दीनदयाल उपाध्याय: भाजपा के ‘गांधी’ ( Photo Courtesy : thewire.in) एक पेड़विहीन देश में एक एरंड भी बड़ा पेड़ कहलाता है – एक संस्कृत सुभाषित का रूपांतरण /In a treeless country even castor counts for a big tree/ /संदर्भ: http://www.epw.in/journal/2006/12/ राष्ट्रपति कोविन्द ने इस बात को स्वीकारा कि ‘‘भारत की कामयाबी की कंुजी उसकी विविधता …
Last week, Prime Minister Modi gave an hour long speech denouncing ‘pessimists’ who refused to see the bright side of demonetisation and other transformations that his government’s able management had visited upon the economy.
On October 3, students, human rights activists, muslim-dalit-adivasi-bahujan organisations from all over India are converging in Thiruvananthapuram to march for the freedom of the twenty-four-year-old Hadiya, who is under virtual house arrest in the home of her father, Mr Asokan after the shocking annulment of her marriage to her chosen partner by the Kerala HC. … Continue reading Free Hadiya March on 3 Oct: Citizens for Hadiya
The following is a statement by feminist organisations . To add your name to the statement, please sign in the comments section. In the wake of the protests following the 2012 Delhi gangrape, India had witnessed a welcome sharpening of understanding around sexual violence and consent. Legal reform recognized the principle of affirmative consent – … Continue reading Feminists say ‘NO’ to recent rape judgments: There is nothing feeble about it
To The President of India Visitor Banaras Hindu University Sub : On recent agonising developments in Banaras Hindu University Dear Sir We alumni of Banaras Hindu University would like to convey to you our sense of concern about the recent developments at our alma mater namely Banaras Hindu University. Developments which have brought forward the … Continue reading Petition to President of India, Visitor of BHU from Alumni of the University
It looks like the CPM’s enmity towards the Muslim organizations is such that they do not mind sacrificing women’s human rights and reinforcing the patriarchal family just to teach them a lesson. So they are happy to stick with the Sanghi understanding of conversion as necessarily forced in some way, ideological or physical. Media One … Continue reading Cutting the nose to spite the face?
Tomorrow, the capital will see the culmination of the year-long birth centenary celebrations of Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Pandit Deendayal Upadhayay ‘Nirastapadapeshe Erandopi Drumayate !’ – Sanskrit Proverb (In a treeless country even castor counts for a big tree) ( Quoted in EPW ”An Occasion for the RSS”, GPD) Come September 25 and the capital would see … Continue reading BJP, In Search Of An Icon: Is Deendayal Upadhyay Party’s Mahatma Gandhi?
If there is one thing, besides the pervasive Islamophobia in Kerala in both the Left and Right, that the Hadiya case reveals, it is the deeply entrenched commitment to patriarchy eerywhere — on the Right, Left, the radical civil society, wherever. Since May 2017, this young woman has been under virtual house arrest in her … Continue reading Judicial Ghar Wapsi : Update on the Hadiya Case
For a law against Superstition at the National Level ( Image Courtesy : http://antisuperstition.org/faith-in-time-of-rationality/) These are really ‘bure din‘ for the spiritual gurus of India. While the likes of Ram Rahim, Asaram Bapus and Rampal are cooling their heels behind bars for their not so spiritual acts, Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale who is … Continue reading Time for Akhara ‘certified’ Babas?
Violence is sweeping Myanmar and in a short span of two weeks lakhs of ethnic Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh and thousands have lost their lives. Satellite data shows, large parts of the Rakhine state, home to most of the Burmese Rohingya population have been set on fire, and murders, rape, arson, loot and … Continue reading Statement Against Genocide and Deportation of Rohingya Muslims
