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NAMO POLITICSSaba Naqvi: The Narendra Modi cult moves up another levelBy naming a stadium after himself and putting his image on Covid-19 certificates, we see the transition to making him the symbol and emblem of the nation-state.Saba Naqvi Saba Naqvi: The Narendra Modi cult moves up another levelA mural of Narendra Modi in Mumbai. | […]

Sagarika Ghose Sagarika GhoseSagarika Ghose has been a journalist for over three decades, starting her career with The Times of India, subsequently moving … MORE In a 2017 blog, UP CM Yogi Adityanath wrote: “…our scriptures have always spoken about giving women protection…energy can go to waste and cause damage if left free and uncontrolled. […]

By B S Murthy @murthybs Ever seen the world’s biggest democratic government go apeshit & deploy its entire communication ecosystem to counter & slander for tweets by four ladies who are non-Indian? , it just happened in India in the first week of February. What can possibly rattle a government with a big majority and […]

Navreet Singh death: Eyewitnesses, family accuse police; expert says wounds consistent with bullet injury; police deny2 February 2021ATUL DEV AND ARSHU JOHN Navreet Singh, who died during the farmer’s rally on 26 January, in Delhi. Eyewitnesses and family members have alleged that the police shot Navreet. Acc COURTESY INDERJIT SINGHTwo eyewitnesses and family members have […]

Modi Government should be replaced. Sooner than later. But that alone won’t remove sense of Hindu supremacy from India. SCs ploy on the protesting farmers was the tragically predictable result of signature style functioning a fascist PM. But his departure from office, whether sooner or in 2024, will not solve the deeper problems exposed by […]

By Paul Koshy Modi Government should be replaced. Sooner than later. But that alone won’t remove sense of Hindu supremacy from India. SCs ploy on the protesting farmers was the tragically predictable result of signature style functioning a fascist PM. But his departure from office, whether sooner or in 2024, will not solve the deeper […]

By Sagarika Ghose.Sagarika Ghose has been a journalist for over three decades, starting her career with The Times of India, subsequently moving … MORE 2020 was a bleak year for individual freedom. Governments across the world fought the Covid pandemic through liberty-quashing lockdowns. In March, India slammed down what has been described as one of […]

Blogs Democracy’s oxygen: Protests are an opportunity to create dialogue between citizen and stateDecember 2, 2020, 2:25 AM IST Sagarika Ghose in Bloody Mary | Edit Page, India | TOI Thousands of farmers from Punjab have converged on New Delhi to voice protests against new farm laws. Initially the police response to them was excessively […]

Demonetisation to GST to farm bills: economy’s dangerous slide‘Farmers at mercy of corporates, food security threatened’ Prabhat PatnaikFile pictureSubhoranjan Dasgupta Published 23.11.20, 02:22 AMEminent economist, professor emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University and activist Prabhat Patnaik traces the downward and dangerous slide of the Indian economy, from the demonetisation to the new farm bills. The first […]

SUPPORT DHJOURNALISM HomeOpinionElectoral Bonds: Scourge of Democracy Sarkari Secrets Venkatesh Nayak,NOV 22 2020, 00:31 IST UPDATED: NOV 22 2020, 00:40 IST Venkatesh Nayak.Sir Sean Connery, who made James Bond — the arch nemesis of Ian Fleming’s villainous characters hankering for world power — a household name, died peacefully in his sleep last month. Far away, […]