Bharat Bhushan In a public speech in May 2022, the first anniversary of his government, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, switched the official designations of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. His faux pas was described as a “slip of the tongue” by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). However, Sarma did not… Read More BJP’s sentinels aggressively defend image of leadership
Date -24/03/23 Crimes including killing in the name of cow protection are increasing alarmingly . Two Muslim youths, Junaid and Naseer from were allegedly killed by the Gau Raksha Task Force and their charred bodies d found inside a vehicle in Haryana’s Bhiwani district on February 16. Almost 15 days ago young boy Waris from… Read More Brief report of Khudai Khidmatgar team’s visit to the village of Junaid and Nasir who were burnt alive on February 16, 2023
From visa uncertainty to deportation threats, foreign correspondents recount in surveys how Modi government is making it harder for them to report from India. Arunabh Saikia India’s tax crackdown on the BBC, weeks after it aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has made news around the world. But foreign correspondents based in… Read More How the foreign press is being silenced: The Foreign Correspondents’ Club
TCA SHARAD RAGHAVAN A month after the release of the Hindenburg Research report, which claimed stocks of the Adani Group’s companies are substantially overvalued, its assessment seems to be turning out to be correct and in some cases — nearly exactly so. The report was released on 24 January. In its original report, Hindenburg Research,… Read More Month after Hindenburg report, Adani stock fall shows short seller’s findings could have been right
First posted November 04, 2016 NB – Thank you Avijit, for this perceptive and timely warning. Those who want to protect democracy and the right to dissent need themselves to uphold dialogue and save higher education campuses from the destructive polemic that has overtaken radical politics over the years. Here is something I wrote on the… Read More Avijit Pathak: JNU’s enemy without, within (2016)
First posted February 22, 2016 NB: This post deals with the political debate sparked off by the recent events in JNU. It is for the consideration of ordinary students as well as other concerned individuals, in India and abroad. It is offered in the belief that a forthright dialogue on divisive themes is the only way… Read More What is to be Undone (2016)
Jonathan Barrett Tens of millions of dollars worth of Australian retirement savings have been exposed to the beleaguered Adani Group as the Indian conglomerate faces a stock rout after allegations of fraud. Several major superannuation funds, including those that cater for government workers in Queensland and employees at the Commonwealth Bank (CBA), invested in the company after… Read More Adani stock rout leaves tens of millions in Australian retirement savings exposed
Bharat Bhushan No one can be allowed to rain on India’s parade just when Prime Minister Modi is on the cusp of being recognised as a world leader through India’s routine and rotational assumption of the G-20 presidency. Therefore, the breaking of informal red lines set for the domestic media by outsiders has to be… Read More Why only George Soros? Expose all “foreign hands
Kenan Malik In January, the BBC broadcast a two-part series, India: The Modi Question, which looked forensically at the role of Narendra Modi in fomenting the Gujarat anti-Muslim riots of 2002 in which at least 1,000 people were killed. Now the prime minister of India, Modi was then the chief minister of Gujarat. The response in… Read More India enjoyed a free and vibrant media. Narendra Modi’s brazen attacks are a catastrophe
Chelsea Lee, CNN In the north Indian desert town of Jaisalmer, also known as “The Golden City” for its array of yellow sandstone architecture, temperatures can reach approximately 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius) at the height of summer. Here, buildings have long been designed to adapt to the heat, a tradition that New York… Read More How this school in the Indian desert stays cool even in extreme heat
