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• Bhupendranath Datta: Imagining a New India

  7 July, by Arup Kumar Sen
  COMMUNICATION
  Bhupendranath Datta is not a well-known thinker in Indian political thought. He was the younger brother of Swami Vivekananda, whose name is often invoked by the proponents of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India.
  Just after  (...)

• Mob Lynching: A New Version of Communal Violence

  7 July
  by Shamsher Alam
  A Muslim man, Shamsh Tabrez, was caught by a mob in the month of June 2019 at Saraikela Kharsawan in Jharkhand, tied to a pole and beaten for several hours. Later on, he was handed over to the police and eventually he succumbed  (...)

• ‘Open your Eyes and See: The Country is being Torn Apart’

  7 July
  The following is the text of All-India Trinamul Congress MP Mahua Moitra’s speech in the Lok Sabha on June 25, 2019 on the motion of the President of India’s address to the joint session of both Houses of Parliament.
  Honourable Speaker, Sir, I  (...)

• MIG: At the Centre of the Narrative of Elections

  7 July
  by Suranjita Ray
  Ever since ‘GaribiHatao’ (poverty eradication) became the most popular slogan which appealed to the large majority of poor people across the country that brought the Congress Party to power in the 1970s, the poll manifestoes of  (...)

• India: A General Election, Emerging Model of Power and Populist Resistance

  7 July
  by Ranbir Samaddar
  Political observers loosely speak of authoritarianism, populism, etc., as if these are ideologies and not concrete political practices, ideologically opposed to democracy. This commentary reflecting on the recently concluded  (...)

• Wah Taj!

  7 July
  What’s your true identity?
  Is it a momentary flavour
  wafting from a cup of tea
  or a timeless wonder frozen
  with ivory-white marble?
  A quixotic battle rages on
  to baptize you with a name,
  suggesting a blot, a pride
  or amidst its regal grandeur  (...)

• A People’s Peace Initiative in Kashmir

  7 July, by Sandeep Pandey
  Sanjay Tula and his wife, Tula Sanjay, are products of Jayaprakash Narayan’s total revolution movement in the 1970s. They live in Mehsana, Gujarat and run a small organisation called Vishwagram which hosts less than 20 children picked up from  (...)

• Mamata’s Worry is not BJP, but her Own Party

  7 July, by Barun Das Gupta
  The Lok Sabha elections are over but violence continues unabated in West Bengal. Almost every day some activist of this party or that is murdered. And whether the victim belonged to the Trinamul Congress or the BJP, the party accused of the  (...)

• Justice Denied: Case Dairy of a Human Rights Lawyer

  7 July, by Nandita Haksar
  This is the dairy of a case I filed in October 1987 and which was disposed of after 28 years by an order of the Manipur High Court in June 2019. The disposal exposes the bankruptcy of the Indian judicial system in reaching justice to victims of  (...)

• Zero-sum game in Iran

  7 July, by M K Bhadrakumar
  When it comes to Iran policies, the Trump Administration cannot be faulted for incoherence, although POTUS keeps bouncing off the walls in different directions. Indeed, on the one hand, President Trump looks and acts tough toward Iran—and even  (...)

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