2025

In my bedroom hangs a black and white photograph of Achint Ram, handcuffed with his feet in shackles. He was fighting for India

On February 13 in reply to a question raised in the Parliament (Lok Sabha) the government replied that there are 226 accident prone spots on highways in Himachal Pradesh and there are 200 such spots in Jammu and Kashmir.
Himalayan roads and highways need special safety measures as an accident here can lead to much more loss of life when vehicles tumble down steep hillsides. Those who had hoped that the widening of highways will lead to greater safety are often disappointed when the safety (…)

Abstract
Student politics has evolved and entered a new phase as a result of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) in 2022, with substantial consequences in recent years. In recent years, student elections at the college level have been controlled by numerous clubs, including Happy Club, Ignite, Team BOSS, Iconic Club which actively influence the political environment. These elections putforth a network among these clubs, with certain candidates from their panels elected and others (…)

According to Marx, an acceleration in the turnover of capital, concentrating wealth in the hands of the few, would result in a continuous tendency to crises. This, he believed, would ultimately make the system collapse.

The below text was presented at Discussion on Indian Constitution @75: A Federal Democracy Perspective, 25 January 2025
Minority rights in India are in dire straits as revealed in the January 2018 horrific abduction, gangrape and murder in a Hindu temple, of the eight-year-old Asifa Bano of the minority Muslim community at Kathua in Jammu & Kashmir. The culprits were from the majority Hindu community represented by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The persisting violence and (…)

George Orwell had once proclaimed that

A Canine tale from the Raj which reveals the fault lines in society at that time On 20th March, 1939, in the Central Legislative Assembly, Badri Dutt Pandey, raised a question regarding the misdemeanour of the men of Kameshwar Singh, the last Maharaja of Darbhanga during a train journey, and wanted to know what the government intended to do about it. Pandey had already made a mark in the freedom struggle through his role in (…)

The below text first appeared in Le Liberateur, no. 2, February 1834
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If we examine the source of social wealth, we find that it resides exclusively in intelligence and labour. Indeed, it is through labour and intelligence that society lives and breathes, grows and develops, and if these two forces were to withdraw from it for even a single moment it would immediately dissolve and all its members would perish as if through a sudden catastrophe.
But these two forces can only act on (…)

Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD)
February 21, 2025

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