Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
With quite some time having elapsed since the election results to the West Bengal Assembly were announced on 2 May, we need to start by providing a bird’s eye view of the results before probing into details. And this can be summed up by saying that this is the most right-wing Bengal Assembly (...)
The repeal of the three farm laws introduced by the Modi government is a necessary but far from sufficient condition to decisively improve Indian agriculture and the lives of those connected to it. Yet, even if some compromise is struck instead of repeal, it will significantly breach the (...)
This week, Donald Trump went to India to sign a new arms deal with the far-right leader Narendra Modi. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the pair remained silent as Hindu nationalists unleashed a wave of violence against Muslims — targeting their homes, businesses, and places of worship.
A (...)
India under the BJP’s rule has seen a sharp turn to the right, with Muslims and other minorities being subjected to violence and oppression on a daily basis.
The EU resolution condemning the Modi government’s Citizens Amendment Act (CAA) is welcome news ; less so the fact that voting on it in (...)
India’s Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu made a curious comment on 28 December. “Express dissent in a democratic way,” he said. Before he became the Vice President – a largely symbolic role – Naidu was the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the far-right political organization that now (...)
Every day and in every part of India, hundreds of thousands of people – mainly young people – gather on the streets to express their anger at the government. Their protests, like those of the protests in Chile, emerged out of one particular grievance but then have cascaded outward. They are angry (...)
One night in May, a strange and seemingly inexplicable thing happened in India. A divisive and ineffectual prime minister returned to power with a historic mandate.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s triumph on May 23 was conclusive. His Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won more than (...)
In the Indian elections of 2019, the Hindutva chauvinist BJP led by Narendra Modi swept to a landslide majority.
The so-called NDA (BJP’s coalition with its allied parties) won the world’s most expensive election in a country that has the highest concentration of poverty on the planet. India’s (...)
PRESS RELEASE
AN APPEAL TO POLITICAL PARTIES & TO THE CITIZENS OF INDIA
We, the undersigned, are deeply perturbed and concerned with reports coming in from various part of the country of EVM machines and even a VVPAT being transported in unauthorized trucks and private vehicles, the (...)
Subhash Gatade’s Hinduta’s Second Coming deals with the question of normalisation of majoritarianism which India is currently witnessing. The book is divided into three sections. The first section tries to situate this issue in a larger South-Asian context and to find any commonality in the (...)
NGOs say they could be forced to leave India after authorities freeze their bank accounts
Global charities have said their operations in India are in danger after the government froze their bank accounts, forcing them to shed staff.
Amnesty International and Greenpeace have accused India of (...)
The campus, though seen as a hotbed of anti-caste and anti-BJP movements, has always had a strong ABVP presence.
New Delhi: In a significant trend reversal, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the RSS-backed student outfit, has comfortably defeated Left and Dalit groups, sweeping the (...)
The recent raids and arrests of rights activists are a part of BJP’s current agenda – to take down the political dissident.
On Tuesday morning, both insult and injury were inflicted on the Indian democracy when in a nationwide sweep, the Pune Police raided the homes of several human rights (...)
It is disturbing how much India has begun to emulate Pakistan.
Carved out of the same political fabric in 1947, India and Pakistan were expected to be identical twins. It quickly became clear that their future trend lines would be vastly different. Soon after Pakistan’s creation, power (...)
From Prakash Raj to Kausalya Shankar, several individuals and organisations raised their voices against the state and status quo.
Before journalist Gauri Lankesh was killed in Bengaluru in September, Prakash Raj was just another actor – someone who did routine roles and walked away with (...)
The Indian government is increasingly hostile to Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). It has terminated cooperation and consultation arrangements developed before 2014, and is attempting to redefine democratic participation in ways that exclude civil society. A recent briefing note by the (...)
In India, Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP is consolidating its power through vigilante violence, censorship, and state repression.
This March, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won regional elections in four out of five states , including Uttar Pradesh (UP). This huge prize represents a (...)
The Indian state must respect articulation of the politics of ‘voice’, and not just the politics of the ‘vote’. Hostility to CSOs contains elements of a deeper attack on democratic participation.
In May 2015, a host of civil society organisations wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister of (...)
There is little cogent or visionary opposition to the decimation of India’s secular and tolerant tradition.
“Faith,” it has been said, “will move mountains.” It is an encouraging belief — when we need to move mountains. But in our day-to-day life, relying on unquestioned faith rather than on (...)
Recent regional elections in India handed Modi’s BJP important new majorities. How can it be stopped?
One can hardly overstate the significance of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) remarkable showing in India’s recent state assembly elections in Manipur, Goa, Punjab, Uttrakhand, and Uttar (...)
Twitter
Facebook