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CAA: 30 Reasons To Reject

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) has become the most controversial legislation since the promulgation of Constitution of India on 26 January 1950. Different arguments for and against CAA have been discussed in the Parliament, in media and even on streets, ye...

Protest by Women against CAA continue to grow

A question is being asked by the young men and young women these days how long we will continue to work as a divided nation and running a economy which after few years of growth at eight per cent has fallen back to five percent. The result is no jobs, indust...

State must be questioned on Afzal Guru's hanging

SIGNS OF THE TIMES
"In the letters he discussed his ideas about religion and nationalism. Like many other Kashmiri Muslims, Afzal too had become disillusioned by the idea of nationalism and had taken refuge in Islamist ideologies. For Afzal, both India and Pakistan had betrayed the Kashm...

Time to Start Shredding?

Donald Trump's speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Monday contained no surprises: half an hour of chest-thumping self-praise, although without the usual xenophobia and dog-whistle racism. It was, after all, an audience of the ultra-rich and powerful in which...

Why I see Anti-CAA protests as Common People's Affair and not only a Muslim affair

"The protest against the unconstitutional bill began at Aligarh Muslim University on the day it was scheduled to be tabled in the Rajya Sabha, and then reached Jamia Millia Islamia, where during the protest, students were brutally beaten by the Delhi police on Decem...

The EU-III trigger dispute mechanism in Iran N-deal

Why, after so many assurances to the contrary, have the three European Iran's Nuclear Deal Partner's - Germany, France, the UK - decided to go after Iran, to follow the US dictate again? The short answer is because the cowards. They have zero backbone to stand up agai...

The Rise of Right Wing in New India

"The Indian government has been criticised by many countries over the revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and robbing of its autonomy and then caging its population through a mass crackdown and communication shut down for months and for the controversial act...

Youth protests may turn out to be game changer

Month-long protests in the national capital and other parts of the country provoke many questions whose answers, if any, may offer some clue to the future of the India and its society. Is a churning on to prepare the ground for a post-Modi political order offering an a...

Making CAA, 2019 'legitimate' needs change in its content or context

The current overlap between religion and politics in secular India is an offshoot of old unfinished process of secularizing the public space. Drawing lessons from the history, India unlike other neighbouring countries though opted for non-theocratic constitution but tr...

Untimely scrapping of UPSC age relaxation clause injustice to J&K youth

In a recent notification inviting application in EPFO, the government has scrapped the age relaxation clause to the domicile of J&K wef 1 jan 2020. This will be followed in all central recruitments from 1 jan 2020. It also implies that the age relaxation clause extende...

Why the CAA violates the constitution

'A reasonable analysis based on primary legal principles, on the Constitution's language and on the Court's own past decisions, will show us that the CAA … infracts fundamental rights, in particular the guarantee of equal treatment contained in Article 14.' Sometime i...

We Shall See

A transcreation of Faiz Ahmed Faiz's "Hum Dekhenge"
Inevitable that we shall see Dawn of the promised day, When pinnacles of tyranny Will come to be blown away Like bales of cotton loosely held, When the ground shall shudder underneath The gumption of empowered feet, And bang on the swollen head Lightnin...

Delhi elections crucial test for BJP

Assembly elections in Delhi have never been this crucial for the ruling party at the Centre as they are this time. These are the first elections that are being held in the shadow of countrywide protests that have been going on for the past several weeks against the Ci...

The Crisis in the Indian Deep State

The deep state is familiar to Indians as being associated with the Pakistan army and its intelligence agencies running of the state there. Recently, President Trump's fulminations against an American deep state alerted Indians to the phenomenon that it is not one confi...
 

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