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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.
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Bhupendranath Datta: Imagining a New India
7 July 2019, by Arup Kumar Sen -
Mob Lynching: A New Version of Communal Violence
7 July 2019by 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 2019The 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 2019by 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 2019by 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 2019What’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 2019, by Sandeep PandeySanjay 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 2019, by Barun Das GuptaThe 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 2019, by Nandita HaksarThis 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 2019, by M K BhadrakumarWhen 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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