Long-time feminist and socialist Kavita Krishnan speaks on the failure of Narendra Modi鈥檚 government to act to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and its unplanned and draconian lockdown, which聽is compounding the threat to the lives of millions of India鈥檚 poorest and most marginalised people.
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Mobs of Hindu nationalists targeted protesters opposed to the Narendra Modi government's racist Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) on February 23.
On a one-kilometre strip of road in Delhi鈥檚 Shaheen Bagh neighbourhood, hundreds of people, predominantly Muslim women are holding a dharna 鈥 a non-violent, sit-in protest against the Narendra Modi BJP government's fascist citizenship laws 鈥 which has inspired a new mass pro-democracy movement.
Students, mostly from leftist unions, at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi were brutally attacked on campus in an ambush led by a mob of right-wing thugs on January 5.
A few days after Diwali, Delhiites woke up to find the city enveloped by thick smoke and haze, forcing authorities to declare a health emergency.
In 2011, retired British lawyer Rupert Grey and his wife Jan set off on a driving tour of India 鈥 in a 1936 Rolls Royce that he had inherited from his father.聽Filmmaker Oliver McGarvey tagged along for the six-month journey across mountains, deserts, through civil war zones and bureaucratic snafus.
The English word 鈥渓oot鈥 is derived from the Hindi word lut, which means to steal, especially by plunder in time of war.
Activists rallied in solidarity with the people of Kashmir in Sydney on August 9 and 11. The protest was organised by the Pakistan Association of Australia.
The following joint statement was issued by Indian left parties on August 5, condemning the dismantling of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and the assault on India鈥檚 Constitution, democracy and federalism.
The Indian left is facing tough challenges following the reelection of Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
Elections in India will take place from April 11 to May 23. 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Susan Price spoke to Kavita Krishnan, a member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML) about their campaign to challenge Narendra Modi鈥檚 far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
"The path to reducing and finally eliminating terrorist attacks such as in Pulwama does not lie in belligerent posturing or 鈥榮urgical strikes鈥 across the border, let alone in escalating military tensions and actions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours."
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