Rajeev R Singh Railway employees are protesting. But who is listening? This government is hell bent on privatising the Indian Railways, but in today’s age and times, it’s a non-issue, as it’s the BJP who is at the helm and for them, all is maaf. While we have been busy since the last 5 …
The Making of the Region: Perspectives from a Non-Savarna Newspaper (Part I)
P. Thirumal Abstract This intervention concerns itself with elaborating the administrative category ‘region’. The federal units qualify as administrative regions of the Indian Union. This paper argues that in the initial decades after independence, region(s) tend to be reproduced and affirmed largely through region-state(s) or Indian State practices. Though the …
India “shit hole” and Ganga a “junkyard”
Pardeep Attri Recently, an Australian radio host, Kyle Sandiland called India a “shit hole” and Ganga a “junkyard” and Indian groups in Australia are seeking an apology from the radio station as the Indian community is quite angry with such remarks from the Australian media. I was reading this news online and there were hundreds …