Remembering Swami Agnivesh Very sad to have lost Swami Agnivesh. My respectful salute and Shraddhanjali to my human rights co-fighter and colleague. Deepest condolences to his friends and associates. Remember the innumerable occasions when we…
When the only cause for elation, even a smile in the morning, is news of the release of an innocent detainee with the words that his detention ‘was bad in law’, then democracy is indeed…
Why Police is Casteist and Communal Sometime back a video of a police officer from Maharashtra, Bhagyashree Navtake had gone viral wherein she is seen bragging about how she files false cases against Dalits and Muslims…
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of weak health systems that were ill-prepared to withstand the onslaught of the pandemic. As documented by the Pulse survey of the WHO, the pandemic has resulted in…
It is unusual for a bright young scholar like Amrendra Narayan, with a PhD in Nuclear Physics from Mississippi State University, preceded and followed by research stints at Indian Institutes of Technology at Kanpur and…
Promoting Fraternity: Courts to the Rescue Stay on Transmission of Hate Program of Sudarshan TV Prashant Bhushan, the up, Bindaas Bol, which light a legal luminary and social activist has shown the mirror to the…
Pranab Mukherjee death news | Pranab Mukherjee died Former President Mr Pranab Mukherjee death is the passing away of a leader who adhered to Parliamentary procedures and constitutional norms. Perhaps, Mr Mukherjee was among the…
The spread of Corona Virus in India has been on the upswing despite the measures undertaken by the state. In most parts of India, the suffering has been immense. The central Government took up the…
The other day an important BJP leader remarked that Jawaharlal Nehru and other Congress leaders managed to advance the date of independence and accepted country’s partition because they were in a hurry to enjoy fruits…
Countries in the Asia Pacific region are at the forefront of bearing the onslaught of climate change. During the last three decades, 45% of the world’s natural disasters have occurred in this region, which is…
The air is more polluted than what used to happen during the worst period of a natural disaster or December winter when Delhi would be choked in heavy toxic smog. This time the contamination is…
The letter writers in the Congress party are nothing but all those who benefited by the Darbari politics of the party. They are comfortable in the current situation and don’t want any radical ideological shift…
One would wonder why after such a show of triumphalism at the foundation laying ceremony of grand Ram temple on 5th August in Ayodhya the Uttar Pradesh government would stoop so low to put a…
Social media has been a liberating factor for all those who have never got the opportunity by the caste supremacists in India in the name of merit but it is also a fact that the…
All the narratives of a progressing nation, Rajiv Gandhi’s ‘marching into the 21st century,’ Atal Behari Vajpayee’s ‘shining India,’ A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s ‘providing urban amenities in rural areas,’ Manmohan Singh’s achievement of 8-9% Gross Domestic…
Time to have a serious look at the filth and garbage in the name of ‘news’ The filth and garbage that is being produced in the TV newsrooms these days is a warning that if…
The RSS-BJP government of India led by a seasoned RSS whole-timer, Narendra Modi has miserably failed in providing basic amenities, employment, education, security and peace to 138 crores of Indians (out of which approximately 80%…
While listening to PM Modi at Ayodhya, over TV the other day, dilating confidently On the theme of “unity in diversity” ( including a BIG LIE) with regard to the existence of many Ramayanas, I…
[On Ernest Miller Hemingway 121st anniversary] By Pragya Ranjan Society defines a person on the basis of the degree of his success but a person defines himself on the basis of what he learnt on…
Ram has been described as Maryada Purushottam, the most virtuous among men. He left his kingdom merely because he didn’t want to hurt the sentiments of his stepmother and went on a 14 years exile….
