Tag: current affairs – India

Sonam Wangchuk Does Not Deserve the Establishment’s Silence / This IIT professor died after a 111-day fast to save the Ganga

The environmentalist has had a tough year to say the least. He did not deserve to be preventively held under the NSA. He does not deserve to be ignored now. NB: Preventive detention was a colonial measure introduced as long ago as 1818. It was then named Bengal Regulation III of 1818. It was retained… Read More Sonam Wangchuk Does Not Deserve the Establishment’s Silence / This IIT professor died after a 111-day fast to save the Ganga

Dilip

Ayodhya’s holy scandal

Saba Naqvi I am in a cab in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, where our family village home is located. Ayodhya is 100 km away, the road signs say. The vehicle is clean, the driver courteous and clearly deeply religious. His telephone declares “Jai Shri Ram” a thousand times during our drive because it is set… Read More Ayodhya’s holy scandal

Dilip

Women’s quota stir from July 20 with call to delink reservation from census, delimitation

Women’s quota stir from July 20 with call to delink reservation from census, delimitation Pheroze L. Vincent Multiple women’s rights groups on Friday jointly announced nationwide protests from July 20, coinciding with the start of the monsoon session of Parliament, to push for a constitutional amendment delinking the 33 per cent women’s quota from the… Read More Women’s quota stir from July 20 with call to delink reservation from census, delimitation

Dilip

The Quiet Dismantling of Liberal Education at Delhi University

Pravin Raj Singh At its core, a literature syllabus is more than a list of prescribed texts. It is a pedagogical contract, a space where students and educators commit to engaging with the world’s complexities, however uncomfortable. This contract enables critical engagement with power, history, caste, gender and the structures that shape our lives. It… Read More The Quiet Dismantling of Liberal Education at Delhi University

Dilip

Extra-legal status of the RSS/BJP. Abhay Dubey & Vinod Sharma discuss the Ram Mandir scandal

NB: The rule of law has been replaced by the rule of ideology; moving the Indian Union toward totalitarian tyranny. The RSS is functioning as an extra-constitutional authority; a country within a country, answerable to no one but itself. When the accused can appoint themselves judges, it becomes a fixed match: even a child can… Read More Extra-legal status of the RSS/BJP. Abhay Dubey & Vinod Sharma discuss the Ram Mandir scandal

Dilip

नागपुर से सुप्रिया का सनसनीखेज खुलासा! – Supriya Shrinate on Ram Mandir / चंपत राय अभी कई लोगों के राज खोलेंगे, मोदी-RSS पर फटेगा ‘बम’? Abhay Dubey

नागपुर से सुप्रिया का सनसनीखेज खुलासा! | Supriya Shrinate | Ram Mandir Ram Mandir के चढ़ावे में डकैती को लेकर फायर हुईं Supriya Shrinate, RSS-BJP को सुनाई खरी-खरी चंपत राय अभी कई लोगों के राज खोलेंगे, मोदी-RSS पर फटेगा ‘बम’? Abhay Dubey

Dilip

CJP protest at Jantar Mantar: Hunger strike starts taking toll on protesters

The sit-in has entered the 19th day, though the fast started eight days later Shemin Joy The hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, the capital’s dharna hotspot, demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation, has started taking toll on the protesters with activist Sonam Wangchuk losing seven kg and a JNU scholarHrishikesh Talukdar, an AISA activist, being… Read More CJP protest at Jantar Mantar: Hunger strike starts taking toll on protesters

Dilip

Theft in Ram Temple First Detected and Reported in 2021, Trust Removed the Whistleblower Instead 

A news report in The Indian Express has corroborated the systemic nature of this organised theft, citing sources who revealed that the matter only became public due to infighting between two trust members over recruitment and the stolen funds.The Wire staff New Delhi: The massive theft of public donations from the Ram Temple in Ayodhya was… Read More Theft in Ram Temple First Detected and Reported in 2021, Trust Removed the Whistleblower Instead 

Dilip

Javed Akhtar & Pervaiz Alam on the Urdu Script Debate (June 28, 2026)

Javed Akhtar was handed the topic of the Urdu script problem. He opened by saying there is no problem with the script at all. In this Jashn-e-Rekhta session, Javed Akhtar sits with journalist Pervaiz Alam, former BBC Hindi broadcaster, for a sharp conversation on the Rasm-ul-Khat debate. His central point is simple. Script and language… Read More Javed Akhtar & Pervaiz Alam on the Urdu Script Debate (June 28, 2026)

Dilip