मागील पाच वर्षांत मोदी सरकारची कामगिरी घोर निराशाजनक ठरली आहे, कलम ३७० रद्द केल्याने त्यात फरक पडण्याची सुतमात्र शक्यता नाही!

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२०१६मध्ये पाकिस्तानधार्जिण्या अतिरेक्यांनी आधी पठाणकोट व नंतर उरी इथे लष्करी छावण्यांवर हल्ले करत भारतीय जवानांच्या हत्या केल्या. त्यानंतर मोदी सरकारने ‘सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक’चा पट मांडला. त्यापूर्वी या प्रकारच्या कारवायांना ‘क्रॉस-बॉर्डर रेड’ म्हणण्यात येत असे. मात्र मोदी सरकारने ‘क्रॉस-बॉर्डर रेड’ला ‘सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक’ या नावाने जल्लोषात साजरे केले. हा जल्लोष एवढ्या मोठ्या प्रमाणात होता की, आता काश्मीरमधील दहशतवाद्यांचा […]

मागील पाच वर्षांत मोदी सरकारची कामगिरी घोर निराशाजनक ठरली आहे, कलम ३७० रद्द केल्याने त्यात फरक पडण्याची सुतमात्र शक्यता नाही! Read More »

Farmers’ Resistance: Nemesis of Modi?

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The government’s adamant insistence on the 3 farms bills signals an either-or situation. Either Modi has miscalculated the entire gamble or he wants to pit poor and marginal farmers against the middleclass and rich farmers. Everything works for Modi and nothing works against him. This has been the experience of Narendra Modi’s friends and foes

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A long year and the deep desire for change

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India is about to complete one full year of the second term of the Modi government. It has already felt like the longest political year of the present era. In September 2018, the Union Human Resource Development Ministry issued a circular that demanded that all education institutes must celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Indian

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Fighting the Hegemony

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Engagement with diverse ideas, acceptability of different tactics, and broader unity against the hegemony of fascist ideas are the need of the hour. The Aam Adami Party’s epic victory in the Delhi assembly elections is a validation of the work undertaken by the Kejriwal government in this half-state. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s resounding defeat, on

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The unending year

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The New Year will be decisive to determine the future of the constitution, of India, and millions of Indians. The year 2019 began with an uncertain political future for Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, and is drawing to a close with uncertainty about the idea of India as envisaged by the freedom movement and enshrined in

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Shades of colour in a black and white election

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The most recent survey supervised by this author for Tractus predicted a surge in the prospective vote-share of the Congress-NCP alliance but a comfortable victory for the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in the state. The political status quo during the assembly election in Maharashtra is going almost unchallenged because no one is expecting much and no

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Making sense and non-sense of Modi’s Kashmir policy

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It will take its own time and huge toll in the form of life and expenses before Indians outside Kashmir will realise the sheer hollowness in the Modi government’s policy as far as integration of Kashmir with Indian Union is concerned. In the year 2004, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government unexpectedly lost a bid to

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Article 370

Farmers’ Resistance: Nemesis of Modi?

A long year and the deep desire for change

Fighting the Hegemony

The unending year

Shades of colour in a black and white election

Making sense and non-sense of Modi’s Kashmir policy