Gandhi and SBM – प्रधानमंत्री ने गांधी की छवि का उपयोग कैसे किया
150वीं गांधी जयंती पर, प्रधानमंत्री ने गांधी की छवि का उपयोग कैसे किया On 20-Sep-2018 PM Modi invoked Gandhi while making a call to the nation for Swachh Bharat Mission: Video clip 4-Oct-2018 Vinod Kochar wrote this contrarian article 150वीं गांधी जयंती पर, प्रधानमंत्री ने गांधी को उनके विराट व्यक्तित्व के हिमालयीन शिखर…
Fake Hindus and How Radicalisation Happens
Retd Supreme Court Judge BN Srikrishna speaks his mind. He excoriates the ruling dispensation. Interviewed by Rana Ayyub, an intrepid journalist who wrote and published Gujarat Files herself (as no publisher wanted to take the risk of offending the Big One). Interview clip
We Could Do With Putting on Gandhi’s Glasses – Now Reduced to a Swachh Bharat Logo
2-Oct-23 is the 154th birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. 2nd October is known as Gandhi Jayanti in India. MKG is known as Mahatma Gandhi and Father of the Nation for his contributions to not just India’s freedom movement but also defining and shaping the ethos of non-violence and inclusivity accepted by (most) Indians. The…
How to deal with anchors of TV channels who are hate mongers?
For few years now many TV Channels and News Papers have come to be known as Godi media as they unabashedly push the ruling party’s agenda. In India, they have clearly failed to uphold the role of the 4th Pillar that Press is supposed to provides to the edifice of a democratic system. The Government…
INDIA tries to reduce hatemongering – boycott of many news channel anchors
19-Sep-23 Ashutosh, a senior Journalist, writes about hatemongers and press freedom. His article in Deccan Herald is titled: Of journalism, hatemongers, and press freedom 14-Sep-23 The Wire Arfa Khanum Sherwani interviews Alok Sharma of INC after INDIA formation decided to boycott 14 anchors. INC had already boycotted many channels, for e.g. Republic channel of Arnab…
Remember 9/11 For The Inclusivity Of Hinduism Swami Vivekand Spoke Of And Also The Dangers Of Fanaticism
9/11 is a date the whole world remembers for the attack by Al Qaeda terrorists led by Osama Bin Laden that killed nearly 3,000 innocent Americans including few foreigners. In today’s world, radicalised religious people can wreak havoc was brought home by the spectacular suicidal attack that involved crashing four fully laden commercial jets after…
Sanatan Dharma – what does it really mean – good and bad in every religion
Synopsis of the talk in the deshbhakt episode on Udaynidhi Stalin’s (DMK CM’s son – he is a film producer, actor and former politician) statement that “Sanatan Dharma should be eradicated”: Everyone talks about the good things in one’s own religion and tends to ignore or remain silent on the bad things or “weak points”…
Recalling Dr Ambedkar’s Prescient Vision of 1945
How do we see the calls for genocide and social boycott of Muslims in India in light of what Dr B.R. Ambedkar and the Indian Constitution say? India is beset not only with calls of genocide against Muslims by rabid Hindu seers in “dharam sansads” but also calls of many influential supporters of the Government…
Has the Constitution Failed us or have we Failed the Constitution?
President KR Narayanan had posed the rhetorical question to save the Constitution from a previous assault on it. Satya Narayana Sahu in his article in NEWSclick dated 20th August,2023 cites Bibek Debroy, Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) who has laboured on the right-wingers’ covert theme of jettisoning the idea…
Independence Day Speech of PM Narendra Modi – Quo Vadis?
In his article of 17-Aug-23 published in NEWSclick, Satya Narayana Sahu writes about the phoney “thousand-year foreign rule” right-wingers’ narrative invoked repeatedly by Narendra Modi in his important speeches – before the US Congress three months ago and in the Independence Day address from the Red Fort two days ago. This narrative is one rejected…