by Mustafa Khan*
Terror came to India via the US and Russia. This willy-nilly precludes the phrase ‘thanks to’. What was there to thank anyone. This also includes the assassination of the magistrate of Nasik by the gun supplied by VD Savarkar. (...)
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Resumption of terrorism in the subcontinent: nascent | Mustafa Khan
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Gagged Media, Jailed Journos | John Dayal
2 July 2021, by John DayalWith an obliging police, the State is doing everything to control the media. Draconian laws are being employed to intimidate journalists not toeing the government’s line on what the media must say.
The Editors Guild of India, representing the (...) -
The Inauthentic and Anxious Life of the Married Woman | Gaganjot Kaur
2 July 2021by Gaganjot Kaur*
“I know a woman who hates domestic work, but she pretends that she likes it, because she has been taught that to be ‘good wife material’, she has to be — to use that Nigerian word — homely. And then she got married. And her (...) -
Women’s own Hell | Sukumaran C.V.
2 July 2021, by Sukumaran C.V.Violence against women in Kerala is developing into bleaker and bizarre dimensions. In June 2021 alone, within forty eight hours, four young women killed themselves or were murdered by domestic violence related to dowry.
Last year, a young (...) -
COVID - 19 and Child Labour: A Time of Crisis | Arpita Giri and Swati Singh
2 July 2021by Arpita Giri and Swati Singh*
Introduction
The onset of International Child Labour Day came as an oxymoron with the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it had on children. This is the first time in nearly two decades, the world has seen an (...) -
Farmers on the March for Acquiring Political Power | Arun Srivastava
2 July 2021by Arun Srivastava
June 30, 2021
On June 26, the day the farmers’ movement entered into its 8th month of survival it heralded the birth of a new class of farmers which has the audacity to question the character of the governance, has been (...) -
GB Road: Love in the Labyrinths of Carnality! | Sujit Chakraborty
2 July 2021by Sujit Chakraborty
INVESTIGATION
Pushed into a ‘punishment assignment’ by a terrible editor, who wanted the writer to get trapped in a sex racket, he found depths of humanism beyond anything anyone had seen or heard. A life-changing true story (...) -
Contesting the Monolithic Idea of India | Arup Kumar Sen
2 July 2021, by Arup Kumar SenIn recent years, a monolithic idea of India reigns supreme in the Statist discourse of nationalism. Anyone who contests the language of nationalism being promulgated by the Indian State may be branded as “anti-national”. This is not the idea of (...) -
Dharwar Firing Centenary | Anil Nauriya
2 July 2021, by Anil NauriyaToday, 1 July, is the centenary of the police firing in Dharwar during the movement for Non-violent Non-co-operation with the Colonial Government in India 100 years ago.
The firing started around 8.20 at night when non-co-operators were (...) -
A short note on Shapurji Saklatvala (1874–1936) | Jairus Banaji
2 July 2021by Jairus Banaji (via Facebook)
Shapurji Saklatvala (1874–1936), the first and one of only two Communist members of Britain’s parliament.
His grandfather was both related to and a business partner of Nusserwanji Tata, father of the famous (...)
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