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The PIL said that the amendment made in 1976 was “antithetical to the constitutional tenets as well as the historical and cultural theme of India".
A plea has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking to remove from the constitution’s preamble the words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ which were added (...)
The Indian authorities arrested dozens of people during a nationwide lockdown. Human rights groups say many of the detentions are based on scant evidence.
NEW DELHI — After spending several anxious days in prison, Natasha Narwal, a student activist accused of rioting by the New Delhi police, (...)
Teltumbde was insightful in thinking that once you had been labelled Left in India, it was easy to secure a diminution in your legal and cultural standing. Even the Courts will turn off their thinking cap. It is in this that the genuine intellectual enterprise is a lonely one, whose disastrous (...)
Shigraf Zahbi reports on misogyny in Modi’s India.
The advent of summer in New Delhi is usually signalled by the blossoming of golden shower trees in posh neighborhoods and by putrid humidity in the congested slums and overpopulated ghettos, where, perhaps, the only stretch of land with space (...)
With the adoption of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on 12 December, 2019, a faith based criteria for Indian citizenship was introduced for the first time in the history of the Indian republic. The legislation was opposed by many state governments who declared that they would stall the (...)
India’s prime minister Narendra Modi seems to have taken on something that he can neither chew and gulp down, nor disgorge. The recent confrontation with China at the ambiguously demarcated LAC (Line of Actual Control) has led to a stuck- in- the throat situation for India. The face off between (...)
At a time when the pandemic infection in India seems to be rising rapidly, the regime’s acts of cruelty, there is simply no other word for them, that consist of acts of both commission and omission, seem bewildering. Are they the expressions of a government that is both uncaring and incompetent, (...)
To understand what Narendra Modi has done to India in the first year of his second term as prime minister, I want you to consider the contrasting fate of two young people, Amulya Leona and Anurag Thakur.
To understand what Narendra Modi has done to India in the first year of his second term as (...)
Review of Political Parties, Party Manifestos and Elections in India, 1909–2014 edited by R K Tiwari, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2019; pp xxi + 309, ?1,495
The book under review is a product of an Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (ICSSR) senior fellowship availed by (Retd) R K (...)
Popular sentiment against what is viewed as Indian encroachment in Kalapani and Susta has led to recurrent protests in Nepal which have largely been ignored by the Indian media.
It appears that India is fast losing its friends in the neighbourhood.
This time, the trouble stems from the Modi (...)
New Politics board member Phil Gasper interviewed Samantha Agarwal in April 2020. The interview was subsequently transcribed and edited for length.
Phil Gasper for New Politics: You have recently returned from India. You were there during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (...)
It is now a month since India went into complete lockdown on 26 March to contain the spread of Covid-19. As non-essential economic activity has come to a standstill, the lockdown has hit millions of people working in the informal sector. Although the Government has announced some relief schemes (...)
The exemption granted to sectors such as mining and steel may have more to do with sustaining large companies which are already facing losses.
India is under an emergency lockdown. One big question that will be asked for some time to come is if this extreme measure could have been prevented. (...)
US-based researcher’s survey of migrant workers in Lucknow finds that police repression induces new forms of solidarities rooted in shared experiences.
Does police repression spark or quell everyday cooperation within frequently repressed poor urban communities? Are repression’s effects limited (...)
Ayesha Renna, the young woman student from Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi – who became the face of anti-CAA students’ protests in India was in Kolkata to speak at the People’s Literary Festival organized by Bastar Solidarity Network (Kolkata Chapter) on 29th February. Sudarshana (...)
This is not the enlightened self-interest of classical liberalism – it is a movement fascinated with the prospect of annihilation, giddy for destructive adventure.
We are living in a time of rupture. Most of these ruptures are coming from the authoritarian, nationalist right. Nationalist (...)
The anti-CAA/NPR/NRC movement in Bihar has started impacting political developments in the state ahead of forthcoming assembly elections scheduled to be held later this year. Anish Ankur writes from Patna.
The anti-CAA/NPR/NRC movement in Bihar has started impacting political developments in (...)
The communal violence that erupted in the National Capital Region of Delhi on February 24th,and carried on for about a week, marks another orchestrated step in the Sangh’s strategy of deliberately polarising the Indian public along Hindu-Muslim lines. In the past such politically motivated (...)
In the last two decades, there has been a proliferation of bands and individuals that have used rap and rock music to point attention to political issues in different parts of the country. Sahapedia looks at the emergence of rap as a potent and popular musical form in the tradition of protest (...)
Songs, which have occupied a prominent place in the anti-CAA protest movements, draw from a tradition whose history can be traced back to the late anti-colonial period.
Ever since December 15, 2019, when anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests started in full swing, several images (...)
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