Rathod Raghuvardhan In the final report submitted by the Telangana Police to the High Court of Telangana, a pivotal question regarding Rohith Vemula’s identity arises. Despite implicating the former Vice Chancellor and BJP leaders in the case, the police absolved them of any wrongdoing. They asserted that Rohith Vemula was cognizant of not belonging to …
Mutual Aid and Self-Organization in Anti-CAA and Farmers’ Protests
Pranav Jeevan P توشاہیںہےپروازہےکامتیراترےسامنےآسماںاوربھیہیں- اقبال तूशाहीनहै,परवाज़हैकामतेरा ,तेरेसामनेआसमांऔरभीहै – इकबाल You are a falcon, your purpose is to fly, there are still more skies for you to transcend – Ikbal India witnessed two large scale protests in last 2 years which saw millions taking to streets against the oppressive laws passed by the Government. These were …
Okupa Cuba Casa Refugio: The Shaheen Bagh of Mexico
Pranav Jeevan P This article is about an occupation protest that happened in Mexico last year which didn’t get the attention it deserves in media. 2020 witnessed a lot of occupation protests from Shaheen Bagh to Farmers occupation of Delhi borders. Just like those in Shaheen Bagh, this occupation protest in Mexico was by led …
COVID-19 and a more dangerous virus
Salman Farissi COVID-19 hit India in March 2020. Nationwide lockdown prohibited all forms of political or religious congregations. Protesters on the streets of India against CAA, NRC, and NPR retreated as responsible human beings but the deep state and the Indian state (RSS-BJP) seem to have been searching for their prey hiding in the lurches. …
Roar of the Lioness : Shaheen Bagh
Salman Farissi Religion and Politics have most often shown derision towards the fairer sex – women. Patriarchy was rampant across the globe but history has been a gentle friend of women as when stories were told and historians started writing and narrating them, the real power of the fairer sex began dominating the arena of …
The incompatibility of RSS-BJP’s agenda with the idea of India: A Zero Hour prognosis
Salman Farissi In 2019, when BJP won with a bigger majority than ever before, the minorities of the country, especially religious minorities, were not only disappointed but deeply distressed. While they pondered their prospects, followers of the hardcore right-wing, sycophants of Hindutva ideology, were celebrating and contemplating making their idea of Hindu-Rashtra a reality. Before …
The Burden of an Economy
Tejaswini Tabhane I once wittily remarked that I am an economist till the time you do not ask me what will be the GDP projection for the next quarter. This remark does not merely come from my dislike of macroeconomics as a subject, but for the overemphasis, these few numbers get over the socio-political …
Learnings from Assam in the context of NPR/NRC/CAA
Naaz Khair The Council of Europe reports that there are more than 680,000 stateless people in Europe today, a large number of them being ethnic Roma with no basic documents to prove their identity, legal status and citizenship. They are all individual stories of deprivation of rights, with their statelessness caused by, “discrimination in …
‘Except the Brahmin, Kshatriya, and Vaishya everybody can be deprived of their citizenship rights very easily’ ~ Ratnesh Kalutkar
Dhamma Darshan Nigam People across India are protesting continuously against CAA, NRC and NPR for few months now. In this conversation, Dhamma Darshan Nigam discussed the people’s concern regarding CAA, NRC and NPR with Dr. Ratnesh Katulkar. Dhamma Darshan Nigam: Ratnesh ji, we are continuously hearing about CAA, NRC and NPR? What are they …