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‘Murder of Democracy’ Said Supreme Court. Nation Waits to Hear from Its PM.
Modi speaking of a third term seems both democratically unlovely and rather ominous, given the shameless transgression in Chandigarh. The Trump-India moment is here, make no mistake. Elections are to...
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Indian Port Workers Refuse to Load Weapons for Israel’s War
On the 135th day of Israel’s relentless onslaught on Gaza, a resolute voice emerged from India’s maritime labor force. The Water Transport Workers Federation (WTWF), representing fourteen thousand...
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The Invisible Farmers
The lives of farmers’ wives are the real miracle sustaining the community. Unlike their male counterparts, these women are not listed as the primary owners of the fields they cultivate and have no...
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India Alliance’s Patna Rally: Is a Great Political Change in the Offing?
In the words of the English romantic poet who died a young man full of dreams, namely Shelley, the INDIA alliance rally in historic Patna was a “sight to behold, not to tell”. Close to a million (you...
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Modi Government Crackdown on Dissent Hits ‘Crisis Point’ Before Indian Elections
As India’s right-wing government cracks down on opposition ahead of next month’s general elections, Amnesty International on Friday urged authorities to “stop weaponizing the criminal justice system to...
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Why the Far Right Rules Modi’s India
The rise of the far right is a global phenomenon. Perhaps nowhere is the far right stronger than in the second most populous country on Earth, India. There, the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, under...
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India’s Farmers Are Mobilizing Against the Modi Government
Just over three years ago, Indian farmers mobilized in one of the biggest social movements the country has seen for decades, and delivered a significant blow to the government of Narendra Modi. Since...
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The Myth That India’s Freedom Was Won Nonviolently Is Holding Back Progress
If there is a single false claim to “nonviolent” struggle that has most powerfully captured the imagination of the world, it is the claim that India, under Gandhi’s leadership, defeated the mighty...
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Election 2024 is For the Opposition to Win
As narratives are being floated with the obliging connivance of the captive media, each day is proving to be rather too long in current Indian politics. Just when you thought that the coming elections...
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Popular Movements, Not Elections, Will Bring Transformative Change in India
With the exception of a brief period, India has been more fortunate than many other nations in being able to maintain parliamentary rule over the last 77 years. With 900 million voters—more than the...
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Modi Could Squander an Unprecedented Chance at Normalizing India-Pakistan Ties
Mired in economic and internal crises, Pakistan is primed for normalization and trade with India—but Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is failing to seize the chance When Narendra Modi...
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Lust for Unbridled, Uninterrupted Power is Making Modi Plumb the Depths
India must be the only republic where an 80% majority is constantly persuaded that it has everything to fear from a beleaguered 14% minority. Much of the time not at a loss for words, this once I am....
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India’s Billionaire Wealth Is on Display as Nation Votes
There are several exercises in extremes playing out in India right now. Nearly a billion people are voting in elections that will last into early June, braving record-high temperatures to cast ballots....
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Why India’s Farmers Are Targeting Modi in the Elections
As the world’s largest democracy began the first of its seven-phase general elections last week, India’s farmers were back on the streets protesting the government’s U-turn on earlier promises. It has...
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Modi, Rahul Gandhi and the Amethi ‘Debate’: Who Is Running Away from Where?
The Bharatiya Janata Party is askance that the Congress does not play to its script. Smriti Irani is crestfallen that her celebrity candidature has been insulted by being given a nondescript adversary....
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Indian Women Have Gone Backward Under Narendra Modi’s Rule
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which currently heads the ruling coalition government in India, has long had a reputation as a male-dominated, Hindu supremacist organization with an upper caste and...
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Modi’s Hypocritical Doublespeak About Religion and the Constitution
Passing references apart, the most worrying feature of the current election campaign has been the lack of popular or systemic outrage against the way Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
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Dear White Friends: Can You Smell the Yellow Roses of Dier al-Balah?
One of the first things that I heard from people when I immigrated to the United States from the Global South in early 2000 was, “Oh, you speak our language so well.” To which I would reply politely...
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In the Largest Democracy, a Spade Must Not Be Called a Spade
Had Indira Gandhi been alive today, she would have learnt how to run an Emergency without declaring it. That she invoked, injuriously, a then-existing provision of the constitution to so do gave her...
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“We the People” Need a Government That is Creatively Unstable
Let us pray that ‘we the people” have not voted for a brute majority to any party, followed by a ‘strong’ leader at the helm. Governments born of such a combo, as we have seen repeatedly worldwide, and...
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