Founding Editor: Daya Varma (1929-2015)
Editors: Vinod Mubayi (New York) and Raza Mir (New Jersey).
Editorial Board: Ram Puniyani and Irfan Engineer (Mumbai); Pervez Hoodbhoy (Islamabad); Dolores Chew (Montreal); Vamsi Vakulabharanam (Amherst); Ajay Bhardwaj (Vancouver).
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EDITORIAL: STUNG BY THE HUMILIATING LOSS IN KARNATAKA, MODI’S AUTOCRATIC RULE FINDS OTHER TARGETS
Vinod Mubayi
Despite the hundreds of crores spent in showering rose petals on Modi during his roadshows in Bengaluru, Karnataka voters were determined to make South India a BJP-mukt region by bringing Congress back to power with an insurmountable majority. As a result, BJP’s well-honed defection tactics used to topple elected governments that have succeeded in other states like Madhya Pradesh and Goa, and were recently employed to split the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, appeared to have been rendered futile by the scale of the Congress victory.
Read more…OBITUARY: RANA BOSE 1950-2023
Dolores Chew
INSAF mourns the passing of Rana who died on 10th May in Montreal. His death, a great loss for family, friends and comrades, is also a loss for the politics of justice and democracy.
Read more…AGGRESSORS CLAIM HURT SENTIMENTS WHILE VICTIMS FACE TRIAL
Subhash Gatade
History is a thin excuse for unrelenting majoritarianism in India and its neighbourhood.
Read more…THE END OF THE AFFAIR: HOW IMRAN KHAN WENT FROM THE PAKISTAN ARMY’S SAVIOUR TO ITS NEMESIS
Mohammed Hanif
For many years, Pakistan’s military establishment believed that in Imran Khan they had found a saviour for the country. But, writes author and journalist Mohammed Hanif, after only a year out of power he is threatening to become their nemesis – and the military is using all its might to save itself from Khan’s wrath.
Read more…BANGLADESH: CRISIS OF IDENTITY, CONSOLIDATION OF POWER
Nafis H
In the latest iteration of the Bengali vs Muslim identity debate, a Supreme Court lawyer served a legal notice on April 9, 2023 to Bangladeshi authorities to prohibit the Mongol Shobhajatra – the iconic procession for Bengali New Year (Noboborsho) – from taking place as part of the celebrations on April 14.
Read more…THE DANGERS OF FACIAL-RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY IN INDIAN POLICING
Nikhil Dharmaraj
CCTV cameras and facial recognition systems are surveillance tools that carry on the legacy of analogue technologies in stereotyping and targeting specific communities.
Read more…LONG READ: VINAYAK DAMODAR SAVARKAR: FOUNTAINHEAD OF FUNDAMENTALISM IN INDIA
B. Jeyamohan
Popular discussions about Vinayak Damodar Savarkar tend to either be hagiographic or vilify, depending on the speaker’s political, religious, or caste affiliations. In contemporary political discourse, every argument is reduced to a one-line snippet, a monolithic stance, a catchy sound bite stripped of all nuance.
Read more…SCEPTRE IN PARLIAMENT SYMBOLISES ROD OF FASCISM
MB Rajesh
Beginning with the dominance of PM Narendra Modi as he overrode the President in the new Parliament building inauguration, Kerala Minister Rajesh went on to associate the many changes brought on by the BJP as symbols of fascism.
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