The irony of this is lost on a government drowning in its testesterone: with every nail studded barricade installed at Tikri, Ghazipur or Singhu, Delhi is making itself progressively redundant to the ongoing course of events, and perhaps even to the future shape of things in India. A subterranean tsunami is slowly building in the… Read More Avay Shukla – ARE THE FARMERS MAKING DELHI IRRELEVANT ?
NB: 42,480 Indian farmers and daily-wage workers dependent on agriculture committed suicide in 2019; 28 Indians dependent on farming commit suicide every day (some estimates are much higher). About 300,000 famers had committed suicide by 2014; we can estimate how many more have killed themselves since then. There is also the suspicion the figures are higher… Read More Rihanna and Greta prompt an MEA outburst — and a hashtag firestorm
‘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
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
NB: These are serious allegations and if the state government has been encouraging conversion it is a violation of secular norms. It becomes criminal in cases of desecration of temples. We may keep in mind instances in north India where people of oppressed castes have threatened to convert if attacks on them don’t stop, but in no… Read More Prasad Nichenametla – Andhra Pradesh: Chandrababu Naidu accuses CM Jagan of intending religious conversions
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