Hindutva cow riots on March 31, 2018The sight of young children, including girl children, thronging the streets of Bengal’s towns is a sight that is supposed to lift many minds. During Sarawati Puja and during the festive days of Durga Puja, that has happened in Bengal for a very, very long time indeed. However, during the BJP-RSS-VHP-Bajrang Dal and other militant […]
Karnataka flag on March 14, 2018A flag symbolises identity. A flag symbolises power and jurisdiction. A flag symbolises the collective aspirations of a people. And in any normal human assemblage, identities are multiple, power and jurisdiction are often layered and divided. The collective aspirations of a people also distributed along these multiple identities. These multiple identities are not about part […]
The spectre of non-Hindi resistance on March 5, 2018A spectre is slowly but surely beginning to haunt the imperial forces of Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan ideology – this is the spectre of non-Hindi resistance under the banner of linguistic equality, state rights and federalism. All the powers of the deep Indian Union state have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this demon: the Delhi elite, […]
The Supreme Court crisis on February 6, 2018While it may appear that the 4 senior most judges revolt may be over or sidelined from media space, it is a simmering situation because the issues raised remain unsolved. Hence, it is still ongoing even without the media focus. The Supreme Court crisis where the four senior most justices have publicly rebelled against the […]
Is India turning into a ‘Hindu Pakistan’? on February 1, 2018The ultimate political righteous response that a strange species of imperial parasite, called the Delhi liberal, can muster against open Hindu communalism is basically pointing fingers at what it thinks are slightly more ‘unwashed’ co-citizens. They do so by trying to faux-shame them by saying “Do you want India to turn into a Hindu Pakistan”? […]
Afrazul’s killing on December 17, 2017516 people from all over the Indian Union deposited money in the last one week amounting to more than three lakh Indian Rupees (what we Bengalis call Taka) in the account operated in the name of Shambhulal Regar before the account was frozen. Shambhulal Regar is a Rajasthani man whose politics is based on Hindu […]
The sweetest part of India on November 27, 2017The Tourism Department of the West Bengal government has been promoting West Bengal as a tourism destination as the ‘sweetest part of India’. That claim got a certain fillip recently when it was adjudged by Geographical Indication (GI) authorities that West Bengal is the origin of the famed sweet Roshogolla, that white spherical ball of […]
BJP’s corruption and Indian media on November 14, 2017The Union government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had exhorted hundreds of millions of citizens of the Indian union to open bank accounts. This was after his pre-poll promise of putting 15 lakh rupees in every citizen’s account by his capturing of black money. Many small deposit accounts were thus opened with bank officials, especially […]
Election Commission of India is biased on November 5, 2017In a multi-national federal union like the Indian Union, the States have ceded a lot of self-governing power to an external entity, erroneously called the centre. This centre appoints the Chief Election Commissioner, who heads the Election Commission of India. Since people of states have ceded power to centre in trust, including the power to […]
Doklam impasse on September 27, 2017 BJP, the party of Indian Union Prime Minister Narendra Modi, recently held what it calls its National Executive meeting. Here, Narendra Modi was lauded for a ‘peaceful’ solution to the Doklam stand-off over a China controlled Bhutanese claimed territory. It is important to look at how well the BJP has been able to sell […]