2024

Now it is this side of Bengal. It is the state of West Bengal of the Indian Republic that has been witnessing a massive uprising of its people against crime against humanity. It is peoples

NAJAR: National Alliance for Justice, Accountability & Rights
NAJAR expresses grave concern over the Prime Minister

September 12 will go down as a memorable day in India

* A Tribute to a Critical Scholar of Jurisprudence | Arup Kumar Sen
* Neoliberal Hegemony: Compromised Reform, Suppressed Revolution | Ajay Mishra, Shraddha Rishi
* India-Pakistan Peace and Friendship March organised from Mansa to Atari-Wagha border | Sandeep Pandey

Behind all the glib talk of fast economic growth & India being in the big league as the 5th largest economy there is continued silence over an underlying social crisis that the Modi Government has no time for. Last week the media focused on a study based on official data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) that points to the continued rise of student suicides in India. Families of the lower middle class and the middle classes put enormous pressure on children and young adults (…)

In her 2024 Union Budget speech, the Finance Minister said, "Nuclear energy is expected to form a very significant part of the energy mix of Viksit Bharat. Towards that pursuit, our government will partner with private firms for setting up of Bharat Small Reactors, conduct research and development on Bharat Small Modular Reactor and newer technologies for nuclear energy". Funding for R&D in Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology is budgeted at ₹1-trillion.
India already has 22 (…)

Obituary
There have been some excellent obituaries written of the 94 year old lawyer-historian Abdul Ghafoor Noorani who passed away on 29th August 2024 in his native Mumbai after a long illness. A bachelor, AG Noorani – the byline which he used - is survived by a body of work which will be quoted by generations of lawyers, academics and journalists writing on some of the major issues that have more than once threatened constitutionalism in India, and triggered targeted sectarian violence, (…)

Very recently, we witnessed the death of one rare critical scholar of jurisprudence, A. G. Noorani. Two commentators have aptly narrated the trajectory of his critical journey: “He wrote - and wrote fearlessly - on the Emergency, on Kashmir, on the Babri Masjid. A leading voice on constitutional law and issues of Kashmir and Indian Muslims…” (The Indian Express, August 30, 2024). To put it in the words of the eminent Supreme Court advocate, Shyam Divan: “He was more of a lawyer outside the (…)

Women comprise nearly half of Haryana’s electorate but hold only 10% of the assembly seats. Often viewed merely as a valuable voting demographic, they are not seen as influential changemakers. Isn’t it time it changes?
Haryana is a state with a rich history of remarkable women: Vinesh Phogat, the first woman wrestler to reach the Olympic finals; Manu Bhaker, who won double medals in a single Olympics; Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian woman in space; and Manushi Chhillar, who brought home (…)

Kafan, also known as The Shroud in English, is a story written by Premchand in 1936. He is often regarded as the pioneer of modern Hindi fiction writing and is one of the first authors to address the caste hierarchies prevalent in Indian society. Kafan is one of his most renowned as well as controversial works, portraying the sufferings of those who are at the bottom of this pyramidal social structure. The story revolves around two active characters, Madhav and Ghisu who are the primary mode (…)