by Debtanu Majee
The massive victory of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the recently held Delhi Assembly elections indicates that the citizens of India, and especially Delhi, are exhausted with the politics of religion promoted by the Bharatiya (...)
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Triumph of Democracy: Politics of Work Defeated the Politics of Religion
9 March 2020 -
Trial By Paper
9 March 2020, by Anil NauriyaThe roots of the current crisis in citizenship jurisprudence go back to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2003, which made more stringent the possibilities of acquiring Indian citizenship by birth, descent, registration and naturalisation.
George (...) -
The Hidden Script of Delhi Riots
9 March 2020, by Arup Kumar SenThe recent Delhi riots bear testimony to a new paradigm of anti-Muslim violence. On the eve of the Delhi Assembly elections on February 8, 2020, a number of BJP leaders made anti-minority hate speeches, which reportedly prepared the base for the (...) -
The Lamp
9 March 2020The lamps that gave light once
with their steady flames
wavered suddenly as the dark waves
thickened and threatened.
Their glow, shining up countless faces,
dimmed all of a sudden.
The flames bent towards the darkness.
The light mingled with (...) -
A Nation that Segregates and Kills the Less Privileged
9 March 2020by Sukumaran C.V.
In the first week of September 2017, I was in Gandhinagar with my JNU friend who is an Assistant Professor at the Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. He picked me up from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International (...) -
Kashmir: Home and Longing
9 March 2020by Swati Sehgal
The row around promotions and screenings of the recently released film, Shikara: The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits, speaks volumes about the social role of this creative medium. It is a strange dichotomy how a film functions (...) -
Go to Pakistan and Demonising Indian Muslims
9 March 2020by Ram Puniyani
‘Go to Pakistan’ is probably the most-used phrase to target India’s Muslims today. Recently, Akhilesh Narayan Singh, a Superintendent of Police at Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh shouted (a video of the incident is in (...) -
The BJP Has Wilfully Let Delhi Burn
1 March 2020in lieu of EDITORIAL
The following is the editorial that appeared in The Wire (February 26, 2020). We are using it here in lieu of an editorial with due acknowledgement.
For three days, northeast Delhi has been in the grip of armed vigilantes (...) -
We the People of India and Visit of Trump
1 March 2020by D. Raja
The use, rather abuse, of massive amount of people’s money by the Modi Government to welcome President Donald Trump in a mammoth gathering in a stadium in Gujarat spoke volumes of exhibitionism and utter servility of powers that be in (...) -
That was the Decade that was!
1 March 2020by L.K. Sharma
February 2020 turned out to be the most ominous month for India. The national Capital burnt with communal violence as the police watched! The organised lawlessness killed and injured people, while the democratic rulers held a (...)
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