Naveen (Nijam) Gara There is still more than a year left for the next general election in 2024. However, if purported surveys are to be believed, Mr Narendra Modi is set to storm back to power comfortably. Setting the validity of these surveys aside, does the current dispensation deserve to be voted back? While there …
Hindu religion is the real culprit: Why do people avoid talking about it?
Vaishali Khandekar “In spite of what others say the Hindu will not admit that there is anything evil in the Caste System and from one point he is right. There is love, unity and mutual aid among members of a family. There is honour among theives. A band of robbers have common interests as …
Spinning Wheel: From Gandhi to Modi
Naveen (Nijam) Gara Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s picture replacing that of M K Gandhi at the charkha in an official annual calendar has kicked up a storm. Modi baiters have pounced upon this egregious ‘offence’ that the eternal propagandist has committed. It was one thing to appear on Reliance jio advertisements but to supersede …
Rejecting Victimhood, Reclaiming Resistance
Joint pamphlet by BAPSA, SIO, YFDA on the occasion of Rohith’s Shahadat Din [Distributed for ‘Resistance March’ against Institutionalized Brahmanism on 16 January 2017 in JNU, New Delhi] The institutional murder of Rohith Vemula and the enforced disappearance of Najeeb Ahmad reveal that agents of Brahmanical Fascism in universities have selected students from marginalized …
Is one sufficiently patriotic only if one is a Hindu cow-vigilante?
Vinod Kumar Hindutva cultural nationalism is at its peak today. So the day is not far when India becomes a country like Hitler’s Germany or Mussolini’s Italy. We have all witnessed how the cow-vigilantes are promoted by the VHP, RSS and its political outfit, the BJP. People from oppressed communities across the country are …
Kabali and Brahman Naman: A Study in Contrast
Pranav Kuttaiah Two films recently released that couldn’t seem more far apart. They are set in different contexts, directed by vastly different directors, produced and distributed for entirely different audiences, and star actors from completely divergent walks of life and scales of stardom. But the fact remains that they were produced from the same …
#Caste is not a rumour: The online diary of Rohith Vemula
Round Table India #Caste is not a rumour: The online diary of Rohith Vemula is a collection of Mr. Vemula’s online writing. The book, which is over 40,000 words, includes most of his Facebook posts. The books carries his views on a gamut of issues including politics and academics. His online account is a …
Divulging the Psyche of the Hindu Mind: From ‘Harijan’ to ‘Divyang’
Dr. Narendra Kumar Arya The semantic adulation frequently terminates in clichés. ‘Divyanga’ is a new divine revelation that has happened to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is not just coincidence that Narendra Modi is from Gujarat, resembling his Hindu predecessor Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi was a conservative sanatanist, a Hindu first and a political …
The Buddha Smiled: Lessons from Bihar’s Victory
N. Sukumar and Shailaja Menon “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned” ~ The Buddha In May 2014, the pervasive idea was that Moditva has triumphed and before long the Gujarat Model would usher in Ram …