Indian General Election, 2019
To uphold political demands of oppressed in parliament, elect me as your representative: G Gomathi
"To make social democracy a reality, to uphold the political demands of the oppressed classes in the parliament, I request you to elect me as your representative from the parliamentary constituency of Idukki."
India
Watch: ‘An Ode to Fascism’- Poem
You are not to be questioned, you are beyond reproach
Oh you perfect one, what they need is probably a coach
Still dissenting? let's beat them to submission
Into their bedroom, living room and kitchen, let's encroach
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Opinion
Ilhan Omar: An epitome of Muslim women’s political awakening
Ilhan Omar is a living embodiment of a socially and politically active Muslim identity that remains committed to ideals of social and political justice. "I know what my mission is. I know what my purpose is. I know that as long as I breathe I will continue to make people uncomfortable,” she said.
India
A quixotic dream
By the natural growth of civilization, duels became illegal in the countries where they were practiced. War is duel between countries. Duel and war have same logical premises. If duel is illegal, then why not war?
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Indian General Election, 2019
It is time the Kerala faction of Congress wakes up from its slumber
The Lok Sabha election is hence a litmus test for the Congress party at the national and state level. And it is high time the state leadership of the Congress party to wake up from its slumber and start the action.
India
The Anatomy of Genocide and Mass Crimes against Minorities in India: Why India needs to Ratify the Rome Statute of ICC
India’s continuous denial to submit jurisdiction to the Rome Statute of International Criminal Court is not a debate or question of political sovereignty, rather it is a question of deep organized state policy to evade and deflect accountability to India’s ongoing genocide and mass violence pogroms and campaigns against Muslim, Sikhs, Kashmiri and Dalit.
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India
Karachi Bakery: Such little memories are today paying the price of majoritarian nationalism
Such little memories are today paying the price of majoritarian nationalism. Karachi Bakery is the name borne across the border by a refugee, seeking refuge in today’s hyper-nationalist India.
India
We reject February 13 order of Supreme Court to evict Adivasis: Human Rights Forum
Human Rights Forum (HRF) rejected the February 13 order of the Supreme Court that calls for eviction in a summary and time-bound manner of those whose claims for forest rights under The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act (FRA) have been rejected.
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Opinion
Experience of marginalized women in Delhi’s Pinjra Tod
We write this to put forth our experience as women from marginalized race, religion and caste and to state in clear words as to how the intersectional feminism of Pinjra Tod is only a showcase from the outside and internally how marginalized women have little or no say in the decision making.
India
The political philosophy of cow
Cow has turned a ferocious god in contemporary India. The latest victim sacrificed in the altar of cow is Subodh Kumar Singh, a police inspector in Bulandshahr District, U.P. These incidents demand a probe into the philosophy of bovine politics. Tracing out of this philosophy navigates us to the Caligula’s horse-politics and much more.
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Film and TV
Peranbu: a letter to life
A staircase, Mammootty sitting, and his eyes give away subtly the mountainous tiredness of a daily fight of a father. His lips vibrate minutely, as he keeps staring into something. The scene closes, and without even giving out a loud wail, or a drop of tear, or even a properly visible expression, he dominates the scene to its completeness.
India
Zakariya completes a decade of injustice: Biyumma
“Ten years, he was taken away in his early nineteen. How frightened he must have been then”, recalls Beyummah slipping into her thoughts. Zakariya has been in indefinite imprisonment under the draconian law called UAPA (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act) after he was eight accuse in 2008 Bangalore blast.
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