by Vikas Sharma
It is the season of spring characterised by the consistently blowing wind. You may say that the nation is blowing in the wind of nationalism and anti-nationalism. A recent action against a public educational institution by the (...)
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Hindutva Nationalism Versus JNU
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Grave Threat to Rule of Law and Constitutional Democracy
28 February 2016by Vijay Kumar
The slapping of the charge of sedition under Section 124(A) of the IPC on Kanhaiya, the President of the JNU Students’ Union, has extremely grave implications for democracy, rule of law and constitutionalism. The foisting of the (...) -
Acid Test for Mulayam / Where’s the Kashmir Policy?
28 February 2016From N.C.’s Writings
Acid Test for Mulayam
Varanasi and Kanpur are the danger signals which Mulayam Singh Yadav can hardly afford to underplay. The significant impact that was made on the Indian political scene by his victory in the December (...) -
Three Poems
28 February 2016, by Badri RainaWomen of Shingnapur Led by Trupti Desai, you marched On Shani Shingnapur as did the women Of Paris on Versaille—to level Yet another edifice of demeaning Prejudice. Knowing that it is not The mute, untouchable stone that Made you untouchable, (...) -
The Space that Killed Rohith Vemula
28 February 2016by Probal Dasgupta
Does Rohith Vemula’s suicide note make charges that can serve as the basis for judicial action against individuals who drove him to his death? This question has been under intense public discussion. There have also been claims (...) -
Managerial Corporate State and the Myth of Fascist Tolerance
28 February 2016by Murzban Jal
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time, accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degra-dation, at the opposite pole. Karl Marx
At the moment that the “normal” police (...) -
Toward India-US Military Alliance?
28 February 2016by Dwijen Bose
The BJP leaders from Prime Minister down-wards are unsparing in their criticism of the Congress. But paradoxically the NDA Govern-ment is following almost all the major policies of the UPA Government, including its economic policy (...) -
Tribute: Kewal Varma
28 February 2016by Sankarshan Thakur
Kewal Varma, the veteran journalist who led The Telegraph’s team of reporters in New Delhi through the tumultuous 1980s and 1990s, passed away on January 25. He was 84.
Kewalsaab was a guru. Kewal Varma rings wrong, he was (...) -
Face of State Tyranny
28 February 2016, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
State tyranny has reached campuses. This government is using every single ploy to crush any voice of dissent, to spread around an air of confusion, and to unleash terror. What happened at the JNU campus has layers to it. Foremost, it (...) -
Stop Harassment of Delhi University Professors
28 February 2016We, the undersigned, condemn the ongoing harassment of senior professors of Delhi University Dr Ali Javed, Prof Nirmalangshu Mukharji and Dr Vijay Singh in the name of questioning over a seminar which is construed as an anti-national event. (...)
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