Dharmaraj Kumar ‘Not in my name’, says A. ‘In whose name then?’, asks B. ‘You mean, not in your name this time, right?’ asks C. ‘Of course, it lies not in your name. It is only in ‘their’ name. You just don’t worry.’, D replies curtly. ‘I just say “not in my name”, rest …
MODI-fest or MODI-jest: Making of Deaf India
Mangesh Dahiwale As predicted, the RSS/BJP Government is going for a massive public campaign to display the achievements of the Government after three years. The campaign will be run from a control room in New Delhi and the programs called “MODIfest” are arranged all over India. MODI stands for “Making Of Developed India”. Modi …
Demonetization and Adivasis
Rajunayak Vislavath Let me begin with a story about demonetisation that affected a tribal woman Sukli in a village called Bhatu Pally, a small adivasi hamlet in Warangal District, Telangana. It is situated nearly 100 kilometers away from the old district headquarters and nearly 25 kilometres away from the newly formed district called Jaya …
The revolution is a tea party for the Indian left
Kuffir Sitaram Yechury’s concerns have been consistently strange: do the communists in India really stand for the working classes? Who do they stand for, which class do they represent exactly? On Aadhaar, Yechury said recently: “Goalposts constantly shifted on making Aadhaar mandatory. From passing it as a money bill to violating SC’s orders, this …
Indian Jews, Israeli Jews, and Hindu Nationalism
Mangesh Dahiwale Modi is set to address an event managed by India Foundation in Israel, just like he did in Madison Avenue. Around 45,000 Jews of Indian origin who migrated to Israel in 1950s and 1960s are likely to attend this show to showcase the manufactured popularity of Modi. India’s Hindu Nationalists are trying …
Why Trump failed and Modi succeeded in passing new laws forcefully
S Kumar There are many parallels between Indian PM Modi and US President Trump. However, the focus of this article is only on why is Modi able to push through his agenda by passing new laws while Trump is unable to get through his way in the law making process. In US, Trump’s first …
Post-Truth Politics and Dalit Question
Vinod Kumar The world is moving in a new direction in its political spectrum. Most of the old, developed democracies have come under the influence of the right wing forces with populist images where people are drawn towards personalities and emotions rather than facts and good policies. Recently, this changing political dimension has been …
Loan Write-Offs vs Black Money – Explained
P V Vijay Kumar After SBI announced write-off of loans worth about Rs. 7000 cr including what it had lent to the nefarious Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines. There has been an uproar from the general public and also from many intellectual and political quarters as well, that this write-off is denotation of waiver of loan. …
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Prof Mahesh Chandra Guru ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ ಕೇಂದ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಆಡಳಿತ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಶ್ರೀ ನರೇಂದ್ರಮೋದಿ ನೇತೃತ್ವದ ಎನ್ಡಿಎ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಭಾರತದ ಶೋಷಿತರ ಪಾಲಿಗೆ ನರಕದ ಕೂಪವಾಗಿದೆ. 2014ರಲ್ಲಿ ಉತ್ತರ ಪ್ರದೇಶ, ಬಿಹಾರ, ಮಧ್ಯಪ್ರದೇಶ, ರಾಜಸ್ಥಾನ, ಮಹಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ ಮತ್ತು ಗುಜರಾತ್ ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವ ಬಹುಜನ ಭಾರತೀಯರು ಯುಪಿಎ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ನಿಷ್ಕ್ರಿಯತೆಯಿಂದ ಬೇಸತ್ತು ಹೊಸ ಭರವಸೆಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಎನ್ಡಿಎ ಮೈತ್ರಿಕೂಟಕ್ಕೆ ಅತ್ಯಧಿಕ ಬಹುಮತವನ್ನು ನೀಡಿದರು. ಆದರೆ ಬಹುಜನರ ಆಹಾರ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಬದುಕುವ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಸ್ವಯಂ ಸೇವಕ ಸಂಘದ ನಿರ್ದೇಶನದಲ್ಲಿ …