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Ajay Gudavarthy
Emergency Message for Modi Regime: Don’t Take People for Granted
25 Jun 2021
The tendency to underestimate people, see their trust as gullibility is not new. However, Indians halted authoritarianism before and can do it again.
Shubham Sharma
Death of a Comrade and More Brutal Assaults
22 Feb 2021
The protest was not about recovering lost glories of Hinduism or banning a book that has hurt sentiments of the minority, but a progressive one for access to education and jobs.
Newsclick Report
‘Undemocratic and Anti-People’ Modi Government Destroying Institutions, Say Rights Activists, Jurists and Journalists
05 Oct 2020
Activist Biju Mathew said that right-wing governments have learned how to “flip liberal democracy on its head and cut through all the checks and balances. We need to reinvent that.”
Ajay Gudavarthy
Rise of Authoritarian Regimes Amidst a Global Sense of Boredom
12 Sep 2020
A speech at midnight or 8 PM, a starlet in a risky situation, shake us out of ennui until we need our next fix of something scintillating.
Newsclick Report
Delhi Riots: Civil Society Calls out “Utterly Deplorable” Efforts by Police to Implicate Harsh Mander
15 Jun 2020
‘This is an attempt to target him, perhaps pull him into the police dragnet of false cases, and silence powerful and effective citizen’s voices against hate, divisiveness and for unity and compassion…
The Associated Press
Concealing Virus in Brazil is Latest Bolsonaro Effort to Shore up Waning Base
09 Jun 2020
So far, COVID-19 has killed more than 36,000 Brazilians, but one wouldn't know it from the Health Ministry's website, which stopped publishing cumulative totals on Friday.
Sanjay Kumar
Delhi Violence 2020 and Why Non-Hindutva Politics Fails Us
13 Mar 2020
Neo-liberalism, the preferred ideology of dominant-savarna Hindus, controls Indian politics.
Mohammad Sajjad
Campus Spring Changed my View on ‘Apolitical’ Students
13 Jan 2020
University students are still fighters: they want to change the government’s priorities.
Sanjay Kumar
Authoritarianism and the Crisis of Public Ethics in India
14 Jul 2019
Frequency with which Indians in authority fail to behave ethically in public, indicates that the process of making rational scrutiny, passing judgments and creating moral pressure is non-functional…
Prabhat Patnaik
The Modi Years
03 Apr 2019
In its attack on civil liberties, its restructuring of the State to effect an acute centralisation of power, and its pervasive purveyance of fear, the Modi years resemble Indira Gandhi’s Emergency.