The 45th anniversary of the imposition of Emergency must not be wasted on bashing dead villains or on silly nostalgia. The experience of India’s past brush with authoritarianism must be used to think about how democracies die. Emergency is at once an energising and misleading prism to think about the state and the fate of our democracy. It is energising […]
Swaraj India Press Release 23rd June, 2020 MOST AAP KERALA OFFICE BEARERS AND MEMBERS JOIN SWARAJ INDIA FOR ESTABLISHING ALTERNATIVE POLITICS ~ People of Kerala have long felt the need to challenge the LDF-UDF binary of Kerala Politics; this development gives rise to a new progressive, secular and ecologically sensitive alternative in the State; I warmly welcome my ex colleagues […]
There was a streak of morbid vanity in Rammanohar Lohia’s oft-repeated statement: “Log meri baat sunenge zaroor, lekin mere marne ke baad (People will surely listen to me, but after I am dead).” Today, nearly 53 years after his death, there are three reasons to listen to what Lohia said about China. First of all, because his was one of the earliest, consistent and […]
Swaraj India Press Releases 17th June 2020 INDIA STANDS UNITED AGAINST CHINESE AGGRESSION The nation is stunned and anguished by the demise of our brave soldiers in the Galwan valley on the Eastern Laddakh front. We salute their supreme sacrifice in defending the nation’s frontiers. We pay our homage to these martyrs who have laid down their lives in defending […]
‘लाख छुपाओ छुप न सकेगा, राज़ है इतना गहरा’। यह गीत कोरोना संकट के बीच सभी सरकारों की पोल खोलता है। कोरोना का संकट बढ़ चुका है, उससे निपटना सरकारों के बस की बात है नहीं। तो अब सरकारें और उनके दरबारी विशेषज्ञ आंकड़ों को दबाने में जुटे हुए हैं। शुरुआत सरकारी आंकड़े से करते हैं। हम करीब 3 लाख […]
मेरे दोस्त अजय वीर जाखड़ भारत कृषक समाज के संचालक हैं और फिलहाल पंजाब किसान आयोग के अध्यक्ष के पद पर हैं. उन्होंने मुझसे शरारती अनुरोध करते हुए उन किसान संगठनों के नाम और संपर्क विवरण मांगे हैं, जिन्होंने हाल ही में कृषि क्षेत्र के लिए पारित तीन ‘ऐतिहासिक’ अध्यादेशों का समर्थन किया है. सवाल बेशक उन्होंने पूछा है लेकिन वे जानते […]
My friend Ajay Vir Jakhar, who runs Bharat Krishak Samaj and is currently the Chair of Punjab Farmers’ Commission, has tweeted a mischievous request asking for names and contact details of those farmer organisations that support the three “historic” ordinances passed recently for the agriculture sector. He asks this question even as he knows the answer: none. None of the myriad […]
My friend Ajay Vir Jakhar, who runs Bharat Krishak Samaj and is currently the Chair of Punjab Farmers’ Commission, has tweeted a mischievous request asking for names and contact details of those farmer organisations that support the three “historic” ordinances passed recently for the agriculture sector. He asks this question even as he knows the answer: none. None of the myriad […]
The ongoing India-China border stand-off provides the opposition a perfect opportunity to corner the Narendra Modi government on national security, widely considered its trump card. You can hardly blame the Congress for giving in to the temptation of returning the compliment paid by Atal Bihari Vajpayee to Jawaharlal Nehru following the debacle of 1962. Yet, the opposition must resist this temptation. National interest must trump party interest. PM Modi must be let […]
