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 […]
National affairs
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 […]
Does It Make Economic Sense for IOC and Gail India to Invest in Adani’s LNG Terminals?
While investors have given a thumbs-down to the deals as they would add to the PSUs’ loan burden, they will likely help the heavily-indebted Adani group secure bank loans and make future investments. Over the last year, state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Gail India have decided to pick up stakes in Adani group-promoted LNG terminals […]
IN THE NAME OF CASTE
Caste narratives expose inner fault-lines in our hierarchical society and can easily spark off controversy. Last week, when Jai Ram Thakur was selected as the BJP’s Himachal Pradesh chief ministerial candidate, I tweeted about how nine of the eleven BJP chief ministers (excluding the north-east) now belong to upper castes. Predictably, the tweet raised an […]
A PRAYER FOR INDIA IN 2018
With apologies to the great poet-laureate, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, a prayer for my country in 2018. Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high. Where every citizen is blessed with equal rights and opportunities, not an India which is divided and discriminates on religion, region, caste, class, gender and income. Where […]
Salman Nizami’s open letter: ‘Dear PM, today, you have succeeded in ‘killing’ a Kashmiri nationalist’
Salman Nizami writes, “So thank you for announcing to the world you (PM Modi) and your ship are sinking in Gujarat. Thank you also for telling that you are so afraid of Rahul Gandhi, that you do not dare to dare him anymore”. I’m a proud Indian, but, truth be told, I’m yet not […]
Meghalaya CM Slams RSS Chief’s ‘Indians Are Hindus’ Remark
Slamming RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remark that “anybody living in India is a Hindu”, Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on Tuesday said “India is a secular, democratic country and secularism is part of our constitution”. “Their agenda is only to divide the Indian people on lines of religion and create communal tension. His statement (made […]