Tag: current affairs – India

Samyukt Kisan Morcha condemns charges against farmer protests in NewsClick FIR

Condemning the first information report (FIR) registered by the Delhi Police against online news portal NewsClick and journalists associated with it, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Sunday said the charges in the FIR that the farmers’ protests were held to “disrupt supplies and services essential to the life of community in India” were false and mischievous. The… Read More Samyukt Kisan Morcha condemns charges against farmer protests in NewsClick FIR

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Report Reveals Stark Disparities in India’s Labour Market Based on Caste, Gender, and Religion

The largest earnings gap is based on gender, with women reporting earnings at only 40% of those of men in self-employment, followed by 64% of men in casual wage jobs, and 76% of men in regular wage jobs. Social identity plays a significant role in determining the type of employment a person is likely to… Read More Report Reveals Stark Disparities in India’s Labour Market Based on Caste, Gender, and Religion

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Modi vs Trudeau

Indian responses to Trudeau’s allegations have ranged from furious official denial to online trolls celebrating this new willingness to take out India’s enemies Mukul Kesavan The murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in a suburb of Vancouver has caused a nervous breakdown in Indo-Canadian relations. Justin Trudeau’s very public suggestion that the Indian State was complicit… Read More Modi vs Trudeau

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The Observer view on Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing: Narendra Modi’s hubris is ill-judged

In dismissing concerns over the death of a Canadian Sikh activist, India’s prime minister raises more questions over his commitment to democracy… It is unclear where righteous indignation ends and purblind arrogance begins Observer editorial Political assassination is a practice as old as human society, although the term itself derives from the 12th-century Persian Order… Read More The Observer view on Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing: Narendra Modi’s hubris is ill-judged

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India and Canada must step back from the abyss

India will have to withdraw from the schizophrenia of publicly denying while privately celebrating a muscular security policy Bharat Bhushan Murder allegations by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau threaten to erode India’s image. Attempts to profile India as a “rogue” nation will damage India’s ambitions as a world leader, so recently burnished by the G20… Read More India and Canada must step back from the abyss

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Communalism in Modern India: A Theoretical Examination (1986)

NB: This essay was written nearly 40 years ago, in the aftermath of the 1984 carnage of Sikhs in New Delhi. It was my first attempt at arguing that communalism was India’s version of Nazism, and that it was a singular phenomenon with different religious (and mutually influential) expressions, rather than an arithmetical total of… Read More Communalism in Modern India: A Theoretical Examination (1986)

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‘Mullah Terrorist’: BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri Uses Slurs Against BSP MP Danish Ali in Lok Sabha

New Delhi: On Thursday (September 21) night, Bharatiya Janata Party Lok Sabha MP Ramesh Bidhuri used violent anti-Muslim slurs against his parliament colleague Danish Ali of the Bahujan Samaj Party. Bidhuri’s words were televised as part of the Lok Sabha proceedings. “Yeh ugrawaaadi (militant), yeh aatankwaadi hai (terrorist), ugrawaadi hai, yeh aantankwaadi hai,” Bidhuri can be heard shouting during the… Read More ‘Mullah Terrorist’: BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri Uses Slurs Against BSP MP Danish Ali in Lok Sabha

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‘Very messy’: India-Canada row over Sikh killing causes diplomatic shock waves

Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi The sun was setting on a June evening as Hardeep Singh Nijjar walked across the car park of the gurdwara. Nijjar’s day job was as a plumber but this gurdwara, located in the city of Surrey, in Canada’s British Columbia province, was where he dedicated most of his energy. That day he… Read More ‘Very messy’: India-Canada row over Sikh killing causes diplomatic shock waves

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Auditor General reports central government’s ‘cash diversion’ to unknown repositories

A 27-page chapter titled ‘Quality of Accounts and Financial Reporting Practices’ in the CAG’s report number 21 of 2023 shines a light on accounting shenanigans that will leave any private conglomerate and its auditors aghast at the sheer audacity of the sharp practices in central govt accounts R. Suryamurthy, Pinak Ghosh There is something rotten… Read More Auditor General reports central government’s ‘cash diversion’ to unknown repositories

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Vasant Valley Alums question India Today Group for Communally Polarising TV News

Former students of Vasant Valley School – one of the leading schools in the national capital – have written to its owner, the India Today group, asking it to refrain from what they say is communally polarising programming under the garb of news reportage in the television channels it runs The India Today group has multiple TV… Read More Vasant Valley Alums question India Today Group for Communally Polarising TV News

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