राजनीती
January 16, 2014
Independent India’s rendering of a historical understanding of colonialism and all its manifestations has been sorely wanting leading to the birth of a dominant elite that in fact has no real understanding of the critical issues that lay behind India’s struggle for Independence from foreign yoke.
Relieving our past from colonial, non-indigenous and prejudicial categorisations and...
November 13, 2013
Indian media turns a deaf ear to issues of caste and mass mobilization. At the outset of our niche independent journalistic journey, we had tracked how the 1992-1993 post Babri Masjid demolition violence dropped off the coverage of the national media especially when crucial witnesses of the affected minority began deposing before the Justice BN Srikrishna Commission from 1993-1998. (Communalism...
May 29, 2013
July 1, 2012
Robert Frisk covers the fallout of the Arab Spring and how Egypt reacts to the Electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood.
March 31, 2012
This book, written by a member of the Communist Party is a brief account of the rise and fall of the RSS in Kerala. The book traces the multi-faceted approach of physical violence and an ideological offensive which the organisation used to make in-roads into a largely Communist dominated voter base. The book also traces the change in the approach of the Communist party which involved greater...
November 1, 2011
An interview with former Sachar Committee member Abusaleh Shariff
By Tritesh Nandan
Abusaleh Shariff, who is chief economist at the New Delhi-based think tank National Council of Applied Economic Research, served as member-secretary of the Sachar Committee, the prime minister’s high-level committee appointed to prepare a report on the ‘Social, Economic and Educational Status...
March 1, 2011
Hindutva’s evil genius
The sangh parivar is not just a sick organisation suffering from a blind and incurable hatred of Muslims and Christians. It is far worse than that. There is a method in the murder and mayhem that it promotes and perpetrates, which clearly points to an evil genius at work. Forget the average Indian, most secular activists outside Karnataka will probably remember the...
March 1, 2011
Worldwide coverage on the revolutionary spirit in West Asia and Africa.