Keerthi Nathan The past week, BJP unit of Tamil Nadu was suddenly brimming with a lot of activity after being dormant for a few months. Mr. L. Murugan had been appointed the President of the BJP State unit of TN much to everyone’s surprise. Mr. L. Murugan is also the Vice Chairman of the National …
Reading ‘Guja-ratri: Reflections on Moditva’
Noel Mariam George The book ‘Guja-ratri: Reflections on Moditva’ attempts to uncover the darkness that has engulfed the country since the rise of Motiva through a series of 17 articles. The attempt of this review is to look at the book through three conceptual frameworks. Deconstructing the Binary of Dalit-Muslim The book begins with Ambedkar’s …
Schrödinger’s cat in Supreme Court of India
Amit Kumar (This article was written on 13th January, 2018 in the wake of the press conference by four Supreme Court judges. Author feels that it has relevance now in the context of recent actions and inactions of the Supreme Court.) The four Senior Judges of Supreme Court of India, the so-called guardian of the …
Nalsar Minorities’ Forum protests against CAA-NRC-NPR
Nalsar Minorities’ Forum The NALSAR Minorities’ Forum called for a boycott of classes on 9th January 2020, which was supported by Savitribai Intersectional Study circle of NALSAR. The protest was a massive success, as it witnessed most of the NALSAR students boycotting their classes voluntarily and joining the protest holding placards. The protest started at …
The Importance of a Caste-Based Census
Tanoj Meshram (The Maharashtra assembly, on the initiative of its speaker Mr. Nana Patole – who is also an important OBC leader of the Congress in Maharashtra – has passed a resolution on January 08 demanding caste census in 2021. This development has once again raised expectations of anti-caste activists and started the discussion in social …
Deaf Republic, or India in 2019
Chanchal Kumar “We lived happily during the war”, the first poem in Ilya Kaminsky’s book Deaf Republic begins. It continues, And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protestedbut not enough, we opposed them but not enough. To better fit this poem to the India of 2019 (the results of general elections announced, with …
The Spectre of Caste is Haunting Bahujan Politics
Vinod Kumar Babasaheb Ambedkar and his ideas revolve around caste as the central problem of the Indian society. His vision and objectives are clear: establishing an egalitarian society through annihilation of caste. Throughout his life he fought for these objectives and provided philosophy, method, and vision for a new society. In many ways he …
Rightward shift of Liberal Politics in India
Omprakash Mahato If voters have voted the way they have voted, we cannot but agree with Mill’s view that India is unfit for democracy. Prior to the exit poll report, no one in the ruling party including Modi and Amit Shah himself would have been sure of such an easy victory. The common narration that …
The Failure of Secularism with the Rise of ‘I’ Politics
Omprakash Mahato Whatever is the approach of politics, politics has to have concerns with the problem of ends; the goals of the just society; the governing means should be in such a manner as to realise the good society. The key concern of politics is with power, the way it is shared through recognition and …