ANHAD released a book on 28 February in an online event to mark 20 years of the Gujarat pogrom. As a reminder that it was a long campaign and organization of hate against Muslims in the state which made this pogrom possible. That hate has now gripped the entire country. We need to stop it … Continue reading Hate Grips The Nation: A book to mark 20 Years Of the Gujarat pogrom →
The infamous infant-snatching case in Kerala has opened up too many harsh truths about this society. It is not easy to express the pain in acknowledging it. After all, for many of us who have stuck back here with the intention of participating in what was once a fairly vibrant political life, this monstrosity that … Continue reading Help Us Fight ‘Progressive ‘ Cyberlynching: An Appeal from Kerala →
Dear Chief Minister Throughout the terrible times we have seen these last two years, it is the news from Kerala that has helped so many of us to keep faith in governance – that a state can be honest, open, participatory, concerned for its people, focused on health, and not play politics, all of these … Continue reading How Could You Allow This to Happen? Urvashi Butalia Writes to the Kerala Chief Minister →
That the entire state machinery, ostensibly at the behest of parents who are important functionaries in the ruling party, has been deployed to not only keep the baby, mother and father apart but hem them in such a way that redressal will require untangling of very many complex issues that have deliberately been tied together, … Continue reading Let Good Sense Prevail — An Open Letter to the Kerala Chief Minister: Padmini Swaminathan →
Guest Post by Samriddhi Sakunia “I am 44 years old and to date, I haven’t seen this level of violence in my life. There is nobody who is ready to take responsibility for whatever is happening here”, said Abdul Mannan, a businessman in Kailashahar, Tripura. For 9 days anti-Muslim violence-ravaged Tripura, the Northeastern state of … Continue reading The Anti Muslim Violence of Tripura: What the Government and Media did not want us to hear →
( First published in the Times of India website as https://rb.gy/uei9cb) The news of Kanhaiya Kumar joining the Congress has surprised and shocked many of his admirers. Moving from a Communist party to a bourgeois party is seen as regression. Some view it as his attempt to ‘mainstream’ himself. The truth is that both are … Continue reading Is Kanhaiya the moral spine Congress needs? →
Guest Post By Jose Kavi, Matters India New Delhi: A group of Catholic women says they are deeply concerned over a bishop’s controversial statement that now threatens communal harmony in India. In a statement endorsed by 89 Catholic women from across India urges the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India and its Kerala unit to take special … Continue reading CATHOLIC WOMEN URGE BISHOPS TO FOSTER PEACE, NOT STRIFE →
This reflection has been long coming: the whole idea of women’s empowerment has been steadily deteriorating in Kerala since some years now. Actually, even from the side of the government, there is much less talk about it, even though it flowed into Kerala in the 1990s through the government, somewhat neoliberalized already, after the Beijing … Continue reading Time to dump ’empowerment’? Feminism, women and the state in kerala today →
मुक्तिबोध शृंखला की 40वीं और अंतिम कड़ी तकरीबन 20 वर्ष पहले पढ़ी फ्रांसिस व्हीन लिखित कार्ल मार्क्स की जीवनी का अंतिम अंश या उस अंश में चित्रित मार्क्स को भूलना मुश्किल है। यह एक पत्रकार की वृद्ध मार्क्स से मुलाक़ात का वर्णन है। समंदर की लहरें पछाड़ खा रही थीं। पत्रकार ने मार्क्स से पूछना … Continue reading खूब काट-छाँट और गहरी छील-छाल रंदों और बसूलों से म
मुक्तिबोध शृंखला:39 “एक निर्मल निश्चल आत्मीयता मुक्तिबोध के स्वभाव की लुभावनी खूबी थी.
