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Just at this moment in history, it would appear, it is India’s turn
By Ranjit Bhushan, How does this brutality and coercion square up with Amartya Sen’s vision where he defines democracy not just as the act of voting, but as the ongoing exercise of "public reasoning"...
6 days ago6 min read


Punish the Thief who Stole from the Vault of Democracy!
By Ajith Pillai. Scrap Sir. Gyanesh Kumar and his masters must face the consequences.
Oct 177 min read


Justice? Or, yet another Green Light to Modi and Gyanesh Kumar?
By NR Mohanty..Going by their recent track record, these judges will green light what the Executive want them to do!
Oct 176 min read


When History No Longer Requires Us
"We saw that clearly with CJP, where reels, memes, satire and first-person footage became part of the political event itself."
Oct 1714 min read


No SIR, Not Done!
By Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty. The names of millions of Indians have been deleted from the voters' list by Gyanesh Kumar.
Oct 139 min read


‘We Burn Trash, You Burn Our Future... Under Our Text Books, Anger’
By Narendra Pachkhede in London. In India, protests began after the NEET paper leak. France’s lycée revolt asks a similar question from the other end. Schools.
Oct 89 min read


Will Modi-Shah let Gyanesh Kumar go?
By NR Mohanty. if Gyanesh Kumar goes, Modi’s entire edifice and the Lotus bandwagon, will come crashing down. Indeed, it’s a do-or-die battle for Modi.
Oct 66 min read


Amit Shah’s Police Manual: ‘Inhuman, Nasty, and Brutish’
So why drag Neha Bora and others with such savagery that her hands, forearms, neck, shoulders are full of wounds?
Oct 46 min read


No ‘next time’ for a stolen election
neither an Election Commissioner nor a judge owns Indian democracy. We, the People, do.
Oct 11 min read


‘It is the mind that keeps you going’
She is 29 years old. She led a 23-day hunger strike that brought down a cabinet minister. She danced when it was over. She is still asking for more.
Sep 258 min read


Facial Recognition: Next time, a Selfie with the Cops?
Toxic language from the Red Fort. Crackdown on dissent. But this time, the tide is turning. No doubt about it.
Sep 69 min read


Why something is so rotten about so many of our schools...
By Anuradha Bhasin. Over one lakh schools nationwide are run by a single teacher.
Aug 304 min read


‘You are not alone’: How Indians Across America Rallied for the Cockroaches, in a Divided Diaspora
A community that was identified with Modi’s project was, in significant numbers, now standing against it.
Aug 198 min read


Here’s an idea: MAKE MORE REELS
By Narendra Pachkede in London. Yes, make more reels. Pass it from one phone to another, one campus to another, one language to another.
Aug 75 min read


The M Fort: The young have knocked off the front door
By Subrat Kumar Sahu. The youth have not only knocked on the front door of the Modi fort, they have knocked it off.
Aug 65 min read


It’s Time the Young Reclaim Indian Democracy!
By NR Mohanty. The youth must rise against this corrupt and authoritarian regime, and help restore a liberal-democratic government.
Jul 315 min read
This generation does not see fun and resistance as opposites
By Divya Trivedi. Our job is not to tell the next generation how to fight and resist. It is to stand beside them. Or get out of the way.
Jul 274 min read


Barbie doll, candy and fluff: All this stuff, no, it won’t work now
By Anuradha Bhasin. The cockroaches are not buying into the PM’s illusory tactics.
Jul 277 min read


The Instagram generation knows its mind
By Aditya Nigam. Much of the initial response to the movement, was based on prejudice, completely devoid of any factual basis.
Jul 253 min read


The Cost of 'Non-Lethal': Kashmir's Pellet Gun Legacy, and Its Return to Delhi's Streets
At least four people were in Delhi hospitals with wounds their doctors have linked to pellet-firing shotguns, a ‘dangerous’ weapon whose use against civilians outside Jammu and Kashmir is unprecedented.
Jul 2410 min read
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