the Aryan Khan case. The NCB’s (Narcotics Control Bureau) conduct is deeply suspect, even without the personal allegations now levelled against its Zonal Director Sameer Wankhade. The entire case, with… Read More Avay Shukla: SPEAK UP! THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU ANYWAY

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Bhima Koregaon: Kin of jailed activists write to authorities to not discontinue telephone calls / How the ‘anda cell’ is used to discipline prison inmates

NB: After willfully neglecting Fr Stan Swamy‘s bail pleas and subjecting him to unusual punishment without trial, our criminal justice system literally presided over his death in custody. He was 84 years old, weak and ailing; and had suffered enormously in jail. After he died, spokesmen for the government repeated the allegations against him as… Read More Bhima Koregaon: Kin of jailed activists write to authorities to not discontinue telephone calls / How the ‘anda cell’ is used to discipline prison inmates

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