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• Political Misrule and Alienation amongst the Kashmiris - a long story | Humra Quraishi

  21 November 2020, by Humra Quraishi

  IMPRESSIONS - November 18 , 2020
  As the friction accelerates between the Centre and the Kashmiri leaders in the Kashmir Valley, how I wish two veteran journalists were still around, in our midst. After all, Nikhil Chakravartty and Ajit Bhattacharjee were probably the first two Indian journalists who had not just spoken out but written extensively about the grave human rights violations and the connected aftermath which had begun to spread out in the Kashmir Valley.
  Earlier this (…)

• Equality Before the Law | Badri Raina

  21 November 2020, by Badri Raina

  Equality before the law
  Is a fine idea,
  But propagated unequally
  By an unequal media.
  And judges are wise not to speak
  In mechanical voice;
  Justice demands that lordships weigh
  Who stacks the dice.
  Most citizens know their place
  In the scheme of things;
  Most are pedestrians,
  A third float on wings.
  Justice wears a bandana
  All across her eyes,
  Too embarrassed to observe
  How the lay of the land lies.
  November 17, 2020 - Badri Raina

• No New Words | L K Sharma

  21 November 2020, by L K Sharma

  by LK Sharma
  Social Distancing!
  Two Words signify Two Worlds Two Faces.
  Two Words. Not new to me. Inherited these.
  These are in my blood. I distance myself from the Other, instinctively.
  These got engraved in my mind as I saw Dalits and Brahmins not eating together. Men and women not sitting together.
  By colour code, I can make out the faces of two types
  When I grew up and began to show signs of nonconformity, I got quarantined. I became the Other.
  It has been like (…)

• Public Perception Replacing Political Ideology | Arun Srivastava

  21 November 2020

  by Arun Srivastava
  Refusing to be sworn in as the next chief minister of Bihar unless the LJP is dismembered and Chirag Paswan is sacked from the NDA, the JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar has put the BJP leadership, especially Narendra Modi in a piquant situation.
  Modi was expecting some kind of precipitative action from Nitish but was not sure that he would go to this extent. Well-placed sources maintain that the celebration function which was held at the party’s headquarter in Delhi was also (…)

• Impact of 2020 by-election results in Karnataka on the Political Parties | P. S. Jayaramu

  21 November 2020

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  Results of the by-elections in Karnataka are out. The BJP has emerged victorious in both the R R Nagar constituency in Bangalore and Sira in Tumkur district. The results call for an analysis of the impact of the by-polls on the Political Parties in the State.
  Let us take up first the case of the Bhartiya Janata Party. The BJP which came to power by resorting to operation lotus in a big way In 2019 after the collapse of the Congress-JD(S) Coalition Government has not (…)

• Covid Impact on Bihar Polls! | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  21 November 2020, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  Ahead of assembly polls in West Bengal, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s victory in Bihar is said to be ringing alarm bells for anti-BJP parties in this state. Of course, BJP leaders love this prediction. But seriously speaking, it is as yet too early to assume that political tide may turn in favour of BJP. Even Bihar-verdict does not spell absolute majority of BJP. Statistically speaking, BJP has not swept the polls in Bihar. Apprehensions about saffron brigade having gained more ground to (…)

• 2020 Bihar Assembly Elections: NDA Managed Power | Ravindra Sharma

  21 November 2020, by Ravindra Sharma

  Background
  Retrospectively, in 2015, The RJD and JDU had developed tacit understanding to defeat the BJP and subsequently formed the government making Nitish Kumar (JDU) as Chief Minister and Tajashwi Yadav (RJD) the Deputy Chief Minister. Ram Vilas Paswan’s (LJSP) was part of NDA and worn on only two seats. The CPIML won three seats in Siwan, Bhojpur and Katihar Districts. The ignominious defeat of the BJP in 2015 election, hurt the BJP’s stalwarts and the RSS, both hatched the conspiracy (…)

• Perils of Being Privileged Sons | T J S George

  21 November 2020, by T J S George

  All human beings are basically selfish. But the selfishness of someone like me is inconsequential compared to the selfishness of someone like Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, the ranking leader of the Communist Party that rules Kerala. He was once Home Minister in that state.
  He has two sons fondly named Binoy and Bineesh. Binoy has an FIR against him in a Mumbai rape case. Bineesh was arrested in Bangalore the other day on charges of financing Mohammed Anup to set up a hotel in the city. Anup (…)

• Arnab Goswami, Bihar Election Results and Indian Democracy | Sukumaran C V

  21 November 2020, by Sukumaran C.V.

  What Arnab Goswami’s TV Channel has been doing can’t be called journalism. He is spewing venom through his channel against all that is sane and sound in politics. He is insulting secularism, plurality and dissent under the label of journalism. He is a vociferous propagandist of the Hindutva Mr Modi and team represents. While Mr Modi has degraded politics into meaningless rhetoric, Mr Goswami has degraded journalism into mudslinging and abusing those who question his skewed views being (…)

• Har Dayal – The Unknown Revolutionary Genius | B P Mathur

  21 November 2020, by B P Mathur

  The role of Indian revolutionaries, who advocated armed uprising to drive the British out of the country, has not been adequately recognised in the history of freedom movement. The British had ruthlessly suppressed the armed revolt of 1857, but the pioneering revolutionaries such as Shyamji Krishna Varma, Bhikaji Cama, Har Dayal, Ras Behari Bose and a whole band of unknown heroes like them, kept the flame of freedom alive in heart of Indians. Many of them operated from abroad to escape the (…)