Victory belongs to Shaheen Bagh
So the aam aadmi’s ‘jharu’ (broom) has swept away the toxic garbage that the BJP had flooded the national capital of Delhi with. The credit for the spectacular performance by…
A movement critically poised
THE gunman half danced, half walked with a swagger towards the swarming crowd of India’s bravest women. His movements resembled a Shyam Benegal movie sequence around an obscure ritual to…
Police excesses
NO united civil liberties movement exists as such in India today. But police excesses have mounted. The movement against the Citizenship Amendment Act has spread all over India. Two conspicuous…
The trouble with Tarek
Tarek Fatah, a Pakistani-Canadian journalist and author, died on April 24 this year. He had for years criticized the partition of India, which many people do, but he went many…
Foreigners and other Indians
THE 1648 treaty of Westphalia created the modern template of nation-states out of collapsing empires and kingdoms in Europe. That prescription is still not fitting everyone’s need (or greed), giving…
Thin skin, big chip
IT’S just as well that Donald Trump wears a bulletproof vest under his shirt, otherwise the Indian prime minister’s repeated bear hugs might have bruised his ribs by now. Narendra…
‘Not though the soldier knew’
THE greater the sharpening assault by the delinquent state, the starker is the muddle and the helplessness of the opposition. Models and methods for the state’s visceral hatred of India’s…
Combating a regressive media in India
UNDER the prevailing conditions in India, when a majority of TV channels and leading newspapers have become an appendage of right-wing state policies, a tested approach to an adversarial media…
Right to protest
RECENT events in India have brought to the fore the dimensions of the right to protest, which is itself absolute except in cases of extreme necessity. The problem arises, as…
Who’s afraid of Safoora Zargar?
When the history of these extraordinary times is written, the BJP may go down as a ‘great leveller.’ It has succeeded in razing to the ground every constitutional institution and…
