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By Bindu Doddahatti On October 13, 2018, the play “Shiva” — a performance on sexuality and gender, directed by artist Dayasindhu Sakrepatna — had to be shelved because right-wing elements from Bharata Punarutthana Trust, an affiliate of Vishwa Hindu Parishat, filed a complaint against Jagriti theatre, the institution...
By Sagarneel Sinha The hurried dissolution of Jammu & Kashmir assembly, already in suspension since June this year when the BJP walked out of the Mehbooba Mufti led PDP–BJP coalition government, by Governor Satyapal Malik has once again shown that New Delhi is not identical with the...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: As voters head for the booths on November 28, both the BJP and Congress can have the satisfaction of having fought the battle with all their might. In the overall assessment, however, BJP appeared to be far ahead of Congress both in resources...
By Aditya Aamir They do duplicity as part of their job description. That’s what people have begun to believe of the police in strife-country Kerala. People can do nothing other than to resort to foul language, which comes easy to those who feel cheated and betrayed. The...
By Amritananda Chakravorty The story around Judge B.H. Loya’s death on 1st December, 2014, which was highly suspicious, refuses to die. After the Supreme Court refused order an independent investigation into the mysterious death of Judge Loya in April, 2018, the hope for the truth coming out...
By Amulya Ganguli Even the limited signs of the revival of the Congress in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have revived the old apprehensions about the 133-year-old party’s penchant for dominance in the years immediately after independence. It is not only the BJP which is so uneasy...
By Ben Chako Theresa May and her close accomplices in the European Union have laid bare the tactics they will deploy to bludgeon MPs into approving her EU withdrawal in name only. May backed EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker after he asserted: “This is the best deal possible...
By Arun Srivastava A concerted effort is being made by various farmers and peasant organisations to float a new movement, different in character and dynamics from the one in seventies, when the peasants agitation and farmers movement were two different streams. While the peasants movement symbolised the...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: A visit by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to the RSS headquarters in Bhopal past midnight gave rise to the speculation that alarm signals are coming about the critical position of party candidates. Before the chief minister’s visit party president Amit Shah too held...
By Nantoo Banerjee Time was when approval of public issues or initial public offerings (IPOs) by the market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), were taken seriously by both equity share issuers and investors. More so when they came with big premium tag. Companies were...
By Sushil Kutty The United States announces a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual who committed, conspired, aided or abetted the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and Prime Minister Narendra Modi says at an election rally in Rajasthan four...
Aditya Aamir Justice (retd) Markandey Katju wants a statue of LK Advani at the centre of Connaught Place in New Delhi “with this line from the Ramcharitmanas inscribed on it in gold ‘Taat Laat Ravan Mohe Maar.” Katju says this on his Facebook page. But he spells...
By Aditya Aamir The Hindu caste system and its tyranny is the talk of the town globally after Jack Dorsey sat down with a bunch of women journalists and unknowingly or knowingly placarded ‘Brahminical Patriarchy’ and got smashed for holding a view not voiced in India . Post...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The BJP-RSS combine is in an angry mood. Understandably so. The reason for their irritation is clear: Both the Left Democratic Front Government (LDF) and the Kerala High Court have called their Sabarimla bluff. For once, the government has shed its ambivalence on...
By John Haylett Israel’s next general election isn’t due until November 2019, but an early poll is virtually certain given the outbreak of now traditional mutually antagonistic willy-waving engaged in by would-be prime ministers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition. No election is complete without party leaders accusing each...
By Sam Pizzigati Tony Maxwell, a retired African-American naval officer, was trying — without much success — to get his Jacksonville, Fla., neighbor to go with him to the mid-term election polls and vote. The young neighbor, a high-school dropout, had no interest in taking the ride. “Voting,”...
By K. Raveendran It defies all logic that in a country where burning an effigy of a political leader or official does not constitute a criminal offence, a simple protest by waving black flags leads to arrest and incarceration. Waving black flags is probably the most innocuous...
By B. Sivaraman 2280 workers of Moser Baer in Noida were left in the lurch in October after the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) initiated liquidation procedure against the company. Though the company has not declared official closure, the workers are jobless as the company is not running...