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As the legislative session is going on, Bengaluru is becoming a focal point for many struggles against the anti-people bills being passed by the state and central government
Bengaluru: As the legislative session is going on, Bengaluru is becoming a focal point for many struggles against the (...)
The government has repeatedly used the FCRA as an instrument for harassment of political rivals or activist organisations like Amnesty International.
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment (FCRA) Bill, 2020 has been introduced in the current parliament session.
The amendment seeks to (...)
The Modi government has finally managed to create disillusionment amongst large numbers of people who were earlier unaffected by this government’s erosion of social justice, violent suppression of dissent, crony capitalism and so on.
The growing opposition against the government is making (...)
The song is titled ‘Bambai mein ka ba’ (what is there in Mumbai). The video features an English translation, and has been directed by filmmaker Anubhav Sinha.
New Delhi: Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha and actor Manoj Bajpayee have got together to produce a hard-hitting Bhojpuri rap song titled ‘Bambai (...)
When people in India are being steadily deprived of the right to dissent, it is necessary to use space where similar constraints do not exist. The Global Indian diaspora in “free-er” countries can provide one such space.
Prashant Bhushan’s conviction by the Supreme Court for contempt of court has (...)
Today, 2 September 2020, marks the end of the birth centenary year of the left-progressive Bengali poet, Biren Chattopadhyay, whose prime concern in more than four decades of his literary life had been how to “hold one’s head high even in the midst of hell”, writes Nilanjan Dutta.
American poet (...)
Evidence keeps mounting daily of India’s descent into a police state where the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution: free speech, freedom to express opinions against the policies of the government, are being honored more in the breach than in the observance. Two examples of this suffice.
The (...)
Ilina Sen, teacher, author and activist has left behind a rich legacy of work and warmth that will continue to inspire women’s and human rights activists and students.
On 9 August 2020, Ilina Sen, former professor and head of Advanced Women’s Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (...)
To say that the Supreme Court’s verdict of contempt of court against Prashant Bhushan has shocked civil society in India would be an understatement. There has been an outpouring of dismay and anger in which even attorney general K.K. Venugopal has joined. Most of the protest has focussed on the (...)
Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) deeply mourns the passing away of Ilina Sen on August 9 in Kolkata. Ilina, 69, was a feminist activist, teacher, researcher and writer passionately involved with the women’s movement in India.
Women against Sexual Violence and State (...)
On the dangerous trajectory of state institutions and popular media in India.
Every other day or so, it seems, news from India confirms our worst fears about the state of journalism and free speech in the country. Indeed, given the growing body of evidence, particularly since the ascendancy of (...)
True ’nationalists’ are hoping the ‘exposé’ by Sudarshan TV will wake up the ‘deep state’ within the Sangh parivar. To begin with, the BJP itself must be purged of all those in its ranks waging ’membership jihad’.
It is indeed baffling that so many democratic, liberal, progressive, or just plain (...)
Two community physicians with a deep interest in public health, who have earlier published their findings in The Hindu, have said India could be under-reporting its COVID-19 death toll by a factor of 5.29.
To illustrate, they say that the officially recorded COVID-19 death toll on July 31 was (...)
On August 5, 2020 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed the Bhoomi Pujan ceremony and laid the foundation stone of the Ram Temple to be built on the ruins of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India. On December 6, 1992 the mosque was destroyed by a mob of Hindu nationalist supporters of the (...)
The book was launched on Saturday by BJP leader Kapil Mishra, whose communal speeches have been seen as one of the triggers for the riots.
New Delhi: Bloomsbury Books India announced on Saturday afternoon that it is withdrawing an upcoming book on the Delhi riots that has courted controversy, (...)
This virus with the invincible will to survive has a way of mutating in the petri dishes of local cultures and politics to produce phenomena that seem bizarre, yet painfully familiar. In India, twin processes have driven the country in accelerated mode since the parliamentary elections of 2014, (...)
The Sardar of Progressive poetry, who gave it new facets with his powerful imagery, preferred to recite verses on the battlefield of existence than seek gratification.
Har cheez bhula di jaayegi Yaadon ke haseen butkhane se Har cheez utha di jaayegi Phir koi nahin yeh poochhega Sardar kahan (...)
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and ensuing lockdowns have severely affected the labour market. In India, the pandemic and the prolonged lockdowns have led to a reduction or complete loss of their livelihoods, which has disproportionately affected the migrants and the working poor. (...)
Cadres of the CPI (ML)-Liberation defied the lockdown last week and took to the streets to launch an agitation against the BJP minister in charge of public health.
Patna: While members of the two biggest political parties in Bihar – chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)) and (...)
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 (...)
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