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On the Worker-Peasant Alliance in India (and Other Countries of the Global...
Abstract: For peasants to enhance their success in getting their demands met in India (as elsewhere in the Global South, with its belated capitalist development), there must be a worker peasant...
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Assassination of Sikh Leader in Canada Highlights Modi’s Embrace of...
We speak to Arjun Sethi, a Sikh community activist, civil rights lawyer and professor at Georgetown Law, about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s public accusations that the Indian government...
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The RSS Chief Has Taken the Lead in Critiquing Sanatan Dharma. Why Can’t...
While ideologues down South, whose position with respect to the social content of Sanatan Dharma is ancient knowledge, are currently being lambasted for saying what they have always said, it is a...
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The Dismantling of Democracy in India Will Affect the Whole World
I thank the Charles Veillon Foundation for honoring me with the 2023 European Essay Award. It may not be immediately apparent how delighted I am to receive it. It’s even possible that I am gloating....
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India’s New Building for Parliament: Body Without Soul
Commenting felicitously on what he has called India’s “age of ambition” scholar and commentator Pratap Bhanu Mehta has characterised “infrastructural nationalism” as the most dominantly visible feature...
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My Friends Prabir and Amit Are In Jail in India For Their Work in the Media
On October 3, 2023, the day after MK Gandhi’s birthday, over five hundred officers of the Delhi Police fanned out across India to detain either at their Special Cell station or at their homes over a...
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Ganesh Ji Will Teach His ‘Bhakts’ a Lesson, Surely
Lord Ganesh – the deity in the pandal where the wretched hungry man was clubbed to death for allegedly stealing prasad – will have something to say to ‘bhakts’ when they appear for judgment. Piety is...
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Modi’s Assault On Press Freedom
On 3 October, the Indian state launched the biggest crackdown on the press since independence. 46 journalists and their families were woken in the early hours of Tuesday morning by a special unit of...
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Ignoring Indian Fascism Will Lead To Blowback
On June 18, 2023, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh community leader in British Columbia, Canada, was murdered outside his Gurudwara (Sikh house of worship) in what was clearly a well-planned assassination....
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India is Fighting Heatwaves With Solar Cycle Tracks
For many Indians cycling under the hot sun would be a bad way to start the day. But the South Indian state of Telegana has come up with a project where cyclists can ride for up to 21 kilometres along a...
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Sikh Leader’s Killing in Canada Could Renew Ethnic Tensions in Modi’s India
Diplomatic relations between India and Canada remain tense after the murder of a Sikh leader in Canada, which Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has blamed on India. Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed...
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Besieged by the Re-Energised ‘Social Justice’ Movement, Narendra Modi...
Desperate times invite desperate remedies. Narendra Modi has quickly comprehended the moment. As of old, the Sanatan agenda of forging “Hindu unity” seems suddenly overtaken by a renewed push for...
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Big Blow to India’s Global Standing: We Lose the World Cup
It is a mournful time in Bharat. Our trusted partner in the Quad has stabbed us in the bat and in the ball. That too in a stadium named after the world’s most invincible leader, Narendra Modi. Had this...
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The Israel-India-U.S. Triangle
In 1981, India’s post office issued a stamp showing the flags of India and occupied Palestine flying side by side above the phrase “Solidarity with the Palestinian people.” That now seems like ancient...
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Despite Higher Overall Vote, Congress Loses Three Hindi Belt States: What’s...
Five odd months before elections to the Lok Sabha are due, the Congress party has lost three assembly elections in the Hindi heartland. Despite the fact that the contest was between the Congress and...
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Secret Indian Memo Ordered “Concrete Measures” Against Hardeep Singh Nijjar...
The Indian government instructed its consulates in North America to launch a “sophisticated crackdown scheme” against Sikh diaspora organizations in Western countries, according to a secret memorandum...
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The Suffocation of Democracy in India
On December 18 and 19, 141 members of the two houses of India’s Parliament were suspended, as of December 19, by the Speaker of the lower house, Om Birla. Each of these members belongs to the parties...
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History Repeats, Twists and Turns: Democracy Is Again in the Doghouse
History, we have been instructed, is now the story of warfare, now of the struggle for existence, now of the evolution of the species, now the unfolding of a divine idea, of the effulgence of...
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As Modi Decrees a New Diwali, Remember There’s More to Indian Politics Than...
These are the days of bold political reclamation. Three principal axes of India’s mainstream politics seek centre-stage at perhaps the most fraught moment of post-Independence history. First was the...
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The Tragedy Of India’s Authoritarian Descent: The Case of Prabir Purukayastha
Despite all the talk about India being the world’s largest democracy the existing reality is very different indeed. For persistent dissidents and opponents of the current Hindu nationalist regime...
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