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Dragged, man-handled, detained: A woman journalist tells her story
By Astha Savyasachi. There was hostility, yes.
There was also solidarity. One did not cancel out the other.
Justice? Or, yet another Green Light to Modi and Gyanesh Kumar?
By NR Mohanty..Going by their recent track record, these judges will green light what the Executive want them to do!
An UPRISING of CONSCIENCE
By ACL Kalpana in Chennai. The right to dissent matters. The right to assemble peacefully matters. Your refusal to accept injustice as inevitable matters.
Stop the CRACKDOWN on journalists reporting the peaceful protests: Press Club of India
Several journalists, including Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, reporters from The Quint, The Wire, Scroll, Reporter TV, Navbharat Times and Newslaundry were under detention. ‘
‘We Burn Trash, You Burn Our Future... Under Our Text Books, Anger’
By Narendra Pachkhede in London. In India, protests began after the NEET paper leak. France’s lycée revolt asks a similar question from the other end. Schools.
Will Modi-Shah let Gyanesh Kumar go?
By NR Mohanty. if Gyanesh Kumar goes, Modi’s entire edifice and the Lotus bandwagon, will come crashing down. Indeed, it’s a do-or-die battle for Modi.
Editor's Pick
Punish the Thief who Stole from the Vault of Democracy!
By Ajith Pillai. Scrap Sir. Gyanesh Kumar and his masters must face the consequences.
Afreen Afreen
By Sachin Gupta. For a few hours in Boston, Indians, Pakistanis and others, did not need to discuss what divided them. They simply sang together.
Politics
Punish the Thief who Stole from the Vault of Democracy!
By Ajith Pillai. Scrap Sir. Gyanesh Kumar and his masters must face the consequences.
Justice? Or, yet another Green Light to Modi and Gyanesh Kumar?
By NR Mohanty..Going by their recent track record, these judges will green light what the Executive want them to do!
No SIR, Not Done!
By Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty. The names of millions of Indians have been deleted from the voters' list by Gyanesh Kumar.
History
When History No Longer Requires Us
"We saw that clearly with CJP, where reels, memes, satire and first-person footage became part of the political event itself."
This book found me in London. When I finally reached for it, something shifted
Amit Sengupta’s A Sudden Golden Smile enters with the tempered force of early spring,
'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque…. India belongs only to me' : Mira Nair's Amrita Sher-Gil
She arrived like a comet, changed what Indian art could be, and died at the age of 28 before the world had fully understood what it had lost.
Society
Dragged, man-handled, detained: A woman journalist tells her story
By Astha Savyasachi. There was hostility, yes.
There was also solidarity. One did not cancel out the other.
Gandhi Jayanti: Stop the bloodshed!
"All activity for stopping war must prove fruitless so long as the causes of war are not understood and radically dealt with. Is not the prime cause of modern wars the inhuman race for exploitation of the so-called weaker races of the earth?"
Six yards of elegance and grace: A love letter to saree
By Ganpy Natraj. Every Tamil wedding I attended as a child smelled like jasmine and sounded like silk.
Ground Report
To Rebel is To Be!
By Amit Sengupta. The sudden, radical rupture inflames the rain-soaked afternoon. The fire spreads in the eyes, and inside clenched fists. A mother holds her little child close to her heart, eyes blazing. A thin, wiry young woman in a red sari, becomes a fiery symbol of shakti – women’s power. A grandmother is so intense, that her entire history of angst and anger explodes.
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Dragged, man-handled, detained: A woman journalist tells her story
By Astha Savyasachi. There was hostility, yes.
There was also solidarity. One did not cancel out the other.
Punish the Thief who Stole from the Vault of Democracy!
By Ajith Pillai. Scrap Sir. Gyanesh Kumar and his masters must face the consequences.
Afreen Afreen
By Sachin Gupta. For a few hours in Boston, Indians, Pakistanis and others, did not need to discuss what divided them. They simply sang together.
Justice? Or, yet another Green Light to Modi and Gyanesh Kumar?
By NR Mohanty..Going by their recent track record, these judges will green light what the Executive want them to do!
When History No Longer Requires Us
"We saw that clearly with CJP, where reels, memes, satire and first-person footage became part of the political event itself."
No SIR, Not Done!
By Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty. The names of millions of Indians have been deleted from the voters' list by Gyanesh Kumar.
An UPRISING of CONSCIENCE
By ACL Kalpana in Chennai. The right to dissent matters. The right to assemble peacefully matters. Your refusal to accept injustice as inevitable matters.
This book found me in London. When I finally reached for it, something shifted
Amit Sengupta’s A Sudden Golden Smile enters with the tempered force of early spring,
Stop the CRACKDOWN on journalists reporting the peaceful protests: Press Club of India
Several journalists, including Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, reporters from The Quint, The Wire, Scroll, Reporter TV, Navbharat Times and Newslaundry were under detention. ‘
‘We Burn Trash, You Burn Our Future... Under Our Text Books, Anger’
By Narendra Pachkhede in London. In India, protests began after the NEET paper leak. France’s lycée revolt asks a similar question from the other end. Schools.
Will Modi-Shah let Gyanesh Kumar go?
By NR Mohanty. if Gyanesh Kumar goes, Modi’s entire edifice and the Lotus bandwagon, will come crashing down. Indeed, it’s a do-or-die battle for Modi.
Amit Shah’s Police Manual: ‘Inhuman, Nasty, and Brutish’
So why drag Neha Bora and others with such savagery that her hands, forearms, neck, shoulders are full of wounds?
Gandhi Jayanti: Stop the bloodshed!
"All activity for stopping war must prove fruitless so long as the causes of war are not understood and radically dealt with. Is not the prime cause of modern wars the inhuman race for exploitation of the so-called weaker races of the earth?"
Six yards of elegance and grace: A love letter to saree
By Ganpy Natraj. Every Tamil wedding I attended as a child smelled like jasmine and sounded like silk.
No ‘next time’ for a stolen election
neither an Election Commissioner nor a judge owns Indian democracy. We, the People, do.
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