Category: India
Achal Prabhala: Stop Exporting Indian-Made Vaccines to Rich Nations
Badri Raina: Education, Illusion and Reality: A New Ideological Foundation Stone to Firm up an Election
Badri Raina: Not Just a Farmers’ Stir But a Democratic Pushback Against Uncaring Rule
Badri Raina: The Questionable Patriotism of Indian Industry
Badri Raina: Hindus Are the Majority. And Yet the Future of the Constitution Has Become Cause for Concern
Badri Raina: India’s Political Opposition Must Trust the People
Badri Raina: Mixed Messages from a PM and President
Badri Raina: The Familiar Stench of the Forced Loyalty Slogan, the Demands for Segregation
Badri Raina: Tokyo and a Crematorium in the Capital: Two Faces of a United Reality
Badri Raina: Between Drone and Pegasus, the Latter’s Flight May Be the More Fatal to India
More than a dozen civil society groups in India have written an open urging Johnson & Johnson to cancel export of Indian-made COVID-19 vaccine doses to rich countries and instead focus on distributing them in the Global South
By all accounts, the campaign for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections threatens to be no-holds-barred
That the historic Muzaffarnagar mahapanchayat was not just a farmer-related one any more was apparent from the diversity of attendance it drew and from the content of the speeches made at the happening
They Do Not Invest in Jammu and Kashmir
The Gujarat deputy CM Nitin Patel has cautioned that if Hindus were to be reduced to a minority, or if India’s Muslim population were just to increase, democracy in India would disappear
That support for Narendra Modi as the best choice for the next prime minister has plummeted is a telling affirmation of the people’s alertness to the objective status of the Union and of their stakes within it
Are We to Remember or Transcend the Past?
It is also apparent that a concerted and barely concealed plan seems afoot to demand that Muslims be kept segregated from the ‘true Indians’, namely, Hindu Indians
In the middle of this, democracy performs at break-neck speed
It is strange that the Modi government, which denies targeting the individuals named, does not feel impelled to find out who it is that may be attacking democratic opinion critical of the establishment