NB: What remains to be said about Indian justice? When an 84 year old Jesuit father with Parkinson’s disease and loss of hearing is repeatedly denied even a medical bail hearing, kept in jail without trial during a deadly pandemic, and is now found infected with Covid, what may we think? All he ever did… Read More Father Stan Swamy tests positive for coronavirus after being moved to private hospital
On May 8, 2021, as a deadly second wave of the COVID pandemic was ripping through India, an imprisoned doctoral student made an urgent appeal to the Delhi High Court. Incarcerated by the Indian government since May 2020 on dubious terror charges, Natasha Narwal asked for interim bail to see her father, agricultural scientist Mahavir Narwal, who was… Read More Chitrangada Choudhury: Modi Is Worsening the Suffering from India’s Pandemic
Om Gaur is in the middle of the most heart-wrenching story of his career as a journalist. Earlier this month, Gaur — the national editor at Dainik Bhaskar, one of the world’s biggest-selling newspapers — got a tip that dead bodies had been spotted floating in the Ganges River in Bihar, a state in eastern India. Given how… Read More Diksha Madhok: Indian journalism and the Corona Pandemic
शुक्रवारकोसुंदरलालबहुगुणाकेनिधनकेसाथहिमालयमेंपर्यावरणीयसंघर्षऔरचेतनाकेएकअध्यायकासमापनहोगया. 93 साल के सुंदरलाल कोरोना से पीड़ित थे और पिछली 8 मई को उन्हें ऋषिकेश के एम्स में भरती किया गया था. बहुगुणा को सत्तर के दशक में उत्तराखंड में चले चिपको आंदोलन से जुड़े होने के कारण “चिपको” नेता के नाम से जाना जाता है लेकिन आमजन और पर्यावरण के लिए उनके संघर्ष… Read More Hridayesh Joshi: चिपको आंदोलन से बहुत बड़ा है सुंदरलाल बहुगुणा का संघर्ष / Jagdish Krishnaswamy: Sunderlal Bahuguna had wide political acceptance
ना भूलना तुम ना भूलना तुम,2021 की पहली अप्रैल की सुबह, या उसके पहले की कोई सुबह, वसंत ऋतु की मंद ख़ुशबुएँ, जब, एक नहीं, करोड़ों आंखें एक साथ खुलीं थीं। और सबने अशुभ का कोई मंज़र देखा था! मन में कुछ खौफ़ सा लगा था। ना भूलना तुम, कि तुम्हारी खिड़की की चौखट… Read More ना भूलना तुम : By Dr Raju Sharma, ex IAS
A moral psychology legitimising an unprecedented ruthlessnessis now becoming the default of civil society in the state. Uttar Pradesh has the population the size of Brazil, and 80 Lok Sabha seats. But the nature of its potential dominance in Indian politics is not simply a function of size and demography. The national influence of UP… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: For the sake of Indian democracy, the UP governance model needs to be challenged
NB: The cruelty of this regime is staggering in its implications. Not only does it seek to punish and intimidate its critics by manipulating the justice system for blatantly partisan ends; it also seeks to create and use an atmosphere of fear to intimidate the judiciary. How else may we understand the manner in which… Read More Father Stan Swamy: I’d rather suffer, possibly die if things go on as it is
DISASTERS TAKE OUR BREATH AWAY. When we are shocked by wonder or horror, our fingers shoot over our mouths as if to stop breath from falling out. When we say, Oh my god, you won the lottery, or an Oscar, or the neighborhood watch found your cat, or someone you admire is accused of something terrible,… Read More TISHANI DOSHI: Out of Breath
Dear Prime Minister, We, a group of former civil servants from the All India and Central Services, with a deep commitment to the Constitution of India and with no political affiliations, have written to you as well as other constitutional authorities on a number of occasions in the past, whenever we felt that executive actions violated… Read More Former Civil Servants Write to the PM: ‘Take Effective Action Now’ / The BJP Can Be Defeated but the RSS Project Remains
Hundreds of corpses have been found floating in the river or buried in the sand of its banks. Those who live close to where they have washed up, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, fear they are Covid-19 victims. India has been overwhelmed by a devastating second wave of the pandemic in recent weeks.… Read More Geeta Pandey: India's holiest river Ganges is swollen with Covid victims
