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EDITORIAL: ELECTION RESULT DERAILED MODI’S FASCIST VANDE EXPRESS; ITS AFTERMATH REVEALS THE CORRUPT UNDERBELLY OF “VIKSIT” BHARAT (DEVELOPED INDIA)
Vinod Mubayi
Many commentators have pointed out the significance of the loss suffered by the ruling BJP in the recent national elections. The loss of 63 seats from an absolute majority of 303 to a minority of 240, despite the many boastful speeches of Modi and Shah promising 400+ seats, have forced the BJP into a coalition with unreliable provincial partners like Chandrababu Naidu in Andhra Pradesh and Nitish Kumar in Bihar to be able to form a government. More importantly, his diminished status has put a spoke in Modi’s headlong rush into sidelining the secular Indian Constitution to erect a Hindu Rashtra.
Read more…KARAMAT ALI: 1945-2024
PIPFPD, India chapter
The Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD, India chapter) extends heartfelt condolences and solidarity to the peace-loving people of South Asia on the passing of Karamat Ali on 20th June 2024
Read more…WILL THE SETBACK TO HINDUTVA POLITICS FORCE MODI 3.0 TO RETHINK ECONOMIC POLICIES?
C.P. Chandrasekhar
The election results, which gave both the BJP and the National Democratic Alliance a far fewer number of seats than they had in the previous Parliament, surprised many. But now, attention has shifted to assessing what that would do to this version of a Narendra Modi-led government in terms of its behaviour and policies in different spheres.
Read more…200 YEARS OF MALAIYAHA TAMIL LABOUR IN SRI LANKA
SALAM & Maynmai
A brief history of 200 years of involuntary migration, imposed statelessness, exploitation and marginalization of Upcountry or Malaiyaha Tamil tea plantation workers.
Read more…HATE SPEECHES AND SPIRAL OF HATRED IN THE BUILD UP TO GENERAL ELECTIONS
Irfan Engineer, Neha Dabhade and Mithila Raut
The month of April 2024, witnessed dramatic rise in communal discourse and targeting of Muslim minorities during election campaign for the 18th Lok Sabha. Even the Prime Minister of India delivered hate speeches in no less than ten occasions, according to the monthly monitoring of Centre for Study of Society and Secularism.
Read more…CAPITALIST POVERTY VIS-À-VIS PRE-CAPITALIST POVERTY
Prabhat Patnaik
Poverty is taken to be a homogeneous phenomenon irrespective of the mode of production that is under consideration. Even reputed economists believe in this homogeneous conception of poverty.
Read more…RALLIED TOGETHER: THE CASTE ALLIANCES THAT WON UTTAR PRADESH
Sunil Kashyap
SWAMI PRASAD MAURYA, wearing a pinstriped Nehru jacket and a broad smile, guided Akhilesh Yadav, the president of the Samajwadi Party, onto a flower-festooned dais. It was a big day for Maurya, a moment representing the culmination of the many political trends in Uttar Pradesh that he had spent his life trying to unite.
Read more…‘MODI, BJP, RSS DON’T REPRESENT HINDU SOCIETY,’ SAYS RAHUL GANDHI IN LOK SABHA
Scroll Staff
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party do not represent Hindu society as a whole, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi said in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
The Congress leader’s comments came in response to the BJP’s claims that he had, earlier in his speech, accused the entire Hindu community of being “violent”.
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