Across India there is immense social anger over mass joblessness, endemic poverty, the lack of basic public services and the ruling elite’s “profits before lives” pandemic policy.
The trade unions and Stalinist parliamentary parties are systematically isolating the MSRTC workers as they courageously defy government threats and savage management reprisals.
A Portrait of Ruttie Jinnah That Doesnât Hold Up
There is much that is debatable and untenable in the new book on Jinnahâs wife.
Ruttie Jinnah. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
Who is worthy of a biography?
The shakers who change civilisation and our view of the world â the scientists, writers, painters and philosophers. And perhaps more than them, the movers, the captains and the kings and, if we believe Winston Churchillâs contention that behind every man who achieves anything there stands a woman, their consorts and their queens!
Nur Jahan for Jehangir, Josephine for Napoleon and now according to this multi-purpose, (letâs not call it âramblingâ, yet) biography (
As Indian farmers step up protests against pro-agribusiness “reform,” Modi prepares mass repression
Indian farmers are threatening to expand their protests after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government reiterated that it will not repeal the three pro-agri-business laws it rushed through parliament last September.
Hundreds of thousands of farmers, many with their wives and children, are currently camped at four entrances to the Delhi National Capital Territory. Many have been there since Nov. 27, when phalanxes of security forces, acting on the orders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP government, barred them from bringing their Delhi
Chalo (Let’s go to Delhi) agitation to India’s capital and largest city.