HISTORY, UNDER BJP rule, has developed a surprising tendency to dominate our national discourse. Not only has Indian history increasingly become ‘ground zero’ in the battle of narratives between Hindutvavadis and pluralists, it is being wielded as the BJP’s weapon of choice against the Congress. Prime Minister’s Narendra Modi’s excoriating speech in the Lok Sabha […]
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Lies & Finger-Pointing: BJP’s only response to PNB scam
Three days have passed since the news of the PNB scam hit the airwaves, but the BJP government is yet to answer even one question out of the multiple ones that the Congress party has posed. Instead, the government has deployed its ministers and spokespersons to try and deflect this as a “UPA-era […]
‘A glory has departed’: Nehru’s forgotten speech on Gandhi’s assassination
‘Ultimately, the hand of a child of his struck him down’, said the first prime minister, referring to Godse in the Constituent Assembly on February 2, 1948. Jawaharlal Nehru’s extempore broadcast on All India Radio announcing the news of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination on January 30, 1948, “The light has gone out of our lives and there […]
On Auschwitz liberation day, a bunch of thoughts for India
Fascism grows in crises. And it triggers crises to thrive. Anyone who has studied the history of fascism can say that with a certain degree of authority. And anyone who has been following the happenings in India in the last few years can certainly spot signs of it. But it’s really in the last couple […]
BJP gains in polls after every riot, says Yale study
While many within the Congress blame its electoral debacle to the party’s obsession with “minority appeasement”, a recent study conducted by three political scientists of the Yale University claim that had Congress lost all close elections between 1962 and 2000, there could have been 10% more communal riots in the country. Gareth Nellis, Michael Weaver, […]
Richest 1% Cornered 73% of Wealth Generated in India in 2017: Oxfam Survey
The annual Oxfam survey revealed that 67 crore Indians comprising the population’s poorest half saw their wealth rise by just 1% in the last year. India’s richest 1% garnered as much as 73% of the total wealth generated in the country in 2017, according to a new survey by international rights group Oxfam. The […]
A democracy in peril
The BJP/RSS has deliberately polarised the media, especially television into ‘us media’ and ‘them media’. During the press conference by the four Supreme Court judges, Justice Jasti Chelameswar made a rather prophetic statement. He said: “The four of us are convinced that unless this institution is preserved and it maintains its equanimity, […]
When Judges refuse to sell their Souls
Supreme Court Judges (L-R) Kurien Joseph, Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi and Madan B Lokur While the four senior judges showed remarkable restraint by not going into specifics, TV news channels debated why they did what they did while ignoring what they said and why Now the nation knows why Tirath Singh Thakur, the 43rd Chief Justice […]
A Family Breaks Its Silence: Shocking Details Emerge In Death Of Judge Presiding Over Sohrabuddin Trial
On the morning of 1 December 2014, the family of 48-year-old judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya, who was presiding over the Central Bureau of Investigation special court in Mumbai, was informed that he had died in Nagpur, where he had travelled for a colleague’s daughter’s wedding. Loya had been hearing one of the most high-profile […]
WHAT’S BJP’S BEEF WITH PAKISTAN? IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK.
Pink Revolution (A term used to denote the technological revolutions in the meat and poultry processing sector) was introduced in election campaigning by Narendra Modi (Then Gujarat CM and Currently PM) in General elections 2014 to accuse ruling party Congress for encouraging “Cow Slaughter”. Since then, it has been a prominent election issues for BJP across India. As […]