Karnataka: The Flip-Flops and Ping-Pong
All but one exit poll point to a hung assembly. Only the Today’s Chanakya poll puts the BJP in a majority: 120 seats. And the Axis-India Today poll places...
Twin Gubernatorial Rebuffs in Two Days: Political Violence Haunts Kerala Government
Governor P. Sathasivam has sought a report from Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on the political killings. This is the second time in the last six months that the Governor...
Trinamool Prefers Short Term Gains That May Hurt Later: Sweeping Victory in Panchayat Poll a Sham
At least 16 people have been killed, from Jalpaiguri to Midnapore and over 500 people injured. Where armed TMC mobs could not reach opposition candidates hiding for their lives,...
Biplab Deb Insulting Diana Hayden no Surprise: Tripura CM Betrays Sangh View of Minorities
Biplab Deb is a product of this xenophobic tradition, which gives pride of place to religion over the constitutional rights of every citizen, irrespective of his or her faith. ...
On Jey Day, Jigna Walks Free: Mumbai Scribes Take Reporting to the Underworld
The day came for journalist Jey Dey to get justice. Mafia don and Dawood eyesore Chhota ‘Chindi’ Rajan got convicted along with nine others, while another journalist, alleged femme...
Of Midnight Knocks, Uncouth and Lecherous Men
A midnight knock in a Circuit House had scared Hemashri. She was about to raise an alarm to punish the drunkard. But, other incidents crowded her mind. She tells...
Panchayat Polls in Bengal: Opposition Tries to put up a Fight against Largescale Violence Unleashed by TMC
Opposition candidates and workers from Coochbehar to South 24 Parganas were initially swept off their feet by hordes of armed TMC supporters, as their nominees tried to file nomination...
Fifty Years after the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Issues of Racial Inequality, Injustice Still Relevant in the United States
The steps our country has made toward justice and equality since King’s death have been partial victories, born of mass collective struggles of the African-American, women’s, labour, immigrant, LGBTQ,...
Democracy in Danger: FRCA Amended Retrospectively; Has India that is Bharat Already Lost the Plot
The amended Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FRCA) contains the seeds that can sow the beginnings of a take-over by any foreign power sooner than later but also smacks of...
BJP is Desperate to Foment Tensions in Bengal: Ram Navami Violence is a Testimony to That
Amit Shah is out to wreck this cultural integration which has not happened in any other state. The intensity of this cultural and social amalgamation could be gauged from...