Month: August 2023

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…

Created Date : August 29, 2023
August 29, 2023 Communal Harmony anilsrivastava@sdindia.com

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…

Created Date : August 20, 2023
August 20, 2023 Terms anilsrivastava@sdindia.com

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…

Created Date : August 17, 2023
August 17, 2023 Independence 1947 anilsrivastava@sdindia.com

Quit India Movement

10-Aug-23 Satya Narayana Sahu writes in an article in The Wire, about the importance of Quit India Movement – Gandhi’s call was not just for gaining independence from the British rule. Apart from this core goal, the Quit India movement had huge dimensions covering freedom of press and democracy which are in serious danger in…

Created Date : August 11, 2023