Tag: current affairs – India

Ravish Kumar: गुरुग्राम बन गया है मोनूग्राम Gurugram is now Monugram / Sikh community rescued Sohna mosque residents

गुरुग्राम दंगों की आशंका को नज़दीक से देख रहा है बल्कि दस साल से देखता ही आ रहा है। जिस मानेसर की पहचान मारुति, होंडा, जैगुआर फिटिंग, जिंदल स्टील प्लांट से हुआ करती है, मैन्यूफैक्चरिंग सेक्टर से हुआ करती है, वहां के मज़दूरों के जागरूक संघर्ष से हुआ करती है,उसकी जगह अब एक नया मानेसर… Read More Ravish Kumar: गुरुग्राम बन गया है मोनूग्राम Gurugram is now Monugram / Sikh community rescued Sohna mosque residents

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Fire and Blood

How the BJP is enabling ethnic cleansing in Manipur Greeshma Kuthar “I DIDN’T shut up. I asked them how they can behave like this with another woman,” an 18-year-old Kuki woman told me, recalling her abduction and assault, in which Meira Paibis had played a major part. The Meira Paibis—the name translates to “torch-bearing women”—are a… Read More Fire and Blood

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Consequences of mishandling Manipur could be grave

Bharat Bhushan Addressing only violence against women, terrible though it was, will not resolve the Manipur conflict. Ignoring the extreme social polarisation and civilian militarisation will have grave consequences both for India and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). So far, the Nagas of Manipur have stayed aloof from the Meitei-Kuki conflict. But they must be… Read More Consequences of mishandling Manipur could be grave

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मणिपुर में सरकारी मशीनरी ध्वस्त: SC | Breakdown Of Machinery in Manipur: Supreme Court

देश का सुप्रीम कोर्ट कह रहा है कि मणिपुर में मई से लेकर जुलाई तक कानून व्यवस्था नाम की कोई चीज़ नहीं थी। कोई कानून नहीं था। कोर्ट की तरफ से उठ रहे सवाल बता रहे हैं कि तीन महीने बीत जाने के बाद भी केंद्र और राज्य सरकार वहां किस तरह नाकाम रही है।… Read More मणिपुर में सरकारी मशीनरी ध्वस्त: SC | Breakdown Of Machinery in Manipur: Supreme Court

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Modi और Godi Media के इस गेम में फंसे तो कहीं के नही रहेंगे / ये दंगे क्या 2024 का ट्रेलर हैं ?

NB: Elections are approaching so our rulers are doing what they know best: spreading hatred and violence. These two journalists are among many who are trying to warn us Modi और Godi Media के इस गेम में फंसे तो कहीं के नही रहेंगे ये दंगे क्या 2024 का ट्रेलर हैं ?| Deepak Sharma 

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URGENT APPEAL : Urge Members of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) to STOP Forest Destruction and Biodiversity Destruction Laws

On behalf of Coalition for Environmental Justice in India and other groups we urgently urge to you to endorse this Appeal (enclosed) to Members of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)  NOT TO ACCORD ASSENT to the controversial Forest Conservation Act (Amendment) Bill 2023 (FCA Bill) and Biological Diversity Act (Amendment) Bill 2023 (BDA Bill).  The FCA Bill dilutes existing Forest… Read More URGENT APPEAL : Urge Members of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) to STOP Forest Destruction and Biodiversity Destruction Laws

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Tipping point

Mukul Kesavan The violence in Manipur exhibits two symptoms – The impunity with which Meitei mobs have been allowed to loot police armouries and the instrumental use of rape to announce the end of Kuki citizenship Meiteis make up more than half the population of Manipur. They see themselves as Manipur’s defining majority and their claim… Read More Tipping point

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Bollywood film accused of trivialising Holocaust with Auschwitz scenes

NB: The mind-numbing historical illiteracy and moral vacuity of some of our artists and members of the intelligentsia is embarassing, were it not also predictable. Adolf Hitler is much admired amongst many educated persons, Mein Kampf is freely available even though Rushdie’s Satanic Verses is banned. The ideological icon of India’s current ruling dispensation –… Read More Bollywood film accused of trivialising Holocaust with Auschwitz scenes

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