The Intelligence Bureau has, as we know prepared a document, updating it from the time of the UPA regime (which had reportedly started the dossier) indicating large scale foreign funding for subversive anti-development activities. Such as claiming that you have a greater right to your own lands and to your livelihood than monstrous profit-making private companies. Or raising ecological […]
Author: Nivedita Menon
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When Are Foreign Funds Okay? A Guide for the Perplexed
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Enough is enough: Anand Teltumbde
ANAND TELTUMBDE in The Hindu today The tree in Katra Shahadatganj village (Badaun district) from which two young Dalit women, sisters, were found hanging after being gang-raped on May 27, 2014. Their bodies were found on May 28th. The images of two innocent Dalit girls hanging from a tree in Katra village in Badaun district of […]
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A Chronicle of an Event Foretold? Sankaran Krishna
Guest Post by SANKARAN KRISHNA As journalists, academics and other pundits scramble to make sense of the just concluded elections to the Indian parliament, one can discern a few broad strands of opinion. One group – lets call them the Optimists – point to India’s almost seven-decades long experiment with electoral democracy and aver that we […]
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Some Good News for Planet Earth
Two planets meet. Oh hello, says one, long time no see. How are you? Not doing so well, says the other. I think I have Homo Sapiens. That’s terrible, responds the first planet, I had that too. But dont worry, it doesn’t last long. (Popular climate change joke, courtesy Goran Fejic. Bottom line? The […]
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History and Idealism in the Aam Aadmi Party’s 2014 Victories in Panjab: Puninder Singh
Guest post by PUNINDER SINGH Bhagwant Singh Mann, now AAP MP from Sangrur, on the campaign trail The Indian general election of 2014 will firstly be remembered for the signal self-destruction and implosion of independent India’s three-quarters-of-a-century-old ruling dynasty and its political arm, the Congress Party. Whether the unexpected series of victories by the fledgling Aam […]
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A Brave and Startling Truth: Maya Angelou
April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014 We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and startling truth And when we come to […]
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Welcome to Pseudo-Democracy – Unpacking the BJP Victory: Irfan Ahmad
Guest Post by IRFAN AHMAD This article offers a preliminary analysis of what the Modi phenomenon means in terms of BJP’s sweeping win on 16 May. It makes four propositions. First, we stop seeing it as an individual phenomenon centered on the personality of Modi even as his votaries as well as some critics tend to view […]
