Kancha Ilaiah is director, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad
Kancha Ilaiah
Bobby Kunhu
Bobby Kunhu is a human rights activist and lawyer.
Rupesh Kumar
Rupesh Kumar is an award wining documentary film maker, watch some of his documentaries here.
Dilip Mandal
Dilip Mandal is a journalist and author.
Khalid Anis Ansari
Khalid Anis Ansari is with The Patna Collective, New Delhi. He can be reached at khalidanisansari@gmail.com
Change is on cards
By Chandra Bhan Prasad Our democratic set-up is heading for a complete revamp. To decode Anna Hazare’s Jan Lokpal Bill vs Government’s Lokpal Bill cry and to translate that is a phenomenon in itself. To understand this, one will have to travel the path that Britain underwent in creating their Parliament and democracy. Approximately in …
Mayawati and WikiLeaks: How Media lies to you
by Dilip Mandal, translated from Hindi by Ritu Ranjan Kumar [A set of unverified gossipy statements about the UP Chief Minister Mayawati from unnamed journalists forms the basis of the WikiLeaks cables released a few days ago. Yet, the Indan media went to town about the contents being the truth. For, it only extended the …
Anna’s social fascism
By Kancha Ilaiah The recent happenings in Delhi around the issue of the Lokpal Bill have been celebrated by the media as people’s victory, pinned down on Team Anna Hazare. But the majority of the “masses” of this country, living in institutional caste and class enclosures, are not yet part of the “civil society” that …
Jan Lokpal Bill Contains Draconian Clauses
Press release by Citizens for Social Justice Jan Lokpal Bill Contains Draconian Clauses. Team Anna’s Civil Society Does Not Represent the Nation. Let 2014 General Election Decide on Jan Lokpal Bill. Citizens for Social Justice consisting of Prof Kancha Ilaiah, Dr. John Dayal – member of National Integration Council, Dr. Joseph D’souza – President …