This article by MEGHNAD S AND SHAMBHAVI THAKUR was originally published in Newslaundry as Hate factory: Inside Kapil Mishra’s ‘Hindu Ecosystem’. You can subscribe to Newslaundry here.
Widows and relatives of farmers who were believed to have killed themselves over debt, at Tikri border. Image courtesy Indian Express Let me tell you what the Delhi Police knows. And I do not mean the abstract entity called Delhi Police. I mean every single IPS officer and every constable involved in carrying out the … Continue reading Toolkits of democracy and a paranoid Hindu Rashtra →
This guest post is by AYESHA KIDWAI When on January 26, 2016, Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar, a professor of electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, assumed office as the new Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, no one really knew who he was. Although subsequent news coverage have unearthed a short-lived and rather unsavoury notoriety in the … Continue reading Exclusion Arithmetics in Higher Education -JNU as the NEP 2020 Pilot: Ayesha Kidwai →
[In this column this time, I am reproducing a piece that I recently wrote at the request of some friends – as a popular pamphlet, meant primarily for election purposes. Therefore, while it draws on the work of experts in the field, it does not really address the academic reader.] “Hinduize all politics … Continue reading Hinduism, Hindu Way of Life and RSS Hindutva →
STATEMENT BY WOMEN AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND STATE REPRESSION Demand the immediate release of Nodeep Kaur and Shiv Kumar and cessation of targeting of workers and peasants by the Haryana Police! On January 12th 2021, the Haryana Police began firing at a workers’ rally in the Kundli Industrial Area.
Guest post by RAJINDER CHAUDHARY दिल्ली पहुँचने के बाद और 26 जनवरी से पहले, ऊपरी तौर पर सरकार ने किसान आन्दोलन की राह में कोई रोड़े नहीं अटकाए और किसान आन्दोलन को दबाने की रणनीति दबी-ढकी थी। परन्तु अब सरकार खुल कर किसान आन्दोलन को दबाने का प्रयास कर रही है। न केवल आन्दोलनकारियों का … Continue reading किसान आंदोलन और नए कंपनी राज के खतरे – अब बाक़ी देश को आगे
(अक्सर लोग बातचीत में यह कहते पाये जाते हैं कि इस देश में सैनिक शासन लागू कर देना चाहिए. ऐसा कहते समय वे यह भूल जाते हैं कि उनके पड़ोसी देशों में यह सब होता रहा है और इसने उन देशों का जहाँ पीछे किया है वहीं लोगों के जीवन को भी संकट में जब-तब … Continue reading हमको डिक्टेटर मांगता! →
Guest post by VISHWAS SATGAR At last, the Trump Presidency has crash landed and he is out of the White House. Now, we can all start dealing with ‘Trump trauma’ and shock. What did we live through over the past four years ? This is a planetary question. It is a question we are all … Continue reading Trump Has Gone, But Neofascism Is Alive In Mainstream American Society: Vishwas Satgar →
This article by NAKUL SINGH SAWHNEY was first published in Raiot.in Rakesh Tikait (Image courtesy Twitter/ @iHShaheen at National Herald) I have read several posts on social media the last few days where people are expressing apprehensions and even anger over all the excitement around Rakesh Tikait. Most of that anger stems from Bhartiya Kisan … Continue reading How not to read Rakesh Tikait: Nakul Singh Sawhney →
This is the third part of a series of reports on Jawaharlal Nehru University (2016-2021) by the JNU Teachers’ Association. Part I – Delhi High Court Orders . Part II – Security on JNU Campus On Academic Programmes The directive issued by the Ministry of Education on the evening of 22 January announcing an extension … Continue reading JNUTA REPORT ON THE UNIVERSITY 2016-2021 PART III – On Academic Programmes →
