Unsolicited thoughts from an elder citizen

Questions, observations, suggestions. The addressees should be able to recognise themselves अहंकार व्यक्ति के अज्ञान और मूर्खता का परिचायक  है : गीता (३ / २७) The spectacle is the guardian of sleep: Guy Debord Good is self-existent, evil is not. It is like a parasite living in and around good. It will die of itself when… Read More Unsolicited thoughts from an elder citizen

Seven Reasons Why Modi Has No Moral or Political Right to Head the Next Government

Narendra Modi and the BJP fought this election in only his name. The lack of majority, then, should come down to him. Ashutosh Bhardwaj One can call it a Surya-Tilak in Ayodhya. The rejection of temple politics, it’s a telegram from Uttar Pradesh to the Varanasi MP. The state that gifted him the Delhi throne… Read More Seven Reasons Why Modi Has No Moral or Political Right to Head the Next Government

अयोध्या में बीजेपी हार की ओर, अयोध्या मंडल में भी /All India Kisan Sabha VP elected from Sikar

Ravish Kumar अयोध्या में बीजेपी हार की ओर, अयोध्या मंडल में भी फैज़ाबाद संसदीय सीट का हिस्सा है अयोध्या। अयोध्या में ही मतदान काफी कम हुआ था। हमने पहले के वीडियो में इशारा किया था कि अयोध्या से बीजेपी हार सकती है। आगे इस वीडियो में देखिएगा। https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MM-He3Bl48 Today’s big winner from Sikar, #AIKS Vice… Read More अयोध्या में बीजेपी हार की ओर, अयोध्या मंडल में भी /All India Kisan Sabha VP elected from Sikar

Death Valley Beckons

Death Valley in California is the hottest place in the world and the highest temperature recorded there is 54.4 degrees Celsius, exactly 1.5 degrees hotter than Mungeshpur’s Wednesday reading. The difference is that about three hundred people live the year round in Death Valley while Delhi’s National Capital Region is home to thirty million people.… Read More Death Valley Beckons

Leaflet by leaflet, a few aging activists fight India’s tide of bigotry

To respect God and to pretend to do that for votes are two different things: Vipin Kumar Tripathi Sameer Yasir One recent morning, Roop Rekha Verma, an 80-year-old peace activist and former university leader, walked through a north Indian neighborhood prone to sectarian strife and parked herself near a tea shop. From her sling bag,… Read More Leaflet by leaflet, a few aging activists fight India’s tide of bigotry

Bharat Bhushan Discusses Indian Media ‘Misinformation’ During 2024 Elections

Bharat Bhushan Bharat Bhushan Discusses Indian Media ‘Misinformation’ During 2024 Elections India’s general elections, which kicked off on April 19, will end on June 1, and see the formation of the South Asian country’s next government following a vote count on June 4. The results will have significance – not only for the world’s largest… Read More Bharat Bhushan Discusses Indian Media ‘Misinformation’ During 2024 Elections

Significance of Modi’s meditation at Kanyakumari

Narendra Modi deliberately combines Hindu rituals in his public persona for the political purpose of appealing to the Hindu masses. Bharat Bhushan Opposition parties have objected to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to meditate at Dhyan Mandapam at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, and have approached the Election Commission of India to ban any telecast of… Read More Significance of Modi’s meditation at Kanyakumari

From Guest Workers to Ghost Workers: The Electoral Exclusion of India’s Migrants

NAMRATA RAJU The ghosts of migrant workers haunting the facades of the buildings they once constructed makes for striking imagery. It is also true that the invisibilisation of migrant workers is just that extreme. Whether in literary fiction such as Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People, or scholarship like anthropologist Andrea Wright’s Between Dreams and Ghosts, it… Read More From Guest Workers to Ghost Workers: The Electoral Exclusion of India’s Migrants