The AAP leader has given no indication that if the opportunity arises, he will be inclined to roll back any of the policies that vitiated India in recent years.
Arvind Kejriwal’s coinage, Kaam ki rajniti or politics of ‘doing’, is actually a moniker for the politics of welfarism. It is also the (...)
Approaching the documentary as a sociological text, Zeeshan Husain discuss what he found to be the most important facets of the Dalit movement portrayed in the film.
Sangharsh, meaning strife, is a film which deals with the Dalit movement in the late 1990s. The film takes place in Kanpur city (...)
How long can a movement sustain itself without a distinct leadership and an organised agenda of protest?
It is, indeed, the best of times, and the worst of times. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has pushed a Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and now hopes to impose a National (...)
The first murder came as a shock; the second suggested there might be a larger plot; by the third there was talk of government collusion; and when the fourth happened one felt it would not be the last. The victims—Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, M.M. Kalburgi, and Gauri Lankesh—were all (...)
There is little doubt that the smaller stakeholders and businesses within India’s informal economy have the most to lose, and yet their voices are not being heard.
“Concluding RCEP [Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership] this year is the region’s ‘collective interest and highest priority’”, (...)
About 100 animals transport visitors along kilometre-long cobbled path to the city’s iconic Amber Fort
Animal rights protesters took to the streets on bicycles in the Indian city of Jaipur on Sunday, demanding an end to elephants being used to carry tourists to one of the country’s top (...)
Paying the bribe – almost 20% of the cost of the house to be built – is depriving families in Uttar Pradesh of housing under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin.
Lalitpur, (Uttar Pradesh): In Sarumal village in Uttar Pradesh’s Lalitpur district, residents claim that they are being deprived of (...)
Till 2021, party supporters suggest that the CPI(M) will stay in the shadows and watch the BJP bring down the TMC government.
To those unfamiliar with Bengal, the archetypal Bengali is an ideologically-driven Marxist (usually male), immersed in a world of lofty ideas.
Over decades, West (...)
In the wake of the recently concluded 2019 elections India has been dubbed a “majoritarian democracy”. In the near future, it is very likely that more emphasis will be placed on “majoritarian” and less on democracy. The essence of Indian democracy so far has consisted of adherence, no matter how (...)
The author and activist talks to The New Republic about Narendra Modi, the decimation of India’s opposition, and the way forward.
“In India,” Arundhati Roy wrote in 2002, “if you are a butcher or a genocidist who happens to be a politician, you have every reason to be optimistic.” Roy was (...)
For opposition parties in the rest of the country, Kerala’s voting pattern holds rich insights into effectively countering the BJP electorally.
This election cycle, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala followed the standard protocol to replicate the Hindutva experiment that had catalysed (...)
The election results show Modi has overcome his poor track record in office, but the fact that he has done so with a heady cocktail of communalism and nationalism, obscene amounts of money, unstinting media support and pliant institutions is bad news for Indian democracy.
With 300 seats and a (...)
Modi’s biggest image-building weapon is neither in his control nor in his consciousness.
It is highly likely that Narendra Modi will be handed another term as prime minister on May 23, even if the Bharatiya Janata Party takes a few losses here and there. If, by some unlikely chance, he loses, (...)
Bad tackles by one side, the favourites, have failed to be shown the red card whilst minor ones by other sides have been sent off the field.
This 2019 national election in India is nothing like the one before it in 2014. There is something fundamentally different about it, even though it is (...)
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi promises ‘final assault on poverty’ if elected in May
India’s main opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, says he will mount a “final assault on poverty” if elected in May, by giving a guaranteed income to 250 million of the country’s poorest citizens.
The plan announced by (...)
On November 8, Agnes Kharshiing and Amita Sangma were brutally attacked by a gang in the Sohshrieh area of Meghalaya’s East Jaintia hills. Kharshiing, a well-known activist, and her colleague Sangma were visiting to verify information they had received – that coal had been mined illegally and (...)
The year was 2012; the venue, Osmania University (OU), Hyderabad. The occasion, a Beef Festival; the first in the history of the university set up in 1918 by the Seventh Nizam of Hyderabad, Nawab Osman Ali Khan. Sharath Naliganti, a Madiga student of Osmania University who gave himself the (...)
New Delhi: Students at the University of Delhi – or at least a section of students, given the history of low voter turnout – will be voting for their students’ union representatives on Wednesday. In the run-up to the election, the campus has seen rhapsodic slogans, pamphlets distributed across (...)
It has been important for governments, both the Congress-led UPA and the BJP, to disguise their attacks on Adivasis, and now, in the case of the BJP, their attack on Dalits, as an attack on “Maoists” or “Naxals.”
This morning’s papers (August 30, 2018) settle something that we have been debating (...)
The state has been extending Azad’s detention under the National Security Act after its expiry every three months.
New Delhi: Thousands from around the country gathered in Delhi on August 19 under the banner of the Bhim Army from western Uttar Pradesh to demand the release of leader (...)
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