Opinion

Why is there an eternal animosity between development and conservation of our heritage and environment?

The marginalised need to invoke truth; the truth that comes from our own history—rejecting Gandhi's Ram Rajya and Savarkar's Holy Land which are nothing but 'Bahiskruta Bharat' for Babasaheb Ambedkar. We need to speak up about Phule's Bali Rajya or Ambedkar's Prabuddha Bharat—or such references which the marginalized will imagine together for further state formation.

The only thing against the law here is the rules, which I am sure is a handiwork of an overzealous IAS officer, dreaming himself to be a Chief Election Commission.

Until the Delhi police at the least issues a public apology, one can expect the clash of interests between them and the protesters to become stronger.

Daud Arif In the early hours of Sunday, 16th Feb, almost 2 months after the incident took place at Jamia, wherein a peaceful protest turned violent, followed by Delhi police allegedly...

Scores of Jamia Millia Islamia students were lathi-charged by police on Monday when they tried to march toward Parliament against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). More than 10 women students are being treated for injuries to their private parts. More than ten students were detained. Shaheen Abdulla, a student of M.A.Convergent Journalism in Jamia Millia Islamia and creative editor of Maktoob was among the detainees. Here, Shaheen writes:

The report was prepared after a research on the happenings in the university and also after gathering firsthand accounts of students and teachers who have been a part of the campus since 2012.

This movement draws its strength from the dis-empowered and dispossessed citizens of India who believe in the spirit of the constitution that BJP-led government is trying to undermine.

“The value of a man was reduced to his immediate identity and nearest possibility. To a vote. To a number. To a thing. Never was a man treated as a mind. As a glorious thing made up of star dust.”

I agree that the concerns over solidarity are genuine and need to be addressed but in an attempt to reach at it we all must try to break misconceptions instead of building up new.

While discussing about CAA and NRC, it’s quite important to understand the legal aspects of this act and the history as well as the politics of Brahmanical fascism, and its connection with the CAA and NRC. Along with this, the role of legislature, judiciary and media in such a catastrophic exigency.

t is not prudent and ideal for any official adorning a key constitutional position to be guided by a political ideology. It is natural and rightful for persons to have a political stance or opinion on every matter.